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Congratulations! ..."Road Signal" is the right answer. Well Done. Although it was controlled from a lever in Neasden South Box (LT), MF45 wasn't a signal for trains at all. It was to control the traffic travelling along the access road to the south end of the depot. The access road leading to...

According to my go-to reference (Harsig) MF45 was a 2 aspect (red / green) colour light signal (actually a pair of them, co-acting). I don't think you could really describe it as a ground signal. Certainly, there is another descriptive word for this type of signal (it's quite a common word...

You are very, very close. Please read carefully: Only one word is wrong in what you have written here. If all of the words which you wrote had been correct, then there would not be anything "unusual" about MF45. But there is something unusual about MF45; and that's why one of the words...

Yes! Now we are getting warmer. MF was indeed the (then) London Transport Neasden South box (and MH was Neasden North) But MF45 is not the signal in your excellent photo (which I suspect shows NJ19, see Adrian the Rock's pages here (scroll down a bit) and also here ) The line from Marylebone...

I'm sure that MF45 would have had a lever, but alas that's not what we're after here. There was something fundamentally different about MF45 which made it very unusual, perhaps even unique for the line in question. What was that difference?

Two more good guesses - but unfortunately neither is the right answer. I think maybe I should give a bit more help. Whistler40145, xotGD and D6130 above have all surmised this is something to do with signalling. That is correct. I've now done some more checking up, and discovered that the...

Well now - I didn't think this little poser would have stumped you all! However, considering the small number of replies so far, maybe I should try to provide a clue - although it's hard to think of a clue which doesn't simply give the game away... Perhaps the word "London" might help?

Good idea! ...but sorry, that's not what I'm after. Actually to be strictly accurate I should probably have said "they aren't there anymore", as I believe there were two parts of MF45, rather than just one.

What was* unusual about MF45? *and possibly still is, although I suspect it's not there any more by now.

Apparently it was a New York Times photographer who discovered the missing bogie. The NYT article here has some better pictures of the bogie in the stream, and also has a clear picture of the Iryo with a bogie missing. edit: sorry it now seems to be paywalled, try the cached version from the...

Wasn't it during last summer that the track was renewed?

I'm more concerned about the amount of horizontal protrusion on the inside of the rail (seen here from the angle of post #106)

Yes, excellent, that's a good way to put it which avoids any ambiguity Try going here https://archive.ph/ and put the URL you want into the lower box on the page. This will reveal whether any snapshots of the page have already been cached. The cached snapshots will probably show you what you...

Given that it's right hand running, should that not be behind the intact weld (from the point of view of the moving train)?

from post #1 of this thread: I was wondering what "entrance detours" meant. Could it perhaps mean facing points? (edited to clarify where the quote came from)