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In BRILL Vol 9 No.6, two months back, Martin Smith continued his account of an early British Transport Commission Investigation, into modernising train working in the West of England. Completed by November 1955, it was an odd combination of dieselisation-plus-Beeching, being more or less contemporary with the first but anticipating the second by several years... In all, it is a fairly alarming insight into the way the official mind was working, even then. It was presumably kept secret from staff and public alike. Now all is revealed in the last part of DIESELISING THE WEST COUNTRY - PLAN AND REALITY (PART THREE) - By Martin Smith THE (UN)COMMON HERD, PART 2 - More light-hearted notes by Oliver Bury - Continuing the tale of the dear old Bongos and their four-legged counterparts. The LNER certainly missed a name, it seems, when it declined to make any use of the charming Dik-Dik! DECLINE AND FALL - Notes further to the Account in The Book of the Royal Scots AN UNUSUAL END - In this country there were not many locomotives which fell to their ends, and those that did fall from some height were usually recovered. The famous Furness engine, which slipped into a yawning pit as the ground subsided under it (the reason was mine working) comes to mind but few others. An Ivatt 4MT Mogul fell over the wall at Adolphus Street goods (as depicted in BRILL) and was scrapped, though this was only because it was late in the 1960s, and steam locomotives were going for scrap when minor repairs were falling due. So it was doubly strange that the Southern, many miles from any mining or quarrying, lost its M7 0-4-4T No.672 in 1948. It fell down a lift shaft and jammed so tight that only by cutting it into small pieces could it be got out and the lift restored. An unusual end indeed... LAPWORTH TROUGHS - Photographed by Michael Mensing Mogul Finale at Pett's Wood - 13 June 1959 was the last Saturday of steam operation on the Kent Coast line from Victoria to Ramsgate, and the bright sun brought out the photographers. Peter Groom chose a wooded spot in Pett's Wood to record a series of Southern Moguls smartly turned out despite the imminent end of steam. ON THE ROAD - Photograph by Les Elsey. A DAY BY THE RIVER - The Great Ouse, and the Bedford 'Jocko'. DOWN AND OUT IN DONCASTER - The fate of V2 60977, last seen draped in snow at New England in BRILL Vol.9 No.5, February 2000. DIESEL DAWN - Warships Come To The West - With the conclusion of Dieselising The West Country - Plan And Reality it is a suitable opportunity, having finished now with the Plan part to have a look at the Reality. If nothing else, the Warships were striking locomotives to look at... FOURUM - ORE ON THE MOOR - Those extraordinary iron ore workings from Tyne Dock, blasting up to the high moorland of north Durham ON TRACK - Sunday Closing THE CIVIL ENGINEER'S COLLECTION A READER WRITES and A LIFE OF STEAM Cover: A BRILL favoruite - an A4 at the Cross. 60025 FALCON waits to depart in classical pose, with The Yorkshire Pullman. In the background is N2 0-4-2T 69529.
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