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The Royston incident ripped the pan off and shorted the overheads. There were two policewomen in the car park at the time. They were still rather excited when I got there twenty minutes after it happened.

Plus the desperate attempts to move an ex Ramsgate 365 that was greatly offended coasting pan down through my worksite..

Correctly routed but with pan down..

Mentor found itself in a non electrified siding at Royston..

As a little aside to the above my L frame controls motor operated points and semaphores operated by signal machines. To this end I ordered forty fulgarex slow acting point motors. Perfect for simulating both of the above. I rang a model shop and placed the order and the chap the other end asked how big the model railway was I was building. He was somewhat taken aback to find they were going to be operating 12 inch to the foot sized equipment.

Whilst I am quite capable of providing full interlocking for my model railway I have kept it simple. Yes the signals need to points set correctly and the track circuits ahead clear there is rather a lot missing. All my point motors are of the solenoid type and the common wire is cut over the protecting track etc. Every main line signal has asymmetric brake too. The thought of having to provide all the circuitry required rather spoils the fun. I do all that in the day job, the play job and for other interested parties. However.. my nine year old lad has suggested transferring control from Hornby railmaster to the Westinghouse L frame outside. I’ve said when he is old enough to properly assist we will build a model railway that has that in mind from the outset

I'll post a video of the motor in action in due course. As I mentioned upthread this is possibly the only motor capable of lifting 50lbs on the weightbar pulled from the hole nearest the fulcrum.

Just in case anyone wanted to attach it to the nearby L frame..

Two more shots of a Cambridge signal..

Going all waspy..

CN for completeness..

Cambridge South 118 and 119 signals

The signal and point machines were operated from an interlocked drawslide frame. Here is one on test. I push the slide to the check position. I then apply 110v DC and a solenoid pulls the slide back into the frame.. Normally the 110v DC for this action comes from the signal machine itself via detection contacts to prove it has returned to 'on'.

A better look at the arms… Funnily enough I’m just commissioning one of the 110v D.C. signal machines. The team will be working on it again tomorrow so I should be able to post a video of the motor in action. It’s on a slotted co-actor that requires quite a lot of weight to pull two arms off. Equally so it needs a lot of weight to pull the slot back. Not a problem from a lever but there are not many signal machines that will happily pull off 50lbs.

Watch out i could go on about this system for hours..

It a BPRS signal. Cambridge was all electric from around 1919ish?

Yard and depot use possibly makes sense. They certainly seem ungainly for anything else.

Just being prepared.

My attempts at a large and medium plough.

A rummage round the net produced this.. In 1969 this large plough was allocated to Hitchin seen here paired with a Large independent.

Yes what does a single line plough look like?

Not my picture but it is rather excellent. I'm building this plough too. No other independents are listed but my appedices are BR(E) Southern area. I suspect the NE independents are listed elsewhere. There is a cross reference to the General Appendix Page 112 that i haven't investigated yet.

It seems to be a bit vague in 1960. Lincoln has a single line plough too.

This is listed as a Large..