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  1. SZ
    The closest I've seen to 'Ashleigh' but with engine shed and goods shed would be Seaton, plan below
  2. SZ
    Yes it was LMR so I'll have a look for that film, it would be good to hear it again. I was wondering if I had imagined it all...
  3. SZ
    Years ago, around 1970, BR blue with some maroon, I can remember a very distinct siren that used to sound on the railway, presumably to alert track workers of an oncoming train. The notes were as follows, the 'mid' note being held for longer than the others mid... high, low, mid... high, low, mid... (repeating) I think it might have come from a grey lineside cabinet with a loudspeaker horn on top. I've not heard it for decades, or seen those cabinets, but what was it?
  4. SZ
    No signals. I think all of that would lie beyond a stop board (Stop and Await Instructions) on a reception track somewhere to the right.
  5. SZ
    https://www.shapeways.com/product/PPBCLJCX8/roevac-roof-vents-4mm-v1-150-pieces
  6. SZ
    They were definitely running in service with BR compartments. That is why I remember them.
  7. SZ
    Rebuilt? If they're the ones I'm thinking of you opened the door of an IR carriage in the 90s and entered BR in the 70s. It looked like absolutely nothing had been done to them internally so I doubt the roof vents were changed. I would trust the model unless it conflicts with a photo.
  8. SZ
    On weather protection, this raises a philosophical aspect: is a railway station 'inside' or 'outside'?
  9. SZ
    I've not seen a contemporary structure that looks better, there is something of the West Coast Modernisation about it. The disability access stuff will make it look hideous of course.
  10. SZ
    High up the whole mountain has a deep crack in it due to a collapse in the Cwmorthin quarry mine workings. I know because I once found myself stepping across it suddenly.
  11. SZ
    Next up, a Möbius Minories - with truly simultaneous arrival and departure...
  12. SZ
    More theory... the most minimal Minories Truncated and near closure, single platform, lie by siding for use between the 'peaks' Or the 'Bastille' version, for maximum simplicity The Z-Plan, an underappreciated micro-layout format
  13. SZ
    Good, and no headshunt, although there is. Where are the coal staithes?
  14. SZ
    The large major axis of oval buffers leaves them less prone to buffer locking without requiring the mass of round buffers of that diameter.
  15. SZ
    That's the problem, not worth it even at a few quid a time. For me it would have to be £10 each, and in whatever condition they are in after 40 years of neglect.
  16. SZ
    I just burnt a load of mid-70s Railway Modellers, Model Railway Constructors and the odd Railway Magazine. Will use the ash to mix with composted peelings to make something neutral to spread on the lawn. I did keep a few 'sentimental' ones though.
  17. SZ
    What is the purpose of the very short loop from 04:00. I see no signalling along it, why not just straight onto the main? An overlap, or maybe something to do with the line trailing in from the right? screenshot from this video
  18. SZ
    Portadown new station site looking south, almost certainly a permanent way or construction working.
  19. SZ
    Freight - whatever BR wagons were dedicated to the flow hauled by industrials of some sort, like a long siding Passenger - a semi-preserved operation
  20. SZ
    At the toe of the points, just before the rails diverge
  21. SZ
    You are looking for point rodding stools, various suppliers such as Brassmasters, Wizard
  22. SZ
    I remember a model railway at the end of a pier back in the 70s, could have been Brighton.
  23. SZ
    I think that works only with near parallel entry tracks. The closer the entry tracks converge the closer the pivot point needs to be to the entry point, eventually crowding out the possibility of having multi-tracks on the sector plate. Which is why some traverse movement on the plate is needed.
  24. SZ
    I'm interested in that fiddle yard, to line up on all tracks surely the pivot point needs to move, maybe along a slot cut in the top sheet (an arc?). The sector-traverser is invented! - or maybe re-invented?
  25. SZ
    A ground signal can be sufficient to enter and continue through a section.
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