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  1. papagolfjuliet
    Much better than last season. This time around, most of the footage matched the commentary, and there was much less false jeopardy than previously. I wonder if the chap in the yellow polo shirt with his damn silly last minute buffet order enjoyed his five minutes of fame?
  2. papagolfjuliet
    In related news, the HLF has awarded £4.4m to the railway for, among other things, a carriage shed, four new disabled access coaches (three Mk.1s and a Gresley), the replacement of the life-expired Goathland bridges, and an appenticeship scheme. https://www.nymr.co.uk/news/national-lottery-funding-safeguards-the-future-of-world-famous-visitor-attraction
  3. papagolfjuliet
    That and worn tools would be my guess. Some of the toolings used in the Hornby Thomas range dated from the early Fifties, and all but a few of them must have seen a great deal of use from the mid-Eighties on.
  4. papagolfjuliet
    The T2 looks very nice. It's always good to have one less loco in Wilcock's Improved Engine Green.
  5. papagolfjuliet
    As I recall, 2500 was intended for use on the proposed NRM - Locomotion steam shuttles. When that plan was abandoned 2500 was no longer required.
  6. papagolfjuliet
    It didn't last very long, and by 1984 was completely worn out. Last time I saw it in steam was at the '84 spring gala, trundling back and forth at Grosmont with a single brake van in tow.
  7. papagolfjuliet
    I remember seeing it at Pickering on numerous occasions. There were times in '82 and '83 when it was the NYMR's only serviceable steam engine. It is now at Sellindge having been loaned by its owner the National Coal Mining Museum to the abortive scheme to reopen the Folkestone Harbour line. If restoration is still proceeding - and I'm not sure whether it is or not - then given the involvement of Mike Hart I should think that its eventual destination will be either Elsecar or Tenterden.
  8. papagolfjuliet
    Most of that stuff was leftover Tri-ang Transcontinental kit though. I was thinking of the two items tooled up by Hornby especially for the Aussie market in the late Seventies, specifically the VR S Class diesel and Z brake van. How many Tri-ang - as opposed to Hornby - HO tools survive which were not sold to India is another question. That said, if by 'Hornby' the archivist also meant 'Tri-ang' then that's pretty much everything gone.
  9. papagolfjuliet
    It was stated that the only surviving Hornby tool which hadn't gone to China was the tunnel. Off the top of my head I'd say that means the APT, the Australian diesel and brake van, the strange US outline 0-4-0T, and a couple of wagons. Lord knows how much Tri-ang, Scalextric, Airfix, Corgi, and Lima stuff was destroyed, although some of the earlier Tri-ang tools were sold to an Indian company years ago.
  10. papagolfjuliet
    The Sentinel in that second photo is "Teesside No.5" which at the time was on loan from British Steel. It was subsequently donated to the NRM and, renamed "Frank Galbraith," is now on display at Hull Streetlife Museum.
  11. papagolfjuliet
    RSH Works No. 7063 of 1942, built for Dunstan Power Station in Gateshead. It was preserved in the early 70s by the Hexham Rolling Stock Group and moved to the NYMR before being loaned and subsequently donated to the NRM, which in turn donated it to the Foxfield Railway.
  12. papagolfjuliet
    Coincidentally, Eustace Forth is currently back on the NYMR. It arrived on hire from Foxfield late last year as a source of steam heating for the Pickering Santas, and is still on the line at the time of writing.
  13. papagolfjuliet
    Just the one: SO No.4481, which latterly carried Pullman livery as part of the diner set before being blown up on The Cook Report.
  14. papagolfjuliet
    It was indeed a GCR van. The underframe was written off in a shunting accident a few years later and the body grounded in the NW corner of Grosmont station car park, where it survived for another fifteen years or so before disappearing.
  15. papagolfjuliet
    Not since the 1977 gala.
  16. papagolfjuliet
    The real 'Sid' is a Maffei 0-4-0WT which resided for some years on the revived L&B before being sold to a line in Sweden. The nameplate on the Bachmann Baldwin appears to be a straight copy of that on the Maffei. http://www.lynton-rail.co.uk/railway/rolling-stock/sid
  17. papagolfjuliet
    They also look much better on the bogies from the Railroad/Thomas Collett bow-enders.
  18. papagolfjuliet
    50160 has been repainted at C&W. It was returned to the MPD today for a level check and exam prior to being reattached to the rest of the set. Presumably the 4MT was sent to collect it because all four operational diesels capable of maintaining line speed are required for passenger services as a result of the high fire risk.
  19. papagolfjuliet
    They'll be bored middle class kids to whom nobody has ever said 'No' and meant it, same as always.
  20. papagolfjuliet
    5428's boiler exam takes place today, so with any luck the number of days before she's out and about can be counted on the fingers of a single offensive gesture.
  21. papagolfjuliet
    This is currently the definitive work on the subject: http://www.festrail.co.uk/content/publish/news/516.shtml
  22. papagolfjuliet
    They did a Jub about forty years ago, which was of very high quality for the time and which IIRC was made for them by a continental firm. About a decade ago they had another crack at the RTR N market with a Collett Goods, which seems to have sunk without trace.
  23. papagolfjuliet
    There goes that one then. https://www.heritagerailway.co.uk/lottery-rejects-nrm-bid-for-13-4-million/
  24. papagolfjuliet
    Things have changed a bit since then, and King Haakon was hired to the Nene Valley a couple of times during its last spell in operation.
  25. papagolfjuliet
    It's due into Goathland with the teaks any time now, banked by 80136.
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