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  1. I thought it might be 40173, was certainly body only at Eastfield at one time. Was that where this was taken, or had it been moved to Mossend or somewhere like that?
  2. Assuming the wooden wagons are generally 9' wheelbase, the third from the left looks somewhat shorter. Might've been an interesting survivor from an earlier date.
  3. It looks as though 065 is in its original (Provincial) livery while 022 has been repainted at least once, as it would have started in the chocolate/cream livery. Perhaps that explains the detail differences in the cab end liveries between the pair.
  4. Possibly a regional thing. I recall from the early to mid 1980s that the Western region had reasonably well defined set formations, as did Scotland. Other places, e.g. Tyseley, seemed to have more fluid formations. Then, in the latter half of the 1980s when the second generation units started to appear, and various cascades (in both directions) happened, formations were often made up of whatever was available and serviceable. I guess Blue Star is Blue Star is Blue Star as far as DMUs went. <- Someone will be along to correct this assumption shortly ...
  5. J9697: the Class 101, or at least the leading car, will have come from a Scottish depot in the recent past. Although from memory the set numbers on the end were always black numerals, so presumably the white is a result of them having been peeled off?
  6. If only they had a loco capable ... Yes, I know there is an additional zero there - thought I would capture the moment in case it was edited out :-)
  7. This sufficiently piqued my interest that I went and asked - and thus maintained my reputation for being the one with the strange questions :-) Part of the facility that I work at receives signalling cabinets from the fabricators, puts the electronic gubbins in, before sending them off to site for installation and commissioning. The answer is, of course, it depends ... There are a whole family of these things, from little pole mounted cases that you can pick up and carry around to Portakabin sized SERs. The weight also depends on just how much tech is inside them - some of the internals have noticeable weight to them, plus the internal framework (aluminium channel) required to hang everything from. Ours are in Western Australia, and I don't know how much they differ from the UK specs, but the cases are aluminium and something the size of what is shown in the picture would weigh in around 150 kilos, perhaps more depending on the contents. Our cases also have additional panels on the exterior as part of the heat deflection process, much like you would put a flysheet over a canvas tent to keep some of the heat (rain) off the interior, which will also add to the weight. When they leave the factory, as its known, the little cases are on pallets and are forked onto the truck. Larger units require a crane to come in and lift them - they have lifting eyes on the top of the cases, but as someone pointed out today, no indication of the rating...
  8. Don't think it had ZIM written on it anywhere else, but still with the ZIMU registration mark in 2015: https://www.flickr.com/photos/13771916@N07/20592486254/ Also present was a (plain) CPSU (CP Ships) box.
  9. There is a Network Rail page that no doubt shows this information, but seems to be restricted to authorised users. See this query from 2011:
  10. C15623, the Class 107 at Glasgow Central. Interesting, for me at least, to see the set number as 026, with the 0 looking like an addition. I remember the 107s in the mid 1980s as being numbered in the 400s, so that was probably 426 in earlier years. The Class 101 sets were numbered in the 300s, and the odds-and-sods (104s, 116s) before the mass invasion of other regions cast-offs at the end of the 1980s were numbered in such a way that presumably you could refer to set 426, for example, and that would be unique - at least among the Scottish allocation. First 107 to receive the black and orange Strathclyde PTE livery was 107 444. You'll know how I remembered that ...
  11. OT: Curious that there is no mirror - would have been on the front wing rather than the door - on the car. I can remember a time when cars had mirrors on the drivers side only, but would have assumed that that would have been the case by then, particularly for something like a Police car.
  12. As others have said, an interesting read, and one of the reasons that this forum is so useful (as well as being something of a time toilet :-) ). What does surprise me is that the length of trains, in SLU, for loops etc. excluded the brake van and any locomotives, of which there would be at least one. With the exception of the SR Queen Marys, I would have thought that most brake vans were of a similar length, so could be accounted for fairly easily. But locomotives could be a different matter altogether. From memory - of models, with all the implications that has - the type 2s (except the 31 and including the 33) were of similar length, were the type 3s and 4s (except the 33) all of a similar length? The type 5s seemed to be longer. And what happened if you had an unexpected double header due to a failure? It seems an obvious flaw - you would want the train length to be the full train length, not just the consist. [Corollary: I believe that road trucks are measured differently in different parts of the world. I believe that in the UK (Europe?) it is the length of the tractor unit plus the trailer, whereas in other parts it is the length of the trailer only. This is why, in the UK that tractor units tend to have the flat front, with the engine under the cab rather than the long hood units with the engine out front, as often seen in North America and elsewhere.] Large aside: I work with iron ore trains in North West Australia. Out of interest I converted one of those to SLU - 375, of which 11-12 SLU are the three locomotives. I didn't do the weight calculation as the weights are so far above the maximums quoted above it wouldn't be representative.
  13. Interesting addition in the advert. By my reckoning the total for the five individual items would be 3 shillings 5 1/2d yet you can have the complete set for only 1/2d more than the individual components!
  14. Wonder if they are going to clean up the graffiti that is on the bridge piers before they leave site?
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