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Re: British Rail InterCity 125-ish
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Fri, 26 Apr 2002 14:51:30 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, James Houston writes:
In lugnet.trains, James Mathis writes:

Obviously, the train-specific nose and cab window don't model the IC125's
unique nose very well, but I thought the look was close enough for a try.

I think your excellent APT nose profile would work
better on the 125. Did you try it?

I haven't tried adapting the APT nose to this IC 125.  I am trying to find a
use for the 4559 nose elements-- not that I can actually build this IC 125
in real-bricks, for I know of no source for the 1x4x1.3 rounded bricks in
light gray, blue, and yellow in quantity.

The picture of the 125 at Reading you have is curious. If I didn't
know better, I'd say the loco is "between" paint jobs, as the
livery is a bit weird. Probably mid-80's. If you look at the coaches,
they have the 1980's "InterCity" livery, which is actually a very dark
grey with white and red stripes IIRC. The older livery was simply blue and
white, without any stripes as you have on your coaches. These colour
schemes were all pre-privatisation, at a time when BR didn't know what the
hell colour to paint their trains...

Ah...

See an example here:
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/markshipman/railway/images/43/43121a.jpg


Incidently, your blue with red and white stripe livery actually
closely resembles Network South East livery!

Lots of 125 liveries here:
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/markshipman/railway/class43.htm

Thanks for the links.

later,
James Mathis



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  Re: British Rail InterCity 125-ish
 
(...) I think your excellent APT nose profile would work better on the 125. Did you try it? (...) The picture of the 125 at Reading you have is curious. If I didn't know better, I'd say the loco is "between" paint jobs, as the livery is a bit weird. (...) (22 years ago, 26-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)

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