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  1. eastglosmog
    I have seen some wartime videos which include signal arms being returned to danger. One of an LNER upper quadrant signal shows extreme bounce - several inches by the look of it. However, it was a promotional film about women working on the railway and I suspect it was done for effect and not normal practice. Another one on the SR at Salisbury taken to show USA S160's at work, shows no bounce whatever as the lower quadrant arm is returned to danger at a steady pace.
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    Would not be surprised if that photo was taken in order to lambast some BF at control who sent such an inadequate crane for the job! However, with some sleepers and jacks, the crane wagon could have been raised the necessary few inches to get the container clear of the wagon.
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    Peco do a model of a Scammell and trailer: https://peco-uk.com/products/scammell-mechanical-horse-and-trailer
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    An example of a 2 plank open being used, with a mobile crane https://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/lnwrcs2124.htm
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    An example here https://www.warwickshirerailways.com/gwr/gwrhd716.htm
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    If you can get hold of a copy of Kelly's "Road Vehicles of the GWR" you will see there were horse and tractor drawn flatbed trailers as well as numerous different types of flat bed lorry to take containers to and from customers to the goods yard. Being packed and unpacked at the customers premises was the main point of containers (e.g the door to door removals service the railways offered). If there was not a suitable crane at the goods yard, mobile cranes could be brought in.
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    I thought it was the South Pole, not the North Pole, Scott claimed to have reached?
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    Don't forget Amundsen disappeared in 1928 whilst looking for the airship Italia - so maybe not such a good name for a get you home device, after all!
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    More DMU under the landscape - Pont y Pant tunnel on the Conwy line taken Sptember 2015, shortly before the line got closed for months by heavy flood damage.
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    Trigonometry is one of the most useful things I learned at school. I still use it most days, but then I am an Engineer and us Engineers view things a bit differently to the rest of the population!
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    While I agree with you that the Forest of Dean cycleways are good, I must admit I preferred them as paths in their pre-cycleway form (about 30 years ago, now), when they comprised green paths wandering among the saplings, even if you did have to climb down the embankments and jump across a few streams where the bridges had been removed.
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    A Worcester bound service, rounding the Aston Magna curve in May 2016, the sharpest bend on the Cotswold Line.
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    Its actually quite logical, if the parish boundary runs between the two signs!
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    So with 24th June being mid-summers day, does that make summer start on 27th March (21st September as start of Autumn) or 16th April (1st September as start of Autumn)? Or if Summer is three months long, does Autumn start on 8th August (or thereabouts)?
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    After she has finished playing with it, muddy brown, whatever shade it started!
  16. eastglosmog
    Except when it is "Joint" as in S&DJR...................
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    Cheltenham St James, after the building of the Honeybourne line, although many through trains bypassed St James and called only at Malvern Road. Of course, had the GWR not pulled out of the East Gloucestershire Railway, St James would have been a through station and they would not have had this bother.....
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    Definite Autumnal feel this morning. Air frost and when my cat poked her nose out, she turned round and headed back to bed! So much for a cat supposedly bread for cold New England winters.
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    A point of order - the train with Thomas stopped in Adlestrop station on 24th June 1914, but the poem was not, so far as I know, written until 1915 - the draft of it is written in a note book Thomas started on New Years day 1915. On Compound's question, I don't think the Thomas's were flush with money, so third would be more likely. Edited to add: Just looked it up and it was written on 8th January 1915.
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    But, as the Johnster pointed out, they are still "organic" (as are wood chips) as any organic chemist will tell you.
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    Didn't work for me, either, Jamie. Best I can come up with is the Graces guide entry https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/P._and_W._MacLellan where it seems they built bridges, piers and other iron and steel things and had a wide export trade - railway wagons and coaches were only a part of their business. My Nigerian work has all been in the west of the country - never ventured to the east or north.
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    Couldn't find a builders plate on that one (probably fallen off), but another, more modern looking, wagon nearby had this plate:
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    Don't think the thread title bans foreign stock, so here is a brake van I saw in Nigeria in 2009 on the sidings leading to Ewekoro cement works. No idea how long it had been there, quick look on Google Earth shows it is still there (at least in February this year).
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    But if the dog has the right name, it could be a "Duke" dog?
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    Bit off topic, but iron was quite capable of being painted white. All the GWR would have to do is get some of the same white paint that the Royal Navy used to paint warships on the Mediterranean Fleet and tropical stations - there are plenty of photos of ships on these stations painted white in order to keep them cooler.
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