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Peco thought the same - it's in one of their track plan books.

Err, what about the 125s, or are you only modelling off-peak services?

Good photo and observation - though to be fair the two nearest to the Robin are 21t minerals.

Disagree - it does take time to sort out the trash, and to work out even what is trash, especially when there is a lot of it. All I'm asking for is the option to determine the frequency. The relentless pushing of the same offer (however repackaged) is not good business sense to me, and makes it more likely I will miss something I am interested in - especially if i have unsubscribed.

Don't get me wrong - I'm generally well disposed towards TMC - but 29 email flyers in 28 days is really starting to try my patience. There doesn't seem to be a website option to ask for a reduced frequency, so unsubscribing seems to be the only option.

Yes pretty similar to this one. Rendered panels painted in a light colour, and slightly less weathered, but not by much.

No, only the Westerns (and not all of them) were fitted with the necessary equipment to operate train air brakes. The BR Coaching Stock group on groups.io has much information on formations used on all regions.

Yes I did mean D7661 was the other one in BSYP livery, though I must admit I had not clocked all the differences before. Both D7660 and D7661 were BFYE by June 1970. https://www.rail-online.co.uk/p870790610/h99ea5443#h99ea5443 https://www.rail-online.co.uk/p870790610/h9e305d36#h9e305d36

Yes it is, one of two so painted. New in late-1966, lasted about 3.5 years until repainted. Late bodystyle non-boilered though.

A further factor with 25057 is that the doors were sealed over when it was dual-braked in late 1974, so it's not just a headcode and number change. A respray of D5225 might be easier.

No it's not, but 25057 is xb with the altered side vents on one side. Not so many of those pre-1974 - in fact none. When there's 11 of the blighters, you might think there would be one to cover the 5 year gap in the middle. It's a common occurance.

Perhaps they were going for this? 🫢

ah-ha! 3V09 for 25155 in 1975. Rather than BV09! So maybe from the 1974-1975 period when it was at CF or BR.

A reasonable selection, but rather too many examples to my mind, from small batches of 2, 4 or 5, or pure one-offs, rather than covering the bread and butter examples. None from the 1971 to 1975 era it seems, and no unweathered domino era blue, or plain green full yellow ends. 7 from the later bodystyle, 4 from the early bodystyle. I've yet to work out the date range for 25155. It appears the tooling may not cover the 62 examples of 25/2 and 25/3 that had the boiler room grille replaced by sheet metal (as opposed to a cover).