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As part of the continual update of my spotting log site, I have reached 1976 in my tidying up and adding depot allocations to locos seen at the various locations. However, I have no details of the class 43 early allocations when introduced. I have Locoshed books for 1976 and 1977, but there...

Does anyone recognise this disused station? The photo was in a strip of negatives, most of which are in the S&C area. That is Settle & Carlisle.

If you own a number of 31s in Dutch livery, but have only bought a very few wagons; this will see you right. Unfortunately, the MGR train will set you back a few hundred quid, but is not compulsory. 31551 & 31569 in charge of one wagon at Willington on December 20th 1994.

I have raised this question elsewhere, but no one ever seems to give a satisfactory answer gained from an inside knowledge of the decision. Why were the last twelve Brush 4s numbered D1100 to D1111? (Yes I know they ran out of numbers at D1999) Why not do the slightly more logical...

I am trying to compile a list of loco workings through South Devon during the last 2 weeks of August 1969. I know that it is almost half a century ago, but I spent a lot of time at Exeter and Newton Abbot during that fortnight, with occasional forays to Temple Meads, and have my spotting notes...

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"A 50-wagon special train of cinders and ashes for the construction of the 1956 Olympic Games running tracks at Melbourne, Australia, was run by the London Midland Region from Syston, Leicester to Immingham Docks for shipment on May 1. Special headboards were attached to the engine before the...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0e485x1nJg Lord James of Blackheath: My Lords, I hope the minute that that has taken has not come off my time. I do not wish noble Lords to get too encouraged when I start with my conclusions but I will not sit down when I have made them. I will then give the...

The lamp in my fish tank (or aquarium if you want to be posh) is one of those fluorescent tube things, and is nearing the end of its days. If I lift the tank lid and look at it, it is flickering at such a rate I cant look at it for more than a couple of seconds without feeling rather unwell...

Sorry if this has been discussed before, but can anyone tell me if 00 scale versions of the red and white restricted clearance plates are available? I cant find a good photo of them in real life either to show what I mean, without trawling through maybe hundreds of pictures, but they are...

This is a long shot, but here goes. On several 1960s videos which feature the Settle & Carlisle, that I have in my collection, there are clips of a long and heavy train carrying track panels, with concrete sleepers, on bogie bolsters. This train is usually (but not always) headed by a pair...

Reading an article in the Railway Magazine, concerning the arrival of D1500 at Finsbury Park towards the end of September 1962, it occurred to me that had the BTC just waited a few more years and not had their rush to build large quantities of untried Pilot Scheme locomotives, the taxpayer could...