keefer

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

well done kingfisher - for all the self-mentioned shortcuts etc. i bet most folk would be hard pushed to notice the 'faults'. to get something so close for not much outlay, (esp. if the prototype isn't available RTR) is always a bonus, with the added satisfaction of you did it yourself!

noticed another article in 'the courier' http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/perth-kinross/campaigner-backs-new-perth-rail-link-but-concerned-about-impact-on-fife-1.99467 to be honest, doesn't inspire much confidence in the STARLink if this is what she comes out with..... the glenfarg line would indeed avoid the speed restrictions through b'island/kinghorn but only for trains to perth/further north "would reduce traffic across the tay bridge" - perth trains don't go over the tay bridge anyway concern about rerouting the ECML away from fife, NE fife in particular - Ms. Liston would seem to be under the impression that the glenfarg route would replace the present fife route to dundee and beyond!

it's all a bit unrealistic really one of the biggest nails in the coffin for the railway was that using the actual trackbed through the 'difficult' bit for the motorway saved a humungous amount of money for the project. the railway being closed added significantly to the feasibility of the motorway as the time/money/effort to engineer a route through the glen wasn't required. now, if there wasn't really the will then to plough a new path through there for the road, i can't see there being much will now to do it for the railway

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-22705610

the mention of 325 in the list above seems to be confused with 2906 as mike said, 325 was a BR mk1 RF (dia. 17) - there's mention of it in parkin's mk1 book in that it ran in lined maroon but was never painted/renumbered into the full train 1979 P5 book states that it (along with the mk1 special build 2900/2901/2902) was converted in 1977 from vac brake/steam heat to air brake/ETH and B5 bogies W14112 ex-2b BFK became 2906 staff sleeper

i think with 1977 being the jubilee year, there was a programme of updating the train. hence some (much) older vehicles were replaced by newer ones e.g. the mk3s for his'n'hers saloons and the mk2b BFKs for the power/sleeper brakes