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Hi Folks,

 

I've been enjoying this thread in the time that it has been going and should I find my old photos I'll scan and post them.

 

However there was a post a few pages back that mentioned the colour of the roofs being a shade of greyish-beige representing the translucent glass fibre roofs. In the following link, post 38, there are four class 25's shewing their roof colours, one of which is ex works and is indeed a greyish beige.

 

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/56107-breakdown-traincrane/page-2

 

I am of an age that when Hornby first released a blue class 47 I was confused that it had a blue roof. the reason was because all of the ones I had ever seen were black with soot form the exhaust !

 

Gibbo.

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25 235. Nov' '81. In better days NINJA with Silver & Red buffers.

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Wellington Rd. Eccles, on the Liv' to Manc'. 4.20pm. 28-6-'83. 25 095 and TDB999503. heading Westbound.

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Ah right enough, thanks for that.

I've seen plenty of the scratch built ones and forgot about the ex-HB ones.

Seeing the large saloon windows I thought it might've been a mess coach or similar.

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Interesting little coach there - ex-horsebox with 2 large windows and a door in place of the loading doors?

Is it this one - DE 321107? http://www.departmentals.com/photo/321107

Same livery, listed as CE staff van, previously horse box E96305 it says.

Also at https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/lnerdepartmentalcoach/h39B145DB#h39b145db

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Is it this one - DE 321107? http://www.departmentals.com/photo/321107

Same livery, listed as CE staff van, previously horse box E96305 it says.

Also at https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/lnerdepartmentalcoach/h39B145DB#h39b145db

It appears to be the same vehicle with the same graffiti in Paul B' s picture.

Can't ever remember seeing this, from what can be seen of the internal layout it appears to be a mess van, but I wonder what it was initially converted for? The windows in the ends are strange just for a mess van it's almost like a small inspection saloon and the wasp striping suggests it was propelled at times. Also I wonder what it's second life was after the work being done in Paul's picture.

Has it survived? It would seem ideal for a preserved railway.

 

Described as an inspection saloon here

 

https://railphotoprints.uk/p539499575/h10E5B9C8

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