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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.
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Sheffield Exchange, Toy trains, music and fun!
great central replied to Clive Mortimore's topic in Layout topics
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. -
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.
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Triang Smoke Units - Spares & Repairs
great central replied to GoingUnderground's topic in Collectable/Vintage
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. -
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!
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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!
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Class 47 photos
great central replied to class"66"'s topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
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He does, or did, Stafford as well IIRC
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Chris T's photo archives
great central replied to Chris Turnbull's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
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. -
Help required identifying this motion set BR?
great central replied to hayfield's topic in Kitbuilding & Scratchbuilding
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? -
Help required identifying this motion set BR?
great central replied to hayfield's topic in Kitbuilding & Scratchbuilding
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! -
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?
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Class 91 withdrawals and appreciation
great central replied to Trev52A's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
Routine maintenance probably, it's also factored in when diagrams are drawn up. -
Model shops: neither gone nor forgotten!
great central replied to sjp23480's topic in Model Shop Guide
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. -
Great British Railways
great central replied to Mike Storey's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
Those of us at the sharp end are only too aware! -
Chris T's photo archives
great central replied to Chris Turnbull's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
Same at Kirkby in Ashfield -
Rule 1:- The formula.
great central replied to tomparryharry's topic in Modelling musings & miscellany
Certainly likely to promote some heated debate, see what I did there 😉