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  1. Fat Controller
    There are a couple of compressors visible to the right of the loco nose, and I suspect there are others in the red brick building in front of the silo.
  2. Fat Controller
    The compressor would normally be housed in a brick-built shed, often with louvred doors. It would only be visible when the doors were open (to blow off condensate, for example)
  3. Fat Controller
    I wonder what the story behind the mixed Freightliner/ GUV formation was? I've seen photos of mixtures of Freightliner and air-braked wagons, but never NPPCS stock like this.
  4. Fat Controller
    It rejoices in the name of 'Golgotha tunnel'
  5. Fat Controller
    They were used to carry all sorts of bulky goods: bricks, beach shingle, soda ash, the older sort of wooden containers, scrap metal, oil drums, even farm tractors. The David Larkin series of 'Working Wagons' and 'Wagons of the xxxx period' should have a few views
  6. Fat Controller
    Presumably the figure quoted is the proposed fare, not the construction cost?
  7. Fat Controller
    C8215. Conflat A used to ensure the 03 activated the track circuits: most of the vehicles used for this at Newcastle were Conflat Ls, with the holes in the floor. Not the most practical wagons for the job.. The 03s also worked trips to Tyneside Central Freight Depot, the Green Market at Low Fell, and scrap yards at Dunston and Blaydon, whilst one was out-stationed at Tweedmouth, Berwick-on-Tweed.
  8. Fat Controller
    It'll probably continue from Dolland's Moor via the classic route, as there was a Class 66 at the head when we passed about an hour ago.
  9. Fat Controller
    Was there not also an explosive works or similar as well as the maltings? I'm sure I've photos of Gunpowder Vans there.
  10. Fat Controller
    There was a bogie steel carrier at the western end of Ebbw Jct yard for some years with a similar deformation at both ends; the lower part of the truss rods was barely clear of the rail head. I think it was eventually cut-up in situ,
  11. Fat Controller
    I would say so; David Larkin's 'The Acquired Wagons of British Railways, Volume 2' has DW33345 in Departmental Black, labelled 'LOCO' on P131 (despite it having end doors at both ends) and W83854 in black, but without prefiix, on P127. There are many more examples, however, carrying the 'LOCO' lettering (either as the top line of the wagon details on the left, or in the centre side panels) but painted grey, like revenue stock.
  12. Fat Controller
    There have been other instances of this nature on European railways in recent years; one of the new SNCF MU types had to be withdrawn for modification:- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-27497727
  13. Fat Controller
    My 'Go to' book for things like this is 'British Railways Wagons' by Don Rowland; It's a bit old now, and doesn't cover the air-braked fleet, or pre-BR builds.
  14. Fat Controller
    B787098- 787347 were built at Ashford to Lot No 3472
  15. Fat Controller
    A 'half-timbered car', as Barry Humphries described it.
  16. Fat Controller
    Beaufighters; eventually replaced by Black Widows.
  17. Fat Controller
    The photo was used in an advertisement for Westinghouse in Modern Railways in the mid-1960s.
  18. Fat Controller
    In the shot of the Class 25 and empty sulphur hoppers, the VIX is probably being used to carry the wagon sheets,
  19. Fat Controller
    They were used on the Leith workings from Haverton Hill in the early 1980s.
  20. Fat Controller
    The area between the railcar and the wagon became the Motorail terminal; previously, I think it had been part of Calais shed.
  21. Fat Controller
    Was there perhaps a 'brighter' red used for SNCF vehicles that could be used for perishables, in the manner of the white stripe on FS vans? The body style is reminiscent of one of the SNCF vans from the late 19400s/ early 1950s.
  22. Fat Controller
    You'd probably have coupling issues before you had power ones..
  23. Fat Controller
    You might be better using one of the Cambrian 'one-piece' underframe kits, which have all the chassis members in place, and just need folding up. This link will show you what they look like:- https://www.cambrianmodelrail.co.uk/store/Underframe-Kits-c25053466
  24. Fat Controller
    It looks to be a lovely model, and makes me wonder whether it's worth fettling up the Hornby model. For those who'd like to model a short train, how about VIX; VEA ;VIX ? It's a formation I saw several times on the Newcastle- Carlisle line in the 1980s; presumably materiél to or from one of the many military bases around the area.
  25. Fat Controller
    Just as long as you didn't pull the cab door shut behind you.. I still remember a radio call from a driver, asking me to tell the signaller not to set a route for him, as he'd done just that, and was waiting for someone to bring him a spare key.
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