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Re: British Rail InterCity 125-ish
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Tue, 23 Apr 2002 21:17:02 GMT
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"James Mathis" <thakius@nmt.edu> wrote in message
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> Now, for nothing completely different.
> British Rail HST InterCity 125 set:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=15998
Nice model! I have attempted to model one myself, and tomorrow I will take
pictures of it. My cab uses techniques learned while replicating your APT
cab.
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> Here's a link to more photos of the real-life IC125 at The European • Railway
> Picture Gallery:
> http://mercurio.iet.unipi.it/pix/gb/diesel/HST/BR/pix.html
> If you view the European Railway Picture Gallery of the IC125, you may
> notice that there are several (slight?) variations on the color scheme.
> Some with dark blue (or black?) at the level of the windows, others with
> white at window level. Some have full yellow nose with trailing yellow.
> Others have a trailing white with only a patch of yellow on the • front-face.
> Some have a red stripe, others don't. etc... Are all of these color • schemes
> still Brit-Rail "Blue Era"? Perhaps some were left-overs during the
> transition to privatized rail companies?
If memory serves, the first HSTs, which entered service circa 1976 were in
this livery:
http://mercurio.iet.unipi.it/pix/gb/diesel/HST/BR/43159.jpg
The window colour here is dark blue
The Inter City livery:
http://mercurio.iet.unipi.it/pix/gb/diesel/HST/BR/43099a.jpg
came about in the early 1980's, which was still the 'blue era'. The window
colour is now dark grey.
The other HST galleries on that site show the wide range of colour schemes
they are now painted in.
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| (...) Thanks, Huw. I have thought, as well, of implementing techniques of the APT construction, but, I thought that perhaps I could find a use for the 4559 pieces here. I'd love to do a rebuild; but, that is a very back-burner project. I like Ben's (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| Lonely shapes sit in my box of train-specific parts. What to do with the train yellow nose and black cab parts from set 4559? They've sat so lonely for years. Well, still they sit unused, for this model is merely CAD-form for now. Now, for nothing (...) (23 years ago, 23-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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