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1 hour ago, jonhall said:

Neal and friends have already identified the  wagon types, I think he is looking for identities of the individual wagons, and better still additional photos of them.

I'd be asking the photographer as they might've been local at the time.

Trying to positively identify a concrete covered plate wagon, even in 1982, might've been a challenge.  42 years on....

Personally I'd be slapping together models of the appropriate wagons and challenge anyone to prove that the numbers are incorrect.

Annoyingly if you look at the Traction article text, where it starts to be greyed out, the train formation is described.  The last visible words are

"a former wooden bodied pipe"

12 hours ago, Calnefoxile said:

Or better still able to identify the actual wagons in the train??

 Zooming into that picture I'd go for

BR brake

Toad

BR pipe / SR sleeper / SOV / some sort of 5 plank wagon on a 12' chassis

Plate x 2

BR brake

Have some WR resignalling stuff somewhere.  I'll dig it out.

17 hours ago, HGR said:

They are the present-day / post- Selby diversion mileages, still measured zero at King's X but now via Colton Jn instead of direct from Selby to Challoners Whin Jn.

Not quite zero, according to the RPS data, which shows the mainline buffer stops at Kings Cross being at

0-02  Platforms 1 to 8

0-03  Platform 0

I don't suppose many people would worry about the slightly shorter journey to / from the Cross.

18 hours ago, HGR said:

My question please - can anyone remember seeing both, and know where the zero post and the later sign were relative to each other ?

 

After electrification, this area was cleared and the 'modern' junction sign placed over to the east / UP side of the ECML, but further north / nearer the station than the original location because of changes to the pointwork / rationalisation of the lines in around that area.

  

Railway Performance Society mileage data from 2010 shows the zero post at 188m 07ch and the junction sign at 188m 12ch.

If it helps the overbridge is at 188m 10ch.

For some reason my Central Trains dummy 153 blew its chip (lovely burnt smell when the roof was removed etc).

I have isolated the pickup system so it can still be run but of course the lights no longer work.

I looked at the DCC Supplies website but they only list replacement chips for the 156.

Has anyone else had the same problem and if so how did you resolve it please?

The trees in the background look very similar to those in this picture

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Birmingham_RC%26W_Co_Type_2_D5344_(8395114697).jpg

which is stated to be at Inverness in August 1968.

D5344 was an IS engine at the time.

49 minutes ago, 'CHARD said:

 

These days the saloons would be listed in one of the spotters' books, but I wonder if we could establish whether Carlisle had an ex-LMS example back in the late sixties, and its identity....?

This doesn't directly answer your questions but provides a short history of one of the inspection saloons, note the bit about being allocated to Euston Downside and why.

https://www.prclt.co.uk/6320-special-saloon.html

I would like to re-bogie two coaches but cannot use Farish bogies coded 379-442 as they're only good for coaches with close coupling mechanisms.

I've looked through the usual websites but the older Commonwealth bogies are not available as spares.

If anyone has a couple of spare pairs of NEM fitted Commonwealths please get in touch.

Looking through my performance logs the fastest speed I recorded on a load 5 eastbound non-stopper was 94mph at Red Post Junction (1 mile 25 chains west of Andover).

For the record it was a diverted Weymouth to Waterloo service in 1988.  The estimated train weight excluding the loco was 205 tons.

Would like to see the Steam Days article.

13 hours ago, Right Away said:

This topic might lend itself to establishing, out of interest, in tabulated form, the maximum authenticated speeds attained by each steam locomotive class, where possible, during their everyday service on Britain’s railways. 

Any takers?

6 hours ago, Michael Hodgson said:

No, I don't recall the old Railway Magazine carrying too many OSNocklogs of the Old Hill to Dudley Shuttle

The Railway Performance Society might hold data for both of the above.

I didn't know that Status Quo were now running the country 😲

Oh well apart from

Not being able to sing in tune and

Unable to play any musical instrument

Count me in 😉

Whether that's in the army or a member of Quo I'll leave it for others to decide.

ignore please - beaten to it

10 to 12 in ARC please.

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