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Excellent pic Dave, the only thing missing is a blueish-grey wash of fumes catching the sunlight!

I like the look of Garve for a nice wee layout - the staggered platforms and goods loop make an interesting change from the more usual opposite/island platforms. If you had a yard off the loop, you could focus the action on there and have the 'main' line almost as a background interest

The train 47429 is on, 1E22, is given on napier-chronicles as the 11.30 Edinburgh-KX (11.40 Saturdays) any Leeds-KX service would have 1Axx Keep 'em coming Dave, I was too young to experience these LH trains (HSTs were more my era)

After withdrawal, SC1705/6E were used for accommodation at the penmanshiel diversion works https://www.flickr.com/photos/23987565@N05/8536670224

Looks excellent Chris, great stuff. Always nice to see a project finished, even more so with this one after all the cutting'n'shutting you had to do! More power to your workbench :-)

Had a further look into this train. The '71/72 ECML CWN from robertcwp's Yahoo group has 1E13 as 11.50 Edinburgh-KX, Friday only 11/6 - 24/9 and Saturday only 12/6 - 25/9 ( the SO is listed as 1E31 by mistake)Friday train is loco + TSO FK RMB 5TSO BSK Saturday train is loco + BSO CK CK RU 5SK BSO So it would seem to be more like the Saturday train with a BSK instead of BSO and couple of CK in place of SK. What's useful about trains like these is they're more easily modellable in terms of stock than what we often think of ECML expresses with lots of first class and kitchen cars etc.

Great pics! Re: 26032 at Carlisle, reminds me of an old lima 33 that used to do that (to be fair, it was an even older lima point!)

C715 with 1914 at swayfield, seems to be 1E13 The '71/‘72 WTT at napier-chronicles has this as the 11.50 Edinburgh-kings cross. Newcastle-KX trains would've been 1Axx Great pics as always Dave, always like the late '60s/early '70s ones

i remember reading on RMWeb that there is a potential issue with exhaust ports, in that some models have them longitudinal i.e. = and some have them transverse i.e. ¦ (SRMan's 2 locos in post #15 show the difference i mean) i believe one is correct for the original mirlees engined locos and the other is correct for the later EE engined locos, but can't remember which is which - or indeed who produced each type (ISTR one of the Hornby 31s is more accurate for a class 30 mirlees loco?)

Looks like the b/g RF has the maroon-era 'restaurant car' on the side, but can't quite tell if it's upper case or not? There were lots of variations in bodyside lettering at the time on the new b/g livery

Love the latest pics Dave, particularly the 40 - really convey the bulk and mass of the prototype. And the 37 too, from a time when an exciting 'new' livery meant a white stripe along the side!

excellent pics once again dave, very much enjoy your late-60s/ early-70s ones for the mix of liveries, even in one train. J1265 is a good one for the nice view of a dia.17 RF - a particularly LMR vehicle, looking fresh in b/g with small numbers all of your photos seem to have a lot of 'peripheral' interest too - detailing the fixtures and fittings & other ephemera of the railway e.g. C177 of the green 114 at barkston

Think the 4-coupled diesel would be a class 06, usually outposted at markinch. There was a bit about the modern (early 90s) workings on the 'railfreight today' DVD, showed an 08 going under the bridge with hardly any room to spare Photos on Bruce's (jbg06003) zenfolio http://brucegalloway.zenfolio.com/p599995334/h25bdc9ec#h25bdc9ec

Not kirkcaldy, but nearby - issue of railway bylines in Smith's today has an article about the glenrothes (rothes/auchmuty) paper mills. (Photos and old map)

Is that not a stop board for the line the approaching train is on? i.e. can be worked both waysPresumably there's a stop board to the left of (and hidden by) the 2x37s, similar to the previous pic with 412 light engine.

just found a couple of photos on railphotoarchive.org - don't think we've had them before 06008, 1970s, down yard, with no arrow and its old-style zeros! : http://www.railphotoarchive.org/rpc_zoom.php?img=1598020006000 06008, august 1978, down yard (not markinch as stated) : http://www.railphotoarchive.org/rpc_zoom.php?img=0376020418000 06009, may 1975, up yard: http://www.railphotoarchive.org/rpc_zoom.php?img=0720010387000 particularly like the 2nd pic, not a common view, looking to bennochy road with just a glimpse of the large car dealership (now the site of a care home) anyone remember what the garage was? i thought possibly norman rollo (volvo), but they might have been down at wemyssfield (large forecourt and showroom where the esso garage is now)

Good pic at railblue.com: http://www.railblue.com/pages/Photo%20Galleries/David%20Mant%20Collection/DMC_01001_2_HD_170174.htm

in post #2 i mentioned i'd discounted a mention in the january 1979 RO, as it was slightly later than the OP's target date. i noticed the RO entry again (whilst looking for something else) and didn't even realise that it had vehicles listed! so this may be useful, esp. in light of corneliuslundie's post above. "On 17th [November 1978] the Stiff Records Exhibition Train arrived at Margate from Oxford. This train was hauled by 47070(CF) to Kensington and by 33059(HG) from there. The train was stabled overnight at Ramsgate and departed there at 12.36 the following day for Guildford via Canterbury West, Ashford, Orpington, Brixton, Clapham Junction(W) and East Putney, hauled by 33056(HG). The train was formed of [my bold] an unidentified Motorail flat, S38744, S38745, E321E, E13306, E14050, ADM44404." Incidentally, the same article also mentions the Rovex Exhibition Train arriving at Bromley North from Salisbury Fisherton Yard at 13.42 on the 4th November, "hauled by 33112(EH) and carrying 'Hornby Early Bird Express' headboards. It departed at 21.04 the following day for Harlow Hill via Nunhead, Brixton and Kensington (Olympia), hauled by 33057(HG). The train was formed of S38748, S38736, S99610, S99608, S99601, M324, S99620." EDIT: just looked up ADM44404 - this was a steam-heat boiler van, converted from coaching stock - http://www.departmentals.com/photo/44404 M324 in the Rovex train was a dia.17 RF, many of which were converted to RB(K). There's a 1980 pic of this vehicle in a Manchester Pullman set on the Eastbank MRC's site - http://www.eastbank.org.uk/images/Coaches/UK2906.jpg

According to http://www.napier-chronicles.co.uk/wtt72-73.htm 1E07 was the 11.00 edinburgh-KX Leeds-KX trains, indeed any non-scottish up ECML trains were 1Axx

I'm sure I've seen it mentioned in the R.O. - they used to have a yearly(?) update on liveries, certainly in the 70s EDIT: Jan 1979 edition has 'class 01 - black, cabside emblems above cabside numbers'. A quick check on Flickr shows them black, but also has more than one person saying they could look mucky dark green at times http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=class+01+holyhead

Is that the one that became lab 14 'wren' ? http://departmentals.com/photo/975427 http://80srail.zenfolio.com/p584131236/h2F83482E#h2f83482e

Had to get a train to Aberdeen t'other day and took a couple of quick phone snaps. First, a general view North - note the lack of track! On this, the down side, only the loop still exists and on the up side, nothing. IIRC the loading bank siding was the last to go. Crossover has an up to down position light signal with indicator, presumably can show down main or loop? Incidentally, just off the south end of this platform there's a position light signal. IIRC this is a 'limit of shunt', i.e. permanent 2 reds Interesting relic just off the up platform, does anyone know what this shed was for? Note the telegraph pole too. (Can't seem to get this one the right way up)

Noticed a 'CARLISLE 225' milepost today - just off the north end of down platform at stonehaven! Presumably the 'miles from Edinburgh' end at the site of kinnaber jn.?

Could always say it's one of the ones that ended up at Inverness for scrapping, but got 'borrowed' on the way up As you say, you like it and that's all that matters. Nice subtle weathering and such realistic pics make it look right at home! Great stuff as usual dave

a quick look at google streetview shows what's left: http://goo.gl/maps/QFlqj can't remember if it's been mentioned already in this thread, but the station was originally on the other side of st. clair st. 1894: http://maps.nls.uk/view/82881924#zoom=6&lat=5303&lon=4568&layers=BT 1914: http://maps.nls.uk/view/82881927#zoom=6&lat=5424&lon=4502&layers=BT presumably moved to aid the expansion of the down goods yard, which gained a loop off the mainline EDIT: compared the maps and the goods yard doesn't really expand - the down loop is lengthened and has a small headshunt