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I think the unnumbered ones are all Olivia's Trains commissions, that Hattons were selling too. The all-green centre split headcode loco has been cancelled too, leaving 4 other un-numbered editions. Presumably it was Olivia's who cancelled them.

I believe there were a handful of 25s built with dual brakes, but not the last very last ones for some reason. The DB ones were D7660-7669 (25310-319) and possibly D7674 (25324) too. It is on the Derby Sulzers website.

From Accurascale's last update : The delivery schedule is as follows: Batch 1 is the Scottish Headlamp 37/0s and modern 37/4s. These are now in production and scheduled to ship at the end of August from China, arriving in stock in mid-October. Batch 2 is the 37/6s and the Yellow 97/3. Planned shipment end of October, arriving in stock in mid December. Batch 3 is the Blue/Green 37/0s. Planned shipment end of December, arriving in stock in February 2023.

Yes looks like Swansea, same collection of building over on the left.

Yes I had the same experience with Hattons, an invitation to order before 5pm on 15th Sep to lock in prices before they went up. In the event they put the prices up in the morning of 15th and then told me my pre-order (for an Cl108) placed on the 14th, at the old price, was 'due to a misunderstanding' - but they did not reveal which party had made it... I was intending to order an 02 on the 15th, but discovered the one I wanted was sold out... oh well.

Allocated to Tinsley 41A w/e 11/11/67, and repainted blue Aug 69, and boiler removed Feb 69, according to the usual online sources.

Filmed from the other side, the arches on the left of this shot I think.

There are two different shoots spliced together, but from 1:17 onwards, the tracks behind the band are clearly severed before the junction with the operational lines. They are standing approximately under the 6th arch from the north of the York Way bridge, in an area I suggest was not in use in 1987 or thereabouts.

That was the standard condition for ScR allocated locos, along with removal of the inner sandboxes. Something to do with bridge loads and route availability I think. Re steam heating - I think the rule was that all trains were to be heated outside of the proscribed 'no heat' season, which probably started in June sometime.

As to the working, it looks like the VSOE stock which worked regularly to Folkestone and Southampton, but also to other places. There was a period in 1995 when steam locos could not be used for risk of lineside fires; this may be one of the occasions or perhaps it is just a positioning move. I don't think those are heads out of the window in the 4th coach, but then that probably wasn't what the Pullman clientale would want to do....

47528 'The Queen's Own Mercian Yeomanry'.

I don't think it is 47841 - it had a flush front by then, and the nameplate was fixed higher up the bodyside.

I believe, up to now at any rate, suppliers can chose how to distribute the standing charges and the consumption charges, so long as at the average Ofgem useage rate, the bill works out the same as the headline quoted figures. The standing charge now seems to be being capped under the new policy. If you were lucky/astute enough to have fixed below the capped rate, then that is all you will pay, assuming your supplier stays in business - mine did not. The average useage case currently is 12,000 kWh/yr of gas and 2,900 kWh/yr of gas. The amount for gas has come down from 14,000kWh in recent years, so if you haven't improved your home efficiency, you will likely be consuming more than 12,000 kWh, especially if you live in the Midlands northwards, were consumption is typically higher than the average case. In the South-West you may well get away with around 10,000 kWh of gas per year.

The same companies that the then Chancellor windfall taxed in May, that is the North Sea oil and gas extraction operators, dominated by BP and Shell, who have made £6bn to £9bn profit each in the last quarter to June. In fact BP and Shell have paid very little tax in relation to their earnings, due to their ability to offset profits against write-downs and the cost of decommissioning old assets, which happens in many capital intensive industries. The newest package announced on Wednesday is costed at around £150 billion over two years. So yes a windfall tax would be helpful, but would not be sufficient on its own to pay for the whole package of support announced most recently.

Yes, the unit costs multiplied for 'typical' consumption - which amounts to the same thing. The typical use figures in kWh are published by Ofgem.

The 'MSM' as you call it are quoting the government. The meaningless figures are therefore the government's own figures.

A little bit more on 319 at Oxford, thanks to the Aug '73 edition of Rly. Mag. 'A special train from Lancashire to the capital on May 18* was unusually routed through Reading and produced class '40' No. 319.' * (May 18 was a Friday which seems unlikely) So another Paddington, and then Old Oak Common, visitor.

Nice set of photos. 319 southbound at Oxford - it was seen at Old Oak Common that day too, so I guess it must have come off at Reading - assuming it was an inter-regional working. However there have been a few cl40 and 45 visits to Paddington over the years. 40039 at Derby - it was seen at Chesterfield that day, on a southbound passenger working at midday, so I guess Derby found a Peak.

Timetable World has the 1944 and 1946 Bradshaws', with a number of tables featuring Woodside services. https://timetableworld.com/timetables.php

Yes you certainly have a fair point, and I was considering some of those before posting. I do think though that a good many variations could be addressed relatively easily by having a selection of nose end slides, leaving the body side variations for the fitting of detail parts in some cases at least. I like the transition era too, and the question of how far you go will always arise - there were two varieties of split box headcodes - leaving aside the ones with doors - for instance. But 193 versus 308 and 509 examples surely must mean less varieties when you also consider the respective life span?

But to cover all those 37 & 47 variations, acurately across the decades, requires a more extensive and expensive tooling suite. There might be a window of opportunity for the shorter-lived but less varied loco classes too. It hasn't stopped Bachmann retooling both main types of 24 to a good standard, despite the limited livery variations.

That's why I used the term 'sheeted over' in the post you replied to... 😉 Both words are open to interpretation, so I decided to follow the Derby Sulzers approved description!

A sheeted over example

Plated over means the grille is sheeted over in the works, leaving a smooth side - this is a cover plate.

I'm not sure the significance of the mech speedo, but the model depicts the the loco in it's 1976-78 condition. It was not a loco that had the boiler room grilles sheeted over, but almost all the locos that did, were vaccuum braked examples. I beleive this work began in the mid-1970s, and eventually covered 63 locos from 25100 onwards, only 7 of which were dual braked, or converted later.