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  1. Mark Saunders
    If I remember correctly there is a Timken Bearings advert with a ice blue fish van published somewhere, probably Modern Railways.
  2. Mark Saunders
    Your trying to judge yesterday by the revisionist standards of today! The country was not long out of the war and was still rebuilding at the time and yesterdays heroes are todays monsters.
  3. Mark Saunders
    My Dad was still wearing railway issued stuff twenty years after he retired!
  4. Mark Saunders
    The MoD Palvans and Highs were built with through pipes ; the Highs were later fitted. The TOPS diagram for the highs is on the Barrowmore site clearly shows through piped.
  5. Mark Saunders
    Why is this being mentioned on here when a phone call or email to Tails would sort it out?
  6. Mark Saunders
    Call me cynical but it’s getting towards election time; remember me I’m you MP vote for me!
  7. Mark Saunders
    Missing from a case is theft, however a full case can be lost in transit!
  8. Mark Saunders
    Auto correct and dyslexia is even worse as without the former at least there was a chance of a semi understandable message!
  9. Mark Saunders
    Eaglescliffe was allegedly meant to be Egglescliffe.
  10. Mark Saunders
    Teesside Archives have official Head Wrightson photographs of this including the road bogies.
  11. Mark Saunders
    Sorry but ‘I was told’ is just hearsay unless you can prove otherwise!
  12. Mark Saunders
    They were to work with a high output ballast cleaner and a shuttle car took the loaded slips back and forward in the same fashion as the TRT does with pods of new and used sleepers. The only place I know it worked was on the single line at Choppington between Morpeth and Bedlington after the Pit Strike restoring the embankment after coal had been discovered there and dug out!
  13. Mark Saunders
    I have had a look at the photo and it isn't one of the non pool wagons as it had end doors while the NP ones had no doors numbers 50-61. info in the RCH Non Pool registered wagons book.
  14. Mark Saunders
    Alas no but I suspect that it was a fleet that didn't go far and probably just quietly disappeared!
  15. Mark Saunders
    The Ship Canal Sand Company wagons remained PO till withdrawal in the same way that the Pilkington ones did.
  16. Mark Saunders
    I understand that there are documents relating to railway equipment lost on the continent after the fall of France! These are in the National Archives at Kew!
  17. Mark Saunders
    No one would eat rabbits these days or even know how to prepare one for the pot.
  18. Mark Saunders
    The link doesn’t work but they are the batch of 25 from Davis that is part of the 60 Davis 8170 5932 812-7 through to 8170 5932 871-3 are building of which the first 35 went to GBRf GBRf got some from a previous batch. They are similar to the Land Recovery ones, the other batches are a different design from Greenbriar.
  19. Mark Saunders
    What's wrong with selling them on Ebay as you can buy the empty boxes from models on there!
  20. Mark Saunders
    They are the original bulk ballast new bodies on recovered bogies and brake gear from 100 tonne glw tanks. Originally hired to Railtrack from Caib for ballast to virtual quarries and modified with the cutout in the end stanchion.
  21. Mark Saunders
    It’s bad enough when people are alive who remember the real colour but colour perception is personal and likewise memories!
  22. Mark Saunders
    Fortunately I moved house as it looks like its planned for demolition!
  23. Mark Saunders
    The APT is being resurrected as part of the rebuilding of Eaglescliffe station!
  24. Mark Saunders
    More likely that there is a shortage of journalists who actually understand what they are writing about; rather like when the rule book was given to an organisation to simplify the English used and got ‘ a signal further beyond’ (or something like that) for a Distant signal!
  25. Mark Saunders
    Here is the Blue Peter lobster!
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