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that first pic looks so real - just the way the track looks and the view along to the station glad to see you're still going strong dave, onwards and upwards!

some nice weathering on this CIE layout but if you're going to use a sheet as a backdrop, iron it first! http://www.flickr.com/photos/d9006/6782767821/in/photostream

great post there, lots of good info including a rough date for the reclassification of 55013-5. i think it came up in the cl.128 thread, in that ScR didn't have any 128s as they used the 122s (re-classed to 131) instead. model-wise, one of these would be useful for scottish layouts as they could be run solo or tacked to the back of another unit i can only remember the 101s, sat in the front seat, if possible on day trips to edinburgh (70s/80s) although i did use a 117 sometime in the 90s on an edinburgh-fife circle stopper - talk about shake, rattle and roll!

wow, thanks for that! always found it a bit odd when set numbers appeared on front ends, but without any strict diagramming to keep the vehicles together. thanks again

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have known of this for a while, but reminded of it while looking for something else http://www.flickr.com/photos/kingfisher24/6348213861/in/set-72157628139736522 i always thought set numbers were a late 70s/80s thing, anyone know more about haymarket (possibly dundee) formations in the mid-late 60s?

never mind the trainspotting, this is actually an interesting insight into the change in fashions in general i think 'bright' colours/patterns probably came in more with the move to artificial fibres through the 60s, which lead into the cheaper mass produced items of the 70s. of course there were always trends and supposedly trendy items, but a lot of the time, this had nothing to do with what you wore - parents had the final say. often there might be hand-me-downs, anything else was meant to last you for ages ("don't worry, you'll grow into them"). cultural change would eventually filter through, e.g. jeans would go from workwear to casual to everyday wear. but if your parents hadn't a lot of money, it was always cheap'n'cheerful not the brand names. coat wise, i remember having a duffle coat when i was quite young. this then seemed to progress to a parka (which i didn't have, still had an anorak) eventually leading to the legendary 'snorkel' (late 70s?) - as an aside, i don't think any of these were ever waterproof, you still got soaked in a downpour! basically, through the 70s/early 80s, i never had any say in what i wore - if i really wanted something particular it would be a generic version rather than a brand by that time, you could be marked out as a bit of a div for what you wore, but it wasn't nasty really, you only ever wished you could have better stuff! anything knitwear was usually hand-knitted by mum using the kind of patterns posted already (i'm sure my mum still has them all). if it got too small, it was ripped down and re-knitted from the big bag of wool kept under the stairs. a thing i've noticed is that whatever we wore, we might have taken and expected a ribbing for not being so up-to-date - thank god i'm not growing up these days when often everything has to be the 'right' brand, is out-of-date in 2 wks and if you're not 'there' it can mean serious trouble.

like 'CHARD, i may be misremembering, but i have in my head the logo for fife forge, was there not a red or orange background and an arrow pointing? i suppose what we'd now call a 'corporate' logo. thought i might've found an image online - alas no, but there is an archive 'glasgow herald' article from nov. 1967 on a new forging press: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=e35AAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uqMMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2620%2C1587883 EDIT: just noticed it's a whole page article and shows the 'logo' on the right of the page

streetview here: http://goo.gl/maps/lSwTa satellite image: http://goo.gl/maps/ijEup 1938 OS map shows an 'ingleside works' but as you say, it seems to have been altered since then: http://maps.nls.uk/os/25inch-2nd-and-later/view/?jp2=82881930#jp2=82881930&zoom=5&lat=5348&lon=2352&layers=BT interesting how one house has remained standing and that there used to be railway lines curving round to connect with the mainline. i think this used to got to the dunnikier colliery unfortuneately that's the latest large scale map at the NLS and old-maps doesn't let you zoom in enough on the 1:10560 ones EDIT: found an entry on RCAHMS, it was a steelworks: http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/83547/digital_images/kirkcaldy+5+smeaton+road+ingleside+steel+works/?&sort_typ=archnum&sort_ord=desc EDIT again: was designed by william syme in 1912 and is now 'B' listed: http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/sc-45548-5-smeaton-road-glenaber-engineers-polychr

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do the voyagers still have problems when the waves go over them? IIRC the water would get into various roof-mounted gubbins and cause havoc

jim binnie's dieselimagegallery is gradually filling up. D5124/5 in 1963, on a pass service with TPO on the front: http://dieselimagegallery.com/detail/218-D5124;D5124-at-Aviemore;class-242;24124;Type-2;Green-livery;Green;Aviemore;Aviemore-station;591963;1963;D5124_1_S;0005;Norman-E.-Preedy.html

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if the list keeps going, might have to invest in something like this! http://i01.i.aliimg.com/photo/v0/528266847/cargo_tricycle_three_wheels_motorcycle_with_150cc.jpg testament to your wonderful modelling brian - as great as your models look on here, there are plenty of folk eager to see them close-up!

much as i hate the reference to 'invisible ink' yes, the title of the thread is all to cock now, but it wasn't before presumably would take western sunset or andy Y/ mods to change it

the setting is realistic enough, but the deltic is obviously straight out-of-the-box. the BSK just looks grubby and they didn't have the correct sheet for the number, so have used smaller ones they had instead. and i don't think they've finished the layout yet as the backscene goes right across the tracks just before the curve! http://www.flickr.com/photos/blue-diesels/8364519516/in/photostream/

someone posted a question about when the lines over dunnikier rd. went from 4 to 2 (or more accurately 2+2 to 2+0) after the harbour branch closed (possibly on the harbour branch thread!) noticed a while back that the bridge over dunnikier rd. has old and new styles of bridge, depending on what side you view it from going down the road towards the traffic lights, modern concrete bridge deck under the ECML: http://goo.gl/maps/HUyUB (notice the state of the chevroned bit - usually skelped about once a year when a stagecoach double-decker tries to go somewhere he shouldn't even be near!) going up from the traffic lights, older metalwork version is still in place: http://goo.gl/maps/ScMoq i suppose there's no point renewing it if it's not used anymore looking underneath gives some good detail: http://goo.gl/maps/W0P4g (it is straight, just the joining of the photos makes it look kinked) not too clear, but an interesting detail for modellers?: http://goo.gl/maps/2NR7E and finally, i don't know how common this sort of reinforcement was?: http://goo.gl/maps/eu0uM interesting that it was required on one side only

excellent pics neilgue! welcome to the forum and the thread too i was always sure i had seen a small diesel at muir's, but had never heard any more about it, only the steamers.

western sunset's opening post said: if the topic has drifted, it's only as far as any prototype pic looking like a model - they don't have to look too perfect, just any combination of view/subject/lighting etc

the three cl.131 converts were 55013-15 (not 11-13 mentioned in the scot-rail link above) as mentioned they had doors sealed/modified and windows either painted out or meshed over inside 55014 http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertcwp/6132770705/in/set-72157603648796702 i wonder if an alternative number would be better for the blue ScR one, i.e. one which wasn't modified? excellent news anyway, will be looking forward to seeing one tacked onto a 3-car 101 on waverley west!

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