Simon Bendall

59003 now updated with Colas logos to reflect its long term hire hire. http://www.flickr.com/photos/153712773@N08/53660413141/

In preservation, 421415 has vandal protection boards fitted over the windows, which are finished in the body colour. These were on when surveyed by Hornby. Join the dots 🙄

The centre window was a droplight on all the LMS built saloons, you occasionally see a photo of one with it open. From the photos Heljan has released, they are using the same tooling to cover two different LMS diagrams and the BR one, meaning there are compromises in the door and window layout on some.

18006 has arrived at Crewe Basford Hall today for use by Freightliner https://www.linkedin.com/posts/beacon-rail-leasing_today-we-delivered-one-of-our-class-18-locomotives-activity-7183499460142845952-hfpP

Its Sentinel 10111 of 1963, rebuilt by Hunslet Barclay in 1997.

The Class 59/2s were deployed on the Port Talbot-Llanwern iron ore workings between February and August 1999 after the hire of the Mendip examples ceased. They were all in EWS by this time. They subsequently returned on Mendip aggregate workings to Machen in later years. 59204 did visit South Wales in National Power livery for its naming at Aberthaw in November 1996, complete with a full set of hoppers.

Any idea if 18003 is still at Scunthorpe please? Some suggestion it may have already departed back to Wolverton.

An image of the full Skate formation https://www.flickr.com/photos/blue-diesels/9562425026/

It would be 13563, which was the other regular Mk.2d FK alongside 13575 and remained in blue/grey. My pic from c7/92.

This was Intercity charter unit stock for the Orcadian and Highlander, which included Mk.1 Pullman kitchen car 335. The others were 1672, 3045, 3096, 3098, 3100 and 17025. http://www.flickr.com/photos/145367983@N08/49676831082 Locos trapped to the north of the collapse were initially 37414/15/16/17/19/21 and a reported 16 coaches. 156446/57/74/77/78 were moved north by road in March/April 1989, 37414/19 returned at the same time. 37415/16/17/21 returned to Inverness in October and were replaced by 37418/19/20. The charter stock, 6300 and other coaches also moved south at this point.

Its part of the side extensions to accommodate Warriors.

A check through wagon groups has no active sighting of the BR-built (flat floor) FNAs after 2016, the last of the Procor build (sloped floor) went in 2019 and were scrapped during 2020.

DB999505 was another saloon, same as DB999501-504. It was written off in an accident around 1967.

Saloon 6300 was painted for the 1988 season, the Mk.2s for the 1989 season. Last year was 1994 by which time the green/cream stock was being mixed with Regional Railways examples with ScotRail branding.

This was done some years ago when the Caledonian Sleepers were diverted via Manchester, 67 each end to power half the set and jumpers not connected in the middle.