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Russ, the 27 way connection was underneath and was very prone to water ingress. Al Taylor. A Peak has three water tanks, two are in the boiler room either side of the door from the cab at no2 end the other is between the battery boxes.

I wonder what all that black stuff is in the sump of my loco. Sump oil that leaks out on to the track certainly is black, often goes very dark grey when it mixes with water. Seen enough black patches over the years at various depots over the year and seen enough drained from sumps that is black. The oil is only the caramel colour when new. Al Taylor.

Do you mean the one for the boiler water tank?.

The air pipes when fitted were white not yellow. The painting of pipes and cocks in various colours came about in the late 60s. Al Taylor.

As regular traveller on the Hull Pullman 75-76 and involved with some of its maintenance, I can never remember seeing a BG on it, MK2A BSO yes along with the regular MK2D BSOs. Regular MK2D BSOs 9479, 9486, 9488 spring to mind. TSOs would be any of the recent ex works vehicles as long as they had reasonable M/As and control units.......... Al Taylor

The MK2Ds had a MK1 M/A set, the 2Es had a MK2 M/A set and the 2Fs had the MK3 M/A set. The 2Ds the LMR had were fitted with the same M/A as the 2Es. From memory the windings of the MK2Es M/As and there control units FL2s did not like voltages that went below 750v, which is a regular occurrences with Deltic and first twenty Brush 4s. This remained like this until the 2Es were fitted with MK4 M/As along with the 2Fs. Al Taylor

Thanks very much for that Fran. Excellent service response as usual from Accurascale. Al Taylor

Received a Deltic on Monday as expected, only to find I had received a model of D9001 St Paddy that was someone else's when looking at the despatch note. All credit to A/S they informed with in half an hour as too how to return said item. Just waiting to hear from them where my 9021 Argyll and Sutherland Highlander is. No doubt some time early next week after the bulk of the order has been dispatched. Hope the person who was expecting 9001 is waiting too long........ Al Taylor

Leeds v Hull FC, Championship game Hull won 35 -18. Suspect that is a Leeds crew.

There was a plough at Bridlington, its use was mainly for the route from Brid towards Scarborough. The Tool Vans are the Botanic ones, of the staff visible the guy in the checked shirt is the supervisor Pete Owen, with Terry Watts next to him, cannot regonise the driver. I suspect the plough may be the one that derailed at Speeton the previous winter, it was badly damaged and was cut up at Brid, by the BG crew. There is a lowmac in the next siding which the wheelsets came back to BG on. Al Taylor

093 along with a couple of other had the cantrail grills plated over .

No 8 was always a bit of an oddball, what with the buffer cowls, it also had a Clayton boiler for a while rather than a Spanner 2. Al Taylor.

Ken, the roof mounted horns were removed in late 62, and replaced with the behind the buffer beam horns. From what I have been told by various well informed sources the roof mounted horns were an attempt to improve the audibility of the horns, tails later found the best place was the nose mounted horns. Al Taylor

When the the flyover was built over the diversion was built the existing Selby - Leeds line was to the south of the new flyover, the track bed could be seen right up to the early 2000s. The flyover line has a slight joggle in it, which isn't easily seen from the ECML. Al Taylor.

Possibly an Iris or a Perth....

Was a regular working when 1H89 17:08 stopped been a loco hauled job. lasted for a bout two years with vans attached.

A quick way of spotting a miniature snow plough 31 is the two brackets either side of the draw hook and the foot steps at the outer edge of the buffer cowl are turned inwards rather than pointing out. Cannot recall seeing a 31 with miniature snowploughs in green myself, but would expect there may have been a couple.

Usually because the TDM had crashed and wouldn't reconfigure.

Not all of them did, most had brown underframes/solebars.

It was part of the ETH fitment, the rear engine supplies ETH, revs raised to give the volts not the amps but as you take power the ETH voltage falls due to traction load and about 620v the ETH actually drops out, as speed increases the ETH voltage will rise and the ETH comes back in. Al Taylor.

You can try to start both engines at once, however they batteries won't like it. When a Deltic pulls away the engine furthest away from the driving cab will start to speed up first the the nearest engine will pick up. the cam lobes for each accelerate valve at the bottom of the power controller are arranged to that this happens. An engine could be restarted on the move, just put it in to EO......pre SSF. Al Taylor

Having had the misfortune to have to uncouple a 91 that was buckeyed up to a barrier vehicle on which both sets of buffers had been left in the long position which took an awful lot of effort and time. The buffers where in contact with one another, so the locking pins for the 91 had to forced out to release the buffers which the allowed the saddles on the buffers on the barriers to be released, then we could squeeze up to release the buckeye. Considerable effort is needed to couple up with buffers extended with a buckeye. Al Taylor

They were usually formed as seen with the power cars at the outer ends. The brakes could be either way round ie in or out. Al Taylor

Our 03 that moved from n the changeover at Goole usually had a. match truck with them, unless two of them were moving. 28 MPH was about the top speed they would do, however they used to get a bit of a waddle on, so not the most pleasant of rides, most drivers would stick to just below 25. Have risen back twice from Sleepy Hollow on 03s back to BG and got a overtime each time. So would expect things returning to Lincoln would be very similar, a slightly long day. No point in tweaking the governor as Gardner LW don't like going much above 1200rpm and the gearbox and final drive are prone to overheating. Movement of 08s, from around early 1985 towing of 08s with rods on was banned, if any 08 and a loco was required the 08 would be the leading engine. This was due to the increase in moved cranks and birdsnested traction motors. I was personally involved with one that seized a traction motor and bent the rods whilst been towed (40 mph +) they are not the pleasant to demesh whilst on the flat lying in the snow in the dark. Al Taylor

The Peak and 25 ones are identical.