stewartingram

The line continues beyond the station into Morden depot.

Maybe so, but I love it, getting away from the GW image! And I saw it few times on LT when I was working on there too.

Blackpool did indeed work railway coal wagons from the mainline at Fleetwood (behind behind the tram depot), along the reserved track as far as Thornton Gate sidings (Cleveleys). There was a Blackpool loco, now preserved at Crich; when returning to Fleetwood it pushed the (unfitted) empty wagons, with a flagman on the front wagon - there was no brakevan. Must have been quite a site with the many ungated road crossings.

Here is one you haven't mentioned - BR greein at Carnforth, can't remember the date but c1975?

And an electrician should never cross his hands.

And of course Heljan originally were going to produce 4 diesel railbuses, but the Wickham never appeared. I wonder if it ever will (and the Bristol/ECW one would be nice too).,

I used to work for Pye/Philips in Cambridge. Now if you've ever watched the Proffesionals on TV back in the 80's, they "used" Pye PF8 handportable radios (they were actually empty cases), which apparently worked everywhere they went (not possible with a live one, they had limited range). Now the point is they were powered by a (to Pye) new-fangled re-chargeable battery. Think of an AA re-chargeable, they were that sort of size, but actually not quite - they sold more because no-one else made them. They were an all metal case too, no insulation; the +ve terminal on the end was like a present day CR2032 button battery, just a small insulated gap to the outer case -ve, the gap was about 1mm. Put a fully charged one in your pocket with your car keys, they shorted it out and burnt a hole in your pocket. They were only 1.2v, but if you shorted them out with an AVO 8 multimeter on the 10A range and the needle hit the stop. They gave 10A and more! One of my fellow workers shorted one with his wedding ring, that welded to the battery and caused a quite severe burn under the ring before he broke the battery away! Treat elecktrickery with respect - always.

Probably not fitted with CDL and their ORR has intervened 😄

There,I've amended it for you.

Firstly, Rafferty. Sorely missed but we remember the good times. He never actually ever tried to leave the back garden, so we always knew he was safe. Absolute trust both ways, we could do anything with him, a true friend indeed. Rusty is the newbie. Found in the grounds of the local school, taken to the vet where a friend of my daughter worked. She called us and said do you want him (we weren't looking), Within a couple of hours he was 'home'. He was immediately attracted to us when we met, we couldn't say no. Apparently a couple has taken him but took him back to the vet because he wouldn't cuddle. Now he never leaves my side, yes he now trusts me, but I've never known a cat that continually plays like he does. We called him Rusty because his voice is like a rusty gate hinge! He has grown fast but is still a kitten though.

We used to take our 2 cats to the vet for flea treatments, the prescribed ones certainly worked. Later on Raffertey, who was 9kg, was offered an alternative because of his weight - that certainly worked. George however was kept on the old type, which we then sourced online (without prescription by then). We pay about 1/2 the price that local pharmacies sell it now. Raffertey has sadly crossed the rainbow bridge. To the end he had to have expensive tablets to help him go to the loo, eyedrops available on prescription only, and normal (ie human) eyedrops, which are available over the counted. However, again we bought the latter online at vast savings. We have since gained a rescue kitten, he is now approaching 10 months, growing into a lovely cat. He too has the same flea treatment as George.

Don't take it out to reverse it and risk demagnetisation (likely). There are 2 ways to correct a loco running wrong way. 1] change the polarity of the magnet (I'd do that with my remagnetiser). 2] reverse the wiring to the motor brushes. If you have already swapped them and there is no difference, sorry, but double check that! Swap them again - label the 1st wire you remove just to make sure you are doing it right. If you swop the wires to the brushes it MUST change the direction.

I believe, possibly on the 1st batch only, the middle side door originally had no vent.

Ah, 70007, I had that from CBG to LST when I was knee-high to a grasshopper. I can remember standing on p1 at CBG, whilst it simmered away in the carriage sidings, next to the freight avoiding linesbefore it moved over to pick us up. And then we turned left at Shelford, to go via Saffron Walden and Audley End! I have a photo of it somewhere that I took in c1966, in Crewe Works. I say of "it" I should have said " the remains of it", as it was the 1st Brit scrapped, and the cab was dumped outside with other bits of metal. How the mighty have fallen.

Sandy being one of my trainspotting homes from my Cambridge days (and I've never moved far away ), I am surprised at that dmu at Sandy on a Norwich-Birmingham! I never knew they wnt that way. I always thought they were a 'new' service in the mid-60s. I lived close to what is now Cambridge North (it was formerly Chesterton Junction, our most regular spotting haunt.) I remember well the excitement of what we thought were new services appearing, usually 101/104 dmus, Though there may be some relationship to former M&GN services ceasing in 1959?