Rhys Underwood

The first Freightliner Margam - Dee Marsh ran last Sunday and was halted by a hot box apparent as it passed Panteg.

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In addition Colas have been operating Llanwern - Newport Docks steel trains, in place of DB/EWS. 

Was looped at Panteg to allow some members of Freightliner staff attended, it later turned out to be a dragging break on the wagon. I was surprised to see that Freightliner had taken on the workings, one of the photos I took of the working can be seen here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/85928922@N02/35244858554/in/dateposted-public/

Go West - Village People/Pet Shop Boys

One Night In Bangkok - Murray Head 

Stop Loving You - Toto

Money For Nothing - Dire Straits  

Harlem Shuffle - Bob & Earl/The Rolling Stones 

The One I Love - David Gray

Message in a bottle - The Police 

Say Hello Wave Goodbye - Soft Cell

Which ones were you thinking of? The only one I recall is the Mk2a BSO where the problem was not that the interior had compartments, but that the coach was decorated as a 2nd class one when it was in fact a BFK (and indeed the original Triang-Hornby version had been a BFK).

Some of the FGW blue sleepers had MK3 open interiors, although you couldn't them they had them! 

Never been a fan of Paramore, however this is rather good imo. It's become a bit of an earworm since it was released.

Just A Job To Do - Genesis

Have just seen the image of the new black 9F. If it's a southern loco, why does it have a WR route indicator dot on its cabside?

Bachmann have it labeled as BR(S) on their own site, hence the question.

A quick search on BR database shows the loco's first allocation as Old Oak Common from 30/09/1959. It then moved to Westbury from 17/06/1961, afterwords it moved to Eastleigh and then onto Feltham before going up north. This explains why it carries the blue route dot and why it is labelled as being BR(S) locomotive. 

Driving the last spike - Genesis

Some like it hot - The Power Station 

Jesus He Knows Me - Genesis 

And tonight's 'how much? Is he having a giraffe?' goes to this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-R2812-Class-43-HST-125-First-Great-Western-FGW-New-Mint-Boxed-One-Only-/252627566749?hash=item3ad1c6c09d%3Ag%3AX2oAAOSw4GVYIh1V A steal if I say so myself..........

Looks like I was right when I posted back on page 2

Looking very closely at the picture zoomed in on an iPad screen the box (to me) says SPA Air Break Plate Wagon.

 

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Very nice wagons, wasn't expecting the dutch ones. Gives those who missed out the first time the chance to get some. Hopefully they'll do some more Cardiff Rod Mill ones with tarps.  

Take me back to your house - Basement Jaxx 

Please Please Please can Mr Bachmann admit that the FGW 'Local Lines' livery can be done on a smooth sided 150 afterall (as Realtrack managed it on the ribbed 143s!) and it's a box load of those.

 

Then again, It's been a long day at work and my optimism mode hasn't switched off!

I would much rather see Wessex 150s with the pictures on the side TBH. But I think my optimism mode hasn't switched off ether!   

I pretty sure the cover was painted by the play write and artist John 'Patrick' Byrne.

 

Train In G Major - Lindisfarne

I as referring to a cover of the song but thanks for the information! 

In The Shadows  - The Rasmus

Stuck in the Middle With You - Stealers Wheel and Lazlo Bane also did a cover 

Been listening to a bit of Robert Palmer this past week. Including a rather good IMO live performance of Addicted to Love from 1997

Also getting back to listening to Halestrom after a small break, currently waiting for the 3rd covers EP of theirs to be released. One of the tracks from the 'Into the Wild Life' album from last year 

Others this week have been Republica, INXS, Moby, Men at Work, REM and The Mavericks.      

Looking very closely at the picture zoomed in on an iPad screen the box (to me) says SPA Air Break Plate Wagon. If they are those I'll be finding them very useful for steel wire traffic on the layout. 

Except for the one that ended up in departmental service.  Some carried chocolate and cream in preservation. Somewhere in the past 17 pages it will tell you which.

 

Chris

The other trailers that carried Chocolate and Cream are W231 which is at Didcot, W232 which is now at Bodmin, W238 which is now at the SVR, W240 which is at the South Devon and W233 which is the one that ended up in departmental service. IIRC W232 and W238 had the auto gear taken out of the 'cab', corridors added and the seating changed so they could be turned into observation saloons for use on the Paignton and Dartmouth. A quick search found this photo of W232 which at the time was named Claire at Paignton: http://www.bodminrailway.co.uk/userfiles/images/auto2.jpg