• 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..
    Those are "dead buffers". They don't actually make contact except in a heavy shunt (we think). They are American practice, adopted by...
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    Vann replied to the thread Wellington & Manawatu Railway..
    Yes. Air brakes - Westinghouse brakes - were introduced in New Zealand in 1901, following a serious crash in Canterbury (South Island) a...
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    Vann replied to the thread Wellington & Manawatu Railway..
    Normally there's a hook that pivots from a horizontal pin in one coupler and drops over the same pin (in the second hole) in the other...
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    Vann replied to the thread Wellington & Manawatu Railway..
    The pinstripes (and other signage) are based on photos of the batch of carriages built by Jackson & Sharp (Delaware, USA), taken at...
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    Vann reacted to Wolf's post in the thread Development of the Wadkin RB Surface Planer. with Like Like.
    Here's the tables I saved a few years ago, XHP222 is another as Vann said, got it in one of my grease guns as it happens.(also suitable...
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    Vann reacted to Wolf's post in the thread Development of the Wadkin RB Surface Planer. with Like Like.
    https://www.resene.co.nz/swatches/preview.php?chart=Resene%20Multi-finish%20range%20(2008)&brand=Resene&name=Shark Also this might be...
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    The Wadkin "Operating and Maintenance Instructions" for the PK dimension saw says: - Wadkin Grade L.6 alternative grease: - Shell-Mex &...
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    Vann replied to the thread Wellington & Manawatu Railway..
    Unfortunately no. The original T&G was kauri (agathis australis). Kauri is now very rare and very expensive, as it is scarce and largely...
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    Vann replied to the thread Nervous about Surgeon.
    Yes. That seems to work. Just click on the arrow next to "Vann said". Cheers, Vann.
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    Vann reacted to SteveMP's post in the thread Wellington & Manawatu Railway. with Like Like.
    He should get a button made with that on it
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    Vann replied to the thread Wellington & Manawatu Railway..
    One of our team was born in Sutton (I don't know if that's the same town as Sutton on Sea). His surname is Dutton and he jokingly refers...
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    Vann replied to the thread Wellington & Manawatu Railway..
    Here are some photos of the first carriage - WMR No.48 - arriving at the southern terminus of the 1.5km Silver Stream Railway, in Upper...
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    Vann replied to the thread Wellington & Manawatu Railway..
    Interesting project, and fast work. But with an emphasis on being a commercial operation, with all the modifications that brings. Our...
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    Vann replied to the thread Nervous about Surgeon.
    These were built in Thordon, Wellington (New Zealand), structurally identical to a previous batch of carriages built by Jackson & Sharp...
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    Indeed. That's excellent. As the first machine of this batch to show up, it allows me to identify the features of that batch (always...
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