DVLR Dave

At one time these were available from the North Eastern Railway Association-their web site gives possible sources: https://sites.google.com/site/northeasternrailwayassociation/research-information/research---stations

It is very nice - but it is a J25. I am slowly putting together what I hope will be a reasonable portrayal of the DVLR's last J25 65714. If it looks half as good as this I will be very satisfied.

That was quick-thank you-does that mean that class 60s are returning to regular use on this working?

Class 60s used to be the regular motive power for the Peak Forest-Selby (Potter Group) trains, but their used ceased some years ago. Last night I was suprised to see one heading south at about 9.30 p.m. from Selby on the Doncaster line. It was running light and was in what appeared to be freshly applied DBS red. The working isn't on Real Time Trains. Does anybody know what it was and why it was there?

There was also Government timber stockpiling in the 1950's-no timber merchants as such- just stacks of timber by the lineside, with new loads arriving as the older wood was sold off in rotation.

Yes, I think that you are right-there is photograph of a model of a D 25 CCT in North Eastern Record Vol 2, and it seems to have the features seen here-which are fairly distinctive.

Here's an older van, and something a bit different-it has end doors, so possibly some sort of CCT/scenery van. Photographed on Walmgate Stray (Low Moor) Allotments in York in 1989-it was burnt out a few years later. Can anybody please tell me what it was?

Apologies of this has appeared before *Marina* van at Skipton 1987:My link And a Bruff at Holbeck 1986: My link

As I stated earlier, the cabs both the Bedfords and the Scarab were built specifically for each chassis manufacturer by Willenhall, and they had spme panels in common. I wasn't , as far as I understand it, a case of Scammell receiving a Bedford cab, then altering it-Scammell designed the body of the Scarab to incorporate some of the pressings Willenhall was already using to make the Bedford cab-Willenhall then made up the cabs, the ones for the Scarab included Scammell designed rear panels and nose.

The cabs for both the Bedord O and the Scarab were made by the Wilenhall Motor Radiator Co. in Wednesfield in the West Midlands. The Scammell cab used some of the same pressings as the cabs for Bedford, though the Bedford cab was produced first.

The horsebox looks like an Albion

As Arthur says The Q plate was introduced in August 1983 but the other change he mentioned took place at the same time i.e. age related registrations for previously unregistered vehicles known to have been built after 1964. If an ex military vehicle was known to have been bult in 1974, it would have been allocated the apropriate letter for that year. If the vehicle was kit built or of uncertain age it received a Q registration. Pre 1964 vehicles where the original identity could not be proved, or where the vehicle was imported, received numbers in the *SV*** series (although other combinations of previously unissued numbers have been used since). 1930 and earlier vehicle were issued with a BS**** series numbers. I seem to remember a lot of recovery vehicle receiving Q plates when they were no longer allowed to operate on trade plates-many could have been accurately dated, but presumably the paperwork wasn't around and a year letter not impotant to the owner.

jcb3cs photograph/still was taken on this street in London: Artillery Row, Westminster, London, SW1P 1RH, which is not far from Victoria Station. This is how it looks today: My link

Has this appeared on this thread before?