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  1. eastglosmog
    If you are modelling a provender store, do not forget to include that essential inhabitant, the provender store cat! Widely employed to keep the rats and mice down.
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    After 1906, Kingham (aka Chipping Norton Junction) on the OWW had a loop on the Up side into which trains from both parts of the Banbury and Cheltenham Direct (i.e. Chipping Norton and Bourton on the Water sections) could run into and out of without reversing. Trains could carry on to Oxford without reversing (though I don't know if any did). Reversal would have been needed for any train coming from Worcester wanting to go up either branch, though again I don't think this happened much if at all.
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    And how Newcomen and Watt steam engines worked!
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    I think that whether you use the Hornby coach with the GWR or BR version paint scheme, you will still need to repaint it to Eng Dept red (see here: ). Looks like you will also have to do some carving and filling of the windows on the non-corridor side (no idea what the other side might have had done) as one pair of windows appear to have been made into one and at least one door plus several windows has been blanked out.
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    R4758
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    The only time I have had to jump into a hedge was due to a motorist coming round a bend too fast.
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    "Fireless Locomotives" (Baker & Civil, 1976) gives livery details of some locos that were delivered to two Admiralty Munitions factories in 1914/15/16. CROMBIE No. 1 - blue, with white lining CROMBIE No. 2 - blue, picked black edged white CROMBIE No. 3 - blue, picked black edged white BEDENHAM No. 2 - green BEDENHAM No. 3 - green, picked black edged white So looks like livery of Admiralty establishments differed between sites.
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    Thanks for that, Ravenser. I'd given up on anyone coming up with any info on it!
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    Glad to see you have joined the ranks of Maine (censored) cat owners, Jim. The are wonderful cats. My 9yr old Tilly says hi to Mike.
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    Joseph - there are some interesting photos of the Penlee line here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/96859208@N07/12714970505/in/photostream/ of the line in its later diesel days. If you scroll through, there is a picture of the ship loader and a ship in Penzance harbour (as well as some pictures of the original steam loco stuffed and mounted).
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    2ft (610mm) - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penlee_Quarry_railway for a quick bit of info. I've got some more bumf on it somewhere, will see what I can find.
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    Eh? I don't know where you got that idea from jools1959, but it is not true. In the 1950s, virtually all hard rock came from land based quarries, most of them inland. Some may have been transported by sea (Gwavas/Penlee for instance) from coastal quarries but most was transported by rail or road. There was some sea dredging of sand and gravel, but most sand and gravel was from land based pits.
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    Have a look at Gwavas Quarry, just south of Penzance. https://maps.nls.uk/view/105996547 Ships loaded direct from wagons, I believe until conveyor belts were installed in 1972.
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    Don't think the size of the windows mattered for window tax, only the number, so 1big window would invoke less tax than 2 small ones.
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    Backed up by that most reliable of sources, Wikipedia, so it must be true!
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    Hi Gibbo At one time, British Waterways Board used to have teams of bricklayers going up and down raising the banks of some canals in advance of the National Coal Boards antics.
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    Only if made of fish.
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    Mog?!!! I'll have you know that the chief nudger in my house is a cat of quality and can trace her ancestry back to Marie Antoinette's cats.
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    I am sure I have read that somewhere but can't find the reference at the moment. As I recall, the RN was tasked with assessing what would happen. They concluded that such a war was not winnable.
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    Beware that the GM500 is wired up with reverse polarity to the GM500D as I found to my cost some years ago.
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    I was down Andoversford way on Sunday, looking at the unused embankments constructed by the East Gluocestershire Railway in 1865-7. The meadows round about were teaming with butterflies, mainly Gatekeepers and Marbled Whites. In spite of the hordes, I only managed to get one decent shot as most of them fluttered off before I could get close enough.
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    All those people in the street wanting to park their 3 cars, plus all those skinflints who do not want to pay the station car park charges - that's our problem, anyway. We get the caravan/man towing a mower slalom which causes much amusement to the spectators - any 53 seater coach that tried would have to back all the way back up because of the 7.5t weight limit on the river bridge at the bottom (some have tried).
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    I remember it and being allowed to sit up all night watching the landing on the telly.
  24. eastglosmog
    Would that I had a front lawn on which I could park. Front garden is 4ft above the road and no way can you drive a car up a 4ft stone retaining wall!
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    Looking at Bradley's volume on LSWR Urie locos, on passenger locos, Urie post 1914 livery was used until November 1923. After that, the white line between the black and green was changed to yellow. Post February 1925, the green shade was darkened. Would be interestied to know how Brighton and Ashford painted locos at the time.
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