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I did make an enquiry about these with Rails of Sheffield (being a Rapido dealer). They are going to check to see if they can take orders for them. I have my eye on a couple.

A couple of pictures taken from near Todmorden from back in the late 90s. Yorkshire PTE livered class 155 heads east. Followed a little later by a similarly liveried 158/9 York station back in August 1994. 158764 shares stabling with a PTE liveried 155 and a 142 (both of which unidentified). This post constitutes my entire photographic collection of the class 155! Sadly none were at York or Leeds on my more recent visits...

Really sorry to hear this news, what an awful shock. As with many others, my dealings with Nigel were through his organising of the Fareham show, which our club exhibited at last year. He was a really friendly, pleasant chap, and went a long way to making our visit an enjoyable experience. Our thoughts are with his family at this difficult time, as well as his friends and colleagues at the Fareham club.

A few portraits of 43274 at Leeds - 19 June 2019.

Does your DCC controller have a read function as part of the programming? Our club controller has this, and it is invaluable for those of us (okay, me!) who forgets to write the address on the box...

Sprinter action at Leeds, back on 15 June 2019. 158861 158842 156424 156468 beside 43310. 158756

They are on the large side for H0; probably nearer 00. The cast metal bodies of the cars are probably a little crude against the Brekina's of this world, but are still reasonable. If you are not too fussy, they will do. If the scale difference is unpalatable but you wish to use them, then have them on a part of the layout away from your H0 vehicles and structures (if you have a layout, or it is of sufficient size to have such an area).

More North Wales shenanigans from the summer of 1993, featuring the class 153. This time a reminder that trains that are too short for the journeys they service are not just a modern phenomenon... 153335 is clearly not the ideal source of traction for this late afternoon Pwllheli service calling at Barmouth. It was already full when it turned up at a crowded platform. I am not sure all managed to board the train, but even now my sympathies are still with any onboard staff... 153363 arrives at Llandudno Junction with what I presume is a Llandudno Town shuttle. Again, there was quite a healthy set of passengers.

Likewise.

Spot the unit! On 29 December, an unidentified 377 chases the setting winter sun over the river Arun and towards the distant downs.

A few from North Wales from back in August 1993. 156411 at Porthmadog 156452 at Betws-y-Coed 158769 passes through the town wall at Conwy. An extra little bonus at Llandundo Junction, as the two class 151 sets were stored at the shed for a while. Just about visible were a couple of Merseyrail sets, also stored.

A couple of 159s in and around Clapham Junction on 29 March 2017.

I managed to upload one picture on a thread, but its companion (or similar file size) steadfastly refused to load. After resizing (ironically to a slightly larger size) it loaded, but then I could not edit the post (message saying it was either deleted (it wasn't), or too old (it was about 30 minutes old)). Finally I added as a new post, but... There is a new(?) feature, a validation requiring you to prove you are not a spammer or robot before uploading a picture. Is this indeed a new feature, and if so, could this this be a cause for the photo upload oddities?

Seems I cannot edit this post to add the second picture - which would not upload. So I needed to add another post...

A couple taken back in June 1996 at Blackpool North.

60009 pulls into Didcot with an oil train on 6th December 2006.

A few pictures taken at Didcot back on 6th December 2006. 66034 rests between RHTT duties in the company of a resident shunter. 66138 on manoeuvres at the stabling point. 66224 arrives with a coal train for the then still operational power station.

Travelling back in time to 2007 as 319009 pauses at Clapham Junction with a West Croydon service.

Not seen anything as yet to confirm these running along the Arun valley - so far it has all been along the Coastway and up the BML. In other news, 153376 was out and about again yesterday. Here it is crossing the Arun flood plain in the fading light of a winter's afternoon forming the 2Q24 13:51 Eastleigh East Yard - Barnham Up Sidings via London Bridge and Brighton.

And, in the main, actually keep to it...

I do wonder if matters such as this would be helped by reducing or removing working from home by staff at the Department for Transport. If they had to experience for themselves the consequences of their decision making, then things may be a little better for the rest of us rail users...

Yes, the ED62 being a prime example of that. Originally a BO-BO design, a single unpowered axle was provided on a number of rebuilt examples (including the reclassification to class ED62) between the bogies to reduce the general axle weight for use on the Iida line.

Yes, the JRF DF200. I believe the tanks are still between the bogies. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JR_Freight_Class_DF200

I remenber being very impressed with this layout when I saw it many moons ago. Plumbing the depths of my memory, I seem to recall it was at the Witley club exhibition. That would have been in the mid 80s.