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One posted recently by The Stationmaster on another thread (7th photo): http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/93699-uk-semaphore-and-modern-aspect-signal-photos/page-6&do=findComment&comment=1732546 Is it something that has happened more recently or is it a spec that's always been possible?

Thanks for that EddieB, it's covered in the Oakwood press 'St Andrews Railway' but couldn't find my copy to check

Have to check my books but I think there was one at Guardbridge mills in Fife.

The HST is one with a 3-window TRUB, a combined restaurant/buffet, so wouldn't require another dining car. The sets with 2 diners had a TRUK and TRSB, both of which had 4 large windows. NE-SW sets had a single TRSB as well as only having one TF.Must either be running without a TSO or possibly waiting for a TGS (not sure how long it took for all sets to get one)

can't remember if we've had this already. D5119 in blue with old-style numbers and arrows on doors with a nose-first green 20 at eastfield: http://youtu.be/3DEOpF6e68s dubbed on sound is a bit annoying at times, but lots of good stuff anyway

great pics dave, might have been flying visits up here but you managed some rarities! (menstrie tanks, leven/methil) love J16295 of the 158 at kinghorn - look top right with 'bayview hotel' painted on the roof. a couple of years ago the lettering was still faintly visible, but i've no idea if/when it stopped being a hotel, i'm sure it's just flats now. i couldn't tell you where, but i'm sure i've seen that done in a few other places - hotel name painted on the roof so it's visible from the station. was this a peculiarly scottish thing, or did it happen elsewhere?

looked up these numbers and they were both mk2c TSOs, i.e. not a/c coaches 5520 was an early mk2c (with the large toilet window) and certainly got provincial livery at some point (can't see if there's any T-P branding) http://bestieboy.smugmug.com/Trains/Scrapped-Exported/20973716_99FRM5/1965869536_dSkz3QX#!i=1965869536&k=dSkz3QX EDIT: 5520 also mentioned here (blue/grey with T-P branding): http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/17517-Bachmann-mark-2-coaches/&do=findComment&comment=166672

The relevant local Sectional Appendix would have a section listing where it was permitted to run trains without a brake van and any conditions attached to those workings (might be table J, can't find mine to check)

IIRC the three cl.111 buffet cars ended up in Scotland (Dundee?), early 80s. They were still cl.111 but had the buffet counter out-of-use. There's a pic of one in blue on Flickr, I'll try and find it. EDIT: it's in Brian Daniels' Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/brianews/5808808267/in/set-72157626627223211

The green one is a buffet car, correct vehicle for the original 6-car formation. At the time of the pic, different liveries in the same unit were quite common - although the cl.124s went straight from green to blue/grey, none were plain blue

bus stop - tin machine

nice parcels train behind 85005 - wooden bodied ex-SR PMV behind the loco? (looks like there might be more than one in the train) your unidentified electric is indeed an 86 as you say, it's a nice variety of trains - you'd be used to (sick of, probably) the expresses whooshing past but oh to have a 40 trundling through or a 1st gen DMU rattling past these days!

no, a huge 'thank you' to you Dave for continuing to share your wonderful collection with us. merry christmas and a guid new year to you & yours

You'd save time and effort by not having to lay any track though! I love pics of railways like that though, lines on viaduct threading through the cramped urban landscape. Glasgow has some that look very similar

You went camping with midges? Most folk would be trying to avoid the little barstewards!

Just noticed the destination stickers again, nice touch! I used to have a few from the early-mid 80s, the long-distance ones always seemed a bit 'exotic' with a long list of faraway places

Love the 101s Dave, staple fare for days out to Edinburgh! Can just imagine the 'clack-clack' of the units over the track. Do you have any trailer cars of any type? - as you say you could get some real dolly mixtures, just most units tended to be 3-car. Keep up the great modelling (and great pics too)

ditto for me too - i only have some instamatic pics from the mid-80s, must get them scanned in sometime! thing is, even if they're 'boring' snaps, chances are someone somewhere will notice a detail that answers a question they have about a particular place/loco at a particular period in time. The amount of times on RmWeb someone says 'if only I could find a pic of X on a certain date' - so if you have photos where you know the date is correct, that may be very useful as a reference source in its own right! Even from Dave's excellent thread here (and others) much has been spotted in the background of pics, away from the main subject, which can answer a question or indeed start a whole new argument!

I thought that looked like edinburgh's princes st. gardens at first - Maybe Dave has bought some US stock to run on Waverley West!

Bliley! You mean in 1977, Britain couldn't get enough allegros so they had to import them???

perfect remedy - status quo

the day we caught the train - ocean colour scene

Sorry for drifting off topic again, but loved the mini - my dad had one in the early-mid '70s, turquoise blue colour DCCxxxD - took a family of 5 and their luggage for a holiday to berwick caravan site and many other places, but apparently broke down too often (i can only vaguely remember i was 5-6 yrs old). i do remember the sliding windows, the cord-pull on the door pockets and if possible i always liked to sit in the back bit!

Amazing pics again Dave, every one interesting on so many levels. J839 especially, early blue peak on mixed livery stock - I know there are many fans of this livery on RmWeb! J10022 is useful for showing a nice little 'crane train' which could fit on a lot of smaller layouts - I suppose you could substitute an older type of crane, just shows you don't need a huge crane with loads of tool vans etc to be realistic

http://goo.gl/maps/IbXSN Google streetview of buildings - don't know if it helps at all, but I always find it very interesting when anything remains of long-gone routes. Driving past, you wouldn't know there was a railway station here!