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Yes I agree, vehicles 5-9 look like Class 126 gangwayed power cars, which had the brake section behind the cab. The 10th looks like a non-gangwayed power car from the same class. Vehicle no. 4 is trickier - it seems to have a different body profile than the Mk1 coaches, a long stepboard and 6 windows without an intermediate door. Perhaps a Cl. 126 buffet car?

 

With the E-W 126's going out of service in 1971/2, they must have been hanging around for quite a while....

Think your right about it being a buffet. It does seem quite late for them to be sent for scrap, there are pictures of them stored at Wymondham awaiting breaking at king's

russ having had the experiance of sitting in the left hand seat in anger in a 6r4 i can assure you they were able to go a lot faster than 110 you may be thinking of the "clubman 300 " spec 6r4 which was the version sold to the public to clear what was left of the 200 off run required for homologation . this had a de tuned 300 bhp version of the v64v engine softer cams different air intakes and throttle bodies along with different exhaust manifolds and exhaust system . the full works spec 410+bhp version of the engine were a different kettle of fish entirely capable of 0-100 in 5 seconds from a standing start with the right gear and diff ratios so to restrict those beasties to 100mph would be a near impossibility ! i have seen in excess of 125 mph on one of the longer straits in Dalby on a test day .

I was thinking about the'production' version which was 250bhp these were the ones with a single throttle butterfly but could be ordered through Austin rover dealers. You are very lucky to have had a ride in one, the best sounding car ever! I had a ride in an RS200 a few years ago that was awesome but would have preferred the metro

 

I've never seen it but apparently there's a chap not far from me with a twin turbo 6R4 that is about 1000bhp!!

Have a look at this ,poor bloke has a bit of bother with a marina. Loads of quite familiar actors in in must have cost a bit to make

 

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Cracking cars there! I like the period slotmags on the estate. There is a bright green TC that goes to BL day at Peterborough that has slotmags. There is also another with a ford zetec head on a B series weird of what,but it works

The last one could be one of the power cars without the gangway. There is also a van on the back

J4191 above; fifth vehicle and last vehicle have yellow ends - now I wonder what they are?

 

Last vehicle also seems to have a headcode box.....

They look like Glasgow Edinburgh DMU cars

Walking on the edge... Rick Springfield

Feathers don't have to be for high speed routes, Peterborough has them at both ends of platforms 4 and 5.

I'm curious to why you have sub's under both end platform starters? As all routes can go behind the GPL s you have provided to set back. If you want the subs you will need limit of shunt indicators on the wrong direction movements

31970 on a trans pennine Newcastle to Liverpool service

 

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I remember seeing this i was working at my mates garage in Holbeck and saw it going past

Never noticed that! Theres a mint 1.3s up for auction at anglia car auctions. I'm thinking about it

Buy it!!!

There is a little known one just outside guisborough in Cleveland. The station was at the end of a branch as this was the end of the Middlesbrough and Guisborough railway. The line to the East was originally part of the Cleveland railway which started on the Tees and went across the branch at Guisborough to reach the mines of East Cleveland. When the two companies were taken into NER ownership they were linked and the Cleveland north of Guisborough abandoned. This was in the 1870s and amazingly the bridge abutments still survive

I thought I recognised the location. You should put it back to standard if you still have the bits. The brakes on rover metro's are rubbish same as maestro ones. Its a shame as the later Austin ones had turbo spec ones is servo vented 4 pot callipers even on a 1.0l

There isn't a way of fitting these to yours just decent pads.

They were fast though, I think they were the fastest metro as even though it did 0-60 in about 4 sec the standard 6R4 was rev limited and topped out about 110mph

That's excellent Phil, must be a multipoint injection one is it? Get it back on the road, quite rare especially if standard. Where was the picture taken?

Let's see if anyone else knows

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/94383-counties-without-railway-tunnels/

There was two decent length ones on the Louth to bardney line and there is also kirton. Branston is classed as a tunnel

Yes indeed.https://www.flickr.com/photos/pwayowen/15980973899/But i promise not to try and recreate this...https://www.flickr.com/photos/pwayowen/15545874953/

Thanks for that, I thought it was that cabin

 

RE Barsham tunnel, I wonder if it had any airshafts?

I did think about a tunnel on my Cley layout , I knew of barsham and wondered if a line was built down the glaven valley would a tunnel have been needed near Letheringsett

 

Speaking of tunnels is there any other county in the UK without one?

Superb pictures Chris, the wissington railway came within two miles of Lakenheath station and during WW2 consideration was given to joining it up

 

Also note to modelers note the unit is only displaying one tail lamp which was the rule of the day

My earlier reply was a bit rushed after getting in from work. If i had my way i'd build something like this 12 inch to the foot scale on the railway where i'm head of S&T.. I will have to settle for something smaller i feel but rest assured an ARP style flat top box will appear somewhere if it kills me. It may just look like this in fact....with thanks to google earth.ARP gate hut.jpgI'd say it had a three lever ground frame inside..

Is this the one between Fakenham and Walsingham

Your poor kids will have no Lego left at this rate!!

Don't bring me down.... ELO

The princess should have been the top selling car, but the stupid decisions made by BL messed things up. First they decided not to have a hatchback so as not to take sales away from the maxi. Also they didn't use the 4cyl E series which would have fitted an gave the car a 5 speed gearbox.

What they should have done was deleted the maxi at this time,which with hindsight probably shouldn't have been built in the first place, as it was basically taking sales from the 1800, and as for the three litre... Well a car that was smaller inside than the 1800 due to transmission tunnel and cost half as much again with hardly any if at all performance increase over the 1800S but much less frugal, only advantage was a bigger boot.

And the same bloke had the Gaul to make a program about who or what killed BL,I've never watched any of his stuff after they wrecked a princess, a dolomite and an SD1. Mans an idiot, turns out also when he was on tornado for that so called race he was only on the loco a couple of hours!

Read the 75 forums,the kv6 IS reliable

Stewart

Having read your earlier post you certainly don't seem to have had any problems

To be fair k series head gaskets aren't really worse than a lot of others , I've heard fiat head gaskets fail even more, but it was a national sport in the British press to always criticise Leyland and its successors. I still lay the blame for the end of rover at their door.

I think they're only unreliable if not maintained correctly. AFAIK, if the correct coolant is used and changed at the correct intervals, they're not as bad as made out, much like the original V8 in the Triumph Stag.

I had an MGZR160 that was maintained properly but it still had head gasket failure, there have been a few Leyland engines with bad reputations like you say the stag v8 and also the straight 6 in the SD1 that when properly maintained are good units but I'm afraid the KV6 doesn't seem to be one of them. As stated earlier the K4 with modern gaskets is a good unit.