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from the same flickr set as above, down and out and a long way from home.... http://www.flickr.com/photos/dmc1947/5759631148/in/set-72157626805445858/

looking very good, just the thing to allow you short trains for mallard, 80s blue/grey also meant SR headcode box and high level pipes/jumpers http://www.departmentals.com/photo/975025 http://www.departmentals.com/photo/975025395280

oakwood press has a few. don't know about other areas, but fife-wise there's one each for st. andrews railway, anstruther& st. andrews railway, burntisland and the wemyss private railway. still no sign of the leven & east of fife volume yet though (apols for the brief post, will edit when i get the chance!)

not sure if these are 24s or 25s, perhaps someone here can tell. looks like the leading loco has actually the tablet catcher in use! http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/imagecomplete.php?id=28489

another pic of a BFO: http://80srail.zenfolio.com/p520092474/e6ae915e i suppose a TGS would be the best way of getting the 'door and a third' at the guard's end. you'd have to watch with the windows though - note, from the far end, you have 6 normal saloon windows, then a slightly bigger gap before the 7th window (which is in the guard's office, i think). i'm trying to find a similar pic of the other side, which is the same except there is an 8th window at normal spacing from the 7th window - if you see what i mean the other main things to check might be the ventilation pods at the roof ends and you would need to have buffers and built-in tail lights EDIT: found this page http://www.marstonparkway.org.uk/adapting_stock_20.html the roof vents look the same type as on the HST, i.e. the square cover on the roof centreline EDIT 2: didn't notice the first photo has already been mentioned - sorry!

i might be wrong, as i'd have to find the DVD in question, but i think these are on the 'rail freight today' series (i have the 5 DVD box set from 2006, which i got cheap from 'the works'.) was this the one where it was palletised, bagged fertiliser, offloaded by fork-lift from VGAs or similar.(i.e. one half of the side swings out and is slid along to access the load)

backscenes are wonderful, dave. you seem to have got the angle of capture just right, as opposed to just sticking a photie on! meant to say, the hugh longworth 1st. gen DMUs book has lots of sets listed at various times, inc. the 108s. e.g. 1988 - 101 3xx, 104 4xx, 107 4xx, 108 3xx, 120 5xx (either HA or ED, AY being a long shot?) incidentally, i think it was waverley - glasgow central via shotts, one of those services where i doubt anyone travelled end-to-end, when there was always a much quicker option! (unless of course, you really like 1st. gen DMUs! )

sorry about that! i remember seeing it in one of my photos and where it is is very near to railway line (line passes just behind the mast). i looked up the site linked to, the results are shown below. the yellow cross is roughly where it actually is. EDIT: the second one is UMTS (incidentally, spamcan's picture is of kirkcaldy station - sinclairtown station was a bit further north, but closed in 1969)

this one on the site of the former sinclairtown goods yard in kirkcaldy - a similar mast, but smaller boxes and fenced in. couldn't get any closer, but i've left the image big, so click for bigger version. notice the 'old fashioned' equivalent on the left (the light brown one) - there are several of these telegraph poles here, albeit without wires!

some shots at the NRM here: http://www.traintesting.com/HST_prototype.htm specifically this photo http://www.traintesting.com/images/HST-PC__rear_panel.jpg shows that it has 415v 3-phase jumpers if it's capable of supplying the ETH to an HST set, the only thing to work round would be mods to the control system to make it compatible with a production set (the orange socket above the tail light is the control jumper socket, the cable bieng mounted on the other side of the gangway). also note RCH jumpers are provided, presumably for lighting/PA edit: the production HST has a single 36-way control jumper mounted below the buckeye

i loved this pic on the other thread it was on (which i can't remember!) as opposed to a shot of a real scene, to me this looks like a slide taken at the time and has since been scanned into flickr or similar. i think it's the contrasts/colours, where either might have went slightly 'off' in translation. (btw this is no slight on your modelling or photography, both are wonderful - it's just the combination that makes me think of other pics i've seen, esp. on flickr)

good to see it coming together paul. however long something takes, it's always nice to see it on the rails and (nearly) finished! as often happens, i was raking about t'internet and stumbled upon this: http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/imagecomplete2.php?id=34016 your colours look to be a pretty good match! other pics here: http://www.railbrit.co.uk/location.php?loc=Fintown (the link to the donegal railway history doesn't seem to work) cheers

could be bob, i'm sure i've seen pics of a 25 so fitted, albeit with a round blanking plate i think there was a 'standard' royal train comms line, reminds me of a pic i've seen of 2 warships with a cable that was draped along the roof/sides. at some point there must've been the instruction to have the cable go through the locos? edit: had a look here http://www.derbysulzers.com/royaltrain.html perhaps different locos had the wire come through in different positions, then plated over with round/square plates

re: the assortment of cab roof/headcode boxes - a couple of good pages with pics at derbysulzers: cab roofs, grille covers etc.: http://www.derbysulzers.com/changes.html cabs in general: http://www.derbysulzers.com/cabs.html

fantastic stuff as ever dave! apologies if this has been covered before, but i'd always thought that 2-car 108s didn't really 'fit' much but the use of 108s would do until someone makes a 3-car 107 (no criticism intended dave) well, looking through a flickr set recently discovered, what do i find? shows how much i know! some other good pics of waverley in the 80s in there too hopefully the house move means to somewhere with bigger rooms and you can start on the east end!

the lion sleeps tonight - tight fit

brilliant SC - 'a romany bint in a field with her paints, suggesting we faint at her beauty, but she's got dickie daaaaaaaaaaaaavies eyes' i only have eyes for you - art garfunkel

children of the damned - iron maiden

new stuff - ceelo green 'bright lights, bigger city' - he has a mean ear for a good tune anyway, but the 'billie jean'-esque bassline and the full orchestra effect is amazing for a modern tune http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBhdIcb84Hw blast from the past - adam and the ants 'kings of the wild frontier' LP, esp. marco's guitar (one of the most underrated guitarists going) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXS8mPROC1M

nice one colin! human fly - the cramps

Given the recent problems with Fotopic, a few people have already or will shortly be moving their collections to other sites. So how about posting the new links here so that they're all easily found in one spot? (saves multiple threads throughout the forum too) Perhaps just put the old fotopic name and provide the new link. We all know how useful the Fotopic sites were for reference, many members had collections there and i'm sure we've all referred to them at some point, so this is just an idea to make everyone aware of where they have gone. Maybe the only 'conditions' being members post their own link once they've definitely moved and (esp. if it's a link for a site from someone not connected to RMWeb) make sure the link won't cause problems for those access it from here? I've checked this with Andy Y and he has agreed to sticky this if it takes off.

thanks for the info trevor incidentally 1100-2 = dia.30 griddle car - lot 30637, 9/1960 (new) 1103-5 = dia.31 griddle car - no new lot no., 1965 (converted from dia.16 RF) 1106 = dia.32 booth car - lot 30783, 4/1968, (new?) info from parkin mk1 book (1106 would seem to be the missing link between the griddles and RBs, in that it catered for sit-down meals, albeit with the intention of quick turnover)

big in japan - alphaville

it's a dia.30 griddle car. there were 3 of these, not sure if ScR only had one or if it ended up with all three. have seen a good few pics of the dia.31 griddles which had a slightly different internal/window arrangement. (bob-65b would likely be the man to ask about numbers etc.) (i think there was a thread on the old RMWeb about building these, can't remember if it was bob or not) both types seem to have been a stalwart on longer distance ScR internal services, offering more choice food and drink wise over an RMB (i.e. hot food), but still aimed at 'casual' walk-up custom, as opposed to the full dining experience of an RB EDIT: a pic from RCAHMS mention in a thread about perth station http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/images/l/699018/

my sharona - the knack