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  1. Wickham Green too
    Ah - but is it Dapol's error or a faithful rendition of an error by Ashford ?
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    May have been all that were left at the time - apart from 4721's companion that day : -
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    They were probably only removed when they got in the way !
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    Looking at the Rails website - that would appear to be 1741 ............... yes, it's an error nobody seems to have spotted ! The E1s started out with top feed but for some reason the D1s were given side feed ... needless to say some boilers got interchanged but all were eventually equipped with side feed. No locomotive of any type on any railway ever had top AND side feed - apart from some obscure specimen that someone will now point out ! ☹️
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    Doesn't seem to be listed on http://www.cs.rhrp.org.uk/se/results.asp !
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    Of course the scanning barriers don't collect the ticket once used so the long extinct 'USED TICKETS' bins ought to make a comeback !!?!
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    Bournemouth return ticket bought from an old fashioned ticket office at Winchester a couple of weeks ago was a new-fangled floppy thing about three times the size of a credit card and with something that looks like a teabag instead of a magnetic strip !
  8. Wickham Green too
    A selection from the last fortnight or so - mainly preservation : - Winchester , Corfe & Wareham : 3/6/23 Midsomer Norton South : 5/6/23 Cranmore : 7/6/23 Chelfham : 10/6/23 Minehead : 11/6/23 Exeter : 12/6/23
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    What I guess you're referring to as 'current type' ( credit card size ) seems to be rapidly on the way out in turn !
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    Southern Covcars ran with absolutely everything in vacuum-brake days until four-wheelers were - eventually - banned in passenger-carrying trains*. According to the 1960 General Appendage there were restriction on where vehicles with a wheelbase less than 15' could be marshalled in a train, but these do not, of course, apply to any of the Southern-built Passenger Vans. * That was many years before someone thought of Pacers !
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    According to Mike King, the sliding door is the only 'trifling' difference ............ of course these are twin lavvy vent coaches so make sure you choose appropriate Dia 2102s to renumber. Looks like Dia 2110s ran in pairs for as long as Maunsell coaches ran in fixed sets : initially either end of three-set 203, four-sets241-7 and five-sets 327-30 though the number of intermediate vehicles could vary over the years.
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    ... not to mention rivets or welded construction - even bottom doors on some early ones ..........
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    I wonder why the change of heart on that ? ................. anyway saves the hassle of trying to get the decoder socket and miles of wiring back into the smokebox ! 🙃
  14. Wickham Green too
    GT3, APT-P, Kerosene Castle ................ 🙄
  15. Wickham Green too
    ..... you're forgetting the Triang Giraffe Car and Battlespace series ....... 😊
  16. Wickham Green too
    ... so BR built ones too ! Trouble is there were barely two the same - of whatever origin !
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    I think they were restricted to mainland Britain ! 🙄
  18. Wickham Green too
    Intriguing ! ........ had an e-mail from DPD yesterday saying they were expecting my D1 parcel - yet, today, Rails say ( in duplicate ) that they've despatched by Parcel Farce ................... will have to see how it turns up next week !
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    I think the word 'normally' should be inserted in that ; The edges of buffer heads on the inside of tight curves could, in fact, make contact so they were still sprung in the retracted position ............................... and most model railway coaches are not unfamiliar with tight curves. 😮
  20. Wickham Green too
    MIGHT be set 5454 : - Orpington : 14/1/93 ( with 3302 )
  21. Wickham Green too
    They REALLY don't want anyone jumping over those Toblerones, do they ! ☹️
  22. Wickham Green too
    What about the 'sunshine' one ? 😊
  23. Wickham Green too
    Have you never heard the term 'steel rope' used for such things ? 🙃
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    ... it would be a whole 10mm too short - which mine seems not to be !
  25. Wickham Green too
    Indeed ............. the other one was last seen heading for Yorkshire at a rate of knots ! 😊
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