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Well, after using Hattons off and on for forty years (through my father in the early days) I just received what looks like my final order. I am sad that they are going out of business, as it means getting stuff shipped to me will be more expensive, but I understand that nothing lasts forever. I wish everyone there all the best in their future endeavors.

All of the stainless steel cars tested passed. Sad that they destroyed several of them to discover that.

If anyone is interested I found a works list in the book 'Power for the world's railways: GEC Traction and its predecessors - 1823 to the present day'. It can be purchased for cheap off ebay.

Thank you. I have already seen that and it is from 1962 onwards that I am looking for, when the Vulcan Foundry numbers would have been prefixed by a D or an E, which actually started before 1962 but carried on well past that date. It does seem that the lowest D number was D46, which corresponds to Drewry 2217 (LNER DS1173), and digging through the records shows all diesels before that to have regular VF series numbers.

Sorry, just locomotives. I will change the initial post to reflect that.

Just wondering if anyone here has a full copy of the works list, with works numbers, for locomotives built by English Electric?

I am the one that provided that book to Barrowmore so if anyone needs a larger scan let me know. I am so glad I grabbed those books when I did as my ex wife junked the rest of my diagrams, BR, Canadian, Turkish. ☹️

J-trains split in Brockville.

Living next to the Kingston Sub I have seen quite an mix of Budd cars on the end of the corridor trains, unless I am trackside with a camera in which case it is all LRC cars. This may work for now but if they need to run buffer cars into the summer it may become interesting as they will need the sleepers etc for the Canadian. I am actually surprised that they don't put an LRC car on the end of the HEP trains.

My father sent me this, he has the card in his collection, as I recently got a model of 10100. Thought it was interesting to look at.

Several Budd cars, including a 'Park' were recently sighted at CAD in Lachine, apparently for the interiors to be removed, before heading to the NAC in Ottawa for testing. The other news I have heard is that the Canadian Government is going to take away the HFR and award it to a private company, both for construction and operation.

No kidding, looked at ordering something and when the shipping came up it was about 10x the price of the item!

No need for reversal at BNS, just take the train down the Camp Hill line and around the Lifford Curve then up through Five Ways. It's been done before.

Canada Post can be strange when it comes to tracking, even through you have a tracking number it doesn't actually track.

That would be Durham College Oshawa, the college being on the other side of the city from the station. However this is only a temporary renaming and I believe is supposed to revert to Oshawa in ten years. When I worked in Calgary there was talk of renaming the C-Train stations after corporate sponsors. It seemed to be a serious attempt to generate extra revenue but went no where in the end. The funniest was Victoria Park Station which was suggested to become Victoria's Secret Park Station.