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Thank you 8K77, that is really helpful and simple... the reason all I can find in pictures is Wolsingham etc., is that's all there was. So I don't need to pursue Colas HHAs for WCML. Thank you!

Hello Please can anyone help with knowledge/advice of where Colas Rail coal workings went? I'm trying to determine whether Colas badged HHAs ever roamed the WCML, in particular in Cumbria. I remember FLNR HHA rakes and EWS HTA rakes at Penrith behind respective liveried 66s in the 2000s and 2010s - but I'm not sure if I saw Colas wagons (locos yes, but wagons?). And where would they have been going? Research so far has found Colas diagrams on the ECML, such as Wolsingham-Ratcliffe, and in the Midlands. Any help gratefully appreciated. MTIA CJS

Thank you Tom, that's brilliant! How did you find that? I did searches in Flickr for HIAs and Freightliner and Penrith and I didn't find anything. Maybe I should have left out Penrith and added Shap! Thanks, really helpful (for my train research if not my wallet) *off she goes to buy HIAs* Supplementary question - I see from this really useful HIA thread that Dapol have made tweaks with each successive batch, mirroring the upgrades in the real thing over time. Is it safe to mix old and new in rake, or do I need exclusively all "old" rake or all "new" rake? I note I can mix green and white which is a relief! MTIA

Good afternoon I'm really taken with the Dapol HIAs and keep almost embarking on purchasing a rake... but then I stop... Have I ever actually seen them on WCML in Cumbria? At Penrith? Working in/out of Hardendale/Shap? The lime trains I recall around turn of the century were coming over the Hadrian's Wall line, from e.g. Lackenby, and dropping down the WCML to Shap. Normally behind a 60. But they pre-date these HIAs. Can anyone help me, would a rake of Freightliner HIAs be a legitimate working through Penrith? (Certainly the GBRf workings to Shap/Hardendale now originate from the south, e.g. Tunstead, and come up through Oxenholme.) MTIA Charlotte

Dear Moderators, I don’t know where to ask this, please put it in the right place I found I have erred. Thank you. Dear Forum Please can anyone shed light on the forthcoming R3769 Network Rail HST Measurement Train? What is new about this? Why the reissue? There was R2984, what was wrong (if anything with that). I am looking at the NR HST, but wondered if I should hold on for R3769 to appear? (I think there was also R3366, but that didn't have the buffer fronts.) R2984 and R3769 both appear to be 5pole motors, both DCC Ready 8-pin, both directional lights, both with detail pack. Is it merely that R3769 now carries the nameplates (Railway Observer on one, and Mark Carne CBE on the other)? Thanks for any insight and appreciation of which the more worthwhile, R2984 or R3769. CJ