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QUOTE but its mostly what I like the look of as I fancy a couple of steam locos too.
If you restrict yourself to prototypes which have a mainline "ticket", you can still maintain your time consistency. There are examples of the larger locomotives from each of the big Four and some BR Standards too. The liveries used on the coaches in these trains can be interesting.

I try to stick to the period and area I model, but if a model is particularly interesting or has a sentimental connection, it gets bought. How else do I explain an SBB IC2000 train? Or Eddie the Engine or perhaps a BLS lorry train? I do at least intend to "hide" these interlopers in the storage sidings most of the time. They'll get an airing when there's nobody looking

David

 

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QUOTE I am, for instance, providing the Riviera Trains 'Royal Scot' railtour rake of blood & custard Mk1 coaches, and as Bachmann doesn't produce an FO or BFK I am having to use an RFO and BSK suitably altered.

But curiously you can use the Bachmann blood & custard RMB even though these were introduced too late for this livery, they are a frequently present in rail tour trains to provide light refreshments.

You don't have to restrict yourself to B & C as this photo of "The Torbay Express" from a couple of years ago shows!

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The point I was trying to make is that not all rail tours turn out in a single livery. On the two I've been on the trains have been quite an assortment of liveries. In the case of The Torbay Express, it included cream and green, maroon, blue & grey and chocolate & cream. The latter being 6024's support coach. A similar assortment appeared on the tour from Reading to Carlisle via the Settle line, the difference in this case being that Princess Elizabeth's support coach was blood & custard. Most of the journey was diesel hauled - a class 67 - with Princess Elizabeth taking us from Preston to Carlisle via the Settle line.

David

 

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QUOTE Ahh, railway modelling - an absolute minefield rolleyes.gif

That's why I take a lot of photos when I'm on a trip. I've just been checking through the Torbay ones again and have noticed that I forgot to mention that two of the coaches were green......

David