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Have to be 37429, I'll admit I was late on the scene at this bashing lark. My interest in real railways only really rekindled during a holiday near Bangor when the 37/4s were on the North Wales coast. A still summer evening and the cottage we were staying in was on a hillside just to the east of Bangor. To hear them opened up after coming out of the tunnel was almost as good as the steam I'd heard from my bedroom window as a child half a mile away on the GC line north of Nottingham. Had a ride out with them and I was hooked. 429 never went to Scotland as far as I know until very late in it's life after doing both the last scheduled Holyhead Birmingham and also the last loco hauled Holyhead Crewe 3 weeks later when the 175s were still flaky. Another good bit of thrash I remember was while out on call as an alarm engineer if I was in the area I would take a break at Grantham. There used to be a freightliner with a pair of 37s on in the late evening. On a still night you became aware of a rumbling sound other than the noise from the A1. Gradually getting louder until the train roared through the station and continued until stopping suddenly as they entered Stoke tunnel. The 47 hauled liners were tame by comparison:-)

I'm pretty sure that's Newstead MR which was more or less ooposite Annesley shed, the big building is the Station Hotel, relatively (last couple of years) closed. Now boarded up and for sale. Looking again I'm almost certain, I should be really as I stop at the new Newstead station often enough, now just a single line more or less on the alignment of the platform road. The photographer would now likely be standing in a fairly dense group of bushes

All those complaints about rucksacks, someone just got on my train wearing a rucksack, wearing a rucksack! Yes you read that right double headed rucksacks:)

Not only that they seem to be almost the same vans in the same order, can I make out a blue/grey MK1 BG as the sixth or seventh (counting might be suspect not had much sleep the last couple of days) vehicle of each train following an ex LMS one and several BR GUVs?

Nottingham perhaps? As understand it the bricks for St Pancras were from the Nottingham brick company's Mapperley works which was just the other side of the hill from our current clubrooms, maybe the GN was an early user as well?

Pretty much every day, let alone when something out of the ordinary happens

Unlikely to be Spalding,more Boston Sleaford or Lincoln depending on the route taken

Dead simple answer, no rolling stock spare anywhere apart from a few charter companies who tend to be using it at weekends anyway

Quite possibly from the Grimsby to Whitland train which was one of the highlights of the day when an Immingham Britannia was used on the GC

Can I draw peoples attention to post no 15 of this thread please? http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/116267-nottingham-model-railway-exhibition-18th-19th-march-2017/ Or the traders list from the website in my signature

Possibly, I'm often reading or maybe still in the train doing tickets, no need to rush with nearly half an hour to or from Thetford

Maybe, I was a trolley dolly from July 2003 until November 2004 when I got an ATE job, been a guard since 2007

Nope, t'other end of unit. I presume the Maestro van I see at Norwich must be yours?

My preferred unit for any kind of work, plenty of space unlike the 158s and no damned air-con, what the heck is wrong with fresh air? That said the saloon heaters can leave a lot to be desired this time of year

C14085, oddly enough my booked unit this morning was this very one, but for some reason swapped for 156497. Although now mostly used on our local routes the 156s do get outings to Liverpool on a fairly regular basis

Only the first two in the morning from Nottingham to Norwich come that way, the rest of the day they run via Grantham and the ECML, I'm on one now just passed through Manea

See if there's anything in the new franchise specification, both reachable by other routes until well into the evening. No idea if there's enough traffic to warrant it though.

Sleaford avoiding line is now fully back to double track, indeed there are occasions when a freight overtakes the passenger service while that goes into the station. Joint line freights run straight through Lincoln at a fair speed now. The Werrington diveunder would also help wth Liverpool-Norwich services assuming they still exist not having to cross the station throat at Peterborough

High St crossing is already closed to road traffic. There is a new relief road and I believe the intention is to close the East Holmes one as well.

I can only speak for the Norwich-Liverpool service but a very large proportion of the passengers to or from Norwich join or leave at Peterborough for ECML destinations. The Stansteads go to Birmingham, back in Central days they eventually went all the way to Liverpool.

Tuunnezzz! Surely

There is one of the old school type spares/surplus shops in Lincoln. Can't now remember what it's called and I think it's highly unlikely they have an internet prescence. Seems to be run by quite an elderley fella with help from mates. I was, and still am, looking for a 4 way GPO type jack plug. They had a 3 way attached to something, closest I've come to seeing one in years. There's loads of ex aircraft dials and such on display in the window, wouldn't be totally surprised if they had a bomb release panel in a backroom It's on the hill on the way from the station to the cathedral, the narrow street is called The Strait. It's nearly opposite B & H models who do have an extensive railway range.

I'm not sure someone has thought this through or am I just too logical?

Chip roll? Nah, sounds daft, chip cob! Sausage roll? Well that one's self explanatory, sausage meat wrapped in pastry, otherwise a sausage cob! Egg roll just sounds like some odd Easter tradition, but egg cob..... Next you'll be telling us you eat corn rolls rather than corn cobs:-)