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    ... it would be a whole 10mm too short - which mine seems not to be !
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    Indeed ............. the other one was last seen heading for Yorkshire at a rate of knots ! 😊
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    ... and, of course, a scissors not-so-Standard Gangway is likely to behave differently from a suspended not-so-Standard Gangway ! 😕
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    My clearest memory is, indeed, of the way the car bodies creaked and visibly racked every time the train started or stopped ........ they couldn't have lasted much longer.
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    Simple job to repaint the backscene and get rid of the industry ! ☹️
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    Oddly, most gradient profiles seem to show that it's at the other end of the station ! 🙄
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    Upright lamp post ! 26/7/87
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    Indeed - but if you fail to uncouple the gangways before pulling the vehicles apart it's more than unlikely that the end of the Pullman-gangwayed vehicle would be pulled out however busy the tin worms had been.
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    Full details in https://hmrs.org.uk/southern-style–after-nationalisation-1948-1964-book.html of course .................
  10. Wickham Green too
    Not possible, I'm afraid - Pullman gangways are not 'coupled', as such, just held together by spring pressure.
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    ... and leaves knotty nutty ash when it's been burnt !
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    Hopefully they're metal that can be straightened on receipt - if necessary !
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    I think they may have taken heed of comments about the 'Sunshine' lettering, too .......... we'll see.
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    I think that was a Southern speciality.
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    Permanent Way Machine ?
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    Yeah - can't say I've heard of Stumec cranes before - but the last batch of S.R. bogie bolsters ( built in 1948 ) were equipped to take pairs of Robel cranes.
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    I remember piles an 'piles of them in Collectors Corner - alongside piles of the steam equivalent ! ( I still have both, of course ! )
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    .......... and depression : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_the_Paranoid_Android
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    80975 is listed as allocated to Bristol in the Departmental Coaching Sock books for 1984, '85 & '87. ........ but it seems to have gained something like Scotrail livery in preservation, judging by the photos on https://www.departmentals.com/departmental/80975.
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    Looks like you might have an entry for the Level Crossing Stupidity thread, there ! 😮
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    ..... but there's something very odd about that grey building and its security compound absolutely square on to the camera.
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    I don't think I'll see Artificial Intelligence digging rare earths out of the Congo ( other impoverished countries are available ) without human assistance in my lifetime.
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    So long as the human race remembers how to unplug it from the mains, AI can't take over completely !
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    Now a dedicated thread in the Dapol section.
  25. Wickham Green too
    Pardon ? 🙃
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