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I asked for Matt,not sure if we didn't darken it, but it looks OK. Check out my layout pictures

Out off all the ones that have been battered over here this is definitely the worst, certainly none of the others have had internal damage to the saloon

Not really sure as never seen one uncovered, but with the old and new together does look a bit confusing. Still he should have rang the box whatever

Ironically it's Tata foy8, ITPB grey mixed with a Matt rather than gloss varnish

Apparently the train driver has hurt his hand and isn't serious which is good. Let's hope the tractor driver pulls through. The unit driver stayed in the cab,think I'd have shoved the brake into emergency hit the red button on the GSMR and legged it into the train! Farm implements have nasty cab piercing bits on them, the unit has taken a battering, just what Anglia needed especially being a three car

The car shop mixed me a big can of track grime, I have it somewhere if you want the code we used. We always go to Wells never seem to have bother parking but ,we don't normally go on bank holidays

They did have some ,back rh corner of shop! Do you ever go to Wells? There is a cheap shop there that sells aerosol cans called this and that. He didn't have any the other week but sometimes has decent sized cans of clear Matt varnish for £1.50. It's as good as humberol but a quarter of the price for more! For silver paint I use steel wheel silver from fastlane

Were vans and the like built to separate diagrams from mainland stock on account of the tighter loading gauge?

I love boom gates for some reason, the only location I know of them outside the former NE region was Parkeston. The redmire branch had a few handwoked sets

If you could find the Hornby 31 in blue with skirts and put a white stripe on it it would look a lot better as the normal one has little or no definition to the waist height plating

That first shot is absolutely stunning Dave, is that the get carter staithes opposite?

I ordered a coach on Tuesday and it turned up yesterday morning, great value too

I love scenes like these,real jobs for real men. Makes you proud to be British!

There isn't anything wrong with a J94 and few coaches on fairly big railways in the low season they are very cheap to run. The North Norfolk used to be like that but now seems happy running either a WD or 9F 2-10-0 with a a dozen or so passengers, probably why its always having appeals for everything it wants t do! There are plenty of other loco's which look odd with passenger trains other than industrials. Fine loco's they may be but J27s,Q6s to name two were never fitted with train brakes so couldn't haul passenger trains

Was it purely for economy?

If you could get them it would be worth doing as your standard of modelling is excellent

Looking very good but wasn't R3 based on the national 2 which had a more chunky front end to accommodate a radiator on the road version

Were they only WR?

Love the pictures of Bowes, such a shame what happened there. I've said to you before about north east industrial photos there should be a pornography button! I saw working inclines at seaham but really kick myself for not going north of the Tees in the 80s to visit more installations such as Harton and ashington

If the taillamps are working there's no need for a flashing one

Did it ever run in public service with the mk1 catering vehicle?

Had a poke about the surviving power car on Friday, it appears that the original jumper cables high level ones similar to blue Pullman ones. Prototype mk3s must have evidence of plating over these cables. Something else I found strange was the ETH is two sockets rather than the usual socket and cable on the opposite side. When it sounded rather different when ticking over,this I was told that it idles at 750rpm regardless if it has the ETH on, whereas the production ones idled as high as 1000rpm when supplying 3 phase power to the train

Can see why there is a flashing tail lamp on this as 423 has the tail lamp switch in the closest cab unlike the other 37/4s which is in the opposite end

There's going to be plenty of closed works soon so any of those

Thats looking really good, shame you haven't got room for a disused opening just to add to the grime of the area at the time