Hi Rob,
Glad I was'nt telling you bad news :-(
Telling point is how few loco classes many drivers signed for, late 70's I had a friend in Cardiff whose dad was a driver based at Radyr, he was in his 50's and had always worked off Radyr, did'nt own a car used to bike to work on a old bone shaker (not a well paid job In them days). He had only ever been trained on 4 classes, 08, D95xx, Hymek, 37. By 1977 and till he retired all he drove was 08's and 37's. I don't think he was unusual in BR branch line depots, 47,s worked mgrs in the valleys ( Barry men ) 25s worked the Pontypridd parcels and Westerns worked excursions ( both Canton men). At a guess Carmathen men would know 08, 37, 47 and Westerns, nothing else apart from DMUs. To keep the men in West Wales proficient on Westerns there was a daily turn right up to the end of 76 which would be worked by around 6 crews in turn. in those days traction knowledge really was a limiter on what a loco would work unlike today.
John
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, I had thought that this would complete the body but while fixing the wipers on i realised that there are still some hand rails to fit above the route display boxes, should have gone to spec savers then, 
, cheers Rob
, now, back in the real world, luckily i had plenty of nickel-silver wire left over from when i did the cab handrails which happened to be the right size. Bent and painted them up then after fitting a quick bit of grime to blend them in a bit, like so,
........I will let you know when I fire up the angle grinder
