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I've got some photos of the French border stations on my Fotopic website. You will need to scroll down the pages to find the correct photos Hendaye My link La Tour de Carol My link Cerbere My link

Look at this website which contains a wealth of information about border stations, European border stations website

What a magnificent model. I sailed on the "Heb Isles" last summer from Kennacraig to Porta Askaig and back. The ship disgraced itself that week by having a faulty bow thruster which caused havoc with the sailings. There's a photo of it on my website with the bow doors up at Kennacraig. There are more Calmac ship photos on my website. http://steverabone.com/HebrideanJouneys/index.htm

Readers with a NE (Hull area) based layout may be interested to know that the D95xxs seem to have frequently run in pairs. I've notes in May and August 1967 which show I saw D9539/41 (on tankers passingBotanic Gardens), D9543/44 at Hessle Quarry, D9512/16 (still with 87E shed plate) at King George Dock, D9543/49 at Alexandra Dock and D9533/3x and D9541/D95xx at Hessle yard. Also seen at Brough was D9547 on its own on a freight. In October another visit found D9505 shunting on its own at Brough and D9541/53 at Hessle yard. Finally I saw D9531 in York North yards on 31.12.68 out of use. It would appear that they took over many of the duties of the WD 2-8-0s from Dairycoates shed. presumably the use of two locomotives was necessary for braking purposes on the steep gradients of some of the dock lines.

Given that Kingmoor had an allocation of the Clans I'd be surprised if they never turned up on the Carlisle to Oldham van trains, which I presume would have run through New Hey.