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  1. Nottingham City Transport had a fairly late model Leyland Atlantean with several novel and experimental features, fleet no. 666, apparently it wasn't unknown for people to refuse to travel on it! It's currently preserved at Ruddington.
  2. This popped up while I was mooching around YouTube, think it may go down well here. This is a Halloween special, they've also done normal stuff.
  3. 92095 was one of the original Annesley batch obtained to run the 'Windcutters/Runners' paired with the ER standard BR1F tender. According to the Book of the 9Fs, published by Irwell(?) a couple of them lost their original tenders for other types late in the day of Annesley depot. There's a copy in the club library but as I'm 150 miles away at the moment perhaps someone else has a copy and could confirm? Also the top lamp bracket has been moved to the side of the smokebox which again suggests, as you say, mid 60s.
  4. Hi Keith, A couple of comments in reply. If my childhood memories are correct I sometimes used to run my Britannia without the smoke tube in, what you got was a fairly dense plume of smoke rather than the puffs created by the tube. It did get through smoke oil at a fair rate though, so I used the only stuff we had to hand instead, the trusty(!) 3 in 1. Little wonder that when I decided to do a detailing job on it many years later the chimney simply disintegrated. As for the synchrosmoke version, I have little experience with them although I did notice someone was selling a replacement element on eBay yesterday. Buy it now at £20, seems a bit steep but they could be difficult things to come by.
  5. 158862 ready to work the 07.42 to Norwich from Liverpool Lime Street having come empty from Nottingham. Assuming it stays on the diagram it will be back in Liverpool about 19.30 tonight before returning to Nottingham arriving around 22.30
  6. A couple of minutes into this Youtube video taken from original film shows Holker Hall involved in a minor mishap. It also shows how quickly things were sorted back in the day!
  7. Pedant mode: It's Tutbury and Hatton station, the signal box is Tutbury Crossing, to distinguish it from Hatton station nearer to Birmingham, the subject of a long discussion with a lady over a pre-purchased ticket some years ago. She was convinced she'd bought the correct ticket but Tutbury to Birmingham is about 3 times the price of Hatton to Birmingham!
  8. These two were in Skegness this morning either end of the Northern Belle Pullman.
  9. Fairly sure it had gone by the time I learned Skeggie as a guard early 2008. There was also one late survivor while Firsby South box was still there but that was probably gone in the late 90s.
  10. Yes, we could see that one from New Basford platform at the other end of Sherwood Rise tunnel, at least we could when the tunnel was clear of smoke!
  11. I think you're right about industrial, I've had a quick measure of an ABS LNER L1 which is pretty much the shortest coupled wheelbase I can think of, about 28mm so 7ft or thereabouts?
  12. Just a thought, the WR 1500 class panniers had outside valve gear and were short wheelbase, although I haven't looked them up. Also single slide bar, a bit of a departure from GWR traditions!
  13. There was one, I think, running on the NSMEE track at Ruddington a couple of weeks ago, just doubting my memory to be honest. Definitely a 37 running because it looked more like a scale model than the bigger class 47. Maybe they can point you in the right direction? https://nsmee.org.uk/
  14. I'm only going from Norfolk to the east Midlands, what I'm finding incredible is the almost total lack of coordinated information. Network rail app merely gives a bland 'services may be disrupted' otherwise it shows the normal service pattern in journey planners. It seems the TOCs may have briefed their local newspapers but, as far as I can find, nothing even to their front line staff! If those of us inside the industry can't easily find out what's going on, how the hell are mere passengers supposed to cope?
  15. Not to mention younger ones in hoodies and such like. Saw a bloke earlier coat and body warmer! Going to be interesting getting home on Tuesday, looking like if trains don't go to or from London they ain't going!
  16. Routine maintenance probably, it's also factored in when diagrams are drawn up.
  17. Sherwood models in Nottingham has been around for something like 40 years now. The original owner opened on Sunday morning, long before Sunday trading became the norm, I used to have a run over there while the other half was at church, certainly when our son was small and possibly before he was born, he's 42 now by the way.
  18. Certainly likely to promote some heated debate, see what I did there 😉
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