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24117 (looking very spick'n'span) plus another HBS in 1975, courtesy of darren01's dad http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/74459-early-tops-area-from-my-dads-slides/?p=1112793 (notice how 117s number has been moved from no.2 cab to the bodyside, compared to the IS shot linked above)

excellent stuff, please keep posting more! humdrum and mundane at the time maybe, but just so happens 'the time' is so interesting for transition between liveries/numbering etc. and some of these pics will no doubt help someone looking for THAT pic of a loco! no matter the quality of the actual pics, there's so much detail of the time to be had: newly painted locos esp. 06001 with black rods another HBS or two for 'CHARD 08 with twin logos and the name 'brian' 26005 but with old 'D-style' numbers based on the relatively few pics you've posted so far, your dad could be sitting on a goldmine of argument-starters (or settlers)!

apologies if this has been posted already, colour pic of 26500 working off the OHLE at manors in 1963: http://www.flickr.com/photos/64518788@N05/7845539836/in/set-72157629788008172/

a new pic to me, 06008 at kirkcaldy in 1978 - spot the cliche 'bus on a bridge'! http://www.flickr.com/photos/64518788@N05/8145519454/in/set-72157632100892577/

aah good old codrington road! i rememeber my sister lived in london in the '80s - i was so disappointed i couldn't find it in her A-Z! quick google search gives some sites which mention locations e.g. http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/bristol/hi/people_and_places/newsid_7683000/7683587.stm

hahaha, classic clip! (even tho the director does the classic BBC fail of looking at the wrong guitarist when the solos are on) IIRC there was always the assumption that the young ones were in london (and of course in this episode they were travelling to granada studios in manchester to do 'university challenge') but i believe the majority of it was filmed in bristol

good idea for a layout front - completely blocks the 'normal' top down view and you have to look through a hole at track level to watch what's going on!

i'd say they definitely look tinted - presumably done the same way as the mindows on mk3s - a dark 'spectrafloat' coating on the outer pane and a clear inner pane in each double-glazed window. check the following vid from youtube - at 1:25 it shows the outside of TRSB 48404. look at the 'no smoking' signs, they are quite 'muted' because they were applied to the inside of the windows and to see them from the outside, you are looking through the darker outer pane. looking from inside, the windows don't look as dark, just a blue-ish tinge perhaps

the returning p-p mk2 'spare' set is mentioned here: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/57319-class-27-push-pulls-1970s/page-5&do=findComment&comment=725654 as for '80s edin - dundee trains, you could have cl. 26/27/47 on 4 coaches which could involve any mixture of: mk1 TSO BSO BSK (rarely, BG - even rarer, CK as there wasn't any 1st. class on these trains) mk2 TSO BSO usually only one brake vehicle per train the mk1s could have BR1/CW/B4 bogies and coaches could have no logo/Scotrail/ScotRail (this would be more mid-80s i suppose) a couple of jbg06003's youtube videos give a good idea:

i've looked through a few sources i have and the only specific mention of wheel diameter is in a schematic of the BT11 articulated bogie, wheels 780mm dia. presumably all unpowered wheels would be the same, but unable to find out definitively if the powered wheels were the same

the only thing missing for that 100% accuracy would be the blue fug hanging around after the DMUs have passed

oakwood press book on leven & east of fife railway due soon - should be good http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/71630-leven-east-of-fife-railway-oakwood-press/

needs to get the baseboard legs looked at, those 3 wagons aren't supposed to be fly-shunting!

AFAIK the ScR made do with cl.122/131 bubble-cars, but who cares? your 128 looks right at home on WW, lovely model with just the right amount of grime on it. maybe it was hijacked the same time as the 108 with the 'M' logo - a late-night raiding party via carstairs? great models and great pics as usual dave

really nice layout/models just calling out for some weathering but only once the paint on the cab roof has dried and maybe some work to hide the light-bleed from the too-bright LEDs http://www.flickr.com/photos/42865474@N06/8438096470

4 pics of LMS-design, but BR built sleepers in 1973/4 on robertcwp's flickr,the 'merrymaker' train showing that at least some of them had gained ETH: http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertcwp/5564916935/in/set-72157603653607671/ gresley sleeper first, 1973: http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertcwp/6097480038/in/set-72157603653607671/ i suppose the rather run-down condition would suggest it carried the livery for some time? thompson sleeper first at york (no date given): http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertcwp/3411736463/in/set-72157603653607671/ observation saloon Sc1999, former inspection saloon converted from thompson FK 1531: http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertcwp/7362940838/in/set-72157603653607671 thompsom buffets E1705 and E1706 lasted till 1978 - after withdrawal were used at penmanshiel as accommodation: http://www.flickr.com/photos/blue-diesels/8536670224/in/set-72157604142594351

now showing on the 'courier' website: http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/perth-kinross/big-step-in-perth-bid-for-direct-line-to-edinburgh-1.105067 whilst steering clear of political discussion on RMWeb, it has been announced recently that the biggest 5 scottish transport projects already underway will cost £3.8bn to build and will cost double that over the next 30yrs - is there any more money to rebuild the glenfarg route which will be considerably more challenging than the reborn waverley route? (as an aside E-G upgrade to cost almost double the borders railway!) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-22994682

need a bit of weathering and a wiper on 1015 has been snapped off http://transportarchiveimages.zenfolio.com/p916506534/h12df9e0#h4bfb5c5

very impressive but it looks ridiculous plonking your favourite N scale stock on a O scale dock layout is just silly http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7363/8980404514_c8fb9a8247_b.jpg