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This one https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/scrapwagonssa/ef24c39f later painted more like the remainder of the fleet https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/scrapwagonssa/e1deac24a Paul

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Oh dear is that the Dapol writing? The M should be equivalent of 4 inches, with the numerals 3 inches. The 12T being 2 inch is correct. It's not as if the writing diagrams for this early period are difficult to get - all in the Scottish library. Paul

The use of a crown is restricted - permission is supposed to be sought so it is possible that this why BR went to the College of Arms. The old Min of Ag got into trouble when it went to alter a mark that was used to show a pesticide had been through the official approval scheme. IIRC this had to alter when such approval became a Common Market/EU agreement (many years after the UK joined the EEC). It was realised that the mark that had been in use, from possibly the 1950s, which was an A on top of a crown had never been officially registered. Paul

Only on one side, the arrow was intended to always face towards the bow. They were on the funnel of course. Paul

I found another photo, I hadn't realised this is now considered to be one of the quietist railway stations on the whole system. So recording a train is also of interest. Paul

Yes there was a way of looking over the sight - long time ago now so I don't remember how. A general view https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/standardreddish/e52cb66f6 No link was given to my collection (nor an entry in the guestbook) https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/standardreddish It was a very long way from home and it was Trev Mann whom took me to the site. Standard at Heywood was more interesting. https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/standardheywood Photographing infrastructure was somebody elses responsibility. It wasn't possible to do it all. Paul

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That was a very positive hour. Far from the usual 'take' on model railways with its strong historical and biographical elements. And as has been said well introduced by Pete instead of the usual semi interested professional celebrity or man-boy. I just wish they wouldn't introduce every restart after the adverts with a repeat of what was on a few minutes before - but that is a complaint about all these reality programmes; just time wasting. There was so much to that modelling that every minute could have been spent looking at it in more detail. Some lovely cameos - good job it went out after 21.00. If you haven't watched it do catch up, completely different to most of the numerous railway TV programmes. Paul

A lot of the information you are interested in can be found in https://hmrs.org.uk/british-railways-brakevans-&-ballast-ploughs-book.html at a very reasonable price Paul https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/brbrakediag507

David confirmed to the group of us that exchange information on wagons that manuscripts for all three of the outstanding Acquired wagons books and the final three of the Speedlink series are with Crecy. Some other manuscripts are also near completion. Paul

Back on the WR by July 1968 https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/gwrsiphon/e615a598e Paul

Interesting, I don't recollect this mill, nor Grain wagons on the Staines pick up. That was despite the person that introduced me to wagons - all of a year older than me and the other half of the committee of the Staines Model Railway Society Wagon Group 😉 lived in Addlestone. Anyway, I did get a couple of photos of Grains in Feltham MY on one of the visits we arranged, perhaps on their way to or from Coxs. https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brgrainrivetcgorivet/e39706350 https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brgraincgo/e163a8b0e https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brgraincgo/e1603f2eb Paul

Have you joined the Historical Model Railway Society? That is how you can help financially. We have to have somewhere that will archive our records when we pass on. The HMRS is struggling for members - I suspect too much easily available information on the internet . To all of you PLEASE consider joining the HMRS - and don't overlook you will get the books at a useful discount. Members can now read the back pages of the Journal on the website. The Historicals have always been considered to be the Historical Model Wagon Society - because wagons roamed the entire system it linked many different interests. So those back pages have a lot of information. https://hmrs.org.uk/ Paul

Simply ordering a few downloads does it for me. But don't worry some of the manufacturer's do pay for downloads or use of photos, as also do some publishers. so the cost of the site is covered with some beer money left over. Which is used - I'm very partial to an American hopped citrus ale but do get annoyed by "session ales" of 5%ABV - as The Tap had last Thursday. Very short session if I drink those. Some manufacturer's also give the occasional freebie. My greatest pleasure is being able to pick up a model and say - Ah as at Eastleigh 15 November 1982 (the first Bachmann Queen Mary in full air brake, departmental green). I just wish I had some idea how many of my photos have been produced as models - far more than I'm aware of. As I have said earlier I'm lazy so have given up writing. I shouldn't but am happy to leave to the others. Reproduction fees in the magazines are useful amounts but this has driven up the expectation of payment for books which can be very high (not least from a certain Crown Copyright archive - Crown copyright was developed to assist publication of government information, not control or prevent it - and I'll admit the one photo I've had published in an Attenborough BBC book gained my place of work enough to pay for the entire days work I did on the day I took that photo, including considerable travel - you won't find my name in the book. Perhaps not unreasonable as it was such common book many of you may well have it on your bookcase). Anyway, what is not so commonly realised is that the author is expected to pay these fees, not the publishers despite them making far far more from publication than an author ever does. Not helped by how cheap books are now and how short print runs. The publishers have all the power which is why I am critical that Crecy is not editing or presenting Dave L's work to the highest standards. Paul

Many years ago some of us were of the opinion we should be recognised as industrial archaeologists by the academic community. But be cautious, many of us are qualified by formal examination in our own fields. Paul

Don't overlook the floor boards ran lengthwise, quite different to any other wagons. It was the first 300 BR wagons of diag 1/051 that were built unfitted B743000- 743299 (not 200). These were all listed for Vac brake in 1958. https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/brclayhood Non of the GWR wagons were similarly listed, unsurprising as they were relatively elderly and many had received 2nd hand independent brake to replace the Churchward. PS27 is a 'modern' wagon, 17ft 6in oh with 10ft wb. The GWR wagons are only 16ft long. The planking is also different. https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/gwropenmerchandiseowv/e51cdfbfa Clayliners as mentioned from the 1960s https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/prenatclayliner https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/brclayliner A lot are listed in one of Dave Larkin's books, but his list isn't complete. Paul

Simon Grateful for the kind comments by you and others. But I'm easily the laziest out of our little group - Trev Mann doing huge numbers of scale drawings by hand (we published 100 drawings in about 3 years via BR Wagons and the MRC Datafile) and with David Ratcliffe recording traffic flows big and small; Peter Fidczuk (his series in the Bachmann Collectors magazine would make a great (series of) books). All photographing in colour. And far from least David Monk-Steel taking up the batten of finishing BR wagons - but in the detail now demanded by just a few of you and using electronics to ensure many drawings are published. And others who also do more than their bit - several on here. But, I don't agree the general defence of editorship. Yes, non of us have ever published anything without a fault we immediately pick up the moment we see it in print. But repetition of paragraphs, numbers with an extra digit - these are something that a technical editor should have picked up - indeed some may be the fault of the layout designer. It is just annoying that some on here condemn David for these. Some have also queried the price. I'll admit I was very surprised this series was being done as hard back books. I know books have become cheaper to produce (perhaps not so true since paper prices went up but for a while far less than we were paying for OPC and WS books in the 1980s). However, during my stint as Secretary of the HMRS we had discussions about hard back vers soft back publication - IIRC the first edition of Parkin's Mk 1 coaches had both and even in those days the cost to the HMRS was considerably different. Paul

I'm sure that Dave Larkin would have recorded them if they were in that part of the world. Or do you mean the APCM Vac brake vans https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/apcmvan which were longer than the van in this photo, which is a conventional 16ft 6 in or 17ft 6in length. Also the necessary vac brake. It is the ribs across the roof which are the clincher for me. Paul

Far too late for a Private bagged cement van (non had TOPS numbers), There are strips across the roof - Gunpowder van. Rather earlier but a 25 through Clapham https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/class2425/e5f8a4fa6 complete with two buses on bridge for added realism. Paul

May I simply re-inforce this comment. David and me, separately, took an interest in wagons from the mid 1960s. There was nothing easily available whatsoever to guide. He talks of finding the old PT wagons surviving in nearby industrial sites, and being able to access Hoo Junction weekly to collect his pay packet. [For me it was one member of the Staines MRS, the wagon articles by Don Rowland and the West Herts Group]. Even British Goods Wagons Railway Book 1887 to Present Essery Rowland Steel wasn't produced until 1970. It astounds me how much David and some of our other colleagues have managed to find in the nooks and crannies of the very dispersed archives. But as is mentioned often, much of the information has been lost, either to bombs or the ever present skip. Even more amazing is how much effort he has made to make this information available, in various ways ever since the 1970s. An outstanding record of continual dedication. Yes, he is not an academic. Neither is he well served by his editor which should have picked up many of the mistakes mentioned in the critiques on here. Paul Bartlett

Carlisle D200 40122 up freight to Workington 21st April 87 C8340 Carlisle Class 40 D200 or 40122 up freight to Workington 14th April 87 C8271 It is painted green, the colour is a bit off. The Blue tanks in each of these trains are STS Hays Sulphuric tanks. There were only 7 of this design, with one more that was dissimilar. https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/stssulphuricacid Paul

Another iconic migratory bird is the Osprey. This one has a readable ring which was put on it somewhere in Germany. Paul

Saturday 14 October is World Migratory Bird Day and millions of birds are on the move all across the globe. I was fortunate to see some of north Europes migratory species in their winter home in Senegal at the end of February. These House Martins were on the roof of the lodge room, huddled together. Unlike other birds which all get up at the crack of dawn they - and there were lots of them - stayed a bed for hours longer. Perhaps this was because insects also took some time to become active and become a meal. Paul

A while ago someone wrote up one of these on the GoG forum. The closest prototype is the unusual short van Diagram E199 operated to the UK from the old Yugoslavia - second part of https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/ferryyugoslavianvan Paul