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  1. Wickham Green too
    .... but is it ? ........... appears to be a new announcement today and makes no mention of God's Wonderful Railway !
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    Hardly matters if you can't read it under the dirt ! 🙂
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    I hope that "modification kits for the model" and "infamous cab conversions" are not mutually exclusive ...... I'm still hoping to raise the roof on my EKR No.4 ! 😉
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    Oh Slurry ! 😕
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    Research has all been done for you https://rcts.org.uk/product/br-standards-vol-3-the-tank-engine-classes-softback/
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    .... and what on earth is wrong with sounding like a peasant ? ...... or being one for that matter ?
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    Sometimes they confused by the address - when I was working in Heathfield Road a parcel eventually got to us via Heathfield in Sussex !
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    As a hint to any manufacturer who's listening, you need a selection of SER/SECR O & O1 locos to go with those two !
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    I presume that's just a standard model lettered to suit ........ doesn't look to have the tall cab ! ☹️
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    Hmmmm ......... EM re-gauged and weathered boxes - now that's a novelty ! 😊
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    Rail traction was only a small part of all diesel engine manufacturers' business and unless we know how they fared in other sectors it'll be difficult to make sense of the situation in our area of interest. ☹️
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    Though not known as 09s at the time, the go-faster 350s were also a BR(SR) type - a follow-on from the Bulleid locos that weren't known as 12s at the time !
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    I'd seriously question whether anything Great Western had even the slightest affinity with South London ........... then the Schools was gifted to the National Collection by the RCTS, the BoB ( not WC ) was obviously selected for non-railway reasons and the Merchant Navy bought from Dai Woodham BECAUSE it was NOT UNIQUE and could be sectioned without upsetting too many people.
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    ....and, if it's anything like ours, ridiculously short opening hours.
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    Though, of course, the driver you prefer will probably have moved on some time between you ordering whatever Accurascale currently have up their sleeves and delivery time ! 😕
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    No good for my modelling era when all such wagons were pooled and a wide variety of different owners is fully justified ........... but even before the war a raft of wagons belonging to one owner and running together were very unlikely to be identical in detail.
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    SR Rule Book 1936 Rule 120 (a) " ... Southern Railway Goods trains must carry on the last vehicle two side lamps only, which will serve as tail lamps, viz., one each side of the trailing end of the vehicle ...". This note and the one concerning the need for fully fitted LNER Freight not to carry side lights are omitted from the BR 1950 rules - and are unlikely to have been deleted in the two years since Nationalisation. { Interesting that the LNER had freight train and the Southern had goods trains ! )
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    Are you getting confused with showing a white light to the rear on the side nearest the overtaking train to avoid the driver seeing an unexpected red ??!?
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    Though one manufacturer who has a pretty accurate eight plank mineral in their arsenal, too, was ( is ? ) quite happy to apply a livery appropriate to a seven-planker or vice-versa ........................... what plankers ??!?
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    Earlier vans often didn't have verandas so one iron that could be reached from ground- or platform-level either side might have made sense. The Southern, later went to the extreme of fitting five lamp irons on each end, two on the pillars, one each side of the veranda fascia and a central one on the sandbox .... the latter was even repeated on the fascia of the last batch of 'Pillboxes' without sanding !
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    Not their week, is it !!?! ☹️
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    Not to mention the unique pilchard trolley of which only one out of focus, partial view is known : -
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    I think it was at one of the Nuremburg war trials when the German to English translation went quiet for ages ........ then the silence was punctuated by a muttered "The VERB, man, the VERB ?".
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    Damned good question ....... the outer two irons would be for side lamp - normally white to the front and red to the rear - PROBABLY with official tail lamp on one of the other irons ..... but why a choice of two irons for that ( other than symmetry ) when either could easily be reached from the veranda ? in Southern day - PROBABLY from the 1936 Rule Book 'til the 1950 BR Rule Book - the necessity for a separate tail lamp was dispensed with and two side lamps sufficed.
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    Crikey - the last new GWR Pannier Tank 0-6-0PT loco only hit the shelves five minutes ago an' there's already another one on the way ! 😉
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