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For anybody who wonders what it was that I was on about a couple of posts ago there is what you may call quite a bit of detail in the link below. CLAG page on the matter

One of the problems with "OO wheels" is that the flange thicknesses can be all over the place; Its not just the back to backs that matter. CLAG have a page on their website, which although obviously aimed at P4 matters, give most of the relevant details far better than I could ever begin to explain away....

There is one on Surrey Street in Sheffield city centre, and I think it is a listed structure. It may still be in some sort of use; it has got a POLICE light above the door.

Larger (or maybe just the large ones) often had a goods lift that could, and was, used for wheelchair traffic.

Salisbury at an educated guess then, if it wasn't just left at the station over night. The Ginsters units were quite a common sight on the old W&B Manchester Piccadilly > Penzance service. I presume that they also went back Up the line the next morning too, but we didn't often work them when they were headed that way..... Actually we didn't often work them on the Down all that much either, but maybe the less said about that the better 🎻

It could well be because impact drivers actually work well, most electric screwdrivers probably are better when used as paperweights than they are for screwing screws. Even the cheaper ones have that much grunt that for normal jobs when using an impact driver you have to ease it off to avoid going straight through the wood and out of the other side! I would suggest that impact drivers are the single best screwing of things related invention since the Yankee screwdrivers of my youth ;)

I would just add that it wasn't seen as being a branch line though; it was (and still is, albeit rather truncated now) the Fowey Main. The original CMR ran from Newquay to Fowey. Incidentally Pinnock tunnel is (or was) the longest rail tunnel in Cornwall. Very rarely for me, I may have acquire one of these just because.... I used to sometimes ride my push bike under the bridge, that must be reason enough? ;)

I think it still applies now. We were certainly of the opinion that our bit was a proper railway ;)

Although it is very much "an extract", you have extracted just the right part to enable me to recognise the set up straight away, even from the mock up. It is interesting how "awkwardly" everything is fitted together in reality, like the corner of the loading shed being cut off to avoid the track.

I don't know so much about what may have been usual practices in the past, but I do know that well into this century it was not at all unusual to be given the odd gratuity from some of the passengers. We were a bit of a Local trains, for local people carry on when not carting trains full of holidaymakers up and down and a lot of the regulars were grateful for the services we provided.... Which of course included, but was not always limited to, taking them and/or their belongings from A to B and back again via the train. Tourists, particularly those hailing from the US, were also keen to donate a couple of quid to the fund, often for giving the most minor assistance.

I really could not agree more with this post. Particularly the part about liveried vans, websites etc Two of my closest friends are in slightly different aspects of the landscaping game and have been doing it for thirty years or so now. One of them has the snazzy van, polo shirts, web presence and smiley staff and the other uses a non descript old transit, works mainly on his own maybe with his lad for bigger jobs, and you would be hard pushed to find any evidence of him anywhere. I know for certain which one of them is far the better option, and he is also quite a lot cheaper to boot ( If you could find him!) These new vans do not pay for themselves ya know ;) Basically its word of mouth every time for such work to be done right price, right time.

Nice to know that Wenford was so well received at it's first show. It really is another outstanding exercise in beautifully observed and nicely restrained modelling. I think you have managed to get that subtle ghostly pallor, that china clay facilities tend to have, really spot on. The moss on the roof looks just right and it does add some colour to the scene.

It is relevant because it was BR trying to gain more of a share of the internal clay traffic that lead to the introduction of the "Clay liner" trains.

Wot Mikkel said! :) It may well be small, but it is presented so well as a whole; not one part appears to have been tacked on as an afterthought. You could say the same of the Mona Lisa really.

A geographically appropriate industry for the branch line, surely you could have a Kaolin facility "somewhere up there"? I think Atlas even make (or made) suitable tank cars for the stuff as used by the paper industry ....

I think, maybe rather cynically, that this is possibly just the sort of thing that a Farmer who was fed up with an overdose of tourists would do. Certainly it would appear to have been done by someone who knows what they are doing, and has the equipment with which to do so.

It isn't just Wales, it appears to be ever more common all over the place. There seems to be an idea afoot that letting trees grow here there and everywhere is somehow always a good thing and is "how nature intended" things to be. A lot of the rural/urban fringe around me in the Pennine foothills is turning into a forest - I have been reliably told that that is how most of Britain should look.... The problem is that most of the trees are sycamores, which are not a native tree and will grow everywhere.

The Looe branch used to get flooded quite regularly, generally on a spring tide at high water with an on shore breeze to drive the water up the river, and often near Sandplace station. For some reason the down trains got stopped a lot more often than the up ones ever did..... 😉

The glimpse of the waiting car peaking out in the gap over the loco buffer beam seems to add so much to that shot....

That shed is a classic piece of what one may call Allotment Architecture 🙂

I had my short interview for a move to Wales & West, as was, somewhere in that building... I say somewhere 'cos I got a bit lost and managed to be not on time.... :) Some weeks later I discovered that their depot and mess room was in the giant portakabin units on the bay platforms.

Just the lever, at least as far as any I have ever pulled, or seen.

The English one - A joint venture between Vickers and Cammell Laird, became part of BSC in the sixties. It is now Sheffield Forgemasters, which is now owned by the MOD.

For some reason, that image of those 08s down by the waterside reminded me of the sort of somewhere that should be found round the back end of English Steels Corporation's River Don Works!

Item number 1 looks like it could, or should, be something to do with Token Apparatus, but I don't have any idea of how the L&Y did such things....