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  1. To put a more positive spin on this without wishing to hijack the thread. I'm sure a good number of those who gave up with BR went off and got involved in the, then, relatively small preservation movement. It's them we have to thank for there being so much preserved today.
  2. I think there's a perception that it didn't happen. We were discussing this very era at the club on Tuesday. One of our younger members thought that steam had gone before blue and grey coaching stock became common. Rooting around in the library produced plenty of evidence to the contrary including a Britannia hauled train of 12 or so coaches, only three of which were maroon! Admittedly you're looking at the North West for most examples but it could have happened in most areas that still had steam post 1966. There is a picture in 'Great Northern in the East Midlands' by Alf Henshaw which shows what I'm fairly sure is a mk2 coach in Blue/Grey, being hauled by an 8F on a railtour past wekday Cross in Nottingham, heading towards Nottingham Victoria. Personally i would have doubted any blue/greys made it into 'the Vic' let alone a mk2!
  3. That's at least three then, no longer valid in the context of the OP? Or would it just hack (pun intended) off the collectors knowing how many must have been sacrificed on the modelling altar
  4. We have a short video clip (poor quality I'm afraid) of what should be a full APT set running through Carstairs station on our layout. It's reduced to eleven vehicles to fit into the fiddle yard! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uIVHuXcLAQ
  5. Or make your own version of a Turbo car (with a metal propeller) and send it along the clubs GW branchline. It didn't have the platform clearances that our GC layout did Quote: advertise the show for the wrong weekend................ We went to one show down south where that pretty much happened, advertised as Bank Holiday Weekend, local radio saying Sunday-Monday, the show was actually Saturday-Sunday Hardly anybody came Saturday, not that many Sunday either.
  6. Off work with trapped nerve/sciatica, it flippin hurts. Almost too much to consider modelling, but getting some light relief here, thanks guys!

    1. iak

      iak

      Yeeeowwch!

      Sympathies mon - I've been there!

    2. eastwestdivide
    3. great central

      great central

      Wife made something up from aromatherapy book, it certainly helps.

  7. Much of it changing again over the next couple of years, extra platforms, etc. Desperately needed in my opinion. The current layout sees northbound east coast services sharing platforms with the cross country stuff and Ipswich terminator. Then the joint line terminator has to share platforms with southbound east coast services and FCC terminators. If something goes awry it quickly gets very congested.
  8. Last Friday or Saturday, a Bachmann WD 90423, the one that was being sold off a couple of years ago went for £175.................
  9. I've seen several photos, don't ask me where though, taken in the 50s and 60s of steam locos being dragged by an electric loco on their way to or from Gorton works. As many of the ex GC locos still went to Gorton for overhaul it's not surprising really. When Mike Wild took the photos for Hornby mag I had 26055 towing a very dirty 63770, although I think he cropped the photo and lost the steamer, can't lay hands on the mag at the moment.
  10. Hi Dave, not having done any rivet work before tackling a brass and resin class 76 in O gauge, I wss a bit unsure of how it would go. Only a couple of weeks before we started on them, one of our members bought a G W tool (I think) from someone on RMweb. I found it incredibly easy to use, there are, if I recall correctly, anvils for 2, 4 and 7mm. Once you have set it up the stops ensure that all the 'rivets' come out the same. The results can be seen on my 'occasional' workshop thread here; http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php/topic/21861-o-gauge-class-76/page__p__216140__fromsearch__1#entry216140 All of the rivets were done in one session of a couple of hours. Just been looking through that thread, it's been nearly two months since I've had time to do anything on it, Nottingham show come and gone then Trainwest, needed me to sort out my OO stock, including 15 class 76s.
  11. Not my layout or picture, but it does look superb and I think it deserves a slot here. Both the layout owner and photographer are club members: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php/gallery/image/26939-netherwood-2/
  12. Best get to bed now, 04.30 start in the morning

  13. Managed to find time to do a bit more at the O gauge 76, then dropped a lamp iron. despite going round with my nose to the carpet can I find it!!!

  14. According to Yeadon 67717 had it's first general repair completed in August 1950, when the boiler was renumbered. It had had two non-clssified and a light casual before that, which probably wouldn't have involved repainting. It's next general repair was completed in march 1952, when it received the boiler formerly on 67749 which was delivered in black, so March '52 would be the latest repainting date.
  15. I seem to remember reading somewhere and by observation that 37429 never had ploughs fitted, watch somebody come up with a photo now Spent a good many miles behind 37429 on the North Wales coast in that last summer, as well as the last day, both official and actual
  16. redgate, just reminde me about rules when I'm on a weeks leave, got my two year exam in 3 weeks!

    1. RedgateModels

      RedgateModels

      errm, is that Handbook 6?

  17. Any of the Colwick ones could turn up on the GC as Colwick was still responsible for many of the passenger locos. A quick scan of Yeadon comes up with no less than 40 of them allocated to Colwick at some time in BR days, I may have missed one ot two though.
  18. Is struggling for patience at the moment, going to bed now, up at 04.00, work really does get in the way

  19. Colwick received 67727 from 21/2/60, so that gives me an full-framer, all looking close enough!! Colwick also had 67710 for a while, the subject of my ABS kit on page 3 of the thread
  20. Not Grantham I'm afraid, GE & M&GN both south of there, only place that comes to my mind is Spalding where all three could be seen, don't think the GE actually got there either except as a joint line partner, although I have seen photos of GE freight locos working through there, maybe from Whitemoor yard. Incidentally that line is still known as 'the joint' There were definitely lots of them to be seen at Grantham though, some were shedded there and Colwick at one time or another had, I think, about 30% of the class total, mostly the contractor built ones with the split frames
  21. Just got to Sly & the family stone, 'wanna take you higher' Fizz, bang, puff of smoke, telly's dead!

  22. I've just put Woodstock on, music's great but the tape (VHS) is showing it's age, methinks I'll have to see about a DVD!

  23. Why is it that the amount of tiles never equates to a tub of ahdesive, had to buy another tub for one tile,now going to get some more tiles to use the adhesive up!

    1. RedgateModels

      RedgateModels

      you can use it to put the tiles on my kitchen walls if you like :lol:

    2. DonB

      DonB

      It's OK for making mountains on the layout too!

  24. off to bed now, cat woke me at half 6 this morning when i didn't get to betd till about 2 anyway

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