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With the modern day LNER getting involved with this for some reason it would be similar to the parcels company ANC claiming they had a hand in the release of Nelson Mandela!

He gets on a 210! Shame no exhaust thrash might have drowned him out 😀

Excellent pictures David, first looks like brand new peppercorn coach Congratulations on 1100 pages

Morning David That last picture is absolutely stunning. When did Derwenthaugh close? Looking at the TY signal I assume it was close to low fell and probably had all traces removed by the garden festival

When I was driver on Central trains at Norwich we had a driver bring a 170 from Nottingham, came down the ECML at 100mph and on changing ends at Ely he thought where the f##k did that come from on seeing a 156 coupled to the rear! Seemed no one told him. It drove to Norwich with no issues

I'd heard of this but didn't know its identity. I know the slave unit has an air controlled throttle but not sure if the master unit had one. If it did would make driving that 08 quite different to a normal one

For a short period in early 90s 14x units were banned from working with 155/6/8 units there was some kind of incident but not sure what but it didn't last long The 151s were mentioned earlier I believe these could also work with 150001/2 when the 150s were new. This because when they were built both classes had PBL air brakes , externally you could see a second air connection on the couplers The 150s were rebuilt with westcode 3 step brakes as per the rest of the fleet The two 150s had blanked spaces on the desk where the air train pipe gauges had been. Bit of a retrograde step really as with PBL a locomotive with a suitable adaptor coupling would have full control of the units brakes

Morning Kev I seem to remember the name boards being removed so time before it was demolished. It was mainly switched out for years but think it was probably closed about 2003 it then had the boards removed and stairs. Was demolished a year or so later I have a feeling the crossover was removed before closure

I do appreciate that if but bloody ugly

Horrible looking things, they don't even look like trains

I didn't realise Spain used vacuum brakes

Sorry I meant preferred tops , for some reason I have a thing about preferred tops blue. I have quite a few locos in that livery on my layout

Cracking job, personally I would have preferred preferred tops numbers and headcodes but that's just my preference. Good to see its had a good restoration

Didn't realise 47256 got repainted in single tone green . What was the idea behind that Strange to see a green loco with domino headcode

Evening Kev Surprised you haven't got an album for the early Barrow hill galas

Absolutely, that new one they are producing won't be the same with the audi engine. Just won't be as angry

Was that the same event which had the metro super challenge with the 6R4s? Probably the best sounding motorsport event ever all those V6s within a built up area Anyway getting back on track, did any green loco of any class get the domino stickers in the headcode boxes?

The signals in the yard were strange the bracket signal corresponded with the discs on one and two reception . An arm on the bracket took you out on to the main and disc onto the reception. Also unusual was number 2 was nearest the mainline I've used lowestoft as a bit of an influence on my layout where there are houses with railway on both sides of them and the footbridge over sidings and running lines

Lowestoft was a busy railway location until comparatively recently. Its train crew depot stayed open until mid 90s

It was done a few years back when the route was gauge cleared for 9ft6in containers

Between Melton Mowbray and Oakham

Hadn't realised it had such a big yard on formation of Lord Harboroughs curve

It's not Saxby is it Kev?

Hi Kev I didn't realise that job ended so long ago, was the acid for thope?