that clip of shutting the engine down in the shed brought back a memory of loosing most of a mug of tea while in the cab of a 27 when the driver shut down the engine
LOL. Aye, never knew they were so shoogley when they shut down. No. 038 looks fantastic. Any plans to paint one of the other BRCW Type 2's in their original BR green with white cab surrounds, body side "go faster" stripes plus small yellow warning panels ?
I noticed at ELR diesel gala the class 33 was rocking while ticking over, first time I had seen that, I did not see many, but plenty of 26 / 27's on Scottish holidays
@@wullie3xv923 The restoration of 27005 is now in full swing at the Bo'ness diesel shed. This will take a couple of years but the loco will be in outshopped in original as new green livery. Thanks for commenting Wullie.
@@BONESS27001 Thanks for replying, that's great news. Look forward to seeing her once finished. Need to get across & have a good look around all your auld Diesel's.
Hi there. Just had our diesel gala at the Glos and Warwicks railway. 5310 performed well too. 5343 still in bits. well done in getting 26038 up and running. Hope to get up there next year for a weekend and have some of Duchys' food again. Caroline
Can't beat a McRat,and the 26 is looking magnificent ❤️🏴 👍🏻 If i remember correctly 038 was at the Inverness open day,back in 1986,and I got to visit the cab,think it was inside the shed.
Class 26038 was at Inverness open day in 1986 as you said. The loco hasn't changed much since then.We hope to have the cab headlights working soon. Thanks for your comment.
All of the 26s did have cab door windows when new. The blanking off was a Scottish depot / works mod. A few for the restored ones now have cab door windows. Thanks for your comment.
The 26s allocated to Inverness depot had tablet catcher apparatus fitted under the driver's cab window. The story I had heard was that this could be a bit temperamental with the tablet flying off occasionally and smashing the cab door window, hence the blanking off.
Lovely to see the 26 in action and it's a truly superb restoration for which you all are to be congratulated upon: seems hard to believe they started their lives working outer suburban services out of King's Cross! One small nit-pick, if I may: how come the number is correctly placed as 26 038 on one side, but as 26038 (with no space) on the other? The sound takes me back to 25s operating late at night on the ECML, the sound drifting up towards my bedroom window...
Thanks for your comment Howard. I didn't notice the difference in the number spacing. I'll ask our rivet counters at Bo'ness. This might be as per BR in the 1980's.
The GNER decal was donated to the diesel group. We decided to attach this to 27005 to wind up the spotters during 2016 as the cab front would be removed that year for restoration. The loco was then put into storage for other reasons and the GNER decal is still attached. This will be removed this year.
Looks magnificent! Sounds awesome!! Brings back happy memories of "train spotting" when I was a kid!!! Cheers, Ross.
Thanks for your comment Ross 👍.
If you cant have a 12 cylinder sulzer, or even an 8 cylinder, dont worry. The little 6 cylinder are lovely little engines.
I agree.
The six pots are great little locos.
Thanks for your comment Brian.
Awesome diesels to love!
Thanks for your comment Daniel 👍
Beautiful, love the old locos
Thanks for your comment James.
Love these small Sulzers. 26038 looks superb.
Thanks for your kind comment.
The days of BR locos will NEVER be matched, ever!
I agree.
Thanks for commenting.
that clip of shutting the engine down in the shed brought back a memory of loosing most of a mug of tea while in the cab of a 27 when the driver shut down the engine
LOL. Aye, never knew they were so shoogley when they shut down. No. 038 looks fantastic. Any plans to paint one of the other BRCW Type 2's in their original BR green with white cab surrounds, body side "go faster" stripes plus small yellow warning panels ?
Thanks for commenting James.
I noticed at ELR diesel gala the class 33 was rocking while ticking over, first time I had seen that, I did not see many, but plenty of 26 / 27's on Scottish holidays
@@wullie3xv923
The restoration of 27005 is now in full swing at the Bo'ness diesel shed.
This will take a couple of years but the loco will be in outshopped in original as new green livery.
Thanks for commenting Wullie.
@@BONESS27001 Thanks for replying, that's great news. Look forward to seeing her once finished. Need to get across & have a good look around all your auld Diesel's.
Looking great. Sounds in Good order.
Thanks for your comment.
Looks great
Thanks for commenting Peter. 👍
A great video of these engines and the restoration work on them is just brilliant / Belfast northern ireland
Thanks for your kind comments Paul.
Hi there. Just had our diesel gala at the Glos and Warwicks railway. 5310 performed well too. 5343 still in bits. well done in getting 26038 up and running. Hope to get up there next year for a weekend and have some of Duchys' food again. Caroline
Caroline,
You are welcome to visit next year.
Dutch is only providing food at special events for now.
Thanks for commenting.
thanks for letting me know. Caroline
Well done restauration ! Greetings from Germany ! These littel engines are suitabel for top-tail operations (a loco a each end !)
Thanks for your comments.
If your ever in Scotland please visit us.
Can't beat a McRat,and the 26 is looking magnificent ❤️🏴 👍🏻
If i remember correctly 038 was at the Inverness open day,back in 1986,and I got to visit the cab,think it was inside the shed.
Class 26038 was at Inverness open day in 1986 as you said. The loco hasn't changed much since then.We hope to have the cab headlights working soon.
Thanks for your comment.
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Never knew the 26s didnt have windows on the cab doors! Just looks odd to me to be honest!
All of the 26s did have cab door windows when new.
The blanking off was a Scottish depot / works mod.
A few for the restored ones now have cab door windows.
Thanks for your comment.
@@BONESS27001 Never knew that! Thanks for the clarification my friend. 👍
The 26s allocated to Inverness depot had tablet catcher apparatus fitted under the driver's cab window. The story I had heard was that this could be a bit temperamental with the tablet flying off occasionally and smashing the cab door window, hence the blanking off.
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Thanks for that info John, I'll pass it onto the team at Bo'ness.
Lovely to see the 26 in action and it's a truly superb restoration for which you all are to be congratulated upon: seems hard to believe they started their lives working outer suburban services out of King's Cross! One small nit-pick, if I may: how come the number is correctly placed as 26 038 on one side, but as 26038 (with no space) on the other? The sound takes me back to 25s operating late at night on the ECML, the sound drifting up towards my bedroom window...
Thanks for your comment Howard.
I didn't notice the difference in the number spacing.
I'll ask our rivet counters at Bo'ness.
This might be as per BR in the 1980's.
What’s the story behind the GNER logo on 27005?
If I remember rightly, someone's drunking idea to do that! 😂
The GNER decal was donated to the diesel group.
We decided to attach this to 27005 to wind up the spotters during 2016 as the cab front would be removed that year for restoration.
The loco was then put into storage for other reasons and the GNER decal is still attached.
This will be removed this year.