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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/323778753053?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&fromMakeTrack=true This has popped up for sale, Its ex Eastleigh, Ex axiom Rail, H745 YGO, Re railing crew bus. pic below (NMP) seen in better days!

Diesel Depot speed limits are normally 5MPH, within the confines of the depot area.

difficult to know, i have one on ebay on an auction starting at £69 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/192818814485 we will see what it makes! andy

ok I will get some pics, mine are from redhill, four aspect

I have a handful of real 4 aspect colour lights, probably from the southern , from the 60s, i can send some pics, or you can buy one off me if you want a fabulous garden ornament! !!

Now you mention securicor, that rings a bell, that may have been the reading workshop. I was going through some old photos, and came across this one. Its the old Marylebone Depot Milkdock, after the depot was demolished, but we still parked there for a short while to get the train to aylesbury to the new Turbo Depot. On the right is E974 BAM, station clean teams van, the escort kombi van(F445 BOK) which is station standards managers (ian Mcneil)s van, complete with chiltern logo on the drivers door, then my maestro van, russ P might appreciate that, and the CBM dayshifts red peugot. A little bit of history! Andy

Thank you for the replies, my memory must have faded. So in the late eighties they must have been regular garages that had contracts to maintain the various road vehicles. I might just make an NSE sign anyway and exercise some modellers / artistic license! Andy

I have a new question, related to railway motors: In the 1980s and early 1990s, when BR looked after its own road vehicles, there were garages where these were maintained. I remember taking the freight rover to Reading to get it serviced etc , but what were these garages called? i.e. what did the sign above the door say? I have it my mind that they were "BR / NSE - Road Vehicles Workshop" Can anyone confirm what they were called? The attached picture of the sign could read "road vehicles workshop" instead of "infrastructure training school" In later years we took them to Brian Curries, who were just a commercial vehicle outfit, its the in house ones I am interested in. So if anyone knows what they were called , or even better has any pictures of the signs, that would be great! Ta in advance Andy

A modern day cone here, if anyone wants the challenge of modelling it!

Perfect sense, thank you Merfyn! (reply Pm`ed) Andy

Merfyn, I have sent you a PM, after a liitle help please on a registration! Thanks Andy

That is a shame to scrap it now, especially as it has lasted this long. I went to see the ones at rush green motors a few years ago, some were rough, one did look ok though and was bodily complete.

C6710, thats an awful lot of litter bins!

Just to add to this not very interesting topic, here is a picture of two cones. The one on the left is a BT one from 1982, the one on the right is from the early 1990s, they are quite small, from my, ahem, collection.

The Aylesbury lash ups were still happening in the 1990s, I remember one sunday, around 1990, we put together a four car 115, all DMBS, all facing Aylesbury, , an hour spend connecting wires behind the air axle light panel to make them all look like it worked!

Great pic! I tried to persuade the powers that be to do the sandite car 55024 in white blue, it ended up in maroon instead, given what it was doing that's not a bad idea!

There may be a simpler explanation! It may have been that someone on nights or at the weekend was a bit bored and enjoyed doing a bit of tarting up. I did just that at marylebone diesel depot - several class 115 DMUs in NSE livery gained red bufferbeams, silver buffers etc, the only reason was because i could. my colleague went a bit too far though, one power car in NSE livery gained speed whiskers overnight, he got the proverbial rocket and they were painted out in a few days - there is a picture somewhere, cause no one belives it ever happened!

ahh Penmans, they went into administration last year/early this year, owed us a few thousand, shame!

cones in the 1980s were generally smaller, and a one part moulding, with a pentagon base with a sand filled sock inside the base as ballast weight. most road works on minor roads used approx 500mm high cones with reflective sleeves , but not the class A sleeves that you see today, they would have looked whitey silver with some glitter in it. I have some from the 80`s somewhere if you need pictures. The road lamps would have been the four side parafin type, or the square metal dorman smith trafilamps, I know, cause i pinched loads of these for the photocell controllers, they were 12v and made all the street lights on my layout come on at dusk, and also used the flashing part to make flashing police car lights, well it looked ace back then in the 80`s, i bet it cost hillingdon borough council a fortune lol.....

My understanding is that if a siding with a bufferstop is directly accessible from a running line , i.e. not via a headshunt, then the bufferstop will have a red lamp, if that line is next to a running line, and the bufferstop red light could be confused with a signal, then the bufferstop lamp is white.

Russ P is a maestro, a repro but a very nice one! I had a maestro van when I was younger, it did 236,000 miles, 2 engines, three gearboxes, endless front hub bearings, I finally part ex it for an astra, it was rotten, the dealer was less than grateful. The only interest is that it was black from the factory, and it may have been earmarked for the freelander development program but never used, as the reg number was in the right series, or of course, it may not have been!

So do I, that`s exactly the same build as mine, ex eastleigh depot, LWB re railing one, damn I am so tempted, shouldn`t buy another one.......

It took a while to get the smell out, it was mostly grease and oil!

They are bi fold doors like a bus, hinge in the middle and fold against each other rearwards, I can post a video if that helps?

i reckon you could graft the freight rover front end on for the full effect!