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    I would say that especially in the past there is a great deal of grey area between "random rule-flouting" and "official rule revision".
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    I'm fairly certain OP is asking for examples of the livery.
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    I believe this was a point of contention between the unions and the companies - the unions wanted electric drivers to be drawn solely from existing steam drivers.
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    The "Igniting the Flame of Unity" site on the Brighton branch of ASLEF contains a lot of primary sources from union journals, meetings, etc. about electrification - certainly in the 1910s it was viewed as a potential threat to pay and jobs.
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    Someone appears to have painted over most of the second E in "models & hobbies" so it reads "models & hobbits" instead!
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    While slightly after the OP's requested time period, the Silver Moon Consulting website has 1970s training manuals for carriage and wagon examiners that may be of interest.
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    A very interesting project for the ambitious fantasy modeller would be the light rail system of Revachol from the video game Disco Elysium - though we never see it, it is mentioned multiple times.
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    Again, you are referring to what distinctions were made when it came to allocating locos etc. That the NE Region didn't distinguish between B16s and B1s when allocating power does not mean they did not distinguish them for other purposes. The LNER, of course, would not have distinguished between B16s and B1s if it didn't see a reason to.
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    I would be very surprised if Hornby hasn't considered making a Miniatur Wunderland of their own.
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    Such was the goal of course, but of course the LMS inherited a large variety of locomotives from several different railways. There would presumably have to be some method of distinguishing between different designs in the same power class - after all, the rest of the big four (and BR) did so.
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    I would say that is simplifying things to the point of containing very little truth whatsoever. There were a great many national traditions of steam locomotive design (as there were and are with railway practices generally), all of which influenced each other to varying extents, and placed varying emphasis on aesthetics.
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    So presumably those involved with such matters would need a method of distinguishing between classes?
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    Maybe, but it was a short one. I doubt we shall see any more orders from American manufacturers for the UK market for a long time - there's no market left for pure diesels.
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    This raises a question I've wondered for a while - what was the official LMS method of distinguishing between two classes of the same power code?
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    Any source that their inspiration was specifically American?
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    It was drama - as defined by Hitchcock at a press showing of The Man Who Knew Too Much.
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    That is not a requirement that is in the ORR's statement.
  18. eldomtom2
    And now the Jacobite returns: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/fort-william-orr-west-coast-railways-glenfinnan-viaduct-b1099436.html
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    And since we've had a couple of posts in this thread recently on contrasts between old and new, I've yet to find a more striking example of "steam railtour next to EMU" than this:
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    Do the non-Jacobite operations use different stock that has central door locking?
  21. eldomtom2
    It's happened more recently than you might think...
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    I believe these were within their scope, but not always investigated. Precisely what methods they used to decide what accidents to investigate have been lost to time, though accidents involving fatalities seem to have been much higher priority.
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    So am I correct in assuming that aside from some specific cases like coupling bogie to non-bogie vehicles there were no specific rules for which coupling to use when both vehicles had the same coupling?
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    I don't see why model railways have to focus on portraying the everyday...
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    It's quite easy to google translate Japanese web stores that list them as pastiches...
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