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  1. With umpteen hundred 08s etc. in the fleet its hardly surprising that some got a repaint between 12/56 and spring 1957.
  2. Well, the brakevan is painted grey which would imply that IT isn't continuously braked and the guard cannot apply the brake throughout ......... the question is, why IS there a brakevan at that date ??!?
  3. What amazes me is that she - or anyone else for that matter - was actually allowed to get within sight of the job without head to toe high-viz, hard hat, totectors etc.etc. ......
  4. ... or, at least, provide them with tender cabs like 'Big Emma' !
  5. Exactly ........ she needs encouragement to do whatever she wants ...... maybe she'll be up for a behind-the-camera Oscar one day ...................... probably not for filming a train re-railment tho !!
  6. Indeed - but for a working model, how long did the loco run in traffic like that before withdrawal ?
  7. Not sure whether those colours need to be tweaked - but the cylinder lining should be a square panel from LMR days until at least 1982 on the SVR ..... I don't know what exact period the model's meant to represent. Shildon ; 31/8/75
  8. According to John Harvey in Southern Style "... about this time (12/56) Unlined BR Locomotive Green rather than Black was introduced as the new standard colour for shunters. Then in spring 1957 came the second BR Demi-lion Emblem ..." ........ so a green shunter with early emblem would be carrying a paint job from that brief period about 3 years before the April '60 photo : does it look that fresh ??!?
  9. It's a darned sight more attractive a muriel than that green splosh that appeared in Finsbury Park the other day.
  10. Just think of some of the peculiar names you see on American TV programmes ...... some just plain weird but many obviously misheard by the officials on Ellis Island.
  11. I'd question that : All BR Standard coaches followed the Bulleid style in having platform-level filler pipes ( hence the breather ) .... any thoughts of filling from the top would have been quashed with the spread of overhead knitting and well nigh impossible without end steps & grab handles.
  12. If you're thinking F1 ( or A or F ) think again ..... they're far from identical tenders.
  13. Ah - impossible to run a passenger timetable OR schedule track maintenance !
  14. It'll be announced the day after I finish my Crownline one ! ☹️
  15. Yes, endangered because they weren't necessary .......... if there'd been a need for tank engines on Shap they'd have scrapped something else instead.
  16. I can't imagine that ANYONE would have been keen on the idea. ...... with all those wagons zipping about the network it would have been totally impossible to run any sort of passenger timetable - or would people all have their own autonomous vehicle too !
  17. In 'modern' times, perhaps - many pre-grouping railways in the UK used right hand drive but there was a trend towards LHD after grouping ..... some locos were converted ( Gresley A1s ) and some classes had examples of either hand ( LMS 4F, Southern N ).
  18. Maybe the use of tender locos went hand in hand with a run down in coaling & watering facilities ??
  19. 5700 Panniers might have met 'Sunshine' stock when assembling a train - but rarely otherwise !
  20. It's already got its own thread : https://www.rmweb.co.uk/forums/topic/185248-lner-container-or-wagon-found-buried-in-antwerp/#comment-5469838
  21. Wasn't that the famous Tomorrow's World fraud ? - where the 'Autowagon' was loose shunted and the film ( probably was film in those days ) was sped up as it decelerated so it looked like it really was under power.
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