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  1. Wickham Green too
    I trust you're going to include a working model of the Grampusmobile !!?!
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    Always wondered why the GWR put their station on the top of the hill rather than in the valley to the east - where a connection to 'North' might have been a lot simpler.
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    They say 'metal' but I'd guess plywood ( with metal bits ) ........ I hope the archaeologists recorded what was left of the livery. Presumably it was in Antwerp when the Germans arrived in 1940.
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    I've just re-read Holcroft's account of filming 'The Wrecker' ..... all set up, train wrecked & burnt and debris cleared on a Sunday so the P-Way gang could work through the night and have the line open for traffic on the Monday ........................... and without a CGI in sight !
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    ... though some of us would prefer an earlier vintage ! Mulhouse ; 2/9/90
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    The track layout shows up rather nicely in the snow ! 30/12/85
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    ... and the cradles look a little, shall we say, over engineered !
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    Erm ........ so Bodmin South Parkway would be north of Bodmin Parkway ...... could be a little confusing for some people - starting with me ! ( Bodmin Halgavor ? )
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    An intriguing one at New Beckenham : - ( 16/10/08 ) ....... the station was rebuilt in 1904 - by which time the initials S.E.& C.R. were well established !
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    "The fitting of buffers was to reduce the risk of blocking the ECML in the event of train failure, as it takes time to apply the emergency drawbar Furthermore, the Class 91 could run round and attach directly to the HST power car, with greater ease" ............ not that the ECML was used to running HSTs with no buffers by that date - nor that they then saw the need to fit the rest of the fleet with them !
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    Woops, I got the 450 & 444 the wrong way round ( 20.34m & 23.57m resp ) but the 185s are longest at 23.75m ......... according to Platform 5 anyway !
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    About 8'' longer than 450 cars and a whopping 10' longer than 444 cars !
  13. Wickham Green too
    I've never figured out why they felt those Power Cars needed to be fitted with buffers !
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    "Return to Any Suitable Colliery" p'raps 🙄
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    Both lines approach on tight, steep curves so any chord would have to be a fair way down the hill - outside the town ( which is down the other side of the hill ) ... you'd have to replace Bodmin General with a station on the chord called Bodmin Parkway ......... oh no, someone's used that name already ! ( photos 2/7/11 )
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    Unfortunately, if we're going to take into account the growth in car usage we're going to have to accept that Padstow's railways are long gone. ☹️
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    Hmmm ...... you can almost hear a train coming .... Little Petherick Creek ; 3/7/11
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    Definitely Scottish 'cupboard' doors ...... the references to 'disc' wheels are misleading - you can ( just ) see that they're conventional split-spoke wheels with a disc applied : not sure why this was done though it would prevent the use of a sprag between the spokes.
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    Really ? ........ the LSWR and Southern managed to get to Padstow without reversing at Bodmin !
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    ... because Scottish wagons tended to have 'cupboard' side doors and 'loopy' end door hinges - though a wagon for house coal might not have end doors, of course !
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    Eddlewood Colliery was open from 1875 to 1910 so is a possibility ..... but if your layout's after that date you might have to think again !
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    Is that a layout at the York Show ??!?
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    As always, it's worth considering the type of coal ..... the Co-Op would have wanted good household coal ( rather than stem coal, coking coal, anthracite ) - was that available in Fife ?
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    No doubt it shows the correct time twice a day !
  25. Wickham Green too
    What's the betting all those straight-out-the-box wagons have the same running number !
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