TonyW590

Accucraft only made 50 NG15s...

Photo by Chris Hatton showing original battery box clips used before Western Talisman's derailment which caused them to be changed: Note rubber surrounds on valance cut-outs (which probably fell off within 5 miles of Swindon Works) and frosted centre bodyside window (on this side only). In later years the left-hand lamp bracket (as you look at the end) had a visible steel plate welded to the rear and above so that a standard (i.e. back-mounted instead of GWR side-mounted) lamp could be attached. The vertical access panel below the RH bodyside grille group only appears on one side of the loco (at B end) and was a later addition to allow access to the small air compressor. Similarly, the right-hand grille in the RH grille group is shown as hinged on your drawings, but this too was a later modification and they were fixed (the same as the others) originally.

Talking of windows ... the centre bodyside window on the B end to the left, A end to the right side is frosted glass to preserve the crew's modesty when using the urinal.

A couple of points based on my memories of working on D1013 and D1062 in the 1980s, and sincere apologies if these have been raised before and I have missed them in this thread. On one side of the loco (with B end at the right and A end at the left) is a hinged panel in the bodyside that allows access to the small air compressor's motor. It can be seen here in this photo of D1023 below the cooler group louvres. Like the hinged right-hand bodyside grille, this was a later addition and so does not appear on brand-new locos: Also, there are four lifting lugs on the top of the cooler group. These are basically square section steel radiused at the bottom to follow the roof line and then welded on. The tops are flat and square and contain a approx. 1 inch diameter tapped hole in to which lifting eyes can be screwed to allow the cooler group to be lifted. They can be seen above bodyside grilles 1 and 3 in this view of D1015: Tony Willmore