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Agreed, I’d expect to see a lattice headspan for Mk.1 OHL and a cable arrangement for Mk.3 and beyond. Recent electification around Salford and the Bolton - Preston line makes use of double track, single post with cantilever gantry (presumably due to comprised proximity or poor ground) - but on quadruple track you’d expect to see a headspan. Clive Mortimore has produced some great detail drawings of the variation permutations.

https://railsofsheffield.com/products/37356/Hornby-r3642-oo-gauge-duchess-of-montrose-br-green-princess-coronation-class-4-6-2-locomotive-no-46232 My pre-order is now being processed on the latest Princess Coronation, taking me up to 7 of the 8 released of the non-streamlined offers, and I’d initially thought it was an issue with the photo angle in Rob’s post above - but the link also intimates the printing of the cabside lining below the Fireman’s side window isn’t square to the apertures / rivet detail? I’ll need to look at mine more closely when it lands. Ian

Sure I’ve read somewhere, possibly Rowledge, that City of Leeds made it to Leeds City for its naming ceremony. Ian

Be interested to see your findings on the viability of using the kit. With a curved bridge, albeit with angled joints to straight sections, the inner and outer ‘radii’ straight sections would need to be of differing lengths to achieve the curve?

On the track plan, I screenshotted this from the NR video:

When Elland Road had proper floodlights...!

The RCTS book on the standard pacifics is a great starting point. Not all got speedos, there are minimum of three smoke deflector types - original with a handrail / western with brass edged cut-outs / wcml dished hand-grabs - then there are different connecting rods either plain or fluted, depending on when built. I'd try and hunt down 70034 Thomas Hardy for a later GE loco, though the Hornby model has the early crest and no AWS box on the running plate. Ian

Looks like Hornby has picked up the o/h flashes to the tender: https://twitter.com/Hornby/status/1030412859962994688?s=21

Blimey, looks like Debbie Harry was on hand the weekend before mainline steam ended.

Photos of the loco on the day in 1968 don't appear to show overhead warning flashes. Can't see any rear views of the tender, but certainly the loco herself appears devoid. Ian

Looks like it could be Mossley, the wall alongside the yard is still there I think.

Try this: http://class47.co.uk/c47_numbers.php?index=6&jndex=3&kndex=33&s_loco=1733

Smuggling. It's in the blood.

Not exactly viaducts, but that whole stretch from Euston to just past the site of Camden shed is a a myriad of bridges and dive-unders.

That first pic is just screaming out for Jack Carter speeding away in his silver Cortina.