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    1970s book about branch lines containing cartoons

    I have a copy of '4 ft 8’ 1/2 and All That' and it is nothing like the description given in the first post. Could it be this dating from 1976?: https://biblio.co.uk/book/railway-cartoon-book-baynes-ken-kate/d/685063051
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    Pre-nationalisation schemes that never happened

    I've found the article, it was actually in Railway World Annual 1977 - 'The Little Channel Tunnel', by Michael R. Bonavia. The gist of it is that a financier, Sir Blundell Maple commissioned Sam Fay of the Great Central to make an evaluation of the Isle of Wight's railways following which he...
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    Pre-nationalisation schemes that never happened

    I can't readily lay my hands on it for the moment but in one of the railway magazines some years ago there was an article on a proposal by the LSWR to build a tunnel to connect the Lymington line to either Freshwater or Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight. Can't remember the details as it's a long...
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    Guess the Station...

    Thanks. I thought of Collingham initially but it clearly wasn't. Have to be Open Floor now.
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    Guess the Station...

    Aslockton?
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    Guess the Station...

    Beeston?
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    Murder is easy - Agatha Christie TV programme & Waterloo Station

    Yes, the year was mentioned or implied in the series - either 1952 or 1954 (I forget which).
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    0-6-0 Top Speed

    This is mentioned in 'The Leader Locomotive' by Kevin Robertson in connection with thoughts of a new type of locomotive that eventually appeared as the 'Leader' class. There are three mentions: "It was number C21 of the class that was involved with speed trials running in reverse at 75mph."...
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    Guess the Station...

    I recognised the wall on the left. Have to be open floor now.
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    Guess the Station...

    Five Ways?
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    [Trivia] Lines with Limited services

    I thought the line through Market Rasen had a two-hourly service throughout the day.
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    Did a K3 2-6-0 really make it through to West Wales in the early 1960's?

    There are numerous photos of B1s on the Leicester branch plus at Belgrave Road, not to mention K2s and 0-6-0s.
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    Did a K3 2-6-0 really make it through to West Wales in the early 1960's?

    I don't know about beyond there, but they did work at least as far as Marefield North Junction in order to get to Leicester.
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    Did a K3 2-6-0 really make it through to West Wales in the early 1960's?

    How about the Grimsby to Whitland fish train? I haven't looked into it, but I believe an Immingham engine would work it as far as Banbury where there would be a change of engine - perhaps on this occasion a K3 worked right through? In my day (around 1961) it was usually a Britannia, but no...
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    Would the Selby diversion have been built had they known the coalfield would only be in use for about 20 years ?

    An advantage of the diversion was that it cut out the Selby swing bridge with its speed restriction and probable future complication for electrification. I wonder what solution would have been found if the diversion hadn't happened.

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