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Showing the other side of the signals at Moreton in Marsh shown by Pacific231G. Taken at Moreton in Marsh in October 2022. Short post signal for the crossover from down to up line at the southern end of the station. Up line signal. Both southern end signals, showing the crossover. Crossover is used for the Didcot to Moreton service. Northern end of station.

Seen at Shildon in October 2018: More modern multi aspect junction signal with feather, Didcot middle junction December 2014:

See p32 of the DMU thread for a better view!

A great idea. Here are a few from around Worcester Shrub Hill Station, taken on 26th April: On the goods loop round the rear of the station. Short arm at end of Platform 2 and a few others. At end of bay platform 3. Signals for the junction for the Hereford line, just at the north end of Shrub Hill station, with fixed distants and another signal in front with a route indicator.

Yes, it is a bit odd. That longitudinal baulk seems to have completely disappeared, whilst others, whilst badly rotted, are still there.

Track in the air on Llanthony Bridge over the East Channel of the River Severn at Gloucester. GWR Docks branch has been defunct for nearly 40 years.

Technically and legally it is still a bridleway (as shown on the Hampshire CC website), just one over which horses have been banned by a Traffic Regulation Order (which could always be revoke by another order). Hence why bicycles are still entitled to use the crossing.

Actually, from the OS map, it appears to be a bridleway. No idea how many horses go that way, though!

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, coal breakage was a serious issue. The Tyneside staithes usually had elaborate mechanisms to lower the coal wagons into ship holds to minimise breakage when the bottom doors were opened. Coal would not normally fall onto unyielding ground, but onto the existing pile of coal that would tend to be a bit more absorbent and also form a slope down which the impacting coal would slide. Coal hitting coal on the rest of the pile is unavoidable. Coal hitting a steel bar would be avoidable. Fine coal dust is difficult to burn in normal grates - the fine coal does not allow air into the fire. This was the basic cause of the Aisgill disaster in 1913 when the Midland Railway firebox could not cope with small coal and slack. Until the advent of fluidised bed combustion in power stations, slack coal was of little value and usually ended up on the spoil heap (in the late 20th century, quite a few companies made a decent profit washing this coal out of the spoil and selling it to the CEGB) - the miners usually did not get paid for slack coal.

Don't forget that it would also damage the coal! Breaking down lumps and giving more dust, which the customer would not like.

A West Midlands Class 196 crosses the River Severn at Worcester today, coming from Hereford and bound for Birmingham: Two West Midlands Class 196's (196105 to left and 196003 to right) in the sidings behind Worcester Shrub Hill:

As full rainbows (when you can see them) are circular, they don't have an end!

There are quite a few bridge rail straining posts round here, combined with the concrete fence posts on minor overbridges along the OWW. The bridge rail posts are usually in much better condition than the newer concrete posts!. As they are still doing their job, not really appropriate to put a picture of them on this thread, so here is one from the Bourton-on-the-Water railway (later part of the Banbury and Cheltenham) which has strictly been redundant since 1964:

I wonder how many miles of bridge rail remain as fence posts?

Another one from Evesham. I believe this is the base of a boundary marker between the GWR property and the MR property, where the MR line went over the OWW on a bridge.

Nuneham bridge is rather famous at the moment. It is a bowstring bridge and has ballast in a trough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuneham_Railway_Bridge

A ghost in the railway track at Evesham. Must have been out of use since 2018, when the platform was extended.

Saw this lass out hunting just by the old Midland Railway bridge over the OWW at Evesham today. Unfortunately, wouldn't come close enough for a decent photo:

It held in place by the Power of Art, as is the Nutrimatic cup in the statue of Arthur Dent https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Arthur_Dent_Throwing_the_Nutrimatic_Cup

Owing to my brother having a son late in life, my nephew has a grandmother (my mother) who served as a nurse in the Blitz and a great grandfather who served in WW1. Gave his teacher a bit of a shock when Nephew was given a Christmas holiday task of finding out from Grandma(*) what her life had been like and he came back with a first hand account of nursing in 1940 in Charing Cross hospital! * A brilliant idea, by the way, got him talking to Grandma for hours, which cheered Grandma up no end.

The book Nick recommends is "Bridges for Modellers" by L. V. Wood OPC 1985, ISBN 0-86093-226-5. I also recommend it, contains lots of useful detail and dimensions. Should be available at your local library by inter-library loan. As Nick says, there are an awful lot of variations out there, and different companies often had their own styles. Sizes varied greatly according to how wide the span was and how heavy the locomotives were that were using the bridge. Many bridges were extensively rebuilt to take heavier locomotives. Best thing to do is to go out and look at as many plate girder bridges as you can. Example below is over the River Avon on the OWW at Evesham, and has been extensively rebuilt by the GWR and BR from the original. It has at least 3 generations of brick in it, plus the original stonework (only visible in the wing walls). You can work out how deep the girders are, how high the Pilaster is and how deep the bearing pad step is by counting the bricks. A oddity of this bridge is that the abutment level for the bearing pads steps down across the width of the bridge and is lower for the up line than the down line. The abutment face towards the River Avon is vertical, but the sides are at varying batters, that are steeper in the upper level. PS I agree with Nick regarding the plan of the terraced houses - the buildings will be square to the road, even if the end wall is not at a right angle. PPS Also agree with The Johnster regarding the standard of your modelling!

And really not true, either. A neighbors cat came to the rescue of their dog when their dog was attacked by another dog (and very effectively, to).

To misquote A.E. Housman: "Now, of my threescore years and ten, Seventy two will not come again, And take from seventy springs seventy two, It only leaves me minus two more."

Been alive under three monarchs.

Don't think I will be going to visit Didcot Railway center until the bridge is open again.