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So a Roe bodied Daimler Fleetline in Grimsby - Cleethorpes blue is out of the question? just saying... Paul

Hi, does anybody know how these are getting on, please? Thanks Paul

Nah, it's a transporter from the USS Enterprise. Paul

Had an e-mail from Hattons today that these are due in September/October. Paul

@Simon Bendall Hi, bought this and very pleased with it. Are there going to be further volumes post 1996? I certainly hope so! Thanks Paul

When I was first interviewed for a starting grade clerical job on the railway, I put on the form that I was interested in railways, ('cos you tell the truth don't you) and I remember ending up telling the interviewer how vacuum and air brakes worked. Readers, I got the job! There didn't seem to be many cranks then on the railway, although we soon realised who had similar interests. I remember going to Stratford open day one year with a drivers assistant, becoming drinking buddies with him and a relief driver. Fast forward twenty years and I went for an interview at EWS and again admitted to being a crank. Well I got that job too, and found I was surrounded by cranks! Paul

Wouldn't want to be a shunter coupling that to anything! There'd be no room. Give me a 66 and a rake of MEA wagons - so much simpler! Paul

Have you been? Paul

There were some interesting shots of electrics there. Looks like there were two overhead wires to each track, was one the return, rather than using the track? Thanks, Paul

https://www.gaugemasterretail.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=D4106 @chris37422 It looks like they come in a polybag. Paul

Found this on YouTube. At 15:40 and 18:00 there is a glimpse of D3158, engine by Blackstone, electrical by BTH. Only 15 of them built, and were never classified 08/09/10. Also at 17:06 there is a glimpse of a class 11 (no exhauster on front left footplate) Paul

just found this on YouTube, best bits for me are seeing D3158 (Blackstone/BTH, (not GEC)) at 15:40 and 18:00, Gloucester DMU at 28:05, shunting by tractor at 35:30, and seeing the tractor labelled 'British Rail ' at 37:50 and the British Titanium Ruston at 46:15. Paul.

Wow, I didn't realise the coding went that far. Thanks very much for that @D7666. Paul

Thanks for the replies, guys. Every day is a school day! I did wonder if the earlier boosters and diesels along with shunter classes 11001, 15201 and 15211 would have been CA, BA etc. Paul

I'm aware of class 73/0 being known as JA, 73/1 as JB and 74 as HB. Would this mean that 71s were HA? What about 33s? Also, were there AA, BA, CA etc? Hope the learned gentry on here can assist. Many thanks, Paul

And the chicken tikka includes green papers! Paul

I've bought this too, the 08 family of shunters are my favourite type of locomotive. I would love it if there was a volume with pictures of shunters in the privatisation years; as it is I'm making my own scrapbook of pictures cut from magazines. Thanks Paul

There was a special adapter between the flirt units and the 66. The design of the adapter meant it had to transmit both buffing and hauling forces through it. As the other 66s had the combi coupler, they could not be used, and the 92 coupling wasn't suitable either. To bring a flirt through the tunnel, a 92 would haul either 66001 or 002 to Frethun, the 92 would run round the 66, this combo would then (using the adapter) couple to the flirt and then go through the tunnel to Ripple Lane where the 92 would detach. The 66 would draw the train to Bow, with a extended run round to move the adapter from one end of the 66 to the other before recoupling to the flirt and onward delivery to Norwich. Paul

Sam's Trains has already made a YouTube video about this! Paul

In a similar vein, I received a birthday card recently that said "Happy Birthday from Tech Support" (aka your daughter) Thanks Paul

And here is 1505 on arrival at Arpley. For those that understand TOPS, it was consisted as an 18 comment line, and our Ops Manager wouldn't let it go forward to Manchester without a proper TOPS locofile being created for it. Thanks, Paul.

Referring to the 'bang road', my wife and I are both ex BR and refer to it as SLW! Also regarding the banners, the official ones are lower quadrant, but on the A164 between the Humber Bridge and Willerby, until recently some were wrongly installed as upper quadrant! Thanks Paul

I have some pages torn from an old edition of MRC with plans of what to my inexperienced eyes are similar to these. One of the photos accompanying the article is of 36639, which is described as a 9' wheelbase but fitted for the continent with vacuum pipes, air piped and extra safety chains. Will an example like this feature in a future run, please? Thanks Paul

Taken in November 2014, at a service station southbound on the M1. I remember tucking myself in behind the lorry hoping it would stop at the services for a photo. Please excuse the quality, it wasn't a particularly good camera on my phone at the time, plus the time stamp is 16:10. Paul

Wasn't there a character named 'Day Glo Derek' too? Paul