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    Rother Valley Railway

    I did correct myself on a later post, realising that the "headshunt" is what was the old bay platform road. Never knew that the Down/ Long Siding...
    Post door: Mark Thompson, 3 nov 2025 om 18:38 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Bluebell Railway General Discussion

    If they're working off fiction, all well and good. I remember going to see the stage version at the Fortune in about 2005. It scared the bejesus...
    Post door: Mark Thompson, 31 okt 2025 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Bluebell Railway General Discussion

    I really hope that reenactment wasn't a play on the tragedy of Ronald and Winifred Knapp, killed in Noble's Farm cutting in summer 1943. I'd hate...
    Post door: Mark Thompson, 31 okt 2025 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Rother Valley Railway

    NTDWA.
    Post door: Mark Thompson, 30 okt 2025 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Rother Valley Railway

    Some really interesting updates, showing how the platform roads being relaid at Etchingham are cascading their redundant materials south to...
    Post door: Mark Thompson, 30 okt 2025 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Rother Valley Railway

    The relaying of the down headshunt on the rebuilt embankment North of Robertsbridge is well underway, again using the RVR as its strategic access...
    Post door: Mark Thompson, 26 okt 2025 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Bluebell Railway General Discussion

    "The day we went to Darlington by way of Kensal Green". You just don't think about the logistics of journeys like this. I hope there are some...
    Post door: Mark Thompson, 25 okt 2025 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Bluebell Railway General Discussion

    Ah! Interesting.
    Post door: Mark Thompson, 19 okt 2025 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Bluebell Railway General Discussion

    I believe that platform 1 ceased to be used, certainly as a through passenger road, as long ago as the remodeling of 1914, when the original...
    Post door: Mark Thompson, 19 okt 2025 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Bluebell Railway General Discussion

    Just watching the HK webcam, Beachy Head heading Tornado northbound. Thats a pretty chunky conclusion to the day, and suitably well-attended, too.
    Post door: Mark Thompson, 18 okt 2025 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Bluebell Railway General Discussion

    Very true!:)
    Post door: Mark Thompson, 15 okt 2025 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Bluebell Railway General Discussion

    I think what I'm interested in is that if this was a Downton-related piece of filming, which the nameboard suggests, then how does that fit in...
    Post door: Mark Thompson, 14 okt 2025 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Bluebell Railway General Discussion

    As far as I can recall, the "Downton" nameboard has been at the end of platforms 1/2 since the beginning of time, well, certainly well before the...
    Post door: Mark Thompson, 11 okt 2025 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Bluebell Railway General Discussion

    I'm not sure that's anything new, the real identity crisis appears to be at the south end of platforms 1/2, where the canopy columns seem to be...
    Post door: Mark Thompson, 11 okt 2025 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Rother Valley Railway

    Its an awkward little corner, that. What with the crossing, bridge 6, and the flood defences all within yards of each other. Ongoing will be an...
    Post door: Mark Thompson, 9 okt 2025 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK