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  1. Dear Dave, PM sent. Best regards, Philip
  2. Although earlier than the OP's time period, a pair of 33s made it to Manchester Piccadilly in either 1987 or 1988. If I recall correctly a 47 had failed on a morning Poole - Manchester service and was replaced by 2 x 33s on the run to Birmingham. Rather than coming off at New Street the pair worked through to Piccadilly, took the ECS to Liverpool Lime Street and then worked a south coast service back in the afternoon. I was on the train from New Street to Wolverhampton, and somewhere have pictures of the locos at and leaving Wolverhampton.
  3. London Liverpool Street had a small coaling point and turntable squeezed in between the mainline and suburban platforms, located between and below Primrose Street and Skinner Street. It was still in use in the early / mid 1980s to refuel locos but the turntable was long gone by then. Primrose Street still exists but Skinner Street seems to have disappeared. Use Google search for images - "London Liverpool Street track plan". The same search produced a track plan for Liverpool Lime Street from RMWeb which shows turntables near platforms 1 and 7 http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/33141-lime-street-station/page-43 Post 1067
  4. Staples occasionally have a Really Useful Box (RUB) promotion where they sell some of the larger sizes (48l and 64l) at £20 for 2 (of the same size). Useful for lightweight things and possibly rolling stock. Locos are too heavy even if the box is only half full. This is the nest deal I have seen on the larger sizes. Hobbycraft have a 3 for the price of 2 event (seemingly two or three times a year) on RUB which is the best deal I have seen on the smaller size boxes (at least up to 21l). A local Homebase (Kidbrooke SE3) have some of the smaller sizes of RUB but are not particularly good one price. Rymans can be cheap when the Really Useful Box is sold with a ream or two of A4 paper (and the paper is about the same price per ream as 10 reams from Staples). Never managed to beat the Staples and Hobbycraft promotional prices on line, and the benefit of buying them in a shop is you can check the boxes and lids are not cracked or chipped.
  5. There is a photo by John Woolley taken in August 1980 on Flickr of 45121 in this "two white stripe" livery. Possibly a case of right livery, wrong loco number?
  6. Railway Modeller November 1959 page 243 has a wonderful aerial photo showing the entire length of Aylesbury Station including the engine shed and the water tower.
  7. The canal runs parallel to and then goes under the railway in Wolverhampton just north of the (High Level) station, roughly between the Wednesfield and Cannock Roads. There are a couple of locks on this section, and I can recall sitting on the lock gates with a bag of chips watching the class 50 hauled ECS off the last Paddington - Wolverhampton (either the 1727 or the 1740 from Paddington, I can’t recall which) in 1987 or 1988. The area was surprisingly peaceful for being so close the ring road! Near the High Level station there was a British Waterways building, and the track-bed of the GWR (Low Level) station was to the east of the High Level station. The railway and canal also run parallel on the stretch between Tipton and Dudley Port.
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