Glasgow - Edinburgh push pull stock for class 27

[ColinK]

Thanks for all the help, so the pipes are on one side of the ETH fitted locos only.  Makes modelling it easier.

[kevinlms]

6 hours ago, ColinK said:

Thanks for all the help, so the pipes are on one side of the ETH fitted locos only.  Makes modelling it easier.

Especially if you turn it around!

[St Enodoc]

On 13/01/2016 at 00:24, Flood said:

It was first noted in the June 1984 Railway Observer where the following was quoted:

 

"In addition, since the beginning of the year,

many northern Scottish coaches (and some

noted in Central Scotland) have had vinyl Scot-

rail stickers applied as a fleetname. Again, no

reports had been received from Scotland until

late April when SC4205, 4704/74, 4909/15/6,

5082/91, 5132/43/8/51/5/70/4/91/6, 5201/7/12/21/

7, 9003/7/12, 9364, 9415 were noted with this

adornment."

 

Please note that there was no use of the hyphen in the fleetname carried by the stock, this is just how the text was presented. The use of ScotRail came a little later, I don't think any of the repaints ever carried anything but ScotRail. Certainly by the time I went to Scotland in July 1985 there were only one or two blue and grey coaches still stating Scotrail, all the others had been rebranded to ScotRail.

It was said that Scotrail changed to ScotRail because, reportedly, folk were pronouncing it as Scoe-trail instead of Scot-rail. @Bob Reid should be able to a) either confirm that or tell me it's fake news!

[keefer]

It's mentioned in Parkin as well.

All to do with how the brain recognises words/letter patterns within other words etc

Something which can particularly affect things like website names if they haven't been thought through - one I know is www.guitarsexchange.com - where you can exchange guitars, not where you can turn a Fender into a Gibson! 

[caradoc]

3 hours ago, keefer said:

It's mentioned in Parkin as well.

All to do with how the brain recognises words/letter patterns within other words etc

Something which can particularly affect things like website names if they haven't been thought through - one I know is www.guitarsexchange.com - where you can exchange guitars, not where you can turn a Fender into a Gibson! 

 

I think some of these were mentioned on RMWeb a long time ago ! The best one I recall was the specialist writing implement seller, whose website name became..... www.penisland.com. 

[ColinK]

As you may have seen on a separate thread, I’m having problems with the electrics on one of my 27s.  Meanwhile here are a couple of pics of them.