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Hi. would happen to know if a class 91 ever worked a sleeper service like they were partially designed for?

Would any happen to know please if anything still uses the branch from hamworthy station near Poole. There’s a sleeper across the track and stop sign just near hamworthy station, but the rails and track either side a level crossing further on looked recently used?

Hi, Were the Great Western Sleeper trains running on a Saturday night into a Sunday during 1997. IIRC they weren't? For if one they had been then wouldn't they have become the first privatised trains to operate when the franchise was passed to Great Western 4 February 1997? TIA

Hi, Would anyone happen to know which loco worked the last Fort William sleeper under BR before becoming ScotRail on 1 April 1997? I don't suppose anyone was there to take a pic of it? TIA

I guess the question is, when did a parcel last parcel by train that wasn't a dedicated Res service? i.e. a "normal" passenger train?

hi, in the 1980s were Red Star parcels being carried by train still? when would anyone happen to know please did Red Star sop sending parcels by train? TIA

hi Other than Class 47/9, 47972 "The Royal Army Ordinance Corps" were any other locos painted in Central Services Livery? Weren't two Class 20s at least painted into it?? TIA

Hi, are the big train hymeck, Lima coaches and wagons all compatible with the peco o gauge track?

Part 9 on the BR Chronicles is out now. As the penultimate issue it covers 1988-1992.

Evening Just wondering why 37275 was painted BR Blue at a time when sectorisation and new liveries were more the norm? TIA

Rather like, an extension of the Derby to St P services being those from Burton on Trent to St P, Matlock and Barnsley. Alfreton for a while had a service I think to Portsmouth? in the early 1980s. Many of your examples above are from much larger places than Rose Grove, But Take on board all of what you're saying.

Hi, Amongst the many trains BR ran there were also some seemingly strange ones such the the 1V40 07:33 Rose Grove to Paignton in 1992. The question is why were trains such as these started from Rose Grove?

Hi, after the rebranding of the Parcels sector to Rail express system, how did Red Star and Track 29 fit in with it? What exactly even was Track 29? and how were Red Star parcels actually carried? TIA

Hi, Would anyone happen to know please why the Gaugemaster GM406 Fordhampton Locomotive Depot has a smooth appex end and no corrugations like the rest of the building? TIA

Sadly the link doesn't work anymore curious to see what this "copy" looked like....

Hi, I really like the look of this building, RLL610TC Toton Fuel Line Store - Maintenance Office - OO Gauge Kit - Railway Laser Lines but also like the look of these buildings, OO Gauge Model Railway MDF Laser Cut Lineside Trackside Rail Brick Office | eBay Just wondered what peoples thoughts were on the two as there's quite a price difference, TIA.

Hi, on a pic on flickr I noticed an unidentified Class 31 at Warrington Bank Quay 23-5-89 with a the flashes under the cab winder having the Letters MEE, presumably Mechanical and Electrical Engineer? I've seen other Class 31s along with Class 20s and some other Classes with, LMR, ER, WR, AR etc on them to denote that they were part of that region's Civil Engineer's Fleet, but never seen one with the MEE leters...? anyone any ideas on how many had this? Here's the link 31-125 and an unidentified rail blue sister on the Up loo… | Flickr

It seems that there were: East Midlands Freight West Midlands Freight Yorkshire Freight Humberside Freight North West Freight West Of England Freight South Wales Freight Anglia Freight South East Freight missing however the Scottish Areas....

1987/8 is exactly the period that this would refer to, those early Trainload Freight days. Buxton went to Peak Forest in 1994 IIRC. or certainly very much around that date.

Oh, so North West Freight also covered north Wales? Within Railfreight it was then split into areas in the late Railfreight early Trainload Freight era. to give: East Midlands Freight West Midlands Freight Yorkshire Freight Humberside Freight North West Freight West Of England Freight.....

When you say north Wales, do you mean the "North West Freight"?

The epochs of the Running of Freight, (I understand them) were: Regions, LMR, WR, ScR, SR, ER. Sectors, Railfreight (InterCity, LSE then NSE, Provincial, Parcels) Within Railfreight it was then split into areas in the late Railfreight early Trainload Freight era. to give: East Midlands Freight West Midlands Freight Yorkshire Freight Humberside Freight? West Of England Freight..... Presumably there were others that covered the whole of the UK? It was then in the early 1990s that the Trainload Freight reformed and carved up to into three regional companies, TLF-W, TLF-SE and TLF-NE, These were what were then rebranded as Loadhaul, Transrail and Mainline. Only to all be sold to what became EWS.

Hi Paul, Yes the Freight side had areas and so did the passenger side under Provincial, on the LMR they were IIRC Nottingham, Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool amongst others I believe.

The explosives where from Alfreton chemicals and Explosives products, just half a mild north of Alfreton

Hi, my local area in the late 1980s came under East Midlands Freight, I understand that there was a "South Yorkshire Freight"?, and I think.... Humberside Freight??? Would anyone be able to please to add the missing areas for the whole of the UK? TIA