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  1. Mark Saunders
    It’s bad enough when people are alive who remember the real colour but colour perception is personal and likewise memories!
  2. Mark Saunders
    Fortunately I moved house as it looks like its planned for demolition!
  3. Mark Saunders
    The APT is being resurrected as part of the rebuilding of Eaglescliffe station!
  4. 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!
  5. Mark Saunders
    Here is the Blue Peter lobster!
  6. Mark Saunders
    Small screens and no reading glasses don’t help!
  7. Mark Saunders
    Is that on one of the Chinese imports?
  8. Mark Saunders
    I agree remove the roof and see what is revealed as it may reveal how to get the chassis off.
  9. Mark Saunders
    Please send a phot of it but I fear that it will be one that is glued together!
  10. Mark Saunders
    I fear for its future as both the ferry highs were cut up as it had been assumed they were safe.
  11. Mark Saunders
    I believe they are all withdrawn and sold for scrap.
  12. Mark Saunders
    In the same way refurbished SOV became ODA. However the SJA joining the steel categories was a sectorisation thing as the prototype two scrap carriers were MFA.
  13. Mark Saunders
    Working at height regulations have been a major change affecting signals recently as most recent build and replacement are more akin to street lights and can be laid flat for maintenance ad no don’t have ladders!
  14. Mark Saunders
    The height of the screens tended to be as low as possible to avoid unnecessary breakage of coal as the size of the coal affects the sale price plus avoid refunds/compensation to cus.
  15. Mark Saunders
    Condensed milk in tins was common in homes and no doubt larger cans for commercial bakers, Libby's, McNeil and Purvis had empty tins delivered to their factory in the specially built lot of 100 diagram 1/214 end door vans.
  16. Mark Saunders
    Most would be delivered by rail to the customer from works or hirer, Standard Wagon hired many ex BR owned wagons and subsequently hired them to industry with photo’s shotthem being delivered and then there were also wagons returning off hire or between locations.
  17. Mark Saunders
    The 50% discount is a bit of a con as its ten bob bit for five schillings!
  18. Mark Saunders
    It’s a self fulfilling prophecy!
  19. Mark Saunders
    It's up North and doesn't count and can be safely ignore it in London!
  20. Mark Saunders
    Have you seen the price of a can of Spam recently!
  21. Mark Saunders
    You can fool some of the people some of the time…
  22. Mark Saunders
    There are a number of official photo's of it in the Teesside Archive and details of the build in the Head Wrightson order books.
  23. Mark Saunders
    The irony of Canada is watching Michael Portillo travelling on the exported Nightstar stock!
  24. Mark Saunders
    Built for the conveyance of Sewage Sludge from the sewage works to where it was tipped, these being worked over the BR mainline between the two! There were also some built by Hudson but non of these survive.
  25. Mark Saunders
    Last place I was aware of any is British Steel Scunthorpe that had some reduced to flats and were being used internally for carrying plate.
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