Moxy

Don't know if the style is right for the Southern pride kit, but Fox Transfers do them https://www.fox-transfers.co.uk/br-british-railways-coach-branding-in-straw-58261

Somewhere between 1976 & 1978. There are other pictures on Flickr of that full yellow end, the earliest I have found so far is 1978.

It's a Union Pacific shop switcher. Someone even made a brass model of it. https://www.brasstrains.com/Classic/Product/Detail/049509/HO-Brass-Model-Train-OMI-1582-2-Overland-UP-Union-Pacific-0-6-0-4407-1950-s-Shop-Switcher It looks like, whatever it started as, they have just added more & more water tanks to it over the years!

It's another yes from me. As others have said, good modelling is good modelling. We can all learn from how others make models. Besides my main interest in UK/Irish narrow gauge, I have a small (but growing!) collection of French & Spanish inspired models as well. I would welcome the occasional non-UK article.

Road Transport Images do registration numbers https://www.roadtransportimages.com/shop/category/registration-numbers What I have done in the past if I wanted a sign with small lettering is create the sign in Word using the smallest typeface available, (usually 6pt), then print the sign out at say 25% of full size, reducing it further to the size you need. It's a lot of trial & error to get it right size, but if you only want one or two registration numbers it might be worth experimenting.

I don't know if this is the book you're looking for https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30732678004&searchurl=an%3Dcooper%2Bsmith%2Bjohn%26n%3D100121503%26sortby%3D17%26tn%3Ddeltic%2Bpictorial&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title2 Right sort of vintage. No copies listed as available in the UK unfortunately.

It's a GE ES44AC, according to this website https://www.thedieselshop.us/UP.HTML

Those 4 wheel tankers are not too far away from some of the prviate owner tanks on Paul Bartlett's site. https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/privateownerchemicaltank

No, that is the M prefix, meaning it's allocated to London Midland region. BR built coaches only had the prefix, pre nationalisation coaches also had a suffix to indicate their region of origin. In the case of this van, which was built by the LMS, it's number in BR days should have been M31024M. Wasn't always the same prefix & suffix. Scottish region allocated coaches had 'Sc' prefix, but the suffix was (usually) either E or M, depending on the pre nationalisation region. Eg ScxxxxE or ScxxxxM.

No, that was built at Wolverton 1939.

It's Toy Nomura, for Rosko Toy https://vintagemodeltrain.tumblr.com/post/139665880390/rosko-no-0158-train-set-freight-train-with-steam

HZPP is Croatia. That is an international train!

Yes, there was, a Wolseley 18/85 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMC_ADO17

It was 'Cromwell Road' and it was in the April 2003 Railway Modeller.

Hollywood Foundry closed down in 2019 due to ill health of the proprietor, so they are not making any new BullAnt bogies. It is possible that retailers may still have stocks of BullAnts from before 2019. Motorbogies.com are listing some. Since motorbogies.com sell far more ranges than just the BullAnt, I'm not sure that I understand the comment that 'Hollywood foundries was closed so was anyone else selling them.' As a retailer you don't usually shut down if one of your suppliers closes down. I have ordered from both 3SMR & Motorbogies.com in the past, although I will admit it was about 12 months ago. I don't know what they currently have available. Here is a LINK to their parent company 3SMR. There's a telephone number on there, I suggest anyone who is interested in their products rings them tomorrow and asks the question.

Motorbogies.com is part of 3SMR, which is very much still trading. They used to sell Hollywood Foundry products, but they have never been part of Hollywood Foundry.

Light Railway Stores do them https://www.lightrailwaystores.co.uk/collections/works-plate-styles/products/npp-247 Not sure if they fit the 48DS, but worth asking them.

Yes to both, there are a couple of photos of loaded examples on Paul Bartlett's site https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/brprawnyno One small point, a YRV is a concrete trunking wagon, converted from Bogie Bolster E wagons with low sides. What Dapol have modelled is a YNO. YRV wagons in this link https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/brconcretetrough

There were a few of those, I think Chris Ellis did some as well. Off the top of my head there were: J72 to J73 J72 to Southern G6 I have a vague memory Malcolm Carlsson also made an 0-4-4 tank similar to G6 body, but I can't remember what class it was. That of course had a scratchbuilt chassis. Dapol/Hornby Terrier to E1 Dapol/Hornby Pug to Industrial tank I also seem to remember a conversion of a Hornby 'Smokey Joe' by replacing the cab with an Airfix Pug cab and reducing the height of the chimney. There may also have been a version of that on a Terrier chassis.

Yes it is 00

That was the Gwynant Valley Railway by the late Malcolm Savage. Link here to 5.5mm Association pages. http://www.55ng.co.uk/archive1/ms3a.php

Thanks for confirming Boxers were available as tractor units. I couldn't remember, and my earlier picture search didn't find any. The Boxer was the larger of the two (16 tonner maybe?), the Terrier was a 7.5 tonner.

That was in the October 1978 issue, revisited by Chris Ford in October 2018 issue. I have just realised the November 1978 issue was the first RM I ever bought, probably why Allied Marine made such an impact on me.

Could the unidentifed open wagon(s) be OAA's perhaps? (Bernard posted same time as me, see above) Difficult to tell exactly, but the Leyland's appear to Boxer chassis, which as far as I know were not available as tractor units. They may however have been picked up at Farington, Leyland Trucks used to have their own private siding. Looking at the mix of wagons in the first photo, could it possibly be MOD traffic? Explosives, box vans, something in a crate, lorry chassis - all things which could be used by the army. Sorry it's not a more definitive explanation, more of a guess on my part, but hope it helps others jog their memories.

Thanks for the link to the chassis. The J70 is not publicly available, it wouldn't let me buy one. I take it you are the designer of the J70? I would certainly be interested in one if or when they do become available on Shapeways, plus any wagons that go beyond a 7 plank open.