BernardTPM Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 (edited) A picture at the top of page 4 has the TOPS code NVV, so vacuum braked only. TCV is not a TOPS code, of course, despite looking a bit like one (much like the old SPV ex- Insulfish vans). Edited August 25, 2021 by BernardTPM 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 On 23/08/2021 at 19:24, montyburns56 said: A great picture for livery reference... Perth 1967 by George Woods Looking forward to Heljan's release of these in OO, fabulous!!! 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 On 15/07/2021 at 20:07, montyburns56 said: A nice set of pictures which might inspire someone to produce a model of the TCV Newton Chambers Car Carriers. Pretty please.... by Jamerail So I'm taking the credit for the Heljan model. You can all thank me at your leisure.... 😉 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted November 24, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 24, 2022 47 minutes ago, montyburns56 said: So I'm taking the credit for the Heljan model. You can all thank me at your leisure.... 😉 I think you'll find Mr Bullock beat you to it on page 3! Mike. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 Motorail GUVs at Euston 1995 by Nic Joynson 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted September 25, 2023 Share Posted September 25, 2023 I've found that pictures of the Motorail GUVs in blue grey are surprisingly rare so... NXA E96130 at Ferme Park sidings on 5 March 1988 by Michael J Collins 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flood Posted September 25, 2023 Share Posted September 25, 2023 5 hours ago, montyburns56 said: I've found that pictures of the Motorail GUVs in blue grey are surprisingly rare so... Not totally surprising, a considerable number went from plain blue to Swallow. The problem is that the Platform 5 books don't show the liveries correctly. For March 1988 there were 50 Motorail GUVs (either renumbered as 96xxx or allocated that series) of which, from checking the Ian Allan combined and photos, 31 were still plain blue, 17 were blue and grey and 2 were in InterCity Executive. From late 1988 all Motorail GUVs started to be painted in Swallow. It is not helped that the vast majority of photos on Flickr seem to be from 1991 onwards. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonC Posted September 26, 2023 Share Posted September 26, 2023 9 hours ago, Flood said: Not totally surprising, a considerable number went from plain blue to Swallow. The problem is that the Platform 5 books don't show the liveries correctly. For March 1988 there were 50 Motorail GUVs (either renumbered as 96xxx or allocated that series) of which, from checking the Ian Allan combined and photos, 31 were still plain blue, 17 were blue and grey and 2 were in InterCity Executive. From late 1988 all Motorail GUVs started to be painted in Swallow. It is not helped that the vast majority of photos on Flickr seem to be from 1991 onwards. Was there any difference in how Intercity Executive and Swallow were applied to motorail GUVs? They were never lettered with INTERCITY like the passenger carrying coaches Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted September 26, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 26, 2023 I'm sure I've seen a photo where INTERCITY was painted on one of the wooden boards. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
25kV Posted September 26, 2023 Share Posted September 26, 2023 27 minutes ago, keefer said: I'm sure I've seen a photo where INTERCITY was painted on one of the wooden boards. That feels familiar. There's a photo in Parkin's Mk1 book which has "Motorail" in italic INTERCITY-style font on the chalkboards - the photo is too small to get a good look. Ah - wait - Flickr is our friend: https://www.flickr.com/photos/r-t-c/19437413962/ (and a couple more searching on "Intercity GUV Motorail"). 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted September 26, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 26, 2023 1 hour ago, 25kV said: That feels familiar. There's a photo in Parkin's Mk1 book which has "Motorail" in italic INTERCITY-style font on the chalkboards - the photo is too small to get a good look. Ah - wait - Flickr is our friend: https://www.flickr.com/photos/r-t-c/19437413962/ (and a couple more searching on "Intercity GUV Motorail"). Unless that's what I was thinking of - I can't be sure, was a few years ago! Good spot on the Motorail though. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris M Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 (edited) Back on page 3 in 2020 I had decided I couldn’t really do a Motorail train. Well this year I changed my mind. I do N gauge and there were no Motorail carflats available so I had to do it the hard way and repaint/rebrand some Railease carflats. I ran these in a 5+5 set at Farnham last weekend and they raised a good deal of interest. At Warley NEC I will be running 5 coaches plus 6 carflats. Ok it’s still not right but it makes an impressively long and different train. Although I see this train as a late 1960s train I reckon it would also work well as a 1980s train with just the Motorail carflats and no coaches hauled by a 50. Edited October 19, 2023 by Chris M 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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