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We went back this morning and delivered the other half, now all coupled up and ready for the next step

https://flic.kr/p/2jYmwXy the first half of 142045 being delivered to a school in County Durham, to be plinthed and converted in to a library for the school. we've never had such an enthusiastic audience when we've been offloading a trailer before!

More interesting pictures, especially as a work visit took me to the sidings at Gascoigne wood to look at at uplifting a 142, the only remnants of the massive loading bunkers is the control room standing folornly over one of the tracks.

I was there 91-98, the Laisterdyke scrap runs were sporadic at that time, the only other freight we saw were a few diverted steel trains heading for Blackburn. and i do remember a visit from a 37 and an inspection saloon, and before my time there was a few cross country services starting from there

If your going to put the trap point in, please bend the fence next to it for authenticity.... my predecessor shunter at Bradford, had a parcels train end up in the car park via that trap point!

I think it was about 1995/96 As part of the parcel network cutbacks, At the end I only got to shunt 1A41 Bradford to Kings cross which was 47 hauled to the end, which usually arrived in the evening peak. and departed 21:45 (or earlier if I could gee up the postal staff loading it, so I could get a flyer....) The one in the picture was 3D30 usually scheduled to arrive about 3-4am and depart through the day, we lost our night shift when that got cancelled,

How about the contents of a rotary pencil sharpener, suitably clarted up with a selection of paints

I'm not surprised, that turned into a nightmare job to load them, turned out the concrete was far denser than expected and took a lot more pecking out. what was planned to be 4 hours to go a few miles down the road to load them ended up being a 10hour shift for the crews! i had a look round them when we got them back before delivering and they had definately seen better days before the demolition crews did there bit! Dave

Regarding the release crossovers in the station, we had small lever frames at Bradford, operated by the shunter but only after the box had released it to us. and they were still in place up until the early 2000's https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bradford_IC.jpg#/media/File:Bradford_IC.jpg

In between delivering many shells and bogies to Hitachi at Aycliffe, this pair of bogies came past the yard. for IEP train 15.. the shells for the driving cars for train 23 go to Aycliffe tomorrow

Found this one lurking on a shelf in the garage, i think it's a railpower B30-7 shell from many moons ago

every time we get an update, it seems to raise the standard! if you get the urge to share some more "how to" moments please do how is SG54 by the way. still fond memories of going round bruntingthorpe!

After finding out about Dorman Long's Clay Lane site in Middlesbrough via this thread, i've been doing a bit of digging and stumbled across these two videos on the you tube, lots of intersting shots of the Hot metal Wagons and tipping of slag https://youtu.be/4UfrT9QnvpA https://youtu.be/q3y48PIilyU And more up to date, is this one about the lackenby complex loco's https://youtu.be/-DQENyueqI0 https://youtu.be/jnzrjSARRx0 Dave

i think it was on wheels, some thing along the lines of this http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CIV87065-1-87-HO-Poclain-TY45-Benne-Preneuse-Longue-ready-built-Wespe-Models-/181948979168

i have vague memories of the coal yard working, i can remember seeing 5-6 wagons sat about half way down the yard, with a hydraulic excavator (something like a hymac i think) unloading them. we moved to our house over looking the line mid 80's i dont remember seeing any coal traffic, just the 2 parcel services (3d30, class 31 hauled and 1A41 47 hauled right til the end, my claim to fame i was the last shunter at bradford) one hst service a day and the laisterdyke scrap service didnt start back up until the early- mid 90's also i remember that trans pennine jumper simon!!! Dave

it's a long old thing this shell...

Jon Many thanks for sharing this one, through work we deal with Siemens, the current owner of the Parsons works.. I'd love to show this to the current Elf in a Safetree man "Billy Clipboard" as he's affectionately known! he has kittens with our drivers getting on the trailers... so the scenes of people riding the casting through the planer would have him in apoplexy!!! it's been massively downsized over the years, this is the team from work moving a long stored 275t stator out of one of the shops, now somewhat desolate compared to the film Stuart Cam 01 038 by Kryten65, on Flickr and possibly the rudder horns were from Wolsingham forge, another sadly gone Thanks Dave

Most definately not a farm tractor but Dow mac at eaglescliffe used a Scammell Explorer with buffing plates, to shunt their sidings, i have an article about in a truck magazine

as loading shovels go, Shinsei did a cat 992c in 1/75, it's a touch on the big side for a pit, think more quarry opencast, but if memory serves me they used to have a big shovel 988 size at the selby rail head on the stockpiles there's one on Ebay as i type this, http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SHINSEI-CATERPILLAR-/150804232807?pt=UK_ToysGames_DiecastVehicles_DiecastVehicles_JN&hash=item231ca1fa67

Well not really, i've just managed to take a few pics showing the general arrangement around the bogie etc..

So... where to begin.. i've been active more in truck modelling than railway modelling for a while now but the tired feeling with that has set in because i get to play with very big trucks all day so the inspiration to model them isnt there.. and i always have an urge to "play" trains after visiting an exhibition.. after rooting round in the garage i turned up some old Hornby freightliners and acquired from somewhere a loooong time ago a mendip models freightliner "upgrade" set. all it consists of a selection of whitemetal pieces that allow new and lower mounting points to be created, bar couplings and some buffer beam ends. so all told this will come to a cost significantly less than a set of those lovely colin craig etched ones! but as the intended use is on a waste container set in the early 90's until the Hornby KFA's surface.. Next job will be some pics.. but today's quick quiz question... where can i source replacement wheel sets...