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We will be attending this show with BSC Bromford this Saturday as a guest layout .

We will be exhibiting at the Newport Newgog show this Saturday April 13th with our BSC Bromford Bridge tube exchange sidings OO gauge layout which will be there as a guest layout .

I believe this is at Westbury , unknown date .

Nice looking project , an exchange sidings makes for an interesting layout , we have built a simular layout based on the sidings of BSC Bromford tube in 4 mm ( virtually the same trackwork layout as you have done ) Traffic is ingots in and tube loads outwards with a Sentinel 0-4-0 for tripping to the off stage works . Look forward to seeing updates.

Slightly later than your time frame , but here's the TOPS pool for BAA wagons , I have the pools for West Coast BAA and BBA if your interested

Weathering on BZA cradles

The company I work for has had a simular problem , during covid and lockdown people were buying anything and everything online , maybe down to boredom , we were selling suitcases and luggage even when you couldn't go on holiday ! We've gone from a thriving company with 12 people in the warehouse to one person picking , packing and stock control , now we're closing in a week's time , brexit certainty didn't help us , about 30 % of our business was European , most items sent abroad would not arrive , but came back in bulk unshipped . Increasing import costs , business rates , ect were the final nail in the coffin for us . Although I've never used Hattons , a sad loss to the modelling community , hoping all staff involved can find other employment .

Link to derailment of Gulf tta wagons at Bradford On Tone https://www.tauntontrains.co.uk/photos/gallery/BOT

The Waterston to Heathfield train of Gulf TTA was quite a lengthy train albeit until an accident which iirc resulted in the rest of the fleet withdrawn and replaced with TEA wagons .

Link photo shows two OAA in rail freight livery , a search of ‘ Corpach mossend ‘ may yield some other results

An update on the layouts progress, here shown at the recent Rail ex Taunton show in its nearly finished form .

Here are a few numbers for the BQW wagons , looks like they were condemned in 1993 , also a few numbers for the BTW

list of the IHA in domestic UK traffic The column in the far right is for the TOPS location of each wagon ,iirc 76110 Llanwern , 65050 Wolverhampton , 79736 Port Talbot ect ... Not sure if they all had the yellow dot on them . Not sure of the date of the listing .

I think the first batch of re numbering as in 33.87.4667.000 - 029 which were for UK domestic traffic only featured the yellow circle on them being in pool 0887 , along with some from the other batches numbered 33.87.4746.000 - 029 which were a!so in pool 0887 so giving a total of 60 wagons , all the other wagons were in pool 0928 ( 31 . 87 4667 xxx. ) and pool 0930 ( 31.87.4647 xxx ) hope this helps , I'll try and sort out a list soon . As for any other markings , I have no idea !

Link to Flickr photo of the Staplehurst derailment , only one vehicle involved , not sure if it was scrapped . The only wagon from the batch 31.87.4667 .000 - 099 I never saw for sight was 31.87.4667.077 so this maybe wagon involved in this derailment . The missing numbers in my list posted earlier are 31.87.4667.000 , 010 , 014 , 016 , 019 , 020 , 021 , 023 , 026 , 027 , 032 , 033 , 041 , 045 , 050 , 052 , 057 , 064 , 067 , 070 , 073 , 075 , 076 , 080 , 081 , 085 , 088 , 092 , 093 , 095 I assume these became the first batch to be re numbered to 33 . 87 .4667 . 000 - 029 for what I think we're used for domestic UK traffic at the time .