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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.

Deep bronze green is also the name of the supplied by Mason paints of Derby to Derby loco, for the first diesel locos. Derby used Masons for quite some time after 57 in to the late 60s maybe the early 70s. Is there a difference between BS381c 224 and BS2660 6-074 ?.

The seven point star should be white (black on light colour background) for both air and vac, on dual braked vehicles each brake release cord is marked AIR or VAC. The changeover lever should be marked with an inverted teardrop. Al Taylor

If you look carefully you will see the edges of all the vinyls where they meet and the edges where they meet the paint. I said in my early post the LNER add on was matched to the original red vinyl/paint. It shows how much the vinyl has faded with general wear and tear. Al Taylor

It is the same red, the red on the body has faded . The vinyl was matched with the correct shaded of red. Al Taylor

Looks good, chalk marks also came in lower case, along with Mail, Parcels, Transfer etc...... Plus smudges, crossing outs and stanox codes. Al Taylor

043 and 114 have different boiler room roofs.

The loco was used to haul the set with the 91 leading, it made sense to run round at Bradford and use the the loco to drag it back to Leeds. It was booked for Brush 4 haulage so would be superior to a single power car. The power car was manned in both directions with a "fire warden". No doubt with a Brush 2 on the front a bit of assistance would be provided by the power car................ Al Taylor

With the 91 away from the wires normally the 91 would be isolated, ie pan down BIS out. The batteries on the 91s do not last very long with no charging, the control battery is there primarily keep the thing going through neutral sections and for getting the pan up so no great capacity in them. Al Taylor

More common than you may think having a yellow head code hinged front, it also wasn't unknown for a GFYE one to have a green panel. Usually swapped due to a bump or faulty route indicator mechanism. Al Taylor

Most of the ones we had at BG were Conflat A, with one L. Al Taylor