Recent content by Moog_1984

They did, you can see the ethylene glycol mentioned on various cut away diagrams of the APT. It was a very cold winter when the launch took place so they probably did not have enough antifreeze. Water alone has a lot of issues so a production APT would have probably had synthetic hyrdaulic fluid...

I think these were still being built in the 1970s!!! Had some extra pipe on the ends on the roof IIRC. We used to drop me dad off on the WHL southbound quite often. He said he got a reasonable nights sleep which is more than can be said for waking up cold and with a dry throat on the mrk IIIs...

1S81/1A03/4N06 was the classic move for a roarer to Mossend, any Boilered loco and sometimes an NB to perth and then either that same loco forward to Aberdeen and eventually Elgin. Here is a flavour of the sparky locos to Mossend and the delights which followed, including 40s, boilered and...

37 188 was a really nice example when it came to Scotland in the early 80s. Great thrash without the clag and failures of 175 amongst others at the time! 37 264 was also another anti clagger which was minted in 1983/4. With Big logo and grey roof it took over as fav' Of the original 37...

One, good result on 37 138 because the run was booked a boilered 37 through out the year to be able to heat the first Mallaig service once in Ft W. Pretty rare through GSQst Low level then too, but there were some diversions. A year earlier and the then Mrk 1 bedz were split on the...

Well let's face it you would have been spotting mostly on saturdays / evenings, and there is a photo of a warship (43) north of Dunblane. I think I recall right that the original AIAs and the 43s were buiit at St.Rollox, north Glasgow with access to the two routes north so this is as likely...

Hampden park internationals / cup finals produced various carnage. 'Also some foot- and rugg- exes 'frae Glesga' went via Shotts, which was a hard route to get locohauled on.

Blackpool is an interesting one: Brum drivers from Kiddieminster ? York is North of there and also it was normal service trains that the odd western got through the net on. But the warships produced at NBL in glasgow got at least to Perth, probably dundee too. I'd like to hear a flight...

They were a tenner in the mid eighties....and still mrk Is. Usually a bit off season, spring and autumn saturdays. From Glesga' C, if you got to warrington it would be Rhyl, 'Dudno or Chester. Crewe and it could be Shrewsbury or Chester. A really fast diagram whatever, those 1Z's ...

still happening, Avast picks up a Trojan Horse threat from some game ad link. Need to get a better cross-domain policy with your ad' seller....

It is I suppose inevitable that the real direct service to the Highland's capital via mossend is not 'economic', but most sensible in giving a London - Inv. through service- being maybe more than an hour quicker than going into either terminal given you had gone through Brum to pick up from...

..and sundays only at that! Not much cop for commuters other than those with hang overs. I thought it was ECS craigentinny - GSQst. Bit like the 0705 Ayr- Glasgow in them there days. Formed the "up" Royal Scot.

which is where the term "when the **it hits the fan" comes from- a long standing bad habit amongst US and UK drivers when faced with a loo at the wrong end of the loco or no loo atall.

So were some of the electrics not up to the job, the Voith transmission too and there was some stuff not used from the original design?

Which is a little academic since TOPS came in in 1973 and D833-865 were all withdrawn.....they were bo bo warships with different gubbins (MAN/VOITH) ........cut up despite actually attaining better availability and MPC than duffs and erm Westerns :oops: in the mid - late 60s once the NBL...