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10 hours ago, KeithMacdonald said:

Ah, Comrade Kestrel, welcome!

 

You are now boarding USSR territorial vessel. For your own protection, you will be blindfolded during your voyage to your glorious future in the Soviet Motherland.
 

 

HS4000 Kestrel at Cardiff Docks 1971 by John Wiltshire

 

I'll venture to guess they bought only the one, then reverse engineered it...

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10 hours ago, britishcolumbian said:

I'll venture to guess they bought only the one, then reverse engineered it...

 

Indeed they did - they fitted it with huge headlights on the cab roof domes and ran it on a test track at a railway development centre.

 

CJI.

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On 19/06/2022 at 00:14, britishcolumbian said:

Yeovil Pen Mill 1958

 

There's something about Yeovil Pen Mill that's always intrigued me - why do they have a platform on both sides of the up line?

 

Thanks to Stephen Burdett for this Flickr pic.

 

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Yeovil Pen Mill 1985

In the mid 80s the West of England resignalling got underway.As a result,many services were diverted particularly at weekends and this gave critical operational challenges at places such as Yeovil. This scene on 30/3/85 shows 50037 waiting to take the chord to Yeovil Junction with the 10.27 Paddington - Paignton whilst the hst works the 08.27 Penzance to Paddington. The dmu would normally commence its journey at Bristol or Westbury but on this day it left Yeovil at 12.49.

 

 

Yeovil Pen Mill 1985

 

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22 hours ago, KeithMacdonald said:

 

There's something about Yeovil Pen Mill that's always intrigued me - why do they have a platform on both sides of the up line?

 

Thanks to Stephen Burdett for this Flickr pic.

 

 

Yeovil Pen Mill 1985

 

Most likely because there wasn't enough space to arrange the Down platform in any other way - although that does to some extent depend on what was built when.

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