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When I worked for VXC there were various plans mentioned to extend the XC network to other places Hull and Middlesborough always got mentioned.So there was obviously a market for through travel then, just as there is today. However these plans got torpedoed by the backward thinking of the SRA, which shafted XC giving us Operation (Ugly sister as it was often called) Princess and the remnants of what remains today.

Not a positioning move, the inward working came from Paddington, this is a through working to Brighton. The Peak will have worked up from Saltley via New Street. A Peak or Brush 4 could turn up on this, not unknown for a Brush 2 either. Al Taylor

They are actually passed Brough, Brough station is the other side of the road bridge.

Not quite true regarding dual braking, after a very long conversation some time with one of BR's eminent brake engineers said it is possible to fit air brakes to a vacuum brake vehicle to make a dual braked vehicle.

Not shunting anything, 08777 was withdrawn at this time due shifted cranks. Note the side rods have been removed. The tanks did leave the depot, the waste oil went to Immingham TMD for Ken Kirtons "wonderful" oil recycling project. Less said about that the better....... ™ Al Taylor.

No by then it would have been one of Holbeck's 31/4s, 409,410 or 417. Al Taylor. Before the 31/4s, EE type3s and 4s, Peaks could work these services. The lunchtime working at one time was the loco off that mornings Garston/Trafford Park - Hull Freight liner which ran to Donny light engine. Al Taylor

The loco from Leeds worked through to the Cross. The hull portion would arrive on Platform one normally, the loco would detach. The Leeds would arrive, on 4 (as it was then now 3) loco detach and shunt across to one attach and draw forward the back to the Leeds portion. The down service would arrive in 5 the rear 4 coaches would de uncoupled, the Leeds departs and then a loco stabled by the north box would come and attach. Al Taylor.

More often than not a fish van would contain an individual fish merchant purchase bought in the fish market at the port of origin. A fish merchant may have several vans in one train, the may be dropped of enroute at various locations for that merchants customers. Trains like the Hull Plymouth would have vans for various place not only on its route, but would drop vans off to join other fish trains as well as some other services to get to final destination, one regular destination on Hull Plymouth was Fishguard.

Not unknown for vac braked locos to work MGRs, just ned a brake van, and run as class8.

392 was withdrawn at this time. 391 was last overhauled at Glasgow and 392 was done at Swindon. The yellow buffer beams and red buffer shanks was my addition along with the red rods. Al Taylor.

Spot on Johnster. These wagons conveyed DMU engines and gear boxes between the works and depots, old ones going in reverse. Brake blocks could turn up in vac braked opens (later OBAs). Lub oil would usually turn up in tanks, certain oils would come via road motors in 45,25,10 or 5 gallon drums. Spares depending on depot could come via the Enparts system or road motors. Most depots depending on era had vans and/or lorry. other ways of getting items to a depot was by service train, usually smaller items using the UVS system. Al Taylor

Not actual parts, the large boxes contain an engine and the smaller central boxes contains two gear boxes. The ex GWR Departs have four boxes, two small boxes for gear boxes and two large ones for engines. Al Taylor.

Only after 1968, before then air pipes were all white, cocks and coupling heads too.

What you have to remember ETH loadings are not generally constant, it will very with the stock concerned as heating/air con loading alter. Mk1s usually have a more constant loading due to the thermostats used and the fact the have passenger operated controls. Al Taylor.

Having seen a 31/4 on a load bank it is quite surprising were the the traction power goes when the ETH is turned on.I know from the lads in the test house at Doncaster when the first 31/4 was tested, there was a big gasp from the control room when the ETH was turned on and a where the **** has the traction power gone. From memory something 520 HP would be removed from the traction power with ETH full load.

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