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I presume the logo above the running number is an unofficial addition?

9 hours ago, Market65 said:

Good morning, David. I like the excellent East Anglian Railway Museum photo’s, which show how much varied stock they had back then. In the last photo’, of RSH, CEGB, East Midlands Division, loco’ on the 13th May, 1979, apart from the locomotive, you can see part of a Gresley teak carriage. I can’t recall which one, but I’ll be looking it up in one of the books I have a bit later on.

 

With warmest regards,

 

 Rob.

E16631E is a 6-bay BTO (Diag. 196, built 1938). It is now on the Epping & Ongar Railway, still awaiting preservation. It really needs this, as it is the last of its type still extant. They refer to it by its original LNER number, 43556.

18 minutes ago, Rugd1022 said:

Photos by Phil Upton : Laira driver Brian Naylor at Penzance with 50 009....

 

 

 

That number on the nose is on a bit of an incline. Was the ladder not straight?

Happy birthday David, and many more of them.

One thing I notice is the prototypical distances between the fast and slow lines which I have infrequently seen in model form...

5 hours ago, luckymucklebackit said:

 

 

Is that how it is spelled in LLanerggub?

Llareggub?

15 hours ago, TheSignalEngineer said:

I remember there being a picture which I think got posted to this site some years ago showing a Hawksworth vehicle at Kyle of Lochalsh.

Again I can't remember where I saw it, but a SR PMV at Wick...

9 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

 

British company based in Runcorn. I expect the management have had a call from the BTP.

...and the driver 'on the carpet' the following morning, being directed to nearest Job Centre...

2 hours ago, Wickham Green too said:

That reminds me of some dodgy signage that passed through my scanner the other day : -

 

For the minority that regularly carry a mirror with them...

13 hours ago, SHMD said:

I particularly like the prototypical distance of tension-lock coupling between the ventilated van and the BG.

 

 

Kev.

Could be that it's not actually 'buffered up'...

On 21/07/2020 at 13:20, Graham_Muz said:

Dapol have today announced new tooling for Maunsell High Window coaches. 

 

see here for details https://grahammuz.com/2020/07/21/Dapol-announce-new-n-gauge-maunsell-high-window-coaches/

This is the same as announced on a sheet I have in front of me dated '12/2018 V1.2'. They haven't made any progress since, obviously...

I have previously been in contact with Richard at Dapol regarding these - the set details I published on the Dapol Forum clearly said '3738'; and I suggested he change the individual BTK to 3733 as 3730 isn't a 6-compartment BTK.

Not that you don't need some sort of magnification to see the running numbers anyway...

6 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

Or these?

OK, OK! You can have your trolley back. Just go away as quickly as possible!...

6 hours ago, 2ManySpams said:

 

Looks like you finished off the task I started on page 1 of the thread...

 

 

 

Would you mind if I added your tables in to the page 1 post? Suitably acknowledged of course.

No problem. I spotted a couple of errors and have uploaded a corrected image in my original post.

I also have a contribution to the answer for Question 5: What RTR Maunsell coaches are available?

Rather than 'are available', this is 'have been produced' - and in 'N' Gauge. These are all low-window vehicles.

D

The the vein of 'What sets can I make with a Hornby Brake Third coach?', the equivalent for the Dapol 'N' Gauge Maunsells. Where 'not modelled' is written, a suitably renumbered vehicle of the same type can be substituted (except for the P1a CK in the later guise of set 470 and P3 BTK in the post-war set 469, but watch this space for the announced high-window vehicles).

On 12/07/2020 at 21:55, Wickham Green too said:

Exactly - Diagrams were issued for the staff to work out what each vehicle could take ( whether passenger or goods ) and how much track space it would take up, how much loco-power was needed to haul it etc. ............. the 'cosmetics' of windows was totally irrelevant.

There were two types of Diagrams - that for the rolling stock design - as my post above, and the Operating Diagrams which specified which rolling stock was used on the timetabled services (detailed in the Appendices to the Carriage Working Notices), as in your post. .

It appears that the SR Diagrams concerned the internal layout of the vehicles, not any external differences, as the Diagram Numbers for the low- and first period high-window Maunsells were the same, and stayed the same through the change to double vents and the chassis turnround. However, a triflingly small change such as the provision of a sliding door to the guards compartment from the side corridor of a BTK (instead of a hinged door) necessitated a new Diagram to be issued...

I made myself a reference sheet...:

Maunsell

On 10/07/2020 at 23:34, PaulRhB said:

Surely he just needs to Hoot the horn to stop it? 
 

Or reduce the service to three days a week 

So the bus will only operate on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday?

On 10/07/2020 at 20:03, The White Rabbit said:

 

Something like:

 

Expecting an Indian Native American tribe attack?

On 26/06/2020 at 19:13, Western Aviator said:

 

Here’s another unhealthy specimen. I remember pulling off the southbound M6 somewhere in Cumbria or Lancashire having seen this train waiting in a loop and assuming it would follow the next up passenger, which it did. Other than that, I don't know the exact location, loco number, what train it was or even the date (apart from early 90s).  

 

EDIT: it’s subsequently been identified as 37023 (thanks to poster 37114 for the information).

 

I didn't realise Class 37 engines had a 'make smoke' setting...

23 hours ago, jonny777 said:

 

5486 ran with one blue/grey and 3 x NSE for a time. Seen here at London Bridge in September 1992. 

 

 

 

5486 swapped its DMBSO 14071 with 14211 of 5468 after the latters' withdrawl in April 1992, no reason given, but assumed to be poor condition. 5486 survived until 5 August 1994.

14 minutes ago, Zomboid said:

I guess it just shows my ignorance, but I wouldn't have guessed that Bulleid designed stock would have got NSE colours.

 

At least I'm assuming it's Bulleid, the windows on the doors doors are characteristic of his work AFAIK.

Yes they're Bulleid-style 4EPBs - 72 of the 97 facelifted units numbered in the 54xx range received late NSE livery (darker blue with curved upsweeps).

4 hours ago, Wickham Green too said:

I was wondering whether 5480 was actually used between October and January - or was it sat in a siding awaiting formal condemnation ?

No idea in this case. Usually if it was a coming together of some sort, then my original sources would have mentioned it. There were a couple of similar units send for overhaul but condemned on inspection for poor bodywork condition (5451, 5469) at that time so it may be case of 5480 being in that category and a better condition vehicle being substituted for the one in 5454. TSO 15291 was swapped with 15037 of 5449 before 5480 was stripped and sent for scrap in February 1992, so it looks like 5480 was a sacrificial lamb, providing better condition stock for overall better condition units.

22 hours ago, Wickham Green too said:

It's not only diesel units that get mis-matched : -

 

 

Probably reformed due to accident damage. The SR (and its successors) weren't known for repainting stock to match unless it was absolutely necessary...

EDIT: Checking my records, 5454 exchanged DMBSO 14555 with 14264 of unit 5480 in October 1991, reason unknown. The latter then ran with three Blue/Grey coaches and one in NSE livery until withdrawn 20 January 1992. 5454 lasted in service until 14 May 1993.

2 hours ago, balders said:

C14514.........47533.

 

Compare and contrast two years later.......Flickr link courtesy of Tinsley.tmd.41a

 

 

 

Sometimes hard to rationalise! Great photo of a happier time David.

 

Regards

 

Guy

From this angle, it doesn't look that badly damaged. Presumably if it had been in the full flush of youth it would have been repaired and out in service again fairly quickly rather than being a quick and readily available source of serviceable spare parts...

Going back to the Low Fell pictures on the previous page, between Aug 87 and Jun 88 there appears to have been an incident that has caused the frog on the up slow(?) line crossover point to be replaced by plain rail...

The Swayfield photos show rolling stock 'improvement' over a period of 13 years - from Mark 1 to Mark 2a/b/c to Mark 2d/e/f to Mark III in the HST...

6 minutes ago, mullie said:

Are the first three photos posted today real or is that a particularly good N gauge layout!

 

Martyn

If it's an 'N' Gauge layout I'd like to know where he got his 'VEP' models.

You weren't missing much with the photos being monochrome. Flat plain BR Blue livery and small yellow panels - the only relief was the raised Aluminium double arrows...