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  1. russ p
    For some reason I had no idea they lasted that long. Did they out last the Thompson's then, and I suppose they got blue and grey
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    I didn't realise a Gresley had survived. How did that happen as they were withdrawn before preservation got of the ground as far as I know
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    It must be getting on for 20 years now since it was cut up. Think it was a WCML one, I seem to remember when I first saw it it was blue and grey with Inter-city sleeper on it Were you a volunteer on the NNR then?
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    Love the the triang high level piers at Radcliffe! The problem with those post war sleepers is that most if not all were full of blue asbestos making any corrosion repairs difficult Not sure if the 12w LMS one a Pickering got scrapped but the 8w one a Sheringham did but by the end of its use was absolutely rank. Cheap mk3 sleepers in the 90s saw off a lot of older ones
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    Is there actually any LNER or LMS sleepers left?
  6. russ p
    Well I can assure you that is wrong
  7. russ p
    The top one is on when any of the white lights are on. The top one is just a marker and doesn't have a halo. Unfortunately when running across the Broads at night it draws the attention of owls for some reason
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    On the real thing it's impossible to have the headlights on without the halo's
  9. russ p
    There were some of these on Teesside
  10. russ p
    With the interest this has generated I'm sure there is a market for a ready to plant or kit for these houses, especially as they are more or less standard nation wide
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    Great picture Nidge, I had no idea they were made at the same plant
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    Those don't appear to have that red line that 002 has but as its so small may not show up One other difference in the livery is where the logo on the 68s is made up of an OS map of Cumbria the 88 has one thats a map of the Crewe area
  13. russ p
    In Tees up yard the train was drawn into the departure sidings and a van was gravitated from some inclined sidings called a kip and attached to the rear of a train
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    2051 was late to get stripes, there is footage of it on n YouTube doing the very last train to Robin Hoods bay in 1967 in a film called sentimental journey but by then it has stripes and yellow buffer beams and double arrows. As I write this it currently sits about half a mile away
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    The loco could be a twenty, looking at the nose end
  16. russ p
    Very nice but not sure what a baby deltic is doing there!
  17. russ p
    You can fold headcode discs either way The most common way is over the lamp but I've seen pictures with discs folded both ways on the same cab front
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    I bet that DEMU sounded good if not too heavily silenced
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    There are some really dark concrete ones in Norwich and if they weren't ugly enough they have all got massive solar panels on now. Most of them in the villages round here are brick, there are some at Cley next the sea which look over the river to blakeney church must have some of the nicest views round here. I reckon if they come up for sale they would be over £300k
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    Corrugated steel! I bet they are noisy in a storm
  21. russ p
    A sight probably never to be seen again sadly
  22. russ p
    Thanks for the replies, a shame those peedie ones aren't brick apart from having no chimneys they are excellent . I'll need about five or six but unfortunately they only have one in stock
  23. russ p
    Anything with beardie's logo on suggests to me naff,poor quality pretending to be hip! The actual logo represents what branson is !
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    That livery is horrendous. Does absolutely nothing for the lines of the loco. How come in this country we have to change liveries every few years whereas most other countries in the world liveries last for years often for the full life of a traction unit. There was an article a while back in a magazine about the bloke who designed this livery, nothing he said made sense either just out to fill his pockets by preaching rubbish to the TOCs
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    Weren't these more or less 37s in a different package?
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