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Most real stations occupied many times the length we typically have available as modellers. (T scale aside), it might be more realistic rather than less.

Sledgehammer ====> nut.

Arley has two platforms. Highley has only one.

A casual flick through any mid-20th c WTT reveals that there were more freight trains than passenger on most lines, even though rail was the default mode of transport for the majority of travelers, and its generally accepted that freight subsidised passenger until the rise of the motor lorry post ww2. So I contend the history of freight transport is a story they should tell well and often.

Nor this, but Broadway has the Goods shed on the south of the A44 bridge, and the station on the north

From New York to LA - Patsy Gallant

Just use a piece of lath with a panel pin and pencil fixed at the radius required, then +8mm, then -8mm to draw curves on stout paper.

Kinky Boots - Honor Blackman & Patrick McNee

Games Without Frontiers- -Peter Gabriel

It's A Shame - Talk Talk

snip! Per way or S & T staff had the full kit and wore it, but I'm not sure that shunters were issued with it.

 

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The P-Way and S&T were issued with the short "mini-vest", gloves and boots by payroll deduction, but nothing more in the way of ppe. Company coats and jackets were still dark grey, in the summer the old lags wore old tatty shirt jacket and trousers, probably from Oxfam. We trainees wore t-shirts and jeans. There was a custom, frowned on by the supervisors, to wear the mini-vest around the waist so you could sit on rails, sleepers whatever and keep some of the filth off your own clothes.

If I can't have you - Yvonne Elliman

Welcome to my Nightmare - Alice Cooper

Lady Eleanor - Lindisfarne

Fred Zeppelin does the rounds in The Faithful City.

The other essential use of the cess not mentioned hitherto, was as a walking route for the firemen to carry out Rule 55.

Thanks Merf

This sad beast is on a FaceAche for sale site for £50.

It looks suspiciously like a BR crew bus. Can anyone confirm?

But what method was used to build a cess that had a good walking surface?

In the 1970's there were still some quiet lines in use which hadn't seen much action from mechanised track maintenance. The cess could either be 1/2" or less gravel or locomotive ash. My experience is of both GW and LM lines in the West Midlands.

An old S&T supervisor told me that the traditional p-Way lengthmen used to acquire a length of point rodding (18 feet) and use it to align the stones on the edge of the ballast shoulder.

A Message to You Rudi - Specials AKA

Av yew got a light boy? The Singing Postman

You Are My Sunshine - Jimmy Davies & Charles Mitchell, and many others.

After discovering Letraset disappeared some time ago and that Fox transfers were too large and watersliding all the individual letters would have been a PITA I sent a custom job to Railtec transfers. An all in one waterslide and I'm very pleased with the quality.

 

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Do you have photos of this building? I wonder if the Gill Sans font isn't a bit modern for 1915. I associate it more with Art Deco / 1930-1950.

A quick look at the website reveals that we need a party of 15 (or more) to qualify for discount.

So 2 so far. I need 13 more names )

£110 made at my pilot visit to the Ketch Car Boot Sale. Very chuffed indeed. Lessons learned for a future visit. The remains of the MiL's stuff to clear, then to start on Mum and Dad's. 62 years of accumulated possessions.