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When did the Fords engines begin manufacture, lots of vans on that traffic, admittedly not standard 12tonners Paul

Wasn't a disc in August 2022 https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brsteam/e27891c0f Paul

Back in 1981 BSC Workington were producing large numbers of steel sleepers - many of the internal user wagons used to take them to the docks were loaded with bundles of them. https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/workingtonsteel Paul

https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/srguvandb/ecd9e3e7 The end is planked with two planking sizes so suggests a rebuild of the sides. Paul

Better photo of this Stove BZ M32998M https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/departmental975200/e1e21e2ae Paul

Well spotted, here is a Catfish in Hopper Train no. 6 https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brcatfishzev/e786cbc9 and another https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brcatfishzev/e8aa6b23 Paul

Lancaster training wagon 17th May 72 C1388 Catfish in Gulf Red Paul

I'll avoid comment on a "heavy bump". If anyone is interested these are photos of the outside of the verandah Observation car 99965 https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/?q=99965 and this is Dining car 1 99967 which I am assuming is where the kitchen was damaged https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/?q=99967 Thanks to previous poster adb968008 for plans of the coaches. Paul

as Eastwestdivide said, not set up yet. Obviously very newly laid. And yes we are talking about the switch blades. Or only to be run through onto the line the photographer is standing on - we don't know what was behind that person. Paul

https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/landrecovery at least 4 are Carlsbergs. Paul

Some of my photos of the area - Immingham Docks https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/imminghamdock https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/?q=immingham Conoco refinery https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/conocorefinery Paul

https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/mineralmcv10ft And, as Mark is alluding to, there are plenty of the NCB (and similar) conversions in https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/internaluser Paul

Light engine through York today - as the lunchtime engineers train from Doncaster to Tyne Yard Paul https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/class60

Very nice. Date of photos required! I didn't say that after 1959 they didn't get painted. The BTC wrote to BR expressing concern at how awful the freight stock looked and they began to paint everything. And then we get the ridiculous 1963 plus period when everything was freight stock red. Is the second photo repaint or resheeted. Total resheeting wasn't unusual. Paul

Are they wood framed or the steel framed equivalent. The rules were different. I've plenty of grey painted steel framed 1667 but not of the 1666s. I do accept that there is likely to have been a local interpretation of "open wagon" as Oh they mean mineral wagons not the merchandise ones, we'll paint them. And then who paid? Paul

But still more likely than a wood framed open being repainted in to BR Grey Paul

But I don't know enough about the tens of thousands of wagons inherited by the GWR in 1923. Why does everyone only think of Swindon when they see GWR. [To answer my own question, because that is the impression Atkins et al give.) Paul

As I said rare, I know the GWR wouldn't have had any, but for the SR 30 years old is comfortably inside the 40 years life of a wagon. Paul

In the official BR booklet on wagons to be VB 1st edition Nov 1956 the ex LMS list only has steel framed wagons and only wagons that are in known number blocks. Surprisingly OT include the Roadstone wagons diag 67a and all the brake vans 73xxxx series ! [note Surprisingly to me the list does include LNER opens with wood frames - I haven't looked but suspect all are 10ft wb. Shildon had laid down a line for building wood frames very late on - and included building a batch of hoppers for BR. No SR or WR wagons with wood frames are included (they would have been rare by then I would suggest). How much of this was done before the 2nd edition of December 1958 which asked for destruction of all edition 1 (didn't happen happily). Far fewer wagons of the LNER listed, the LMS list now includes the pre-batch numbered Gunpowders - some of which survived VB into the 1980s. This list also, for the first time, includes BR numbered wagons some of which were 9ft wb - Gunpowders, China clay, Sand The 'going VB or AB' happened area by area during the 1980s - it is why I managed to capture some unusual ex SR departmentals a long way from the SR at places such as Northampton PAD. The last unfit flow was IIRC the Coil C's & Js working to South Wales docks. As my photos show, I had to work hard to find a very few, very destroyed, Diag 1666 opens. Paul

PFA/KFA appeared to be used for local short term hires so were mixed in with other airbrake stock. https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/tiphookfreightliner Paul

Reminds me of the first time I saw a wild Tortoise. In Greece, near Olympus, when we were hitchhiking 50 odd years ago, a pair were in the middle of a main, but not busy, road. We did the same, picked them up and took them to the side of the road. I hope they were thankful! Paul

Chaloners Whin Junction Class 40 D238 up freight March 67 J800 I wonder what they have used that LMS design van for, that is 2nd in the consist? Looks like it has been in a lime or cement storm. Anyone want to copy for model weathering? Paul

BR specified that the bauxite in their freight stock red should be "Larne quality". I've no idea what this meant but it doesn't appear in the published lists of how to produce LMS bauxite. The BR colour was very orangey. Those Bluebell photos show both how difficult it is for conservationists to reproduce colour accurately - they have used the same colour for the BR PIPE behind, and the natural light altering the colour very markedly. Much easier to accept that the colour browns rather rapidly when in use with natural weathering - photos of BR van trains show how much difference there is between wagons supposedly painted the same way. Paul

Small cast plates with GR, IR and paint due dates were commonly used for many years. Often useful for identifying wagons in late life when the running numbers have been obscured. It is the plaques at the right hand end showing maintenance were a late 1960s development. Paul