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Even though the 42' LNWR coaches are far too early for my layout I am always keen to see coaches. Northstar Models has produced some LNW 57' non-corridors for me. The Precursor is coming on well. I love these machines, more so with extended smokebox and Belpaire firebox. It is tempting to have one with the excuse one was preserved...

This looks really good. Many thanks. Are the back corners of the Tender half-etched and does one have to punch out the adjacent rivets? Or are the side and back panels overlays?

I filmed it in the 1990s and it had a Thomson coach in the consist and the last coach had an outside observation platform. Didnt take any photo though.

I have a lot of old singles, EPs and LPs that I've not been able to play for over 20 years, so I've been listenning to my favourites on YouTube. Bands like 10cc remind me of what very good music we had in the 1970s.

When an inspector shouted up remove the wiring, one of those blokes enquired "how far, Piccadilly....?"

Diary notes for 10/3/81) Derailed at 11.30hrs but carried on until all train derailed. 47 290 arrived with breakedown crane.....Wigan MPD steam crane in attendance during lifting at night. DMU local servce put on at 15.05hrs. (Dinting). And the rain poured down relentlessly! (Larry Goddard Copyright).

Probably me...I'll dig 'em out!

Very intrigued to see your layout as we generally see locos and rolling stock. So full of character and I like those signals. I also note this is not a Blog. I wonder if I made the right move doing one..... If I missed it, whose etchings are the 'Silver Jubilee' coaches?

I tried to work it out while there. I suspect some wagons at the rear of the train derailed coming off the viaduct and ran up the platform ramp. The brakevan was partway up there too. The train carried on of course after the coulings snapped but some derailed wagons must have brought more wagons off the rails on the curve beyond the overbridge, then the driver applied the brakes and the lot just started to run amock across three tracks. This is only my view although I'de probably find the correct story in back issues of Railway Mag. (I don't thing Rail Enthusiast was about at the time). If wagons at the front of the train derailed and wrecked the track, this would also provide logical anwers too! I've got a full set of negs somewhere being priveleged to remain on the platform (try that today!!!)

Arriva buses drove around with headlights on last year as if people couldn't see the huge hulk of an approaching bus, and so a yellow front might have some appeal......

76022 & 76023 passing Crowden with westbound coal on 3rd July 1981.... Glossop-Manchester Class 506 crossing broadbottom Viaduct 2nd October 1981..... 25kv AC Class 303 306 on a Manchester-Hadfield working at the then new Godley station (opened 7th July 1986) on 15th October 1986.... Dinting station before the platform through which this train is passing was wrecked..... 76010 & 76016 passing Dinting with 6M50 from Rotherwood on final day of Woodhead 17th July 1981. 76028 & 76029 amid wreckage that stretched from here back to dinting Viaduct on 10th March 1981..... Larry

Ah well, had a go myself...... Ex-Arriva in Schenker red in Abergele. Larry

The Schenker red livery on that Unit looks better than Arriva's turquiose. They have two liveries on buses in this area so I wonder what the buses will look like in red....? Challenge....

What if diesels had been decked out to look like workmanlike machines instead of gaily coloured biscuit tins. This is how the earlier lined green livery might have sat on a 'Peak'.

This is where the Dyson comes in....very handy for finding all the bits we drop on the carpet that can then be retreaved from the plastic container.

I too think thre bricks are now on the dark side. The rainfall in that area would keep the exposed brickwork relatively clean so I would remove some of that 'dirt' from the face of those pillars with a kiddies india rubber, then steak columns a little to simulate the effect of water running down from the landing stage. Just an idea Dave and looking good for all that. Larry

Lost my wiring sheet too so i did this before lifting the track last year....

Being born at Newton, Hyde, I lost interest very promptly when the electrics arrived in 1954. The masts had up for years but no wires. A GCR lower-quadrant signal near Hyde Junction used to leave us waiting in anticipation of what would come next. Some loco were green so they would probably have been new B1's and maybe A3's. I rode on the electrics of course but didnt take much notice. Then for old times sake I revisited the line occasionally from 1977 after taking up railway photography. By sheer fluke I was only the second photographer on the spot after the derailment at Dinting in the 80's (an inspector told me the first photographer ran for his life when wagons started to climb the opposite platform)! Larry G.

Rather than spend agonising time 'kitbashing' a Hornby Buffet Car into a blue & grey type, it would be much easier to remove the sides and replace them with the correct etched brass sides.

And that's DCC.............? Yikes!

As far as I remember, the only other electrics to grace the North Wales line were as follows:- 303066 & 303049 photographed on 11th September 1990, and Unit 508109. The prototype Sprinter looks a darn sight more slylish than the York bodied 150s with few windows that BR eventually chose to wish on its customers!

Regarding the Class 90 in north Wales, the shot appeared in one of the railway mags (Rail Express I suspect), but I seem to recall it came down with a Pendilno drag (did someone forgot to remove it at Crewe? ), and was taken back the next day - as per my shot.

One loco missing from your North Wales stud..... (90039 approaching Abergele on 25th June 2005). Larry

The Bullied Q1 never ventured further than about 75 miles of London and was rarely seen in the West of England. Perhaps Hornby assumed anything for down south would sell like hot cakes, although there was likely no evidence it would. To speculate with a J36 for Bonnie Scotland might have been a safer bet. It's an untapped market that just might accumilate a few sheckles for the shareholders. Worth a gamble? I'd say so after the Q1.

A book of railway owned road vehicles would indeed be interesting. But what a mighty book it would be if it were to cover pre-grouping, Big Four and BR right up to to present day. Might have to be in two parts to keep costs down. Larry