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I'm glad that I've joined this site in that two errors on my site, elegantsteam.com, have now come to light. The first was as pointed out earlier in this thread, ie, the ID letters on the Silver Jubilee set were in blue. The illustrations will be corrected ASAP. The other was that, while trawling the site, I noted that I had coloured the buffer shanks of the Coronation observation car in red. So - that will be changed to black. As a matter of interest I have a very short video clip of the Coronation train in action. Only about 6 seconds in fact and the only colour film that I have seen of any of the LNER streamlined trains. And the buffer shanks of the last car are definitely black. Good luck with your Silver Jubilee set, Mick. Love to see it when complete. Regards Don

Hello. I'm new to this site. In fact I'm the guy behind elegantsteam.com. I have noted all the comments on my Silver Jubilee illustrations with interest. The whole idea behind the site is to give an idea to the 12000 visitors ( since starting in May 2009) to my site what Group and Pre Group railway vehicles looked like (or might have looked like). It is certainly not intended to preach to experts in the modelling field and can't be regarded as definitive, nor was it ever intended to be. Colours on a computer are, of course, notoriously "iffy" and I try to depict them to the best of my ability (aided by a couple of hundred books in my library). I do, however, calibrate my monitors weekly using a Spyder sensor so that I can be assured that the colours that I create are what I want them to be. Naturally the colour rendering on other people's computers can be vastly different. Without a calibration sensor all one can do is to ensure that the gamma is 2.2 and the colour temperature is set at 6500. Granted that is rough and ready but should suffice for most PC's. I won't even go into the colour rendering between LCDs and CRTs ! I am concerned about comments that the illustrations contain errors other than the colour question and I would ask anyone who notices errors to mail me at mail@elegantsteam.com. I really would like to catch such errors early on. On the matter of the Coronation colours (include West Riding Ltd). I saw the West Riding Ltd on many occasions and, though I was young at the time, it made a vast impression and, in fact, started me off on the steam railway enthusiast trail. My Dad worked for the LNER so I was able to get rather closer than other lads. The lower colours were a rich shade of blue while the upper colour was definitely blue, not white as I have read in some publications. The colour used on the illustration of "Golden Fleece" should be ignored - I got that wrong. And the A1 Centenary is just as bad. As for Doncaster Green - well, what can one say. I remember wandering round the shed at Doncaster and seeing locomotives in at least 4 different shades of green. I have registered to this site and will pop in from time to time to see what's happening. As I said, any constructive comments will be gladly received. Regards Don Cadiz, Spain