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Funnily enough, that was the very first thing that popped into my mind when I read - 'Derby'. Seems that history does repeat itself ;)

I can absolutely see why you 'treasure' them, J044 in particular is just a lovely photo of the era - showing off premier steam at the end of it's tenure but still able to turn heads. It may be just a van train, but King's Courier (such an apt name for a loco in charge of a van train!) still looks the part. J037 with Scottish Union on the ECS is equally as evocative of the allure of steam. Dare I ask, perhaps a bit cheekily, got any more? ;) Your father's steam shots always interest, but colour ones are just that 'bit' extra if you know what I mean - icing on the cake, crème de la crème, that sort of thing. Thanks

As I recall it would've simply been instead of what became the Class 220. The artwork and preliminary plans suggested they would have literally been an unpowered Voyager in every detail, with a single-end loco in place of another driving car. That's all I can remember off the top of my head. I'm sure the outline of the plans appeared in an issue of RAIL at the time.

2As were air brake only and dual heated as built. Some were later converted to vacuum braking but there were no dual braked Mk2s of any variant. All Mk2s up to and including C were dual heat.

Unlikely, the short HSTs run to the same 15x Sprinter timings that applied before the Castle HSTs were a thing. An 80x will have no trouble in meeting those.

To add to this, 1987 has the following as other than Blue/Grey: SLEP InterCity: 10527, 10546, 10550, 10553, 10565, 10594, 10603 ScotRail (I understand this was erroneously, I believe @Flood may have pointed this out previously?): 10578 & 10610 SLE InterCity: 10680 & 10692

Not sure, would need to check a few books see if they shed any light.

Good selection of classes and views there, a nicely varied selection.

Superb, fantastic and once and for all confirming a ScotRail livery sleeper did exist! Thank you for putting up the photo.

A friend and I managed to catch the tour on its second day at Glasgow Queen Street earlier on its first trip from Edinburgh. Despite a check at Haymarket, making it 3 mins down by Edinburgh Park, the set arrived into Glasgow 90 seconds earlier after a blistering 44.5 min run from the Scottish Capital. I managed some photos as well, which I hope might be of interest:

Some photos of mine taken this morning at Glasgow Queen Street of the LSL/Inter City ScotRail Express railtour: 47712 'Lady Diana Spencer' after arrival from Edinburgh with 1Z12 the 0902 Edinburgh to Glasgow QS: And preparing to depart at 1000 with 1Z13 back to Edinburgh:

Some sets ended up with a 2D TSO to keep up the number of Std Class carriages. This seemed common by 1989. I suspect that was when Mk3s started going south for refurbishment and later transfer to InterCity.

Two TSOs - 12019 and 12051 One TSOT - 6601 The Sleeper I've never seen, I've read plenty of rumours of it, sometimes even stating two vehicles but I've never seen photographic proof.

That narrow gauge line looks a bit rusty to my eyes. Is it still used?

It's funny, I think it came up in a previous thread that it was exactly that - using up paint stocks!

Very common on the ECML in the early 70s

Lost out by 21 seconds, not helped by the Carstairs TSR, which cost at least 2.5 mins or the driver being instructed to use the speedset.

More than one, CIÉ had 11 Kitchen Buffet Standards constructed specially for them in 1972 to a hybrid Mk2D/E design.

Fourth Class certainly, never heard of a 'Fifth Class' though.

I do agree there; just have to keep fingers crossed that Accurascale do as well!

Bachmann's offering isn't bad, but I agree that having them from the same manufacturer is likely to produce a better matching product.

Easy ;) ScotRail 02/05/1987 47117 on 1Z61 & 1Z62, 1020 GLQ-ADB & 1720 ABD-GLQ Footex. There is even a photo of '117 in steam on one of those Footex trains listed.

D0260 Lion was effectively dedicated to the Sheffield Pullmans for some months in 1963 - working the fill-in turn, then the down evening fast service and returning on the overnight Sheffield-King's Cross fast vans. You also had 47s appear when introduced and sometimes Peaks.

Indeed, and that German one looks suspiciously 'runaway coach'-like! ;)

We're getting ever more of topic; I'll just finish by saying there is a limit to what one can do with a conversion on a budget compared to a from-scratch purpose built design.