Re: Strickland Junction - no mirror image,
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Posted by Peter H on March 19, 2008 at 21:28:43 from 86.154.104.251
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In Reply to: Strickland Junction - no mirror image, posted by Rob Boden on March 19, 2008 at 17:03:09:
Rob's theory has a lot to commend it, and it would solve the 'LETTING FLY' problem visually, but it doesn't altogether solve the narrative problem. Here I have to refer to Arthur Ransome's Railways by David Carter. David says:
The drawing is unmistakably of the Windermere branch platform at Oxenholme, but the locomotive is facing the wrong way! . . . . .the wall shown is on the western side of the station. The drawing most nearly depicts an ex-LNWR 4-4-2 tank engine, of which a number were shedded at Oxenholme to run trains on the Windermere branch.
It does seem from the PP text that the train was a through train. More problems. Over to David Carter again . .
We know from Nancy's label on the pigeon's basket that Titty and Roger were expected at Strickland Junction on the 6.05 train. Now it is not immediately apparent whether they changed trains, or went on to Windermere after a short stop. The difficulty arises because there was a train which arrived at Oxenholme at 6.05 - this was an 'all stations' local from Preston. According to the timetable, it appeared to end its journey at Oxenholme, giving it a connection to a train which left at 6.16 arriving at Windermere at 6.45. It could be, and probably was, that the same locomotive and carriages simply continued as the Windermere train, and in this case the train would almost certainly have run into the branch platform from the south, rather than using the main line platform.
David goes on to discuss why T and R were travelling on a 'local train', but I think this is enough anoraky stuff for now . . . .
(Excerpts from Arthur Ransome's Railways by David Carter (2000) published by TARS)
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