Not alloxed anything at present.
It's inline with the lower handle.You are correct! Here is the original livery and you can see the red stripe comes in at the lower handle of the drivers door.
I imagine whoever waved a spray gun at the 91's as they came off the production line has long since retired!
Only a skylight filter, the photograph was taken on slide film processed by myself. Camera Canon A1, slide scanned on a Canon slide scanner. On the same day the 87 arrived too.Are you sure you haven't just applied a filter to make a recent photo look older
Don't think it's anything to do with how long it's been since swallow was last applied to a locomotive
It's probably the difficulties in using a vinyl print to apply the livery. You don't get any second chances for adjustment. It doesn't ruin the overall effect and looks great so who cares?
The biggest thing I noticed was the painted white lower skirt doesn't match the vinyl white. Will soon be a closer match with a bit of road dirt though
Apart from the blue and grey thing behind, and that horrible old dingy roof on Leeds station!It's as if you took the photo only yesterday
You are correct! Here is the original livery and you can see the red stripe comes in at the lower handle of the drivers door.
Looking at pictures of them on google, I'm going to guess they were removed during Project Mallard.
Much earlier than the Mallard programme. My hazy memory suggested that it was at the same time that the reliability mods were carried out on the class circa 2001, but GrimShady's query got me thinking, and following some research it appears that the change was being made as early as 1992, as per this photo (not mine) of 91017 at Doncaster in May of that year:
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RCH / TDM jumper cables.
AFAIK they can haul Mk4 sets blunt-end first to this day, so where do the cables go now?
The blunt end cabs also had them. I think their only purpose was for the freight duties.
