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GWR foxcote manore at tenterden railway

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GWR foxcote manore at tenterden railway "Foxcote Manor" is a distinguished 78xx locomotive, part of the Manor class, meticulously crafted under the direction of Charles Collett, the Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Western Railway. Manufactured at Swindon Works in 1950 by British Railways, "Foxcote" belongs to the second wave of Manors, a series of ten introduced to complement the initial twenty constructed in 1938-9. The Manor Class, designated as a 5MT (Western region D) locomotive, boasts a 4-6-0 configuration with a total weight of 107 tonnes in operational condition. This design results in a comparatively light axle loading of 17 tonnes, a crucial specification on the GWR where the limitations of earlier locomotives like the Dean Goods and Dukedogs were evident. The advantageous light axle loading provides a versatile route availability (blue) and offers the GWR a nimble yet powerful option for train haulage. While some critics may argue that the Manors

semaphore signals on gantry and signal box at hythe station

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semaphore signals on gantry and signal box at hythe station   semaphore signals and signalbox at hythe station on the romney hythe and dymchurch railway kent these signals were manualy operated most worked by steel cables

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