hexagon789
Veteran Member
To be honest which the carriage working books would prescribe formations to be followed, in practice that didn't always occur. Vehicles would be swapped for others of similar or different type as necessary if maintenance requirements demanded it.Yeah it’s just a bit of a concoction of various bedside lamps and an old mini strip light thing out of my dads old kitchen really. Just the main light in the room isn’t enough that’s for sure, but you can brighten up photos on the phone a bit once you’ve taken them as well obviously.
New post!
Right then, @hexagon789 - What have I got wrong here?
Too near the front of the train (I actually did that for photographic purposes)?
The coach is the wrong way around?
Operational advice needed…
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The prime consideration was keeping the service running, followed by trying to maintain similar seating capacity/dining arrangements as possible.
For a catering car, next to First Class was the most common arrangement, but on services which split or had catering vehicles only part journey, those catering vehicles would be placed where most operationally convenient, such as in the middle or at the extreme front or rear to allow easy detaching.
The WoE in the 1970s with Mk1s for instance usually had a Mk1 RU, immediately next to a full First FK on one side and and an open second the other side used for "fluid dining".
I'd need to check some carriage books for later years and the immediate pre-NSE days, but that was the situation in the early 1970s before a lot of catering provision on secondary routes was significantly rationalised.
The vehicle pictured looks like an RU, but carrying Restaurant Buffet branding would make it a post-rationalising conversion to RU(B) or RBR.
I can't make out the number though, which would make it easier to identify - because I can just look it up straightaway in one of my books and cheat with the identification!