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https://i.postimg.cc/F791byKr/Perry-Street01.png This picture may help, Here about the embankment is higher than the roofs of houses nearby, about 20 - 25 feet above the surrounding land . The surrounding area is clay over chalk, and the embankment was constructed from material excavated from cutti...

You may like to read the attached extract from Modern Railways from 1963. Dealing with a new CCD at Chessington.

Originally a coal yard would be a fairly simple arrangement where loaded coal wagons would be unloaded by men with shovels, the coal being shovelled out of the side door, and placed in sacks on a set of scales standing alongside. These sacks would then be placed on the coalman's cart and delivered t...

Weighbridges were an integral part of a private siding, far more so than a station goods yard. Before a loaded wagon could be despatched a consignment note was required and it was usual for a certified weigh-bill to be produced beforehand so that the weight could be accurately declared and entered o...

Classic!

I hope it goes better for you than it went for me. All week there has been a drip from the boiler on to the worktop underneath. The water was penetrating into the cupboard underneath. I called British Gas, with whom I have a service agreement and Tuesday afternoon an engineer called. She fixed the l...

Sorry I missed it, other pressures (actually because I had so little sleep the night before I fell asleep in the armchair, and when I woke up I forgot all about it)

Sign of old age creeping on!

Certainly spectacular, and proving very popular. Heritage railways are better placed to manage social distancing if they use the old fashioned corridor carriages. I noticed on Railcam that the Romney Hythe and Dymchurch are running plenty of Santa Specials at weekends. Lets hope they can recoup the ...

Early 2-2-0 and 2-2-2 locomotives and early rolling stock would make an interesting basis for pioneering railway layouts. I am not sure how many people would go for them, but a layout featuring them would certainly be attractive. Hopefully early style track for them to run on too. Turning now to ear...

It isn't so much the speed as the remarkable ability of a model train to stay on the line through curves which are far tighter than would ever be found in the real world. A Second Radius curve is nearly a scale 110 foot radius whereas on the real railway the tightest curve are 330 feet and trains go...