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Mark Saunders

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  1. Follow the example of others and go make the effort to take your own; too many people want others to do the leg work especially when there are still examples still in existence!
  2. Escaped Diddy Man finally found!
  3. My Epson scanners software has decided it will not recognise slides, so I have used the demonstration version from Hamrick. This is a colour slide I acquired about thirty years ago and it looks like it could be the RTC at Derby. Livery appears to be varnished timber, orange solebar but no idea about the ends.
  4. Now available to order from Accurascale!
  5. Oh dear, the first is a Dublo Brake Van chassis with a Triang (or later incarnation) Somerset and Dorset coach body and repaint, the second genuine HD Fruit D with added LMS transfers!
  6. As far as I know there has not been any problems at Riding School Crossing at Saltburn!
  7. Maintenance budgets slashed year on year and it looks the same on motorways as potholes are developing on seven year old bits and the number of small yard square bits of tarmac is growing between Leeming and Barton on the A1. The A66 has had closures due to slippage and likewise the A59 between Harrogate and Skipton! Piecemeal maintenance akin to only mend it when it breaks is the norm in what are allegedly building maintenance contracts which are really repair contracts!
  8. These wagons had RCH brake gear rather than NER/LNER style with and the drawings for these are in the NRM Charles Roberts drawing collection at York. This design was also built for Lancashire Steel at Irlam that was also part of S&L.
  9. You've got to remember how much spin has been directed against the project coupled with tunnel vision of the "High Speed" bit without realising there will be benefits other than journey time!
  10. Dave that really looks the part!
  11. For site use there are the former British Steel Teesside Lackenby GECt 75 ton 6w locomotives stored at Lackenby!
  12. Alternatively remove the headstocks, and convert to an inner or source a conversation kit for the Triang one.
  13. The majority of the singles were converted for EWS to replace the Tench (Sturgeons with sides) to produce Supertench which were loaded with dropside modules to produce a long low open in the same fashion as the Borail/Mullet conversions.
  14. Somewhere on here is a photo of one in use but were meant for moving cripples !
  15. My thought is acquire a Palbrick freightliner adaptor from KR and fit/convert to have a bar coupling on it!
  16. The plant at Ferrybridge was still there but moribund when I was last in the coal plant when they were removing the coal stocks by rail!
  17. For those wanting appropriate light locomotive head codes for light locomotives returning to or moving between depots.
  18. … and for you it’s out of the question!
  19. For those of us old enough there was always great concern from politicians about the balance of trade but it’s never mentioned now! The decline was covered using invisible earnings from financial dealings!
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