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Weren't top box RTs unusual. We only had one used on the 90 route I used every school day for 7 years. Paul

https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/alliedsteelwire Some years ago. Paul

Upwell is in an area that had glasshouses. They would be heated with anthracite - so from some of the South Wales field IIRC the western end. Paul

Saxby Junction 2 Class 20s heading north, photo taken from trackbed of MR Saxby to Bourne line July 74 C1688 Is that working from Boston Docks. There were similarly loaded Tubes when I found my way there in 1980 https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brtube/e36d59874 https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brtube/e5df3bd7 Paul

You mean PXA https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/pxatmlyeoman Paul

My (rather old) friend Roger Silsbury is the expert on the early Freightliners history. OK, I put my hands up a typo or misreading of the date of lot 3693. All my details on the scans need checking, I did 20 or 30K of them when coming home from work (and for 100 days a year I was either away or home after 21.00). It is quite possible the 1967 was working from an order date. I am grateful for the information on when "Freightliner Limited" became the title. I couldn't find it in Roger's book, nor clearly on Wikipedia but I was concerned it wasn't 1967 - but also had assumed the container could have been repainted. Perhaps someone could enter it on Wikipedia if they have a clear reference. I now consider my photo https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/brfreightlinercontainer is of it in original 1969 condition. So apologies to Arran for the small mistake [no one gave a ..... when posting these scans 20 years ago] Does suggest that the alternative earlier Freightliner livery could be produced on this model. Now what is needed is the type M curtainsided container https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brfreightliner/e3d898f2f introduced in 1966 and pre-dating the now universal York curtain side trailers. Paul

69001 with 66793 worked a special returning RHTT wagons to York Network Rail workshops from Tonbridge. An interesting journey for the crews via Olympia, Willesden, Peterborough, Lincoln Doncaster and into York. Paul

Detail photos of 155385 in York yesterday at https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/153385 Paul

Anhinga anhinga - notable for usually swimming with only their head out of the water an appearance that gives them the name Snake bird. Common throughout much of the Americas. Paul

Sept 86 twin piped https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brhaapost80/e3e15b870 & https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brhaapost80/ec688f53 & https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brhaapost80/e3ee4bd30 https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brhaapost80/e38995ee5 May 87 twin https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brhaapost80/e2f12f296 It looks like they came off by 1988. https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brhaapost80/ef4daea39 I'd understood that BR dispensed with the reservoir pipe because the wagons coming in from Europe didn't have them, only a single pipe. So one of them in a train and the reservoir didn't work. [Mark responded whilst I was watching TV] Paul

The number is familiar, the model brake rigging isn't! https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brmineralweld/e2f25b7b5 I thought N gauge was improving. And no, I cannot remember the last time I had any contact with Peco models. Perhaps the 13t hopper 7mm kit that was promised but never appeared. Paul

Wrexham 1980 https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/?q=wrexham Paul

Foss Islands, York April 1980 https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/?q=fosse Paul

That was a SMBP tank! http://www.ws.rhrp.org.uk/ws/WagonInfo.asp?Ref=9629 next we'll have some manufacturer copying it! Paul

A Pied Butcherbird feeding a large offspring in a Brisbane Park a month ago. Paul

I linked to the official that shows the wagon - Tube conversion. Paul

CA 27ft container https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/speedfreight/e68e4cf20 https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/speedfreight/e67e0ad67 Paul

Although rather tired the two logo Shell BP livery could survive a long time. Such as on this TTB in 1988 https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/p125474082/e7c1d3b85 Despite the TOPS code I doubt it still has a vacuum pipe. Or this in 1989 https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/p125474082/e74f2eb6f Paul

The three CEGB https://www.accurascale.com/collections/br-16t-mineral/products/br-16t-mineral-mco-cegb-kearsley-yellow-pack-s are familiar https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/internaluser/e116afc1b https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/internaluser/e12c396e2 https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/internaluser/e8cb5f4d They are interesting with their early design of Dowty buffer (IRC introduced c1956) but independent double V hanger brake rigging and no top door. I don't know the origin of these wagons, perhaps new for the CEGB? Paul

Those numbers are all familiar - although my photo of 690 is later than yours https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/icibulksoda There must be more photos of these but Tower models also copied the same three in 7mm, although never acknowledged which is standard for Tower. I remember them (vaguely) very neat as we raced past on the Lime Street to Euston express in my student days of the very early 1970s. Paul

Class 69 are being used on the Doncaster to Tyne engineers train that, with luck, stops in York station for a few minutes at c 13.40 every day. Todays train More photos and details https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/class69 Paul

There is a typo it is 700728 - and this is as it appeared when fairly newly received by the NRM https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/lmspecial/e368fd48d Paul PS I don't appear to have photographed the van - despite it being 10 minutes walk from my backdoor if it is in York. 🙁

Pugsley - thank you for the photos of both sides. Confirms my fears from the Hattons site where it is possible to do a 360 deg. view. Both appear to be a Chas Roberts brake rigging. But they have produced the same side on both sides of each model. Instead one side should have the appearance of type 1 with a single V hanger and the other side should be as type 2 with two V hangers - and for both various other details as well. What a mistake! It is the bodies which are the major difference - a single end ladder or paired end ladders and some of the prototypes modelled do have these differences, such as the Gulf with the single ladder https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/gulftta Paul

These https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/aceticethanoltank and https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/stschemicaltua Paul

Too late for early 1950s. Presflo Introduced as an experiment in 1954 with them beginning to be built then - but with plain axleboxes not the roller bearings of the Airfix - Dapol - Kitmaster kit. The Bachmann LNER steel open merchandise with vac brake would be suitable - they were introduced for the vac braked trains the LNER marketed after the war. Paul