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If you PM me will give you contacts from latest journal. Not sure NBRSG website is as active as a CR group?

On the more esoteric front does the NBR N Class (D25) that ran under own power and on temporary track from Newington Station to Meadows to take part in 1886 Edinburgh International Exhibition count? Clearly street running, not an inconsiderable distance (for those that know Edinburgh) and possibly one up on CR as 123 was hauled there! OK probably accept 123 wasn't technically a CR locomotive at that time if being pedantic?

Funny you say diamonds but we have some faux block flooring with edging and during the 1 hour "strike" she even mentioned this as an option. She is blonde and I still love her though I do sometimes avoid trying to explain/rationalise some technical things as we appear to be in a different space time continuum?

Thanks and absolutely right. A full time working GP to pay the mortgage, pay kids through University and support a wife. Also have very high maintenance dog to care for too. The rest is just "play time" Rather fancy learning welding currently so if anyone local to me fancies teaching a "duffer?"

Made a start on the SR Brake van. Nice bit of carpentry on the top rail with dowels to secure the verticals. Dug out a bit of green oak that needs a hefty bit of whittling and fettling to be suitable. Downside is the bench saw may not be powerful enough for the 7ft length. Mortise and tenon should be within my capabilities though. Also big shunt planned over next few days as coaches are off on holiday to Leeds for wheel turning I gather. Saturday PM spent making a start on a laminate floor. Punctuated by 1 hour "strike" due to wife arriving back from town and announcing she wanted planking effect lengthwise not crosswise. After many calls, visits to local flooring shops she agreed to let me continue. Best laugh was 5pm Sunday arrives and announces (when finished) that crossways was definitely the right way to do it!

Managed a few hours at LWR. Wissington is the guest loco for a few weeks. I must concede I thought she was bigger, though I was told in passing quite an eager spirited performer. Managed another axle box cover and started spot painting of the Grain Van. Next up will be veranda repair on the SR brake van Also made a start on finishing off numerous 7mm wagon kits in anticipation of starting my Xmas present of 1/200 HMS Nelson especially as now collected the appropriate detail sets. If mine looks 1/2 as good as this one I'll be chuffed to bits (yes this really is the 1/200 model and a bit of photo shopping, quick look at ModelWarships.com for some others from the same build set)

Apologies for lack of activity but wife now recovering from emergency appendectomy and pulled some extra shifts on-call covering our local Hospice Fortunately we are now at the primer stage. There are some holes to fill but compared from the start its chalk and cheese! In anticipation of the big shunt (Wissington arrives on hire 25/4/17 for the weekend steaming) she gets to see sunlight for the first time in ages. Went around oiling axle boxes and yes that's water in the machinery wagon axle box which poured out when the bolts were loosened! Welcome back!

Firstly I have finally finished the bedroom. My wife suggested it needed "minor sprucing up." My helpful eldest chipped in and wanted a nice easy wallpaper to hang! I threw a major wobbly part way through and refused to do the tiling even though I had already done all the preparation and sub floor (24 square metres on floor, 1/2 way up walls and shower cubicle) but the rest is a joint effort with my wife. Total horror show needing lining paper prior to the wallpaper and all the units taking apart and painting. Back to more important things and almost beginning to see a wagon emerge. Did some painting and then got started on the axle box covers. Nice touch the brass 1/4 but doubt the date stamps are accurate in any way shape or form. On plus side the axle interiors lubricant is in reasonable nick. Sunday off to Nottingham and managed to drag wife and youngest away from shopping. Last passed by here on Nottingham marathon a few years ago. Top notch beer and food not to shabby either.

As I recall there is a 12w LMS sleeper next to Ludborough station as private accommodation and the LNER Sleeper recently moved from Strathspey to Bo'Ness

A bit more has turned white. Very kindly another gentleman attacked one end with the needle gun. First job was primer the steel, then the aluminium and for good measure though not photogtaphed the whole buffer beam was finished off in red oxide. I also report that PWM 650 is leaving for Heritage Shunters Trust Rowsley? After a hefty shunt she is sat on the loading area. I think she is actually owned by Lincolnshire Life Museum and has been a longterm resident in the headshunt. Origionally built by Ruston and Hornsby Lincoln hence its tie into LWR. I think they have been a subject topic in another thread recently

Usual haunt and probably same workings but many different locomotives. Haven't actually done the maths but significant numbers of each class appear to have passed in front of me. Getting to bottom of box and just a few files to go at now. I think the I/D's are better on the next lot. 60.005 light 22/6/92 60.039 oil 8/6/92 47.050 empty ferry van 7/91 60.028 John Flamsteed 7/91 37.203 empty coils to West Marsh 7/91 47.438 light 10/5/91 60.027 Joseph Banks on a less than taxing light oil 10/5/91 37.075 full coils ex West Marsh 10/5/91 20.046/20.107 steel slab to Grimsby 2/11/90 20.095/20.069 light 14/12/90 56.094 (who painted the numbers?) 17/11/89 60.021 Pen-Y-Ghent full ore 15/11/90 60.082 Nam Tor empty oil 7/2/92 37.069 Thornaby TMD steel slab to Grimsby 5/2/92 60.039 Glastonbury Tor empty ore 10/2/92 47.287 empty oil 10/2/92 60.054 Charles Babbage empty oil 10/2/92 37.202 10/2/92 31.288/31.233 Phillips Imperial 14/2/90 47.325 Red Rum light 10/2/92 47.379 Total Energy late in the date 8/1/90 47.156 14/2/90 31.203/31.201 Fina Energy 8/1/90 finally new and old guard in one image I think (please correct me) a Class 108 DMU with an unidentified 150 unit in background 8/1/90 Also best Festive wishes to all who have looked in on this thread/site and my other 1/2 baked effort on the LNER grain wagon and others at Ludborough

A few for today. Mostly from my usual haunt at Brocklesby but 3 of my old friends the Bluespot Fish Vans. Firstly and both unidentified. Guess early spring 91? red stripe 56 and guess a Romanian job with the front grill shape? 47 and 31 (not the most common pairing) on empty oil working Next lot taken on 16/9/91 47.348 St Christophers Railway Home 37.507 Hartlepool Pipe Mill on Grimsby working 60.027 47.060 Halewood towing 37.891 31.205/31.304 37.351/37.377 on empty ore Hard to credit next images are taken 19 years ago outside Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre. Currently now part of Sainsbury car park and the wagons have moved to Lincolnshire Wolds Railway. Also in the background of one image is the dock area the triathletes used to swim in where the ex Humber Ferry has been scrapped and only Ross Tiger still remains

Thanks for the DMU I/D Back to my old trick of snapping but not recording dates/numbers! Must be more up to date than usual as the junction has been remodelled and the station restored to a habitable state. Also quite significant changes in locomotive livery too

Late home from work so just a few today Firstly couple of images at West Marsh sidings 47.209 Herbert Austin 15/3/91 37.509 undated Then back to my usual haunt out Brocklesby way All taken on14/3/91 except the last single DMU image which is undated 20.176/20.098 obligatory 2 to Grimsby 150.144 Dont remember Sprinters with large numbers on side as standard 31.286 under the grime with a minimalist empty oil working 56.102 Scunthorpe Steel Centenary 47.226 Seagull with ostensibly another working into Grimsby unidentified DMU

Mainly double headed 47's tonight with a couple of randoms for balance! First 4 are at Brocklesby junction and we have; 47.380/47.010 with 31.205 sneaking away light circa 9.90 Then 2 unidentified 47's 47.294/47.115 taken 10.12.90 47.319 Norsk Hydro/47.307 Bunting taken 14.11.90 You get some idea of the length of these loads Next we move to east and were hanging over a hedge again 47.423 Sceptre/ another 47 taken on 14.12.90 47.319 Norsk Hydro/47.380 Immingham both definitely giving it the beans again on 22.11.90 20.046/20.095 light 22.11.90 60.019 Wild Boar Fell on ore working 22.11.90 Finally we move to Barnetby 47.295/47.054 The 158 is a random image and may have been fortuitous its undated but i have memory of odd cross country service ending up Worcester way. I may have inadvertently snapped it?

A few for the W/E and have to be honest covering most of what was known as Humberside? Firstly a 2 views in Cleethorpes 15/8/89 with the extensive sidings still in existence. Not sure where these were actually taken from ( ? in vicinity of old turntable) Note old 6w tank wagon and floodlights for Mighty Mariners. For the pub quiz anoraks Grimsby Town's ground is actually in Cleethorpes. Unidentified 101 47.314 Next ex GNR 3rd at Waltham Windmill 31.212 heading away from Grimsby on "back road" to Immingham (chimney of Tioxide in background and a locomotive class I very rarely spotted in the Grimsby area) ADM Track Recorder at Pyewipe Junction 1/90 (an impossible image now due to road changes in the area) Stallingborough 8/89 with the leaning signal box. Again all historic Next few taken at Brocklesby mainly taken 9/90 unless specifically noted 47.238 Bescot Yard 11/90 (?repaired wagons to Immingham) 31.302/31.286 ex Immingham Oil 31.199 light 37.063 (with previously I/D wagons) 47.22/47.295 light 31.286 empty oil 37.351/37.250 ore to Scunthorpe 9/92 56.087 56.083 Brocklesby 1/90 56.108 Brocklesby 9/89 56/076 Melton Ross 4/90 Empty Coal 56.068 Barnetby light 8/90

Tonight we will move out to Barnetby in the days when station was staffed and semaphores abounded. All images date from Autumn 1990 47.402 on long empty oil working 31.207/31.288 empty oil working from other end of the same platform 37.098 hauling 31.199 and 47.033 37.258 with short coil working 150.143 with what appear to be extra large numerals on front? 37.408 Loch Rannoch going the long way round Barnetby (a particularly fine semaphore was just ahead of her) 37.004/37.106 light locomotive 47.299 47.050 with larger numerals and possibly car transporter wagons. 37.023 light locomotive

Final batch for tonight and we have some I/D and even some dates! Firstly 10/90 Unidentified 47 suspect on of the unofficial named Tinsley jobs. 60.019 Wild Boar Fell I have a funny feeling some of the test acceptance duties were on Scunthorpe Ore workings as some odd randomly allocated 60's were to be infrequently found on this working 37.378 light locomotive 37.421 (I guess from earlier posted image) Next we move to 6/92 37.503 empty oil 60.028 coal hopper's 47.212 oil working 144.007 Not sure what specific working this chap was on. I wouldn't really fancy (other than for comedy value) a outing as far as Lincoln, Newark or even Doncaster on one of these!

Just a few today. Regrettably back to my old tricks of snapping but omitting the I/D! Thanks for reminding me its 185 class now. Should know much better as was on 18:34 ex Grimsby on Tuesday en route to Birmingham and looked like a 185 to me, especially as the number was plastered on the front! No idea of date. Pretty certain some, maybe not all, from same day as the trees and ballast seem to match. Guess circa spring 92

Just a few for tonight. Firstly a couple of single random images Its Friday again and the departmentals trundle off, no date and no I/D for some obscure reason. The end of Weelsby Road bridge. Currently this is now a large flat junction on Peakes Parkway. It was a Sunday and probably about 15 years ago. Next back to my usual haunt and all taken 11/2/92 158 on Manchester service. Currently now 170 on this run. 47.519 light 31.553 ex Pyewipe (if noted correctly one of my only two 31 sightings there) 60.067 James Clark Maxwell

Rather liked the old Dolomites. First one was 1500 in purple and girlfriend at the time (now wife) thought a Dr would have better car! DSG 617S finally died in snowy spin on A74 circa 1988! Ownwer survived. Also had access to one of the 1850 HL jobs (T reg from memory)and still managed to wind her up to 100mph on M8 Early days Strathspey, well remember 5025 working a bit later say 1978 ish

Managed a bit of playing today. Firstly a bit more paint removal. Could only hack this for a few hours as just unpleasant with all the mess and vibration from angle grinder Then off to the SR Pillbox Brake van to slap some paint about. The numbering is courtesy of Matt and all hand painted.

Still in my usual haunt First lot are from 14/11/90 37.421 Vale of Rheidol 60.003 Christopher Wren 37.219 light locomotive 37.893 light locomotive and assume heading back to Ripple lane 47.319 Norsk Hydro hauling 47.307 Bunting 47.187 with oil working Next short few are taken 21.2.92 again at Brocklesby 47.319 with empty oil (wonder if had seen bucket and water from last image!) 47.010 with empty oil 47.402 (by now had extra number on nose and lettering Phoenix) 20.096/20.185 the almost obligatory pair of 20's ex Grimsby Docks on stainless steel coils?

Spent much of the day at Ludborough and will add something to the LNER Grain wagon thread tomorrow. Firstly a few aimless hours snapping in various days 2/92. The change was obvious with increasing numbers of 60's. Particularly only one of the ore workings was a class 60 though I don't think double 37's lasted much longer on this traffic. 60.003 light locomotive 60.067 oil working 60.049 empty ore 37.128 light locomotive 37.128/37.202 on lengthy empty oil 37.225/37.377 on full ore heading to Scunthorpe. Usually heard them before seeing them at bridge over A180 from my vantage point next we more to 11/90 and the area of the old goods yard at Brocklesby. Didn't venture here often and pretty sure its fenced off now anyway. I guess around this time access to the platform was stopped on closure of the station to passengers 47.115/47.212 on hefty oil working unidentified 47 empty oil Finally, while looking through the box I have 2 images from virtually the same spot at Barnetby though 9 years apart 20.112/20.061 60.066 oil working

First 1/2 of 91 seems to have been spent infrequently hanging over a fence off a farm track to the west of Brocklesby station for a change 31.286/31.210 on empty oil 47.237 isn't really taxed with this load! 47.308 with some ferry wagon types 56.086 interesting as first 2 hoppers are hooded types and I done ever remember regularly seeing them in the area 37.10 light 47.417 light 47.226 Seagull light 31.156 /31.126 oil working ex Immingham 47.310 probably same working as 47.308 on different day Finally unidentified DMU to break the monotony of freight workings.