SP Steve

For 1986 there was a loco hauled working from Liverpool / Manchester to Glasgow Central / Edinburgh which ran as: 1P22 07:45 Liverpool Lime Street - Preston joined with 1S45 07:50 Manchester Victoria - Glasgow which ran through to Carstairs at which a portion was detached to form 1B07 11:26 Carstairs - Edinburgh. For 1987 the Liverpool leg was abandoned in favour of direct Manchester - Glasgow / Edinburgh services only: 1S45 07:35 Manchester Victoria - Glasgow Central 1S49 10:25 Manchester Victoria - Glasgow Central / Edinburgh

I have a complete set of National Timetable books so any particular year? Regarding NW 'locals' from Preston then I think the only time such services would run was during engineering operations on the WCML, normal InterCity services to Glasgow filling in for this requirement. It would be much more likely for a Preston - Carlisle service to traverse the Cumbrian Coast line.

The York - Swansea working finished when the Summer 1994 Timetable came into effect (29th May 1994). From then on the service was extended to start back from Newcastle and did indeed last into the Virgin era of Cross Country. Latterly it was operated as a HST service which helped with running the service via Bristol Temple Meads rather than the 'old' road through Chepstow.

Close up of the Hibberd loco as seen by Arnie Furniss back in 1972 https://www.flickr.com/photos/deadmans_handle/4374004111/in/album-72157624876222193/

Not all metal scrap was of the rusty variety as the following image shows. Manchester Victoria with a local trip working incorporating 16T minerals filled with scrap tin plate ex Metal Box at Westhoughton. Other locations I can recall dealing with scrap traffic were Rover's car manufacturing plant at Longbridge and Newport Docks. The latter location took scrap from BREL Swindon and I have pictures of piles of scrap that in a previous incarnation had been Class 25 locos.

Not sure if they answer your specific queries but the following sites carry quite a bit of detail: http://www.scot-rail.co.uk/page/Class+156 http://members.madasafish.com/~dysgraphyk/156/class156_mods.htm

Issue 242 has been released covering early UK Railcar / Railbus fleets. Compared to previous recent releases the subject matter is quite interesting and makes for a decent read for aficionados of such vehicles. Covered are an eclectic mix: Karrier Ro-Railer LMS Prototype 4 Car Set Michelin Type 9 (1932) Michelin 'Coventry' Cars Amrstrong Whitworth 1930s Vehicles Leyland 1933 Vehicles EE 'Bluebird' Set LMS Leyland Articulated Unit (1938) AEC/GWR 1933-42 Railcars GWR Express Parcel Sets BR/Paxman Diesel Electric (1956) BUT Railbus (79740-50) Bristol Railbus (79958/9) Waggon und Maschinenbau Railbus (79964-9) Wickham Raibus (79965-9) Wickham-Elliot Track Recorder (999507) Park Royal Railbus (79970-4) AC Cars Railbus (79975-9) Preserved NE No 3170 Given the current situation then purchasing might prove problematic (WH Smith have them in store) but on-line purchase might help as would digital download. The next issue (243) will cover "New Trains For The UK' supplied by Bombardier, Stadler, CAF, Vivarail, Siemens and Hitachi.

The Industrial Railway Society's "Industrial Locomotives 1979" has the yard down for Lowton Metals Ltd (Railway Street) and lists Ruston Hornsby 4wDM (408492 of 1956 - shown out of use) and Hibberd 4wDM (3863 of 1957) which was operational as 4006.

Yes but on the plus side it makes it easier to achieve the 8' wheel base as used on the Glass EA wagons!

I think number 3 is Sheerness-on-Sea: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Sheerness_railway_station.jpg https://www.kentonline.co.uk/sheerness/news/sheerness-train-crash-remembered-91681/

I've consulted my 1980 Rail Atlas of Britain and the yards in between Agecroft Junction - Windsor Bridge Junction on the Bolton line proceeding towards Victoria were (in order) Tarmac Roadstone then Arnott Young Scrap Merchant and finally George Cohen Scrap Merchant. I can't find any reference to Arnott Young having their own motive power but Tarmac had Ruston Hornsby 0-4-0DE (398119 / 1957) which carried the number DL 3.

Thomas Ward Ltd had Brindle Heath scrapyard at Salford which, in 1979, had the following locos: John Fowler 0-4-0DM 21942 / 1937 Ruston Hornsby 4wDM 201980 /1940 (Numbered 113) Hudswell Clarke 0-4-0DM D622 /1942 (Numbered 47068 but out of use) Ruston Hornsby 0-4-0DE 381752 / 1955 The other possibility is George Cohen and Sons Frederick Rd scrapyard which had: John Fowler 0-4-0DM 23009 / 1944 As to whether they looked like an 07......

Geoff Kent covers the creation of LNER single bolsters in part 3 of "The 4mm Wagon" in which he advocates using either a Mainline LNER Lowfit or a Parkside LNER Lowfit kit (PC66) to create one.

Justin at Rumney Models does an etched brass fret for detailing wagons catering for Morton Brake levers and a wealth of other useful detailing bits. Each fret has sufficient parts for two wagons and includes the following: Morton brake levers GWR & RCH brake lever guards, brackets and stays (suit Parkside / Bachmann solebars) Replacement vees Tiebars Solebar detailing Lamp irons Vacuum pipe brackets Open wagon door springs Coupling hooks GWR & LMS/BR Instanter links http://website.rumneymodels.co.uk/wagon-detailing The part number is B.114 should you wish to order.

Wouldn't class it as good but you can see the general effect of the body side ribs as seen through the grills. Almost head on shot of front cab windows - the bottom edge of the two outer pains subtly follow the curve of the nose whilst the top edges are more linear in nature.

Uppermost example is original NSE with lower one in revised NSE, locos which received NSE livery of any description were as follows: ORIGINAL NSE (1986) 50.002/017/8/9/023/5/6/9/032/4/5/7/044/8 REVISED NSE (LIGHT BLUE VERSION 1987) 50.001/3/018/024/7/8/9/030/041/3/9/050 REVISED NSE (DARK BLUE VERSION 1989) 50.002/5/9/016/7/023/4/7/9/033/4/5/7/043/4/5/8

Dave Larkin has yellow panels being applied to brake vans modified with air pipes in 1968 to cater for the introduction of air braked stock.

The modern day skip as we know it has its genesis in railways via way of the "Bulkrane" experimental road/rail transfer system, undertaken as a joint venture between British Railways and Fodens Ltd in the early 1960s. This saw the creation of a specialist "hoist" vehicle capable of loading/unloading two specialist containers (think Thunderbird 2 and its pods!) which catered for a variety of traffic types: MA (Dia 3/722) - Open Steel Bucket MB (Dia 3/723) - Open Steel with end door discharge MC (Dia 3/721) - Open Steel, drop side MD (Dia 3/727) - Open Steel, automatic stacking MJ (Dia 3/720) - Container top load / bottom discharge MP (Dia 3/729) - Mild Steel Tank MR (Dia 3/728) - Stainless Steel Insulated Tank MU (Dia 3/724) - Steel Pneumatic Discharge MV (Dia 3/725) - Steel Pneumatic Discharge MW (Dia 7/726) - Light Alloy Pneumatic Discharge From descriptions the MA type is what we would recognise as the modern day skip but with additional steel framing (a number of Conflat A's were modified slightly as part of the experiment with the simple addition of chain eyelets to the ends). The experiment came to nothing but did yield the familiar swing arm method of loading that we see today. In the course of trying to find further details for the project I found fodenway of this parish has successfully tackled the road element: https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/95704-gary’s-road-vehicles/page/3/ The article, from the November 1961 edition of "Trains Illustrated" shows the principals behind the experiment.

According to Dave Larkin, the Conflat C coding applied to (a) ex LNER Diagram 60 vehicles used to convey a meat container and (b) Rectank wagons used to convey whiskey containers so not involved with the conveyance of cement. Where you thinking of the Conflat L? These were involved with cement traffic but as the Presflos came along to replace them I would have thought it unlikely to see them together. Similarly Prestwins were more concerned with conveying silica based materials rather than cement.

I've been told that first trial run is scheduled for tomorrow - real time trains reveals: 5P51 07:36 London Euston - Blackpool North (calling at Milton Keynes, Nuneaton, Preston, Kirkham & Wesham and Poulton-le Fylde) 5P83 12:23 Blackpool North - London Euston (calling at Poulton-le-Fylde, Kirkham & Wesham, Preston, Nuneaton and Milton Keynes) https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/W45804/2020-02-22/detailed

I did ask as to what was proposed for this but it hasn't been decided - the feeling was that it will be of a wooden variety (personally as my match wagon will be scratch built then I'm not too fussed on the matter).

In an effort to clarify what length jib the swan necked version will be equipped with, I've managed to speak to Scott at Oxford Rail. From the resulting conversation the following releases are planned. OR76SCS1001 BR Stoke M.P.D No.RS1023/15 26' CURVED JIB LENGTH OR76SCS1002 LMS Wellingborough No.243 26' CURVED JIB LENGTH OR76SCS2001 BR Stewarts Lane DS.316 26' SWAN NECKED JIB LENGTH OR76SCS2002 LNER Sunderland No.901628 24' SWAN NECKED JIB LENGTH All four are to be modeled in "as delivered" condition minus roofs which were added later in their lives. To cope with this Oxford are looking to produce a generic type roof which can be added if required (as with match wagons, the roof could be a number of styles). There were detailed differences across the range but on the major one of jib length then the following may be prove useful should you be looking to create a model not catered for in the initial Oxford releases: CURVED JIB - SHORT NER (x2), GSWR (x1) and NSR (x1) not catered for at present (not 100% sure as to jib length for NSR one) CURVED JIB LONG MS&LR (x1) and MR (x4) catered for by either OR76SCS1001 / 1002 SWAN NECKED JIB - SHORT NER (x1), GCR (x4) and GWR (x3) catered for with OR76SCS2002 SWAN NECKED JIB - LONG NBR (x1), LBSCR (x2), MR (x4), GNR (x2), SER (x1) and LTSR (x1) catered for with OR76SCS2001 Top marks to Oxford for planning to produce a number of vehicles matching prototype details rather than a generic one size fits all approach.

It is Rumney Models who supply an etched BR 10' Clasp Brake underframe kit: http://website.rumneymodels.co.uk/br-clasp-brake-underframes

Sixbells Junction website suggests this as the "Electric Silver Jubilee" rail tour organised by InterCity and Hertfordshire Railtours to celebrate completion of the ECML electrification and 25 Years of WCML electric services. Leaving Kings Cross at 08:05 it ran via the ECML (90.023 suggested as the loco in question) with a scheduled arrival time in Edinburgh of 12:40. Booked to return southwards at 16:42 (with 86.205 as a candidate), it worked via the WCML before a scheduled arrival at Euston at 22.12.

According to Dave Larkin all had 7' 0" Standard Collett designed bogies - what may have also varied slightly was the bogie centre measurement for each of the different donor coach diagrams (as per you GWR Collett coaches are not a strong point).