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Non of the BR painting instructions I have mention the painting of the inside of anything. There is little evidence of wagons being painted on the inside before the Railfreight bright red ones SPA and OCA which were a gloss black, many years later. Why would these wagons have a new body? Wrought iron was very durable and unlikely to have been replaced - GWR wrought iron Crocodiles lasted for a 100 years. Paul

But it is the correct ladder provision for 6105 https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/essopickeringa/e4bebcd30 BPO67765 (not PBO!) https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/bpo67xxxpickeringtta/e722cae4e I cannot read the number on the Procor Total TTA similar to https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brttanks/e343b2e5e Paul

Not true now and I doubt true then. BR gave up with any idea of regular repainting and there are plenty of privately owned wagons now which haven't been touched in 25 or more years. Look at the excellent reproduction Cavalex did of the Standard wagon TEA for Total. Total logo is still discernible on them 35 years after leaving the works. Paul

Sorry I don't know how to alter this, as I'm authorised and it works for me. https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/grimethorpetippler Paul Zenfolio Outage New incident: InvestigatingOne of our providers has an outage that is impacting all services on both Zenfolio platforms. We will keep you updated as soon as we get more information from our provider. Thank your for your patience in this matter. Time posted Oct 30, 13:14 PDT

A Cowans Sheldon WW2 crane, such as these - some will have been used in a similar way https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/cowanshandcrane Paul

The three wagons are stand open merchandise - an LNER design steel and a couple of wooden ones. Models available in all scales, some nice some poor. https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/bropenmerchandiseowvcorrugated/e1900610e https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/ohb/e1387858 https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/ohb/e9fdf51b MEDFIT https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brmedfitsteel/e32236670 https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/lms3plankopen/e39e2645a Nice conversion of a PIPE https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brpipe/e21dac7aa PAUL

or the wagons move through by gravity and no locos go near the tippler https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/grimethorpetippler Paul

The building remains, but altered to a trendy up market (read as expensive) restaurant called Roots with a taster menu. High-end restaurant offering a seasonal farm-to-table tasting menu in an 1800s building. Agreed, loss of a nice pub. Paul

When? [Although I'm not sure what the WHL is] Paul https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/broaa

153311 passed through York station on 12 October 2023 https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/nrviu1 Sightings of all three are sometimes recorded on https://www.departmentals.com/ Paul

... and clearly says that I was mistaken that they were for Iron ore. With a payload of 16tons they were for coal as has been said. I just wish I had taken a few more of them, all of those have been copied by Bachmann. Paul

https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/mra - see the MRA when new. https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/perchporpoise DB979133 and others https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/gersautoballaster/e597c63aa best I can do on Autoballaster Some of the Windhoffs were written for Railtrack, but non of my photos show this - NR covered over Railtrack quickly https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/windhoff https://www.ontrackplant.com/ will have some photos from the Railtrack era for many different items of plant, such as this Windhoff https://www.ontrackplant.com/photo/98902 Railtrack didn't own much stock, even new wagons for engineers use were owned by the separate companies, such as the Jarvis sleeper carrying wagons https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/jarvissleeperkra As we know Railtrack weren't a great company for spending money on important things like maintenance, let alone luxuries like paint. However, as early as 1997, Railtrack was being criticised for paying little attention to infrastructure investment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railtrack For example the Starfer went from new to late Network Rail without looking as though a paint brush had been near them in 25 or so years. https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/starfer Paul PS how is your modelling of water pumping at track joints coming along 😉

As a youngster Dad took me to see the Blackpool lights. We returned to Euston on an overnight train and it simply arrived an hour early - which was a nuisance as, on a Sunday, the London Underground was quite late to start operating - we needed to get to Waterloo for our train home. Spent the time in the Great Hall watched over by George Stephenson. The only time I can remember going in there. Paul

And my not very good photo from January 1968 of the side with the lookout ducket https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/lnerparcels/e264c10c5 A 1941 build Gresley in March 1978, Diag 260 (I mis-identified as 245) although Longworth has it cond. in 1976. Possibly being held for departmental use, which doesn't appear to have happened. https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/lnerparcels/e13df6c0c Paul

A damaged one was extant at Thornton Junction in August 1991 https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brnpccs/e257b4893 Was there a late use of them in Scotland? Paul

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What is the bird? Always in the market for non domestic 7mm bird models. Paul

The Bachy model is rather old but is of a Churchward braked Bogie Bolster C - Macaw B, 30T If you mean the 60+ year old Ratio kit this is generally taken to be a Macaw G ex Taff Vale Railway, 25T which became a Bogie Bolster A towards the end of WW2. Much shorter they are noticeably different. Paul https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/gwrbolster

This one is familiar https://railsofsheffield.com/products/lnwr-d88-10t-covered-van-br-departmental-no-0264998 as the photo shows should read M264998 but they haven't attempted an unpainted finish. https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/lmsvan/e2f9c462e Schoolboy snap from a train window on my way to fail (fortunately) an interview at Bangor Univ. Paul

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The white ones are Fish vans, so yes they are insulated but not the smaller BR insulated meat van. https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/brfish The one with 41535 is one of the attractive plywood bodied vans built by the LNER post war https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/lnercoveredmerchandise/e35ae2760 Paul

Not only Thompsons but also Booths https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/sidetippta The inline tipper in Standard wagon's own livery https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/srw28100pta on show. Paul

Interesting that both the Standard works have been discussed on RMWeb in the past day or so. Photos https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/standardheywood a very accessible yard. Also a book Paul