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Doh, forgot the obvious one! Livery wise they were delivered in green with typical Met-Cam three linining bands and plain ends with speed whiskers added later. By the time small yellow panels were added all the East Anglian ones appear to have been repainted with only two lining bands. Some ended up in blue with full yellow ends. If you wanted to run one in the 70s then you could assume they were converted to blue square, I believe it was considered but the surplus of dmus due to line closures meant it wasn't thought worthwhile. Edit: there is also a photo on Railcar.co.uk with one in blue with small yellow panel

I've even managed to alter the guards doors on a Lima 101 without a full re-paint. In this case of this production set it was both to the left whereas the version produced by Lima was one to the right and the other side to the left.

There are a few differences between the lightweights and the production versions: Four marker lights on the ends (some production units have these also). Only two rows of roof ventilators, not three. A cowling beneath the buffer beam The guards door (i.e. with window) of the pair of doors to the brake van is to the right on both sides. The East Anglian sets had a smaller van with additional seats between the van and the passenger doors. The London Midland sets were as per the production units. The Hornby/Lima 101 can easily be converted to a power/trailer set, the centre car chassis is a direct fit into the non-powered driving car. It looks like it was designed that way so a power/trailer set could be produced but never actually was. Alternatively, cut away the whole 'engine box', fill the hole with plasticard and add trailer chassis details (battery boxes, vacuum cylinders, heaters etc).

They were steel framed, the floors were concrete but supported by steel trusses. I was at a concrete reseach establishment in France last summer (we were having a timber floor fire tested). There were plenty of remains of fire tested concrete outside, its amazing how much a concrete floor slab can bow when subjected to intense heat.

A1 parallel motion drawing board with built in desk stand. Collect from Wolverhampton or could possibly arrange for collection in Suffolk.

Looking at photos online, the bogie mod appears to be almost universal on Slovak 751s post 2000ish but relatively few of the Czech 751s, I guess because ZSSK have no 749 conversions.

I recently aquired a Roco Bardotka in ZSSK Cargo livery with sound, Neil at scograil offered me a deal I coundn't refuse. As my only other Slovak stock is a couple of ACME coaches I've been looking at what else is available with a view to a small Slovak layout. The MTB bogie grain wagons look tempting. A question regarding the 751, when were the additional spring hangers on the bogies removed? I notice most of yours have them, except the updated 749. My Roco 751 doesn't, which appears correct from prototype photos of the loco I have.

The design of the Humber Bridge deck is based on the aerodynamic principles developed during the design of the Severn Bridge. The shape of the deck was derived from wind tunnel tests and prevents the problems that Tacoma had.

There are 4mm scale drawings of 101s (and most other 1st gen dmus) in Brian Golding's 'A Pictorial Record of British Railways Diesel Multiple Units' published by Cheona. e.g https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9781900298001/Pictorial-Record-British-Railways-Diesel-1900298007/plp Some of the drawings have inaccuracies so it's best to compare to photos but the 101s seem pretty accurate and compare well to rtr models. Another alternative for you to consider is the old DC kits plastic kit, I suspect you could pick one up cheap if you look around as it came out a couple of years before Lima launched theirs so there could be a few unbuilt ones around.

Also quite handy if you fancied something to eat at 3am I seem to remember.

The Railroad (ex Lima) Deltic is short in overall length as well as having undersize bogies so it won't be a direct fit under the Dapol body. I motorised one years ago using the original Hornby Silver Seal class 47 power bogie fitted to the kit chassis. I think your best option would to be to fit the Railroad 47 bogies direct to the kit and forget about the Railroad Deltic.

Just a small correction, Bachmann have also produced a 105 power/power 2 car set.

On two stroke motorbikes it acts basically as a one way valve in the inlet tract to stop the intake air/fuel mixture being pushed back out by the piston, allowing larger piston ports. I guess similar would apply to a two stroke diesel but for air only. It consists of a flexible metal 'reed' that can be flexed open by air flowing in one direction but held shut by air flowing the other way. Yamaha used them widely, Suzuki went more for disc valves.

It will pass close to where I work (Peartree Lane, Dudley) but unfortunately the opening date is when I'm due to retire!

I had a summer job in the lab at Pauls and Sanders maltings in Ipswich in 1977. One of the tasks was to sample the grain from the lorries. To do this the tilt was drawn back and you had to climb on top and push a sampling tube into the load at several points. The sampler was basically two concentric tubes with holes in each which could be closed by rotating the inner tube. You pushed the sampler down into the grain with the holes closed, opened them to allow the grain in, closed them, withdrew the sampler and tipped the contents into a plastic bag. Would make a good layout cameo.

Looking at the circuit board on the trailer it looks like the lights may be supplied from the trailer pickups but switched by voltage from the drawbar connection. You could possibly run a couple of wires from the trailer pickups through to the power car and connect them to the pickups there to help thing but that may have an effect on the trailer light switching. I've not had any problems with any of mine, even a sound fitted one which would show up any deficiencies.

You're right, I hadn't noticed that before because the trailer lights don't work if not connected to the power car. However, as the connector between the two cars only has two poles it doesn't appear to be able to feed power back to the motor.

As far as I know the electrical connection between the two cars only powers the trailer lights allowing for only one dcc decoder in the power car. There are no pickups on the trailer.

HST TRUBs had 2+1 first class seats in orange/brown whereas the TRSBs had 2+2 second class seats in blue. Since the loco hauled RUBs had 2+1 seating I would deduce they would be the same as the TRUBs.

All FOs had both toilets on one side so its easier for a 2d to pass as an e or f than it is for a TSO.

I think Hornby didn't produce the 8 window version because at the time they only had the ex-Airfix 2d tooling whereas all the prototype Anglia liveried 8 window TSOs were 2e or 2f with diagonally positioned toilets (apart from one livery trial 2d that never ran in service?).

The site is up and running, it's that the previous into page has changed web address: http://www.emgauge70s.co.uk/ should work.

Another variation came just before WW2 when the LNER built some Dia 265 non-gangwayed lavatory thirds which had 8 compartments with a full length corridor and the lavatory at one end. they were of the steel panelled Gresley type. Some SR emus (2BILs?) were of a similar layout.

They only ever did one limited edition (for Modelzone) in late condition without headcodes. They sell for big money now. There was an earlier version based on the Mainline tool as well. Edit: Hattons have a second hand one for £210: http://www.hattons.co.uk/294209/Bachmann_Branchline_32_676Z_LN_Class_45_Peak_45048_The_Royal_Marines_in_BR_Blue_Limited_Edition_for_Modelzone_/StockDetail.aspx

That or there wasn't an air braked 08 handy.