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Spelling Mistakes on Models (and the prototype)
eastwestdivide replied to Binky's topic in Modelling musings & miscellany
Grand Central's guarantee - worth the paper it's written on? Don't know how many of these reservation tickets they had printed, but I've seen it twice, many months if not years apart. -
Jim’s “out and about with GBRf” thread
eastwestdivide replied to big jim's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
Worth a look, definitely. In fact the whole Castlefield area's pretty interesting. The nearby science and industry museum is a bit limited at the moment though, having a refit. -
Annual occurrence I think - I’ve seen them there a couple of times in recent years (N of Rotterdam where the HS line branches off).
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Prototype for everything corner.
eastwestdivide replied to jonny777's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
If it’s any help, the photo on https://eisenbahnstiftung.de/ has a caption, but you can’t link to it directly. However, if you go to https://eisenbahnstiftung.de/bildergalerie and search the loco number, 18 316, it’s 2nd from the end. To save you the trouble, here’s the caption Paraphrasing, Carl Bellingrodt [the photographer] located it as Memmingen, but it appears to be 18 316 from the loco test facility at Minden with a measurement (test?) train during a water stop at Bebra. First coach from DSB (Denmark), then a British BR* one. June 1956. *I’m assuming BR = British Railways, by analogy with the DSB mention, rather then BR=Bundesreihe (~class)! If it was a Mk1 it would be very early for a conversion to measurement use, although such a conversion could also entail adding a ducket, if that’s what it is. -
Class ''70'' Photos
eastwestdivide replied to Andrew P's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
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Tram-Trains for Sheffield to Rotherham
eastwestdivide replied to purpledoor's topic in Trams & Tramway Modelling
Work continues on the Parkgate park and ride car park photographed above (how many times can I put “park” into a sentence?), and meanwhile go-ahead has been given for a new tram stop at Magna on the heavy rail section, e.g https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-68556755 with a focus on providing more park and ride capacity: Two platforms and a bridge. Magna is here (google maps): https://maps.app.goo.gl/ixMFSZFdp1etD5Da8?g_st=ic -
KMA ( ex PXX) Hot core wagon MODA 95780
eastwestdivide replied to kevsmiththai's topic in UK Prototype Questions
For clarity, PPX = the TOPS code for escort coach, dual braked (rather than the prefix to the number) -
The gantry crane over on the right is part of Booths scrapyard, and was still there (most of it) yesterday when I took this photo: https://www.rmweb.co.uk/forums/topic/135855-dmu-photography-away-from-the-three-quarter-view/?do=findComment&comment=5456041 There’s still a rickety shed where that one is bottom right. Maybe the same one! The two white buffer stops centre mark roughly where the Holmes Chord dating from 1987 now diverges to join the Midland route into Sheffield. The tram-trains follow the shiny rails of the GC route running through the centre of the photo. Edit: Google maps street view, as near as I can get it: https://maps.app.goo.gl/HQww1VYTVJ9dpsYW7
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Probably a few years away from ending up there, 195012 passes Booths scrapyard in Rotherham. Unusually posh train for the Leeds/Sheffield stoppers, but this was down to disruption earlier causing mixed up diagrams.
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KMA ( ex PXX) Hot core wagon MODA 95780
eastwestdivide replied to kevsmiththai's topic in UK Prototype Questions
And here's the photo promised earlier. Doncaster works, 1984. Shadows lightened to bring up some of the detail, and a crop of the nearer end showing a vacuum pipe: -
Class 390 Pendolino Photos
eastwestdivide replied to Peter Kazmierczak's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
It’s interesting how the Avanti livery has taken away the slightly “chubby face” look they had with the Virgin livery. -
KMA ( ex PXX) Hot core wagon MODA 95780
eastwestdivide replied to kevsmiththai's topic in UK Prototype Questions
Yes, I posted that photo in Doncaster a few years back. It may have succumbed to the picture meltdown. No access to my photos at the moment. edit: can’t even find the thread it was in