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Except that they are not! At Locomotion (at present) you can see what remains of the original machines, after quite a lot of interesting technical history! You can also see the two 'modern' reconstructions. 'Rocket' has just finished steaming for the winter. 'Sans Pareil' has not been in operation for many years now. Both locomotives include many alterations in design to allow them to operate safely and legally in our own century.

Would not coal dust have been a problem from all those open wagons? (If one happened to be standing under the roof.) I hope the nice lady in the blue dress on the opposite platform isn't too much affected by this.

indeed they do. I quite like mine! (Usual re-worked underframe details.)

I think that Cutty Sark might cause upset in some modern ports. (Moored next to Ann Summers or Victoria's Secret ?) Pelican had political and sponsorship aspects. It was the only British battleship still in commission that carried Nelson's body home: in a cask of brandy if I remember coŕrectly. Pickle went on ahead with Collingwood's despatches giving news of the victory and Nelson's death. I liked the 18th Century classical tradtion for naming frigates then cruisers and then frigates again, thus leading to a (possibly apocryphal) signal of greeting 'At last Antelopee meets Peneloap'.

A trip on the Thames would be difficult, since she does have engines but no paddle wheels!

Seem's good to me. Are any of the wagons piped rather than fully fitted? I can't remember how many 'pipes' allowed between 'fits', but any loaded livestock vehicles should be next to the braked portion/locomotive.

Please excuse a person largely ignorant of the GWR reviving this thread. There was an interesting article this morning on the BBC news website. Henry Ford moving a Cotswold cottage to the USA There is an interesting picture, about a third of the way down. (I could have copied it in here, but since it is credited to the the Henry Ford Museum, I thought I had better be careful!) The picture shows a train, largely of sheeted open wagons, claimed to be 67 vehicles long hauled by what seems to my eyes to be a GWR Pannier tank. The caption claims that 'The 67-strong wagon train was the longest the UK had ever seen'. I have two questions: 1. Is this likely to have been the longest UK train as of 1930, or is this claim just 'American exaggeration ? 2. Is the (presumably shunting) locomotive a GWR tank ? The article is also of interest for more than the railway content!

Well done, Grantham continues to look splendid. When is the next (Newcastle ?) show please? I need to get it into my diary and warn my immune system that it has to be recovered by then!

Please excuse a naïve question, but who is/was CHE in this context? (Cuthbert Hamilton Ellis ?)

A ship has three or more masts and carries square rig on all masts. (But definitions do change over time!)

Well done, both of you. Weather today (in Durham) is horrible. Might (according to the Met Office) might be a bit better tomorrow. Thank you for all the photographs.

Back in the late 70s I did look at buying a house in Heddon-on-the-wall. As I remember it had the Wall close to the property boundary. I was a bit worried about any complexities in the Search.

Will those protruding screws hurt if you need to reach underneath for any purpose? Will the wire loops when in the down position stay clear of stock running on the lower level? (I speak with some experience!)

Repulsive in whose eyes? The S2 4-6-0s (LNER B15s) seem to me to have been rather handsome. The single example used as an experiment for 'uniflow' cylinders must have seemed worthwhile at the time, even if it was apparently somewhat noisy.

I like the lip gloss! (but not perhaps the best place for a kiss!.

Hmm. Well, it's your railway and you build more in a few weeks than I have done in the past two years. I probably over-engineer my woodwork solutions anyway, but my 'swinging wedge' still seems to be stable. How will you retain the flaps in the 'up' position?

What are the hinge arrangements for your lifting flaps? Are they in their final form?

Side Lamps for 1930s/40s Toad D and E brake vans. I'm tidying up some of my older stock. Constructed some 30 years ago. A re-worked Dapol Toad E appears to have reasonable lamps. I think I must have attempted to make lamps for a Bachmann Toad E , but they look a bit small. I could probably work out how to make some, but does anyone know of a possible provider?

As far as I am aware, the NER didn't use the Class O for push-pull workings. That was what they used the BTPs for. I have managed to find a Steve Banks article in Model Rail of November 2005 describing LNER Push-pull operations and coaching stock. I thought I had a copy of British Railway Journal No.32 which has an article by Clive Carter on the same subject. I know I put it somewhere safe but where? I do have a D&S brass kit for an NER brake-composite driver. This will need some practice of my soldering skills. These were re-used by the LNER in the 1930s. I haven't made a detailed study of No. 2082 yet, having run it in according to instructions. It runs very nicely on my Code 100 track (and some bumpy track joins) and with my Gaugemaster controllers. I have for the moment put it back into it's box until I am ready for it's project. 2082 was a Sunderland engine for at least part of the timescale in which I am interested, so it may not need re-numbering.

Thank you. I have those books and am aware of the relative importance of the Worsdell family. When in health I volunteer at Locomotion in Shildon, where there are currently two replicas of the Rainhill tenders, one behind the replica Rocket and one with the replica Sans Pareil.

Are you sure about that? I thought (based on books by Mr Dawson and others) that the tenders for the Rainhill competitors were provided by the Company and built by one Nathaniel Worsdell.

I'm not a military enthusiast, but in my understanding the Coldstream is the last remaining unit of the New Model Army. (What with their red coats and all.)

Fremington Quay. (Sorry, couldn't find the pictures I remember of coal transhipment.)

As I have pointed out several times on this forum and others, this issue was settled in 1830 between Fanny Kemble (a lady well worth 'googling' in her own right) and George Stephenson. To quote Miss Kemble's diary "all the little fire-horses are made mares".

According to the (ex) NER Line Diagram Book published by NERA this location must be about mp 62 & 3/4. (Zero being at York station.) Probably near the junction and signal box for Browney Colliery , when such things existed!