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I could see immediately that wasn't Thame due to the wooden platforms and the two bridges in the background. I have done a bit of searching and come up with Islip. https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=17.0&lat=51.82573&lon=-1.23926&layers=168&right=ESRIWorld The formation fits, so it is a Bletchley bound service from Oxford, which makes the destination blind incorrect, but then it would have been incorrect for the original caption anyway. So, it is the old L&NWR line which in the not too distant future will have a similar service restored, but probably with Milton Keynes as the initial endpoint, Cambridge still a bit up in the air like HS2 is....

There are probably plenty of seats in the sixth coach, looks like the heating isn't working judging by the white roof......

The spaghetti sorting continues, and I sometimes think I should have dismantled the boards and worked on them at a comfortable height. But, that would have curtailed the running, especially when a two year old insists on seeing the 'choo-choo's'.... Local traffic today, with DMUs crossing in the station. Must be off-peak judging by the lack of passengers.... Next 'up' is a route learner. And next 'down' is a pair of buuble-cars...

I'd go for the 117, as the 115 were never gangwayed IIRC...

Has someone been 3D printing buffers for that model?...

I feel B doesn't quite look right. May be if the second row of houses were lower, or just roof tops???

Plan A from me....

So, as pictures of wiring are boring, and tidying spaghetti is all that I have been doing in the little time available recently, here are a few shots taken earlier... And as the nights are drawing in....

Odd buffers, nice touch....

I take it the Mk3s are for clearance testing, or are you stretching to the late 70s?

Unusual in that the middle section of the snow plough is the only part fitted, despised by many a shunter....

Well Chiltern use a similar format, but not compatible. Bicester Village express? Or, longshot, EWR.....

Certainly not very long for the power, and 3 different wagon types...

Possibly heading to Pitstone, trainset fodder...

Several different batches on PB's site. Roamed far and wide looking at where they were photted, Bletchley for the 'Ketton' version which isn't that far from the GW&GC....

Some DMUs that became DPUs carried that sort of stripe with Express Parcels branding. I wonder if that BG had been adapted to run within a DPU?

Now on that IC power car there's an example of prototype for everything, "when your masking leaves a little to be desired......" The original livery application is much more pleasing.

More Mavis than Diesel, so the book would be "Don't look Duck, Mavis has lost her skirt....."

There are several ways to crack this nut. You can draw a schematic to show visually what has been done, or you can label everything. I've worked on machinery from different countries and they all have their own style. USA will use tagged on wire numbers, whereas Germany will tell you terminal numbers with wire ident on a multicore by either core number or colour. Italy I found did something between the two... As long as you follow the same set of your rules, it should all fall into place. All my track feeds are brown, with blue common return. Multi-aspect signal I used a multi-core that gave me red, green, yellow, white, black and blue. First three self explanatory, then feather, shunt and 0 volts. Simples....

I used Excel, with the signalling looking like this, Connectors are 9-pin and the various bits are colour coded. The signals are off 3-pole 4-position rotary affairs, some using 2 of the poles to accomodate feathers. Ground signals are toggle switches as are point motors, which are done in a similar format. Actual cables are a mish-mash of different multi-cores from 4 to 24. The above sheet will be updated soon with power feeds too....

I think that is 86036 rather than 86096. The other sub-classes were created in 1972, so the 86/0s ended at 86039. I wonder if the headcode was rendered inoperable, because surely it could have been displayed properly rather than like that....

Only 2 as locos IIRC, 31005 and 31019, but some of the carriage heating units were similarly adorned. Not sure it wasn't actually white to match the bodyside bands...

Stumbled on this on the Railway Herald photo site https://www.railwayherald.com/imagingcentre/view/654813/TW 17/08 ready to depart....

I have been sitting under the boards again, unravelling and trimming cables, so no we have gone from this to this And then progressing further along Still quite a bit more to do, but making progress.... Not much running this weekend, but something I didn't report last week when SWMBO brought our eldest grandaughter into the railway room was the comment on noticing the loco shelf above the fiddle yard, 'OMG, look how many trains you've got.' Turning to our eldest daughter, 'And he still wants to keep buying more.' What she didn't see was the large draw full of wagons, and two large stacker boxes of coaching stock. Phew.....

47432 with experimental headlight there....