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    Shed Codes

    During BR days, all steam loco sheds had been allocated shed codes. For example, Plaistow was 33A. During the time it was part of the LMS, it was 13A. I dont know what the GWR, SR and LNER did as an equivalent. Was this type of shed code started by the LMS, or were they earlier than that? In...
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    Mystery problem on brdatabase

    Every now and then I use brdatabase. I think it is a very good database, and must have taken a lot of work to build it. Now I'm not complaining but twice I have had a mystery problem with it, and I'm wondering if any of this forum's users have ever had the same - and have they found a solution...
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    Steam Loco Power Classification questions, etc

    I was at Swanage Railway Station yesterday and saw 34028 Eddystone. I noticed on the cabside, just above the number, it had "7P 5FA". Now, I know what the 7P and 5F refer to, but what does the A mean? On the sublect of Steam Locomotive Power Classification, how do they work out what the P...
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    Kings Cross Top Shed

    A couple of things about Top Shed:- 1.Back in 1963, after steam had been banned south of Grantham(?) some steam still got to Kings Cross Station (needs must,etc). Was Top Shed in a suitable state to service them, or did the locos get sent elsewhere before heading back north? 2. When they...
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    Elizabeth Line - why is it still in parts?

    Can anyone on this forum tell me why the Elizabeth Line trains from Reading still do not go through to the underground section? Ditto the trains from Shenfield? How much longer before they connect? Thanks
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    Switch Diamonds

    I have been reading Peter Kay's books "The London, Tilbury & Southend Railway : A History Of The Company and Line", and at one point he talks about a track modification at a junction as "relaid with switch diamonds". Would someone please explain - does this mean a diamond crossing was replaced...
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    Steam Locomotive Boiler Parts

    I've been reading a book on the history of the Stanier 3-cyl 2-6-4t locomotives, and in part of it, it tells of the modifications that were needed to the boilers in the early days. It started me thinking. They talk about boiler barrels, fireboxes, fire tubes, superheater elements and so on, but...
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    Chat Moss on the Liverpool Manchester Railway

    I've just been watching a documentary on the building of the Liverpool to Manchester Railway by George Stephenson. Where the line crosses Chat Moss, he built a 'floating' track bed using bundles of brushwood and stuff because the Moss just swallowed rock and the normal embankment material. That...
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    Trivial Question - the 6 Foot

    The 6 Foot - is it actually 6 feet, or what size is it? Is it measured between the two nearest rails on adjacent tracks or is it the distance between two lines of sleepers?
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    Smoke Deflectors

    What was the first loco in the UK to have smoke deflectors? Had smoke deflectors already been used in other countries, if so where?
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    Mail pick-up/drop-off on the move

    I know that back in the days of steam the West Coast Mainline (London to Glasgow) had the mail system where mail bags could be picked up or dropped off at speed. Were there any other lines that had the same facility?
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    Semaphore Signals

    Where they have or had semaphore signals, would somebody please explain to me what the difference is between a Home signal and a Starter signal. Physically they are the same, so it must be something to do with where they are positioned on the line and what their job is supposed to be. I know...
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    LT&SR Pitsea Station

    I have been doing a lot of reading about the history of the LT&SR, from construction thorough to present days, and I understand from my reading that Pitsea station was originally built on one site when the line only came from the Tilbury direction on its way to Southend-on-Sea and Shoeburyness...
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    East London junction named Gasworks Junction

    Does anyone know of a junction called Gasworks Junction where the North London Railway had a connection to the London & Blackwall Railway (L&BR [the Fenchurch Street line] became leased by Great Eastern, then absorbed into LNER at Grouping [I understand]). This would have been in the area of Bow...
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    Using Realtime Trains

    I'm new to this forum, so hopefully this post is in the correct location. I have recently started using Realtime Trains to study the trains passing through my local station (Christchurch in Dorset). I haven't seen any freight trains through here for some years, so I was surprised to see how...

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