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Named after the village of Barry. Apparently renamed from Barry so as not to be confused with the town in Wales...

I seem to recall that the Bo'ness & Kinniel Railway was used for some low adhesion training a few years ago.

Thurso isn't unstaffed.

There were I believe some examples of 156s being used in place of 158s on Glasgow-Edinburgh and Glasgow-Aberdeen services (the latter would have been interesting, as before the 158's both services would have been 47/7 on a push-pull set!)

The only motor operated semaphore IBs I can remember were between Dalmeny Station and Saughton Junction. Any others I've have been colour light. There are for example two sets in each direction between Blair Atholl and Dalwhinnie - I don't know how common this scenario is.

The Leyland O600 was a 9.8 litre engine producing 125bhp. The O600 "Semi Power Plus" produced 130bhp. The O680 was 11.1 litres producing 150bhp.

For Scottish railways the author to look for is John Thomas, apart from the Glasgow and South Western which must be David L Smith. For general history, look for the series "A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain", published by David and Charles. Out of print, but still readily...

V1/V3, not V4.

The ban is still in the December 2024 Sectional Appendix.

Manson however refused to patent the apparatus, as he considered it a valuable aid to workers safety. I'm fortunate enough to have seen it in operation, at Elgin in the early 1970s.

Abermule being the classic example of what happens if the (very simple) procedure is not followed.

According to the excellent "One at each end" by Nick Lawford, the 27/1s had 685 gallons of engine fuel, 100 gallons of boiler fuel and 450 gallons of boiler water, and the 27/2s had 970 gallons of engine fuel.

There was a lot of local opposition when a depot was proposed near Stirling prior to the introduction of the 385s.

Exactly! As a Glaswegian I have never called it anything other than The Subway. 1741696537 Sprat and Winkle lives on as a form of model railway coupling!

It is.