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    I seem to recall a GN 6 wheel full brake in teak livery sitting at Craigentinny in the early 1970s as seen from my twice daily North Berwick train!
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    I think it's a Terrier!
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    Funnily enough,having run Kato trains on Unitrack in N gauge over the last five years,I was thinking about utrying an oval of Kato HO gauge track for my dormant Hornby collection!But I won't be buying it from Osborn's!!
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    I'm wondering if all this about new models is wide of the mark.Monday May the 8th is a Bank Holiday so what better date to drop a new story about Hornby s Finances and or ownership? Remember Hornby s Finances are needing sorting out and a Bank Holiday means delayed reactions in the financial markets. Just an idea
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    I don't know if this has been mentioned before but the Railway Roundabout film's include a sequence shot at Seaton Junction where a three coach portion for Seaton includes a Maunsell Restaurant Car in it. On rechecking it's one of those lettered as a buffet car. It's a Hornby paradise- rebuilt and unrebuilt Battle of Britain's,S15s,and M7s plus aWarship on a full rake of Hawksworths!
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    Join the line of similarly treated and disgusted people.Should we go to Trading Standards?
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    They're going back to 1939 to produce an O gauge Princess Elizabeth.Tinplate L M S coaches will follow!
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    I've mentioned already that I was on Grand Scottish Tour No5 of 1/6/68 but I have an interesting link with the sheds at Edgley, Heaton Mersey,Normanton and Patricroft via the TVP company. Some years after 1968 I met a chap from Lancashire and we kept in touch for ten years till he died in1983.He appears at the first two sheds on the Steam on Shed vol1 programme .At Normanton next to the cameraman on Vol2 and at Patricroft on the remake of the 1968 programme. I only found these many years later. Thank you Colin. R.I.P.
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    I remember many years ago(1976) finding parts of the middle cylinder valve gear from a DB class 044 lying on the track at Elbergen on the Rheine - Emden line. It had just been left there!
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    These were issued on VHS many years ago and have been released several times since
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    ToysrUs did sell Hornby including Special packs of wagons. One commentator on another Finance sight suggested they should stop swelling Lima engines and bring out some new. Ones like Bachmann!
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    I believe there was only one which started on the North Leith line before spending a winter on the North Berwick line where it was the cause of a legal dispute as to whether it was a train!It then went to the Port Carlisle line. I was also led to believe it was plinthed at Edinburgh Waverley but I can't think where it would be! It was certainly at York long before the present museum opened so it was probably sent there in LNER days. We might need it back on the North Berwick line soon as cover till the 385s are fully sorted out!
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    The Pierre Berton books on Canadian Pacific were the basis of a TV series " The National Dream" many years ago and the paperback combined volume I have used stills from it for illustrations.Maybe it will be resuscitated on dvd someday. Incidentally I dabbled in blue box Athearn kits for a while and have a fair collection to this day!
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    Just what I was going to say that it's a Gloucester RC&W class 100 vehicle coupled to a Craven's coach. This was a typical Edinburgh area lash up at that time.Later some of the 100s were transferred away and my last trip on one was from Manningtree to Harwich Parkeston Quay!
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    A bit late but I've just literally got this!. Memories of Steam from Glasgow to Aberdeen photo 182 is of the empty Aberdeen to Oxwellmains cement train passing Cove Bay behind V2 60844 on 15th July1965 made up of Cemflos In addition photo 176 is of the same working behind 60027 Merlin crossing Glenury viaduct in March 1965.This one has one of the box vans I referred to earlier immediately behind the loco
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    I built a Fleischmann HO layout between 1975 and 1981.I was into European trains at that time but I got married and son came along so I sold it.What killed it for me was that the prices shot up and while I had the idea of starting over again it was never a realistic proposition so Mk2 never happened.I liked it and I remember "Which" and it's German counterpart doing a consumer report on model trains about that time.Top was Fleischmann and bottom was---- Hornby! So sorry to hear it's going
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    Funny!I was fiddling about with some Kato wagons on a couple of bits of unitrack the other day and was reminded of the ten finger Lone Star.Somewhere I have a Blue cattle van. Many years ago one of my bosses at B T confessed he'd had a Lone Star electric set. I won't print my views nowadays of my time at BT- let's just say they're best forgotten!
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    Snow like this in Longniddry is quite rare

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    Snow like this in Longniddry is quite rare

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    Going off topic.I lived all the Deltic period in a village a mile from the ECML between Dunbar and East Linton.Early morning on calm day you could hear a Deltic heading North on a sleeper accelerating away from the Dunbar check till he was approaching East Linton at which point he'd throttle back but the drone would continue to be heard till he was well on his way to Drem The sound of one near Greenfield must have been pretty good with the hills close by
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    The early tests referred to had D6700 as the locomotive.It was transferred to Haymarket for a week or two. In the early days the control system interfered with the coach lights so they were known as discos!
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    Regarding the single tram line,there was a short stretch in Musselburgh where this was the case.The road still narrows there today
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    Tweedmouth had a pair of BR class 3 2-6-0s nos.77002/4 and at least one of them was used on the Duns train as per this photo
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    Hydrogen tankers will be loaded at Scapa Flow for delivery to Aberdeen,Tyneside,Humberside and Plymouth for distribution to the nearest railway depot.Meantime unelectrified mainlines in Southeast England will be powered by steam produced by extracting all the Hot Air currently released to the atmosphere from Tory Central HQ and the Houses of Parliament. A similar system is also being considered using the outputs of the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly as a back up
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    A new non steam version of Bullied Q1 will be produced with power arrangements being worked out from the Hornby trains section of 1930s Meccano Magazines.The winding mechanism will be contained within the chimney
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