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Headlights - 1 or 2, always white (excluding royal trains and weird Southern lamp arrangements). Tail lights - always 1, always red (same caveat as above). Lock engaged in shunting (eg station pilot) 1 red and 1 white at each end. So your tail lamp is correct if the loco is running light and going forwards. If its going backwards it should be white, but it should be on the bottom centre lamp iron not the top centre. Top centre would indicate a stopping passenger train working tender first, in which case the smojebix end shouldn't have any lamps on at all. To be prototypically correct you would have to change the lamps so many times you'll eventually break something. Which suggests they're either a) not thought through by anyone who knows anything about engine lamp codes except what the lamps look like or b) it's a gimmick. If you really do want to be prototypically accurate it's so much easier with a cast or printed lamp with a 1mm hole drilled it it and a pair of tweezers.

The Johnny Walker Palvans were apparently used only in and around Kilnarnock, between the blending and bottling plants. Now that is a bit niche. http://www.srpsmuseum.org.uk/10142.htm Not come across any evidence of the BR ones in general whisky distribution but then I haven't looked !

As CC points out, that's because they were quite limited in locations, at least loading points. Amongst others you've got: Ammunition from ROF Glascoed Tinned peas from Batchelors at Wadsley Bridge. Lever Bros traffic from Port Sunlight Campbells soup from King's Lynn Bagged powdered milk from Kirkcudbright Creamery. Once loaded they could go anywhere where the customer needed 12 tons of tinned soup, or margerine or anti-tank shells or whatever. They might have been loaded by forklift but if necessary palleted or mechanically loaded goods could be handballed off (citation available if needed but it'll clutter the thread up if not). So unlikely to turn up at a wayside goods shed but very likely to run yard to yard thence to a main distribution point.

I don't think the car park will be that much smaller when they've finished, but no-one sane or not using a company account parks next to the station, it's £20 a day which is extortionate even by York prices (£19 in the ACPOA car park on the old Unipart site). The Park and Ride is only £3.80. It's to ease the flow of traffic outside the station, taking away the bridge will open up that corner into a sort of plaza around and under the Victorian arches through the city wall with the road through the middle and bus bays either side. Similar to now but more spread out using the space right up to the city walls and without a massive jerry built crumbling lump in the middle. You can see on my last photo the concrete Lego bricks inserted into one of the piers to stop it falling over, they were put in a few years ago (so I'm told). What's particularly interesting is that the bridge approach ramp is currently holding up that corner of the city wall, there is a lot of borehole drilling going on on the old roadway, I don't think they're quite sure what's under it ! There are also a lot of targets on sticks along the back of the city wall and some (presumably) laser scanning things on various buildings so they're keeping a close eye on any movement. https://www.howardcivileng.co.uk/case-studies/york-station-gateway/

I didnt say it was impossible, I merely offered a reason as to why it might not be as popular as it once was.

The south east generally is a complex pile of spaghetti to weave a path through and an expensive place to cause delays, even if the costs are capped under the Performance Regime. Even in the early 1990s when FSS were running trips from there every week and the Performance Regime wasn't a thing, the imperative was that their path back into London was preserved because if they missed that they could wind up hours late. Plenty of times I was asked by the FSS train manager to cancel the run pasts at Appleby and just do a minimum water stop because they needed to hit their WCML or ECML slot. Given that he would be the one getting grief off the passengers for their missed photo ops it can't have been asked lightly. And a few times I cancelled them for him because the Sprinter was up his bum ...

This is the alignment of the lines leading to George Hudson's first York Station, latterly West Offices and now City of York Council's offices. After the present Station was built the lines remained for carriage storage before being lifted in the 1960s for a staff car park.

As part of the York Gateway project Queen Street bridge is finally going, 60-odd years after it ceased to serve any useful function.

Ballachulish, Catrine.

Viz. buying a new car from a dealer. Has anyone ever managed to get a full refund or exchange on a substandard new car without being passed back and forth between dealer and manufacturer ? I expect the answer is 'yes' but not very often and not without an awful lot of effort. Agreed about the neatness of that arrangement, but I wonder how many returns which did get as far as Hornby had the plug still firmly attached to the tender but not to the wires ? If you aren't familiar with sub-miniature electronics connectors it's not obvious how to get them apart without causing damage.

Yes, often with long interruptions. Portwilliam (BLT) has a basic timetable/sequence of three passenger and one goods train a day; when it was first built 30-odd years ago it was operated before and after school, now it gets run as and when I remember at weekends. If I'm going upstairs for something I might run the next move in the sequence while I'm up there. So far I've managed to avoid operating it while I'm working from home despite it being in my office/study.

He could always soak it in the bath to see if that weakens the glue.

You could make up an insulfrog on a piece of sheet copperclad then cut to shape afterwards, or even by infilling between sleeper with offcuts. This is a flat crossing so far less acute angles, but the crossing noses on here are lumps of 60thou styrene superglued in then sanded and filed to shape. The bits coloured in red are all the same polarity, bare copper is the opposite polarity. Unfortunately there was no photo of the crossing noses in place but without the four foot infilled. Insulation gaps were cut with a slitting disc. The lumps of solder scattered at random are the connections for the wires underneath which connect areas of the same polarity. It's hidden in a tunnel so it doesn't need to be pretty but it does need to work 100% reliably. (It can be accessed if need be !).

Indeed. Most of his contemporaries would have taken a 3/4 view of the engine and ignored the rest. He took some of Balmenach and Dailuaine distilleries where you have to look hard to find the distillery pug in amongst all the "fascinating industrial semi-grot set in magnificent scenery" of the rest of the picture.

Because Britt Allcroft accepted, when told, that Rev. Awdry using one of the Bluebell's engines in one of his stories, and them in turn sticking a face on it with his blessing pre-dated her owning the TTTE rights.

All of which has been upgraded, modified, renumbered, repainted, weathered and generally made more realistic thereby reducing it's resale value even further. Oh dear how sad never mind, not my problem. Like you I don't care what happens to it after it's finished working for me. My wife has a list of email addresses of people who might be interested in some of it (individuals and clubs), otherwise either bury it with me or (more likely) give it a Viking funeral.

It was indeed the Gerry Anderson side of things.

Pennies, but the development costs don't. Someone had had to spend time developing CAD drawings for lamps, the socket, the light tube (or whatever the hell it is it's pugged into) - quite a lot of time if some of the conversations with Hornby staff recalled further up this thread are anything to go by. Then additional cost for the extra tooling EPs, revisions to tooling, etc. As opposed to designing a 1/2mm hole for a stamped metal lamp iron to be pushed into. Ditton anything on a wagon between the solebars that can't be seen below the solebars, working cab doors on the Hornby 08 that have (I think) 5 additional parts each, interior detail which can't be seen on the current crop of Hornby brake vans etc. Save it for the things where the interior detail can be seen like coaches, or deisels with greenhouse cabs. The Heljan Class 17 looks ridiculous with the cab half filled with concrete. I might buy one of these if the BR versions end up being remaindered. I'm quite capable of cutting bits off a brand new £200 model, but I'd rather spend the time and money adding bits to two second-hand older ones. I had a good look at 5020 in my local dealer yesterday and wasn't impressed.

When 'protection of the brand / brand values' became a thing, prior to that it seems to have been encouraged as free advertising. Since then corporations seem to have become polarized between those who protect their brand at all costs (Disney, MacDonalds) or attempt to extract every last cent from it (Boeing), and those who are more relaxed provided you aren't bringing them into disrepute. Chris Green was famously relaxed about the use of the Virgin West Coast livery on model trains, I doubt he would have been quite so chilled if a purveyor of more adult goods had been using it. In some cases the decision can be down to one person, they may not even have a policy on it until asked. Someone on here once asked how my own employer would brand a rail-link minibus for a TOC-sponsored service should such a thing exist, Marketing were more than happy to provide advice (and a list of RAL numbers) but only because I knew who to ask. IIRC the response was along the lines of "We wouldn't paint the ends of the bus yellow because that's not part of the branding". Other times I've found Engineering colleagues checking Bachmann or Hornby livery artwork for a DMU off against our own labelling drawings.

You can in theory recreate the geometry of Setrack points with (for example) copperclads and Code 75 rail. However, the geometry of Setrack points is so compromised compared to even the smallest pair of points on the real thing that it begins to look silly, almost like a scaled up version of 009 Crazy-Track. It's notable that Peco hasn't announced any intention to go below Streamline medium radius with the Code 75 Bullhead, even the BH medium radius points are pushing it a bit. Setrack points are even smaller than small radius Streamline points of course. You can do it but it looks odd.

https://trademarks.ipo.gov.uk/ipo-tmcase/page/Results/1/UK00001366470 https://trademarks.ipo.gov.uk/ipo-tmcase/page/Results/1/UK00001366461

Not necessarily, the Network SouthEast Railway Society owns the NSE trademark: https://trademarks.ipo.gov.uk/ipo-tmcase/page/Results/1/UK00003110943 Most BRB intellectual property passed to the DfT, for example the double arrow, which is licenced to Rail Delivery Group. But the freight operators were sold outright, not franchised, so their IP went with them: https://trademarks.ipo.gov.uk/ipo-tmowner/page/search?domain=1&page=1&id=99325&app=0&mark=UK00002137670 We've done this before.

Several of them moaning about not being able to lean out of the doors for photos too.

The Victorian response to staff safety concerns was to add a couple more handrails (if aesthetically appropriate), e.g. extending those on the boiler side round the corner to join up with the one over the smokebox door, and the extra cabside handrail on the Compound pictured earlier. No doubt any request for compensation would be declined as anyone daft enough to fall off a footplate was clearly not exercising sufficient care for the task in hand. Edit - Completely off topic but i'm 99% sure the gent in the yellow vest on that Compound at Hellifield is the legendary Traction Inspector Bob Phizackerly. He once derailed 'Bahamas' coming off the K&WVR and then wrote his own investigation report ! There was nothing wrong with his conclusion ("The derailment occurred because I forgot to remove the derailer") but I had to politely refer it back 'for further work' - i.e. is there any chance someone other than the person who caused the derailment could countersign the report please ? Absolute star.

As previously advised - out through the gap between the cab sidesheets and tender then round via the footplating provided for the purpose. Either lamp and oil can in one hand and the other on the handrail, or arm hooked over the handrail and one in each hand. The fireman would be more than capable of minding things on the footplate for the period the driver was away. Just because we've gone soft in the meantime unnecessary risks are no longer tolerated doesn't mean it can't be done. There is an Ivo Peters cine film of a Caley 0-6-0 on a railtour in 1963, the fireman is out on the footplate braying the Westinghouse pump with the coal hammer as the train approaches Whithorn, so it wasn't just a pre-grouping practice.