Mark Saunders

I have never followed the logic behind Flying Scotsman especially as the same name applies to Eric Liddle and the name has been in the public domain for years, especially after the film of the same name in 1929.

The drawing for the plate conversion (without side doors) was published by Trevor Mann in the Model Railway Constructor, Annual of 1983. The text states traffic from Rotherham.

If I remember correctly there is a Timken Bearings advert with a ice blue fish van published somewhere, probably Modern Railways.

Your trying to judge yesterday by the revisionist standards of today! The country was not long out of the war and was still rebuilding at the time and yesterdays heroes are todays monsters.

My Dad was still wearing railway issued stuff twenty years after he retired!

The MoD Palvans and Highs were built with through pipes ; the Highs were later fitted. The TOPS diagram for the highs is on the Barrowmore site clearly shows through piped.

Why is this being mentioned on here when a phone call or email to Tails would sort it out?

Call me cynical but it’s getting towards election time; remember me I’m you MP vote for me!

Missing from a case is theft, however a full case can be lost in transit!

Auto correct and dyslexia is even worse as without the former at least there was a chance of a semi understandable message!

Eaglescliffe was allegedly meant to be Egglescliffe.

Teesside Archives have official Head Wrightson photographs of this including the road bogies.

Sorry but ‘I was told’ is just hearsay unless you can prove otherwise!

They were to work with a high output ballast cleaner and a shuttle car took the loaded slips back and forward in the same fashion as the TRT does with pods of new and used sleepers. The only place I know it worked was on the single line at Choppington between Morpeth and Bedlington after the Pit Strike restoring the embankment after coal had been discovered there and dug out!

I have had a look at the photo and it isn't one of the non pool wagons as it had end doors while the NP ones had no doors numbers 50-61. info in the RCH Non Pool registered wagons book.