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According to the brdatabase.info website it carried about 14 boilers during its service life, and was paired with about 10 different tenders. It was also rebuilt from A1 to A3 in late LNER days then converted from R/H to L/H drive by BR.

I've found that a number of my recent locos have come with badly adjusted pickups, to the extent that at least one wheel is always missing them on curves. The other thing I have noticed is that some wheels need cleaning even 'straight out of the box'. I not only clean the treads, but also the inside surface where the pickup makes contact. It's sometimes surprising how much dirt you can get off that face.

There were a couple of BTP/NR displays at shows I attended last year.

There is a list somewhere on Robert Carroll's Yahoo Group for Loco Hauled Coaching Stock giving details of remaining pre-nationalisation designs which got as far as Blue/Grey livery

Does that throw Thursday's events into doubt?

Realtime Trains now showing a run to Scarborough and back on Monday http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U50655/2016/02/22/advanced http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U50656/2016/02/22/advanced then to Wembley Euro Freight on Tuesday. http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U50657/2016/02/23/advanced and turning via Action Wells and Mitre Bridge http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U50658/2016/02/23/advanced Edit: Links added

A possible hint http://www.rmweb.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=39593 Great Central Sacre 2-4-0?

It was the original livery at the time of fitting German Blinkers, and of conversion to left hand drive, although the thingy on the side of the tender was different for about the first four years of that incarnation.

Northern have put out a temporary timetable for the passenger service. It looks as if the booked times for the WCME don't fit in with this across the section of single line working.

Will the WCME be running tomorrow in view of the landslip problems on the S&C?

That should show if the job's been a good'un

Note that as usual we have a BR Brake Van about 3 from the back. Got to keep the guard warm.

47s from the Brush built batch D1682 onwards started appearing at Oxley around December the end of 1963. They started taking over the trains to Paddington early in 1964 and quickly displaced the Westerns from most services. The demise of steam on LNW lines came mainly with the extension of the wires south of Crewe. by 1964 plenty of Class 40s became spare and took over most of the remaining Birmingham - London services. Other services were usually Class 24s or steam. At that time daily NE-SW services at New St were largely in the hands of Class 45s. Dated and additional trains were often steam.

Steam officially finished in the West Midlands with the closure of Snow Hill in March 1967. .

Or this, on the Soho Pool Branch in 1981.

Oh $*1*. Just laid 30 yards of code 75 and 15 points.

Looks like a good reason to go to Pontefract on Saturday

Correct, forgot about the two which never got rebuilt.

Longsight is currently doing the H4 service programme on Pendolinos. That seems to be the equivalent of a heavy gerneral in old money. Last year they opened a new bogie shop which can overhaul the complete set of bogies for an 11-car set in a week. they are now putting in a £1m parts warehouse.

And Hornby already have the Star tooling to do one in the correct period. 4063 to 4072 carried Abbey names.

The depot is used by Alstom for a lot of maintenance work. As it was built to take a Eurostar North of London set it can lift a complete 11-car Pendolino. IIRC it has also been used for overnight checks on XC Voyagers under contract.

Always a good diversionary tactic in organisational consultations when the Staff side weren't making much progress was to get the conversation round to "...but whose job is it to check the person who is checking it's done right?" Management Chairman usually lost his thread and called a tea break.

Shock, Horror, newly-built trains on local services in the North. Is it 1st April already?

They have to keep a shop to get Bachmann stuff.