Jan Ford's World
The occasional and probably unreliable recollections of an aging female.
Saturday, 8 October 2016
'Operation: Market Bosworth' - On the Footplate
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In the post 'Operation: Market Bosworth' - The Battlefield Line 1940s Weekend 2016 , I described the first day of the two-day event...
Thursday, 22 September 2016
'Operation: Market Bosworth' - The Battlefield Line 1940s Weekend 2016
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The Battlefield Line held 'Operation: Market Bosworth' - a '1940s Weekend' - on 17th and 18th September 2016. A number o...
Thursday, 15 September 2016
'Flying Scotsman' at Peak Rail
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In the post 'Flying Scotsman' at Birmingham Railway Museum , I briefly described my time with the locomotive at Tyseley between 199...
Wednesday, 14 September 2016
Electrical Systems on Steam Locomotives
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In the article The Railway at Night , I discussed the rather feeble headlamps carried by British steam trains, mentioning that many railway...
Sunday, 11 September 2016
The Railway at Night
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A railway works largely on the principle of "See and be Seen". In the daytime, a driver can see where he is and observe the signa...
Locomotive Regulators (part 2)
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Click on any picture or drawing below for a larger, uncropped view. In the article Locomotive Regulators (part 1) I discussed early regu...
Friday, 9 September 2016
The Mergui Archipelago (day 6)
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Events of Thursday, 28th April, 2016 In the post on the previous day's activities, here I described how the smaller fishing vessels ...
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