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I can’t remember where it was, possibly New Radnor, but a customer once arrived to ask of the goods clerk the whereabouts of his new chair, only to find said employee sitting on it!

Well-thinned “metallic” gunmetal from Humbrol makes a lovely stain for real wood, with the silvery sheen of weathered crested wood. Mix in some black or dark earth to make it look more recently creosoted.

9 hours ago, jcm@gwr said:

Has anyone else noticed a captioning error?

After the Dean Goods on hay, there is a photo of a Dean Goods taking on water,

below that, the left hand photo is captioned as another Dean Goods heading an

auto-coach train, but it's clearly an ex-MSWJ 2-4-0!

More concerned that adding a passenger rated horse box to a service passenger train leads to it being called “mixed”. Although the headlamp code would remain the same, this isn’t a “mixed” train.

Do you mean 15’6” or 15’ wheelbase? 

6’ long by 15” wide.

This “better 2021” you are looking forward to, is someone bringing one out to match the Lee Marsh/Masterpiece 850?

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The layout smells great though. Makes for a good pick-up line.

I once asked a girl if she would like to come upstairs and see my etchings.

She wasn’t impressed by the rocking W-irons I showed her...

24 minutes ago, Mikkel said:

That's interesting Simon. Grey for non-revenue stock, that would explain why brake vans were grey when other stock was red. 

Although it has consistent internal logic, that may be post hoc ergo propter hoc rationalisation, unless I can find a reference!

7 hours ago, MikeOxon said:

Assuming that's the same photo as on p51 of my Atkins 1986 combined ed., I have to agree about the difference between body and frames.  I think, however, that Departmental and Permanent Way vehicles were often treated differently from revenue earning stock so I don't feel we can generalise from this photo.

Must admit that in my memory, red is for revenue producing wagons, and grey for non-revenue stock (including brake vans), but I am bothered if I can remember why I think that. I also incline to the view that one all-over colour, as in the wagon grey, followed the precedent set by all over red, but we are unlikely to ever know, short of inventing a time-machine that is able to break the Wellsian paradox of going back in time to before it was invented...

21 minutes ago, Gordon A said:

What is a filch plate?

 

Gordon A

 

17 minutes ago, Mick Bonwick said:

 

It's another way of spelling flitch plate.

Just so long as it’s not spelt with an “e”...

3 hours ago, MikeOxon said:

potassium hydroxide hastens the decomposition of soft tissues, both animal and human

Hmmm.

How to avoid habeas corpus: I had the body, but it seems to have disappeared...

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I mixed in some baby powder

Are powdered babies available in Denmark? 
Will we need a special import license to get it from January 1st, 2021?
 

18 hours ago, Nick Holliday said:

If the glass had to be unloaded at the yard, wouldn't a travelling crane be sent in advance to deal with it?  The Caledonian certainly had a couple of 5 ton cranes for such tasks, at least within the engineering department.

Also, might they be able to carefully manoeuvre it with some jacks, packing, ropes and chains?

GWR green faded to black over time, so don’t worry about getting it too dark!

1 hour ago, Simond said:

Does the same apply to the Prime Minister’s head?

Certainly seems to have gay on top, awaiting a tarpaulin...

On 13/11/2020 at 10:33, kitpw said:

The provender wagon is a big beast and needs that Buffalo to move it about!

It’s big because the load is not very dense.

2 hours ago, Compound2632 said:

Wagons with two sheets were marshalled so the the leading sheet overlapped the trailing sheet, so that the wind didn't get in the gap and cause havoc.

Aha, two sheets to the wind, eh?

Not sure where Donald Trump has disappeared to, but at least his syrup has been found:

I think they remained as 4 wheelers, or at least some of them did, e.g. for the Blackwall services.

I think your figures for the LCDR are way off, Mikel. (SECR was a joint management committee, but legally they were still separate railway companies.)

3 hours ago, Compound2632 said:

why should the Scottish companies have broken ranks

Early ploy for independence...?

2 hours ago, Compound2632 said:

there is, though, some regional variation.

Wasn't it about the time of the Grouping for Scotland?

Why would you want to master drinking his coffee?

19 hours ago, wenlock said:

I shall don my sparkly suit and swop the piano for the layout! It’s definitely the look for the 2021 exhibition circuit 

 

I see you have been taking Al out as your support operator again...

3 hours ago, Mikkel said:

In the crop here a man seems to be talking through the window.

Let’s hope so: the alternative is that he has been caught short...

9 hours ago, Compound2632 said:

It's just dawned on me that from normal viewing angles, the trap point is hidden from view behind the central pier of the bridge.

This is one of those grey area issues.

As it is off scene, you could omit, model it as non operable, or model it working.

i know which of those three I would choose, but like Edward Thomas, I am hard on myself like that...