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Owning a locomotive does not automatically give any rights to either the copyright in the livery design or its name as a trademark. The copyright for LBSC livery as an example may well have expired and if not may or may not have been sold with tloco. Following the link given above the Science Museum have clearly registered the trademark "Mallard" with the express intention of milking it as best they can (or, if being kind, preventing tohe production of lots of tat#) as is evident from the vast list of goods and servicers they claim it relates to. Of which class 28 is the one of interest to us. 'Flying Scotsman is rather more complicated, there are 14 registrations, not all current, of which 6 include class 28. So using Flying Scotsman as a trademark for a model you may need permissions from 6 others!

There are registered trade marks and there is copyright, its easy to muddle the two and I suspect much of the above relates to copyright. For trade marks the registration has to specify what trades the mark is to be used for and an infringement only occurs if used without permission for one of those specified trades. You can look up the trade mark register on line and check what uses are protected.

Exactly, for the inbound move with the loco pushing the consist should stop just before the points then the signaller replace the entry signal and release the ground frame to the shunter

The ground frame needs to be locked normal for any move entering the platform so that would be home signal or any shunt signal giving access. Once a train has arrived in the platform the shunter can be given the ground frame release and do the shunting. No need to lock the platform starter as its not conflicting and may be needed in case the train needs to pass the signal before the tail end has cleared the siding.. The shunter will need to put the ground frame back to normal or any subsequent arrivals will be locked out. If the points were operated from the signal box then it would be usual for the starter to lock the points in either position for route holding. But this doesn't work with a GF and its the shunter on the ground who has the responsibility for not moving the points under a train.

Well, the railway is going underneath so they have to get well below track level to create foundations for the piers and/or abutments. But see also comments earlier in this topic relating to the way the design life warranties that contractors have had to provide have pushed up the design standards and hence the costs.

It has, see

So you tell me to look East from the pub, and when I give chapter and verse you talk about a road that is well to the West. I give up, I know what I can see on the aerial photo.

Ok going East from the Bread and Cheese there are the folowing; Kenneth Rd, Badley Avenue, Konny Brk, to the North, Cherrymeade, The Dl, to the South, Runnymeade Ch - N Hermitage Avenue - S. The heavily wooded area has no roads in it, There is no sign of any roads that match the description, See https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/520+London+Rd,+Benfleet+SS7+1AA/@51.5615945,0.5772839,260m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x47d8db2ee73ccf93:0x569aa58f0b1d9228!8m2!3d51.5623684!4d0.575812!16s%2Fg%2F11c2fpdm9v?entry=ttu

That must be from articles dealing with junction signalling in track circuit block areas, nothing to do with manual block signalling. The use of 'distant' signal by the author is just by analogy and really incorrect usage. But useful colloquially as, so far as I know, there is no other simple term in UK usage for a signal on the approach to a junction signal that gives advance information on the aspect displayed at the junction. Google should find you the relevant signalling standards documents and I doubt that the term 'distant' is used there.

I have failed to find these disconnected roads on google maps, all the side roads in the area seem to have perfectly good junctions with the A13. Could you perhaps provide a link to the specific area you are describing? Thanks

Info here on the LMS standard for block controls http://www.norgrove.me.uk/signalli-LMS.htm Does not cover single lines though.

And both the old alignment and some of the old canal are still very evident on the ground going by googles aerial view.

No problem, surplus IRJs don't matter so long as you have feed wires connected to all rails.

I have always used the triangular gauges to set the crossing nose position, they do the job perfecly well and will hold the nose much better than those buttons. See http://www.norgrove.me.uk/points.html Towards the bottom of the page.

That sounds very like Sam.