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The 114 at leeds also appears to have a non standard roof colour, it looks like a very light grey not too dissimilar to what a roof paint goes when it has been on a while.

The yellow cab door was on the original paint spec, so several works did them Donny, Derby, Glasgow etc were know to have done them. Al Taylor

It must be remembered that many depots didn't keep their sets in fixed formations, therefore when a vehicle was due exam, repairs or works it would be knocked out of the set for relevant work to be done. A spare vehicle would be added to the set. So when a livery change came about a lot of mixed sets would be running round. The depot I worked at had blue/green and blue and grey/ green sets the later had blue/white and blue sets, the even blue/white and blue/grey and blue, and we did try to keep units the same livery but it didn't always work. Al Taylor

The BR blue period was quite an interesting period. BR green took a fair while to disappear, the renumbering came along. After that came the subtle changes in livery blue and grey to slightly different shades . Then the final years as large logo, sector liveries etc appeared. The livery was supposedly standard, but each works had its own little ways of interpretation of the livery book. Thats one of the reasons I model the early Blue era, and it was the era I started to take a greater interest in railways in general.

The axle box has been jacked up since its days at Toton. The spring was removed to allow the wheel set to be jacked upso the flange could clear the rail head, The wheelset or the traction motors hasd seized. 1-Co bogies were not allowed on wheelskates. Al Taylor

The doors on the top of the nose are released by two catches inside the nose end. You would release these then climb up the outside to open them. It very easy to open them from inside the nose, done it loads of times either to change wiper blades or climb on the roof to open the engine/bolier roof doors. Al Taylor.

The diagram books for this sort of info are almost useless as they show the standard arrangement. Al Taylor

None taken. Al Taylor.

Kinematic envelope is one of the reasons mk3 and 4 DVT are C3. The shape of the vehicle, throws on curves and vehicle roll all go in to the decision what restiction the vehicles come under. Regards Al Taylor

45015 is a shell, the power unit is a just a block with a *ucked genny attached. Most of the auxilary equipment is missing, the cubicle is devoid of nearly every item. No radiators. All the cabling went a very long time ago. The bogies and the exhauster are about the only things worth having. Sooner it gets cut up the better. Regards Al Taylor 45 co-owner.

It alright marking them LSL and SSL, but some have the wrong bogies on. Al Taylor

It will have a regulator, it will be a square front box. The catering vehicles with the high electrical demands had a dynamo and regulator made by J Stone and co of Deptford. The regulator is on the opposite side to the photo, if my memory serves me correctly. Regards Al Taylor

Hi The postion of the brake cylinder in relation to the brake vee hanger is related to what brake rigging the bogie has, ie top/over pull or under pull this is the rod that goes from the brake weighshaft to the bogie. Underpull is the easier rod to see as the overpull is tucked right up in the underframe. Al Taylor

Hi The cable go in to a conduit on the early Mk2s, this conduit go to the centre of the vehicle and the cables drop down to the alternator. Al Taylor

Sean, Spot on, thats a Wensleydales 2a is it not. The unit(small one) with the two lamps on is is the regulator/rectifier and the big box is the water heater control panel, the small box that is next to that is the lighting contol/fuse box. Al taylor

Sean, the piece of 'conduit' you have going from the bottom of the box to the other box in the photos dosn't need to be there, as the cables that link those two boxes go from the side of the small box(2 large cables and i small multi core cable) and enters the middle box about the position you have it. On Mk2abc these cables are in flexible conduit on a Mk2 the cables are usually wrapped in PVC tape until an elbow at the bottom of the middle box. Al Taylor.

Hi Sean, they look like the Pressure Vent unit. Regards Al Taylor

Thats 285, 252 was still green at this stage and was renumbered in green Al Taylor.

Don't forget that lub oil would also arrive at most depots by rail. This would be in a class B tanker It wasn't unkown for petrol to turn up at depot in wrongly labeled tanks. Al Taylot

The small plate is where the vent for the boiler safety valve would have been. The other cover plate is connected with the field diverts. It is only fitted to later versions of all parrallel 47s. Al Taylor

Looks good, the roof vents seem a little flat and the upper weld line on the roof seems to be a bit heavy. Wonder which numbers it will carry as it seems the DMBS is an alternator fitted one as it lacks the dynamo and tonum panel. Al Taylor

Hope the info helps, some of the vehicles had the filler more prominent than others. Mind it is several years since I've been on the roof of an AC mk2. I did have lots of photos of the varations on the AC mk2, ie the Temperature and Stone variants, but cannot lay my hands on them at the moment. Al Taylor. Al Taylor

Thats the top the water tank filler, it should be on both ends. It has plate secured by two wing nuts and give you access to a strainer. Al Taylor

The very small circular blob, should be repeated at both ends as this is the vent for the toilet water heater. Al Taylor

The change on B4 bogies from friction dampers to hydraulic was a mod. It was a fairly straight forward mod. The main reason behind it was the wear rate of the friction dampers, and secondly the supply of the ferosbestos bushes. It was not acctualy a bogie swap. Al Taylor