LeShuttle Club Car

• Drawn from the general arrangement in the BEA-TT/RAIB 2008 fire report (figure 19), whose printed dimensions fix the lengths, bogie centres, wheelbase, doors, width and height; the figure is a 736 px raster, 43 mm a pixel, so every unprinted position is good to about +/- 50 mm along the car and +/- 100 mm in height (set CT, 30 October 2026)
• The wheel diameter (920) is the standard size; the drawing reads 21.8 px tall (920 at its 42.2 mm a px up) and about 22.3 px across (960 at 43.17)
• The body is read off figure 19 at 42.2 mm a figure px up (the printed 3,950 from the roof's crown line to the rail) and 43.17 along (set CTW3, 5 November 2026), each height from the crown line in the same columns, as the figure is slightly bowed; its lines are good to about +/- 20 mm, half a pixel
• The gangway face at each end (a frame standing 1 ft 1 in (330 mm) proud round the end door, with a round roll on top) is drawn from figure 19's side elevation, plan and end view; that it is a rubber-rolled gangway face is read from its shape (rolls in plan and side view, standing beyond the coupling plane), not from a description (set CTW3); its dark grey-brown is sampled on Kyle's photograph 02, taken from above, the only one that shows it (set CTW5, 7 November 2026)
• The side doors are drawn as the elevation outlines them (3 ft 5 in and 3 ft 5 in (1,052 and 1,038 mm), down to the step); the plan prints 2 ft 6 in (750 mm) for the left one's leaf, inside that outline, and no other side door width is printed
• The bogies, underframe and drawgear are read off figure 19 alone (set CTW2, 5 November 2026): no photograph of a Club Car's side, bogie or end is public; the parts' shading (lit metal on a dark shadow, daylight where the figure draws nothing behind) is the project's standard, not seen
• The livery: the meadow wrap as Kyle's photographs 01 and 03 show it (set CTW5, 7 November 2026), simplified to plain shapes; the photographs differ by side or car (02 stops the dark band at the windows and shows the body grey below the waist strip), and no source dates the wrap. The flowers' places are not read flower by flower
• The pale strip along the eaves (set CTW4) is seen on three photographs; its height (60 mm on the eaves line) is derived
• The roof's lengthwise ribs (set CTW5): photograph 02, from above, shows the roof ribbed lengthwise (about ten over the near half); they are drawn as five faint lines evenly spaced on the roof's side, a count and spacing chosen, not read rib by rib
• The yellow edge on each side door's step (set CTW5) is seen on one photograph (01); its depth (30 mm) and colour are read off that photograph, in the car's shadow; so are the step's and tread's dark greys round it (set CTW6, 7 November 2026), the box below the step being hidden there by the platform
• The 140 km/h (87 mph) is the Shuttles' speed
• The fleet: 15 in service is English Wikipedia's figure for the lorry Shuttles, one Club Car each (citing Haydock, 2020); 19 is the fleet Getlink's press video of 1 March 2014 gives; no Getlink figure for today was found (set CTW5, 7 November 2026)

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