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Is thelocomotive on staion pilot duties or for a Royal train duty?

Please describe the era of which your locomotive is intended to represent, a design of 1930s/1940s /1950s/60s/70s/80s/90s or later. Is your locomotive a mixed traffic , dedicated freight, or dedicated passenger duty locomotive? Please be aware that the political and economic climate of the country, wars and recessions, suppressed many fledgling locomotive products, for example, post-grouping in the 1920s, the ex-L&Y CME and Horwich Works were designing electric traction for a stilborn Crewe to Carlisle scheme, and companies including Armstrong Whitworth were trialing a universal diesel locomotive capable of working in multiple. the dieselisation of our railways was a very delayed ideal of the railway engineers. the locomotives on BR could have been very different if in 1948 BR had inherited large fleets of twenty year old diesels from the "Big Four"

LNER DES1, I think they were numbered 15000 /1/2/3, From memory I saw 3 or 4 of the class at Crewe South steam shed in September 1967, how a non-standard class of shunters from the Eastern Region found their way to Crewe escapes me. Is there anyone on the forum able confirm their presence at Crewe South?

Can anyone identify the Highland Omnibus coach in the image of 1973. Is it a Burlingham Seagull?

Tilbury Riverside station on the River Thames is another example, but possibly too grand for the purpose. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=tilbury+riverside+station&iax=images&ia=images&iai=http%3A%2F%2Ftott.org.uk%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F08%2Fhistory.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilbury_Riverside_railway_station

Has anyone thought of the name of the Station with the image of the Deltic? It is not Doncaster, The headcode is 1E14, trains to London were indicated by had A within the headcode, E (Eastern Region?) , therefore I think this is a down train Some weak guesses, Peterborough Retford York?

Train reporting headcodes, the images show the display format number/letter/numbers. In the early days of the WCML electric era, some images have the headcodes on the electric locos as letter/number/number/number. When did the headcode format change?

1) Is the controller a design which senses back-emf from the track voltage? 2) 16 x 12 feet is long, how many controller to track feeder wires to the outer loop, and are they of good thick wire?

St James Bridge near the Plant to the Kelham Street gate, only a half-mile walk, do you recall "bunking" 36A? The camera point was the usual place to leave the path and cross the shed roads out of sight of the Shedmaster, no-one challenged your presence on that pathway of the shed, the road occupied by 9F and the next road became a storage point for lines of withdrawn GC O1/O4 2-8-0 locos,

I do not think the 9F is at the Doncaster Plant, I think the 9F is at 36A Carr Loco, in the background is Sandbank an abandoned quarry with a high wall and the Balby Bridge, to the left is the up hump yard, the path to the right of the loco the fence leads to the Kelham Street gate, the building on the right in the skyline is the Vine Pub at the top of the hill of Kelham Street, behind the 9F is a derelict structure which I think is an abandoned coaling stage Here is a link to a loco photographed on the same road at 36A:

Hornby Railroad "Limby" products, the class 47, 31, 73, which have replaced the old 1970s Hornby/Triang products, do they fit the RAM-D ctriterion? They seem to last and are easy to take apart and repair.

The Stanier Pacific lacks the yellow warning stripe on the cabside, it does have what is an overhead electrification warning flash panel just ahead of the cylinder footplate area, does that give any extra information as to the date or identity?

We are living through strange times, with unusual choices of prototypes, DHP1, GT3, gas turbines, Jones Goods, E2001, 10800, whatever next, a Bulleid / Raworth Southern Electric class 70 "Hornby" ?

Fora recent project, drums of copper cable were stored in a guarded warehouse with three security guards allocated for each drum, each drum had a value of about £35000 , and the cable was critical to delivery of the project to time

Looking at the first carriage behind the failed diesel, is there a person standing on the carriage roof, back to the camera?

1972, 30th April, 50 year anniversary of the final Brighton Belle Pullman service.

Yes the Flydown is double track, but within the last 10 years, the poster is interested in the period 1988/90

Have you considered modelling St Johns, the next up the line? More interesting than Hither Green, Lucas Street Tunnel and retaining wall cutting as a visual entry/exit point for movements, there is the single track reversible flydown connecting Lewisham to the Up Fast and Down Fast , the Lewisham Bridge as another visual entry/exit point , and on the slow lines, the junction for the North Kent lines to Lewisham or Blackheath, or the slow lines towards Hither Green station avoiding Lewisham

The AL6 is hauling 25 to 30 wagons which appear to be loaded, therefore 400 tons to be braked, what were the regulations for an unfitted freight, the maximum speed and braking load of an AL6 on unfitted wagons? From the headcode, a class 8 train

I was a driver for 20+ years , working J, Z, Q, headcodes. J is the majority of the stock I drove, Q about 10%, and 2 units were Z, the Z workings were very unpopular with signallers, a lot of extra work for them, J workings would be downgraded to a Z if the track circuit actuators failed out on open road. So I'm writing about the work I was trained to do. For your level crossing , perhaps the signaller can guarantee the barriers are down so the driver does not have to approach at caution to check them? Finally it is not that Z stock are not operating the track circuits, it is that they are not 100% "guaranteed" to operate them, hence the special cautionary setting of the routes by the signaller

So which pubs did you visit after the show, and how long did you stay in each? How many of Doncaster's finest, shouty shouty / ear-piercing screaming hen party girls were out on the town?

I cannot explain all of your queries, but Q and Z are reserved letters in headcodes, Z means not guaranteed to operate track circuits and an instruction to the signaller to work the train through his panel accordingly, locking points in the route on his point control switches and the driver making cautionary approaches to level crossings. Those short train formations may not be guaranteed to operate track circuits, longer trains would not have the problem. Q means train not to deviate from the published route issued by controi, if the route published is via platform 3, then platform 3 it must be, the signaller does not have the discretion to signal through another platform , usually applies to gauge restricted stock

Great British Railways Headquarters. October 2021 announcement of a public competition to select a location for the HQ of GBR Applicants can be: District councils Borough councils City councils Unitary authorities Metropolitan boroughs County councils Mayoral and non-mayoral combined authorities Welsh counties or county boroughs Scottish unitary authorities see link https://gbrtt.co.uk/hq/ As a levelling up measure, London is excluded. What will lhappen to the current HQ premises of Network rail?

The Woodhead electrics, EM2 and the named EM1 locos, I think they had electric element steam heating boilers, the LMR AL1 to AL5 locos, had boiler coaches in the formation, does anyone have photos or details of the boiler coaches? A boiler coach go well with a Bachmann AL5 model

Closed and derelict long before 2010, the date of the image, in fact all pubs in Hexthorpe of Doncaster long gone or closed down 20 years ago,, there is only a working mans club left in Hexthorpe, a similar sitation in Balby or Hyde Park areas of Doncaster, the urban areas of the town are dry, only the town centre "wet".