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447296lastduff replied to the thread LNWR G2 lack of BR smokebox number plate?.I asked the late Chris Hughes (of Eggheads fame) about this, and he reckoned that the smokebox doors were too thin to carry the weight...
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447296lastduff replied to the thread Padiham Power Station C More Details.Looking at the area on a 1960s OS map, the site looks somewhat hemmed in, and there may simply have not been enough space to create an...
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447296lastduff replied to the thread Padiham Power Station C More Details.Run round loop-loco detaches from train and runs forward to headshunt. Points are changed and loco runs past train on adjacent line...
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447296lastduff replied to the thread Dalston Junc to Hackney closure.The official closure date was 04/07/66, but the connection had already been severed 02/01/66, and the last use of the curve was on 01/03/65.
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447296lastduff replied to the thread Old London Underground trains.Thanks for the replies. As I remember it, when I first saw these trains there were no signs by the doors, and that was why I wondered...
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4Recently I read a crime novel set in the 1950s, where a suspect was pursued by police on an LU train. He opened the door at the end of...
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447296lastduff replied to the thread Manchester area steam sheds.I think Agecroft was mainly/entirely goods work. Patricroft did North Wales and Liverpool from Man Exchange (not Vic), also things like...