1980s OCL blue please:

SOU 150858 by Freight  Engineer, on Flickr

The same period same some nondescript green boxes too - like the incotrans above and below.

Tinsley's 37194 and 37107 head east through Stratford with a Freightliner at 10:45. by Jeremy Gould, on Flickr

I'm sure I've seen a 20' with Evergreen branding, but with the text running top to bottom on the left hand end of the box.

Tanktainer? Tate and Lyle?

HI All

Its time to get my backside in gear if i am to have any hope of getting next container liveries by the N Gauge show in September.

Decided so for are !!!

Maersk 40ft HC in the new Blue livery " i've been getting pestered for this"
Maersk 40ft HC reefer "with e thermoking reefer unit"
ONE    40ft HC reefer  "with a Daikin reefer unit"
MSC 40ft HC in the Brown with gold Logo
MSC 20ft in the Sand colour

So i still need another 20ft and a tank !!!
We were thinking Tex 20ft and a Suttons tank but im open to suggestions

Regards Arran
   

I see the UFOs have moved inside in your absence. They are smaller than I thought, but probably just as deadly.

Cheers,

Chris

Gawd, it's been a while since I posted here!

Well, it's not the bus stop but it is the bowlo, and no, I'm not lying on my side

Ah, Shephards of Gateshead. Used to love going there, cos they had a sliding door which opened and closed by itself.

Also used often to make a trip to Felling baths as a teenager. That was brand new state of the art back then!

Quote from: Train Waiting on April 21, 2026, 10:19:15 AMThe video features Eddie, a native of these parts, pronouncing 'Gateshead':-

Fascinating stuff.

With all good wishes.

John

Well John - sitting here, far away, that video made just me feel a bit sad. Albeit meself was born on the other side of The River, me Dad was born in The Felling and brought up in Blaydon and branches of our family go back a long way round Felling and Gateshead....

Gateshead was a thriving town - had its department store ( Shephards of Gateshead, one to rival Fenwicks in its day ) - that land now occupied by, rant, Tesco. And don't get me onto to that, double rant, Metro Centre....

My paternal Grandma shopped there at Shephards as did many of her cohort. It all reminds me of of what "the planners" did to Blaydon - another victim of 60's concrete - they wrecked an architecturally fine town that I remember as a child. Yes a lot of the terraced housing had to go, it was unfit,  but not the town centre. For Blaydon they built a precinct - which they ended up knocking down and replacing with another which is still no replacement. And now - blink and you would miss the place as you drive by. I could really start to "super rant" if I am not careful...

Anyway - at least there is good news in that that Gateshead viaduct is coming down... what goes around comes around.

And at least Blaydon still has a library where Garibaldi's head is preserved ... look it up... and i am in a good Blaydon & Winlaton FB group full of history of the town that was once the terminus of 18th century Lead Road amongst its many other things of historical significance,

With all good wishes,

Colin.

BTW - and indeed "hud" - but there are those parts in the North East, or were because of the continuous levelling,  who would say "heed" ... an then there would be Pitmatic pronunciation or two as well...

Quote from: Foxhound on April 21, 2026, 08:55:04 AMI didn't even know about these specials. Oh my. Do I buy another Peak or do I get this? Decisions.... 

What I didn't realise until after I'd bought mine from Gaugemaster at full retail price was that "other retailers may be available", with some offering their usual discount, but never mind.

Me too!

Some favourite old Genesis songs (not the pop rubbish they churned out later)

I also really hope the Beeb broadcasts this event...........

https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ed5fbp

Quote from: Bealman on April 21, 2026, 09:47:49 AMNo, young and pretty 

Now, now, you old knacker. That's not good for your ticker