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Is dim dip side lights a testable part of the MoT test? As to make the relay system work I've isolated it, sidelights still work with their own bulbs

It's nice and neat spaghetti with moulded relay sockets, excellent value

Did the flasher unit still work?

Here's the Hong Kong relay kit http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/301610561727?redirect=mobile

I've just been looking on eBay and you can actually buy a kit for what I've done but less than £9 from Hong Kong so I've ordered one for when I get my maestro EFi back on the road. Has anyone had any experience with the new LED bulbs that are now available?

Do the modern uprated bulbs such as xenon draw anymore current?

I wonder if that is why modern cars been to get through them more quickly. It's a shame you can't buy a relay that plugs between the plug and the bulb with a 12v feed

Just done a successful mod to my old van which maybe of interest to others I've fitted a pair of relays to the headlights. With the original system the voltage at the lights was 11.9 and at the battery 14.7 so comparatively the difference is quite a high percentage. There is a relay each or the main and dipped beam and along with some high performance bulbs and a hell grille temporarily fitted for the winter the lights are now pretty good. Normally when driving a train at night then getting in a car the improvement of the cars lights is vast. Last week I had the opposite getting off a 68 with awesome lighting and into my van with about three candle power!

Did they only have the mk1?

Did they have the German V6 before us?

Looks like something from the early 70s matchbox range

I wondered why it said ten gallon maximum when most British cars of the time didn't hold that. Take it this is 1973 America?

A very painful one!

Sunbeams do seam to scare people, my ex broke her nails in my leg as went sideways over a bridge, and years before I had a mate who had a Ti his girlfriend's parents banned her from going in it!

To be honest I'm starting to be converted but why would it be in a train?

08s have been 15mph since the 70s that didn't stop them from long light engine runs in BR days. I've worked one from York to Thornaby which was one of the most tedious shifts I've ever done They did a few trips on Teesside with trains such as port Clarence and Hartlepool docks. The ironic thing about the Hartlepool one was the TOPS list used to say ' has sufficient brake force to run class 4, reinput leaving maximum speed field blank!'

You seem to be able to see more of the front of the 350 than you would expect if it were in a train

You've got me thinking now Phil! Seems a bit odd for what seems to be a block working of tubes to put a 350 randomly in the formation. It should be coupled to the locomotive

Looks like the 08 is on a siding or a loop in front of the train

When central train was broken up about 2005 one of the options for Norwich - Liverpool was transpennine until it was decided to create EMT

So was there no window or cut out in the cab side sheet?

I had a 225bhp lotus sunbeam , it should have had wipers on the side windows as it was hardly ever in straight line. Great fun but not very practical for Norfolk country roads. Ideal for the North Yorkshire moors

Don't they have stupid names for traction inspectors these days! Mind in the old days men were prompted to inspectors because of their knowledge of rules and traction. If there is a downside to the decent money the footplate pays these days it's the idiots the job attracts , these people come from other careers such as teaching and banking to name a couple, once passed out they find they don't like the shifts and end up being promoted to some stupid title that toc's gave dreamt up to avoid using a BR term. Once in these jobs they then start picking on traincrew for petty little misdemeanours that normal people wouldn't give a dam about and so morale goes down often to the delight of the again non railway senior managers. Thankfully my company isn't like that

Is the cab supposed to be like that Mick?

Straight ahead is the trackbed of the mineral line to Brampton which served a number of collieries in the area which I believe the last section closed in the late 50s