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  1. On the L&Y cab doors leading onto the running boards were fitted to the fronts of the cabs of the Atlantics and some of the 0-8-0s too. See for example these images from "Smugmug"'s web site: Atlantic and 0-8-0 - neither photo showing the locos at their best - LMS non-cleaning policy in evidence. Whether they were meant to be used while the locomotive was moving or not is another matter. They didn't seem to catch on and I think Eric Mason made some adverse comments about their being drafty and rattly.
  2. I note that the blue train crossing the bridge has Hornby-style corridor connections, probably tension lock couplings too.
  3. I hope you made it very clear that all the wagons will be going with you and won't be included in the fixtures and fittings when you sell up.
  4. Ladders can be unforgiving, or rather the terra on which they stand. One company I worked for had much technical input and support from a man who was a world-renowned professor at a leading university. Sadly he fell from a ladder at home and died so our company had to delve very deeply into his field of expertise to continue the work. For many years we paid significant royalties to his widow but it would have been far better for everyone if he'd not come off the ladder.
  5. Perhaps the signwriter had been using Winsor & Newton paint?
  6. Were you thinking of this man? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Arnold_Griffith
  7. That cannot be true at all, they would all be suffering from altitude sickness before they could say anything.
  8. Not forgetting his famous: "... and straight into Low Moor sidings"
  9. This immediately reminded me of the magnificent Mount Clare roundhouse in Baltimore which houses a large and fascinating collection of locomotives and other historical artefacts.
  10. Well that confused me. A quick first glance and I thought it was the usual complicated dual gauge trackwork but it isn't. There's no narrow gauge at all and I think it merely shows the ungodly spawn of a single slip and a regular turnout. I have to admit that I've always found this sort of thing fascinating.
  11. I once worked with a Danish gentleman whose strongly accented pronunciation of 'PDF file' also led to a few raised eyebrows.
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