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    All the LNER archives are in Kew as far as I'm aware. I think the choice of trading name was decided by the DFT who will own the rights to it. It was only called LNER after it was taken in-house by the government after the failure of the franchise. They don't own York station it belongs to Network Rail.
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    Basically they've trawlled various forums to pass off information as their own as I'm sure their archives don't contain anything on the original LNER.
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    Thank you very much your a life saver. By the looks of it I'm not the only one missing them!
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    Sorry to bump this very old thread but does anyone have a set of instructions for the D&S 15t Cowens Sheldon crane. Mine appear to have got lost in the 15-20 years I have had this kit.
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    The Repair Shop is a good programme although even on the UK one some of the methods look a bit iffy. Dom on last night's was painting some large wooden wall plaque. Close up shot of a paint brush dipping in the paint, brush then lifted up and dribble paint everywhere. Anyone else get the feeling it's getting more about the sob story rather than the repair? Maybe it's just me getting a cynical old git in my old age.
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    See if you can get a copy of "North Eastern electrics: The History of the Tyneside electric passenger services 1904-1967 by Ken Hoole by Oakwood Press. It will be out of print but if you can obtain a copy it's a good start. Don't pay the silly Amazon price £80!?!? There are book sellers with it at sensible prices.
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    Saw these a couple of weeks back and they were very interesting. I liked the one about how to open the doors of the new railbuses. Introduced when virtually everything was slam door we now have flipped that, with people unable to work out how to open doors on heritage railways.
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    What a livery! Much better than boring green of pway wagons.
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    Sorry to bump an old post but you can also back convert it to a P4 hopper. The body is based on that wagon.
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    That shouldn't have been a factor if the door springs were good. Although we used the forklift forks after loading.
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    Sorry I have to disagree. Our yard was virtually exclusively Pipe wagons with at least 30 on site at the height of ECML electrification. We had only about two Tube wagons in the yard. Maybe it was what was available at the time but that's the way it was.
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    Don't forget they were very popular with BR S&T department after withdrawn from revenue service. Really good for pallets of concrete troughing. Easily loaded with a forklift due to the full length doors on the Pipes in particular. Signal posts and heads, location cases and cable drums as well.
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    Yes typo fat fingers small keyboard.
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    There were only six 03063, 03066, 03078, 03084, 03112 and 03371(ex departmental 92) so you probably did. It was a sad day when the Class 08's took over. Newcastle was never the same.
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    Yes this is one on eBay.bit pricey. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266618656173?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=6OqycqMoQfu&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=fnjk_7jPT0e&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
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    TMC did a custom painted 03 runner a few years ago. It was based on an older Bachmann conflat.
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    One of the Gateshead runners was a Lowfit.
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    They used to have actual chain to measure a chain at one time. If I remember correctly they had to be calibrated to length.
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    Crash worthyness has of a carriage is more than what the body is made of. If I remember correctly all the corridor carriages at Harrow were ex LMS. So fitted with screw couplings and BS gangways. Buckeyes and Pullman gangways do provided better protection against telescoping and help keep carriages upright. Ramming a carriage from behind at high speed doesn't do a carriage any good no matter what it's made of.
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    I think a lot of it was due to trying to gel all the previous companies staff under British Railways. Old rivalrys cam to the for until things were finally clamped down on in the 1960's with the BR design panel. Anyone who's has read the minutes of the design panel in Parkins book on MK1 carriages, will know how the regions wanted to be different from each other.
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    It was the day I started on the railway with the S&T. There was much sadness after the incident as we were all one railway family then.
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    The post had already been cut up and was in a skip when I liberated the plate.
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    It was removed from the original post when it was scrapped when Sunderland was resignalled. I saw it and knew exactly what it was having seen it on many a 1960s photo.
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    Ok then explain this one? This is the plate from S52 signal. This was at the south end of Monkwearmouth railway bridge Sunderland heading north. As in the attached link. https://ro.pinterest.com/pin/42643527709384285/
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    The crossings from platform 1 and 2 to the High Level Bridge were removed but can't remember when. These were were for North Tyne loop trains only. Also all the signal ID plates were black on white. I have an example somewhere from Sunderland which were the same
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