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Still work in progress; my roadworks with an improvised GPO tent and modelscene road cones.

Hi Looking for the lima green pre tops class 31 full yellow ends with BR ‘barbed wire’ symbol. Ideally just the body shell or the full loco. At present I have a boxed Hornby civil engineer ‘skinhead’ 31 which I’ve never used. Would like to change body over or would consider a straight exchange. Regards Jon

Cones became commonplace from late 1960s. There were black base ones, types moulded from black rubber with a plastic sleeve that formed the red and white bit that slipped over the top. Mostly though before 1986 cones were still one piece plastic weighted with a sandbag. Best ones I use on my layout which I think are accurate for any period are the ‘modelscene’ ones. Easy too to assemble. The oil lamps were yellow and red into the mid seventies. Red was phased out due to yellow becoming more visible and finally due to health and safety and cost of oil lamps . They disappeared completely by the early 1980s. Nobody as far as I know makes them in oo; only nearest possibility is somebody (can’t remember who) makes red GWR tail lamps. These possibly could be modified. Flashing yellow battery lamps were introduced in 1966 by Dorman. These were often on tripods. But again these would be a pig to model. Barriers up until the mid 70s could still be made of wood. ‘Scalemodel scenery’ do a great set of these barriers if you’re modelling I’d say pre 1977. 1977 to late 80s many barriers were fitted to cones with adaptors or big heavy red barrier posts were used manufactured by a company called Glasdon in Blackpool. The one section laser cut barriers you can buy everywhere now only came in from the early 2000s and these would be incorrect for a layout prior to 1999. And anybody whose a certain age will remember the old striped GPO tent used by BT and the gpo! I’ve made one for my layout. Bachmann do one in a set but it’s expensive and the figures that come with it are too modern for my layout. There’s plenty of pics online you can get templates from.

Thanks everybody! Yes, think it’s a case of keep researching online and in books and see what I come across

Hi everybody I've got a query about yellow warning panels. My layout is roughly based on the last years of the 1960's and early 1970's so I have a mix of transition pre-tops green and blue locos. I've seen pics of I think odd 20's and 25's as late as 1972 still running with half yellow ends; and I know there was 1 hymek that lasted into 1972 half yellow. To make my layout authentic does anybody know the exact date everything went full yellow ended? I still have from when I was young the old Hornby "Mammoth" class 47. Needs a bit of TLC but I don't think it will fit the criteria. I've looked on class47.com and I can't see any half yellow ends on type4's after about 1967. Could anybody clarify? Regards Jon