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Nice Gulf Red duo.

The other possibility is rivets from attaching the single centre front OHL warning sign also found on early build locos.

Those are the bolts which held the shed code plates, common on early build 47s.

I’ve not noticed protrusions above the buffer beam cowling like that before. Any thoughts about their purpose?

It could have been Doncaster, they were fond of the GFYE with arrows and rail alphabet numbering combo.

D7628 doesn’t have a high intensity headlight in a tail light mounting, it has a central headlight of the 1980s style. D444/50044 had a tail lamp conversion to headlight.

https://goo.gl/maps/knzHKk5QpkGT2aef7 Looks like the wooden gate on the left in the last photo above (and in one of the photos in the previous post) is clinging on, although it looks to be threatened by adjacent development.

Very nice, but my attention has been caught by the carriage to the left. Anyone able to identify it?

For those who like their engines small, Lucie has spent this morning shunting stock around the station and carriage sidings. https://www.nymr.co.uk/grosmont-webcam From around 9:18 this morning, the youtube time slider can take you back.

Nice photo Brian, thanks for posting it. Just one point, the shedcode stencil is tangerine and white (the region’s signage colours pre corporate colours). Use of stencilled codes in these colours seems to have been for a brief period in the late 60s (with examples lasting into the early 70s), however I can’t find any examples dating from before the NER was absorbed into the ER.

Interesting destination blind.

I finally had the chance to take a look at my Sun Castle today, there was a mystery black plastic item loose in the box. It took a while to work it out but it was the footstep from the radius of the running plate adjacent to the front of the smoke deflector, on the fireman side. All lamp irons present and correct and the water scoop faces the correct direction, so not too bad.

This corresponds with my recollection of the green data panel saga. The blue data panel blanks were carefully over painted green, then the self adhesive data numerals (which were white characters on a clear rectangular background) were then applied on top. As a result, when the paint started to come off, the numerals came with it. In the photo above the only number still in place is on a remaining section of green paint. I took a photo in 1981 where the last number was gone too (unhelpfully the shot is black and white). The thing to look out for is of a data panel which is completely blue & white with a complete set of numerals, as the model depicts.

Back to the GE, Spellbrook on the Cambridge line between Sawbridgeworth and Bishop's Stortford. Taken in 1994 I think. Interesting supplementary lamps on the gates.

Pembrey, S. Wales, 1991.

Hertford East, 31-10-93. Not the clearest, but illustrating one of the more bizarre painting schemes, chocolate and cream front, white ends and NSE red stair banisters. The box is still there despite being long out of use, wearing the remains of this paint job. A move to the Wensleydale Railway is supposedly on the cards.

Are there any NE Region boom gates still in use?

Back to NE territory, an even smaller one than Gristhorpe. 20th September 2020.

A maroon BG with B4 bogies, pretty rare.

Ah, thanks for the correction, I thought the full timetable had been from 1975.

Back to when 87s just had to make do with a number. 87029 had been in traffic for only 5 months when I photographed it at Euston in October 1974, awaiting departure. Another Kodak Instamatic shot so not the sharpest but still one of my favourites.

York Yard North, which sadly lost its roof due to a road bridge realignment in the early 70s. This is from the mid 1980s, with the nameboard already gone.

Here's 45039 The Manchester Regiment at York Yard North with mgr empties for the NE, 5th July 1979. It left the wagons in the down sidings adjacent to the sugar beet factory and went back south light engine, so possibly Toton crewed. Loaded trains from the NE would lay over in the up sidings before heading S.

50032 Courageous leaving York for home with the Edinburgh - Plymouth service on 3rd August 1981.