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Mark Saunders

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  1. I don't believe eternal life will allow sufficient time to complete what I have stashed away!
  2. Can you imagine if Northern Monk had brewed it they would have done Benylyn and Buckie!
  3. The photo at Newcastle Central is not a coal train but an engineers spoil train, there was a brief spell when rebodied MDO's were used by engineers in the North East which were replaced by MCV's.
  4. I have never followed the logic behind Flying Scotsman especially as the same name applies to Eric Liddle and the name has been in the public domain for years, especially after the film of the same name in 1929.
  5. The drawing for the plate conversion (without side doors) was published by Trevor Mann in the Model Railway Constructor, Annual of 1983. The text states traffic from Rotherham.
  6. If I remember correctly there is a Timken Bearings advert with a ice blue fish van published somewhere, probably Modern Railways.
  7. 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.
  8. My Dad was still wearing railway issued stuff twenty years after he retired!
  9. 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.
  10. Why is this being mentioned on here when a phone call or email to Tails would sort it out?
  11. Call me cynical but it’s getting towards election time; remember me I’m you MP vote for me!
  12. Missing from a case is theft, however a full case can be lost in transit!
  13. Auto correct and dyslexia is even worse as without the former at least there was a chance of a semi understandable message!
  14. Eaglescliffe was allegedly meant to be Egglescliffe.
  15. Teesside Archives have official Head Wrightson photographs of this including the road bogies.
  16. Sorry but ‘I was told’ is just hearsay unless you can prove otherwise!
  17. 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!
  18. 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.
  19. Alas no but I suspect that it was a fleet that didn't go far and probably just quietly disappeared!
  20. The Ship Canal Sand Company wagons remained PO till withdrawal in the same way that the Pilkington ones did.
  21. 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!
  22. No one would eat rabbits these days or even know how to prepare one for the pot.
  23. 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.
  24. What's wrong with selling them on Ebay as you can buy the empty boxes from models on there!
  25. 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.
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