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'CHARD last won the day on December 4 2011

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    Last years of the Waverley Route
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  1. Yeah, I realised my error shortly after posting but couldn't get back to edit or delete. Had no idea that the K was a weight identifier. Every day's a school day hey!
  2. All I observe about that identity is that the K suffix indicates that it's supposed to depict a former private owner wagon that's been taken into capital stock. As to the actual provenance, I haven't got the book (Rowlands?) to hand just now.
  3. Well one of the most striking must've been at Hawick, where Mansfield Road left the A7 adjacent to the Station pub, and passed beneath the platforms which spanned both it and the river Teviot on the viaduct of that name. A dozen miles or so away at the rural market town of Newton St Boswells, the A68 burrowed right under the heart of this classic junction station, whose component parts make for a compelling model.
  4. 'The Old Drunk' !!!! Rowley Birkin QC, young man!
  5. It took me a second or two to figure out that 'he went on E*' wasn't something that D&A testing was invented for!
  6. The door to the Central Trains staff room, off Birmingham Snow Hill station concourse, sported an improvised, sardonic sign for quite a while in the noughties which read 'Virgin West Coast Training Suite,' for the very reasons you've mentioned.
  7. D59 was a recipient of single piece central headcodes within this time frame as well.
  8. I'm sorry to hear that old chum. But you were too good for her anyway.
  9. Oh dear, Heljan have even printed the headcode back to front. Doh!
  10. Comedy Gold my friend! Glad you're enjoying these lovely locos!
  11. Good job really, because if they'd applied the livery inside the loco you'd be less likely to see it.
  12. Yes these tanks were for depot supplies, possibly the premises themselves were oil heated too. I don't have adequate local knowledge, but certainly loco fuel was tripped in by rail. Out of interest, can anyone confirm my supposition that the tanks were brought in the long way round via Peak Forest, only I can't imagine a trip down the DMU route as late as 1990. I'd love to be proved wrong!
  13. Wow! Three years of dormancy caused me to catch up with a slew of old posts, one including the unfortunately apt Freudian Severn Valley typo Hampton Load (sic).
  14. I am resisting the urge to type Comedy GOLD. Oh, I failed.
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