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Article #28033Re: Action 2 query (grovelling to Michael Blunk)
From: Ronnie Clark
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 22:00
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 22:00
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>.. it´s not such an easy decision, anyway. > >Let´s see how Ronnie is going to handle this. :o) I don't see why it's that difficult at all, really! Take the class 86. In real life, they were built for passenger services on the West Coast Main Line. They carried "Electric blue" livery, then "Rail blue". During the "Rail blue" era, they started work on various high-speed freight services. During sectorization, then, those that carried mail were put into "RES red", freight ones into "Railfreight grey", and the passenger ones "Corporate grey". They all stayed class 86, but they just got repainted depending what they were carrying. I suppose it's because Britain has generally always been strapped for cash when it comes to spending on the railways, we just always hang onto our old locos, putting them on whatever service is required, and giving them a paint job to make them look new (ie, creating at least the IMPRESSION that money has been spent, even though it hasn't!) Ronnie -- Volunteer guard on the Great Central Railway, Loughborough, Leicestershire Visit the world's only double track preserved steam railway! http://www.gcrailway.co.uk
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