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    I don't think it is unfairly denigrating the model, which is in overall terms pretty good. It does however have a 'face' issue which is so important for diesels. The headcode area doesn't look right to me, as evidenced in the photos. If you're happy with it fair enough, they won't be getting any of my money.
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    Duplicate post.
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    This photo shows the big problem for me. Bachmann's headcode glazing is correctly slightly recessed (although the real thing graduates from nearly flush at the bottom to more recessed at the top) whereas the Heljan panel looks fairly flush to the front . If someone could check the size of the headcode characters that would be interesting, they should be 4mm in height as the real things were 1 ft tall. Here's a close up of the real thing.
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    As well as that, it’s a Toffee Apple. Presumably working back to London after attention at Doncaster Works, a nice rare capture well away from its usual territory.
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    It would be an E headcode if so David. I don’t have my WTTs to hand today but l have a vague recollection that B was the NER code for York Division for internal workings.
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    Leeds - Northallerton direct closed in March 1967 so there had been a timetable change by December 1967, nevertheless the continuation of no stop for this train at York would seem to be the most probable reason for this apparently unusual occurrence.
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    It looks to have 8 seating bay windows though, so it may be one of the early TSOs built without the centre door.
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    Interesting. 143 was a Bath Road loco in 1969 and the allocation sticker looks like it could say Bristol. The numbers look carriage size. The blue has a look of Nanking Blue, did Bath Road use the nearest paint they had to hand for a quick touch up job? Pure speculation but not beyond the bounds of possibility.
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    Thanks very much for the latest comprehensive update. I’m fairly certain that the first photo was taken at Doncaster Works during acceptance testing.
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    I think the lettering on the wagon is Hopper Train No.6 rather than Training. I’ve seen other photos of ballast hoppers being lettered as part of numbered hopper trains.
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    I used Ashford International once in the early days and was struck by how expensive the parking was. Other than that it was a decent enough experience but I never went that way again. I had to change trains at Lille in both directions as it was a journey to/from Lyon and recall that Lille wasn’t a particularly pleasant place to do so.
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    The York-Malton-Whitby loco hauled sets were a mix of Thompson and BR Suburbans in the last few years of workings (to 1965).
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    Yet the very few uq arms adjacent look correct. How strange.
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    The Poole Newcastle/Leeds trains were formed of SR stock until the change to Mk2s (I can’t recall when this happened but some time in the late 70s I think). They carried destination boards until 1974 at least (the traditional cantrail level ones, not the WR ‘continental’ style), long after they were discontinued elsewhere. The BSKs also kept their periscopes long after they had been removed from other examples.
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    In my last job before retirement I had cause to use RAF aerial photographs of the UK taken in 1946. It turned out there were two sets in the archives, the generally available set and another set which had to be specially ordered. Both were from the same negatives but the easily available set had been censored so that sensitive locations appeared as open countryside complete with field boundaries and woods which didn’t exist in reality at the time.
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    D1025 worked Morris Cowley to York on a car carrying special on 6/7 December 1974. A Hymek reportedly got to York sometime around 1963/4 according to a report in a Railway Observer of the time. I’m a bit sceptical of the latter one.
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    The last two are at York.
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    I think J0850 is D9002, David. The first Deltic to be painted blue, in October 1966 and already a bit of a mess by April 1967. D9019 went blue in November 67.
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    The other thing to note about the Palvan is the colour of the springs. I’ve seen a few black and white photos of these vans which indicated a pale colour, this suggests something similar to a green primer shade as sometimes seen on replacement buffers. These vans were the ones with riding problems, I wonder if the unusual spring colouring is connected with investigations into the issues?
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    First vehicle is the prototype GUV E85000.
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    The middle one is just south of Shipton by Beningbrough on the ECML north of York.
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    I’ve just watched an episode of the Rank series Look at Life called “The box on the wall” which was on Talking Pictures TV recently. It was about time and motion studies and the drive for increased efficiency in industry in general. As well as a brief segment showing D842 Royal Oak at Reading (no sound sadly) it then went on to spend a few minutes showing a course at The Grove. Worth a watch if you can find it on catch up.
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    Actually a 4-8-4 now I've found it. The scan needs cleaning up, sorry about that. Apologies also for inverting the thread topic somewhat.
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    Road trailers went into a wide entrance off Poppleton Road near the apprentice school approximately where Damson Close is now.
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    I took a photo of the 2-8-2 being offloaded from a road transporter onto the rails at BREL York, it was 1980ish so no issues with ohl. I’ll see if I can dig it out and post it.
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