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Well, they seem to have gone down well. Here are a couple from last year which seem appropriate for today: Most of the military presence yesterday seemed to have left by the time we reached their part of the show.

Some from Pickering Steam Fair from me today. This is the third year in a row we've been and some of the regular exhibits are a bit familiar, so not as many pictures as usual. This is a selection of the oil fired machinery on display. The wife got terribly excited about this. Must be something to do with being French. She was quite excited about this too, until I told her she couldn't have it. I don't think I'd seen this run before, though it's there every year. Canadian, I learned today. Lady and tractor are quite well known in the tractor restoring world. It was slightly distressing to see how many of the 'vintage' tractors we still use regularly, including one of these, though we don't plough or sow with it. I didn't get a shot of the beautifully signwritten rear mudguards on this Case, but it was in fabulous condition. I hadn't seen this demonstrated before either - steel frames front and rear, the rear one attached to the 3 point gear and the tractor lifted itself off the ground. Brilliant. I remember these being commonplace. This one has had an interesting life, starting out as an RAF ambulance on Malta. My dad had the Albion version of this. He still has one of these to restore, in these colours too. Mind you, they were everywhere at one time. These were pretty ubiquitous colours in the 1970s as well. When I was a kid the cab from one of these used to lie in a yard my dad used a fair bit. I must have spent hours playing in there.

1953.

On the contrary. He seems to have assumed it is a diesel car and completely fails to raise the possibility of a fault in the ignition system if it's an injected petrol system. Very shoddy IMHO.

Stop it. You'll make someone cross.

I'm with Colin - I'd suspect something has been removed. My 10 year old son got the Swiss flag joke (but then he does have a thing for flags).

I think you may find Mr Duck is quite unreconstructed.....

I heard it had a tendency to overwork at high speed and could suddenly leak uncontrollably...... Now look what you've done, Phil. Gilbert, cuff this thread about the head and bring it back on topic before we all get Moderated!

I'll take the loco off your hands for a tenner, Clive....?

It woudl be possible, but unless they were dimensionally challenged in the same way as the Dapol examples used to create and model the transfers, they would need fiddling to fit in a sensible manner.

This is better:

I did a little bit of photography today while we were winding down. I expect there'll be more along shortly. I found myself opposite the MPD looking at a pair of J39s: And at almost the two extremes of LNER motive power of the time: This one was taken because I thought I couldn't work out the control panel and was incapable of getting the train to move, so it kept me occupied while Robert came back to explain what I'd done wrong. Turned out the loco had failed (it had an intermittent fault all weekend). We ran Mr King's ironstone hoppers and they were very much deserving of close attention: They stand up to the cruelty of the closeup very well indeed.

Oh, yes, we like new photographs. To pick up where Clive left off, I like the ex-LMS 3 plank rear left with the two A type containers in it. The conlflat on the end of that cut is also interesting - either a very short conflat or one of the larger (AFP?) 'Birds Eye' type insulated containers. Would that put this in the early 1960s?

Not MJT, so either Comet or Bill Bedford?

There is. There used to be a picture on fotopic of a V3 hauling a triplet set. Nothing else. Does anyone know if that picture is back online anywhere? I was told at the time it was a special to Tyne Commission Quay for VIPs and that might have been the whole consist, or the triplet had been detached for turning.

Er.... yes. In 1956. You have been away for a long year or two, haven't you?

I know it's the worst kind of pedantry, Tony, and I'll be elected Pope before we see an RTR one, but don't forget the SFO when talking about ECML dining combinations. People of the day said they were treated like gold dust and two coaches had to be rostered to replace one. Surely the type can't have been unique to the ECML? The RSP (RTP in my era) had a small hotplate or something for warming food as well as providing extra storage for the adjacent kitchen.

When the workshop hasn't been too hot, I've managed to complete the trussing on the second Restaurant Car and remake that on the first as it was too low. Bit of tidying up and the last of the brake gear (when Dart Castings oblige) and construction is all but complete. I also cut the rest of the roofs this evening. It's starting to look something like now. Yes, that nearest battery box is hanging off.

No, we need many more small grubby 0-6-0s and tatty opens which were what made money for the company.

The version I heard, he had.

That was what I thought the black patch was for and my eyesight wasn't up to picking out the cleats. I've been educated as well this morning.

How can you tell? That black patch on the end?

Quick thread hijack, if I may - is the BRCW archive available/accessible anywhere?

You're not wrong... I know of at least one other Peter's Spares have sold....