• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

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    Vann replied to the thread Wellington & Manawatu Railway..
    It's just gone midnight here, into Saturday morning. Time for bed (beyond time for bed really). I'm not sure when I'll get back to...
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    Vann replied to the thread Wellington & Manawatu Railway..
    The New Zealand Railway & Locomotive Society. The society had its origins in 1944 and by the 1960s had small branches around the...
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    Vann replied to the thread Wellington & Manawatu Railway..
    More background. In the year after it acquired the WMR, the NZGR (New Zealand Government Railways) absorbed the carriages into it's...
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    Vann replied to the thread Wellington & Manawatu Railway..
    Some background: During the 1870s New Zealand Government Railways was constructing a railway line out of the capital, Wellington...
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    I mentioned in another thread that I'm involved in a project to restore some old railway carriages. There seems to be some interest, so...
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    Vann replied to the thread Nervous about Surgeon.
    Interesting enough for me to start a thread on the subject? Cheers, Vann.
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    Vann replied to the thread Nervous about Surgeon.
    I guess this thread started by talking about medical procedures - so maybe the mention of an "undertaker" isn't off topic... ;) Cheers...
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    Vann replied to the thread Nervous about Surgeon.
    There are six of us on a good day. One is a railway boilermaker, who retrained as a fitter when boilermaking became less in demand. He...
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    Vann replied to the thread Nervous about Surgeon.
    Well, at the current rate of progress (one day of work per week) I'll have to live to 120 years of age 😟. But with luck I'll see out the...
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    Vann reacted to Wolf's post in the thread Development of the Wadkin RB Surface Planer. with Like Like.
    I'll take some better pics of the planer, no problem (y)
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    Vann replied to the thread Nervous about Surgeon.
    Almost all of my maternal aunts and uncles, and mum, suffered mini-strokes, resulting in dementia. I believe (and hope) that the...
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    Vann replied to the thread Nervous about Surgeon.
    Two years ago a CT scan showed I had a restriction in my carotid arteries, which had caused a mini-stroke or two (so mini I never felt...
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    To be honest, I'd like to see more photos of your RB (this is an RB thread after all ;)), particularly of the rear (showing the...
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    From somewhere after 1936, Wadkin painted their machines in a mid-grey - roughly RAL 7011. But your 1934 and 1936 machines would have...
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    Yes they do. Unfortunately my contact, with access to them, has now retired. Cheers, Vann.
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