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Further to the discussions regarding the colour of silver A4's I though I would show my pics of the NRM model of Silver Link, as 2512silverfox has stated before the colours are accurate.

And some more..

Not more...

Last few I promise. Good job I had long arms.

The colours are more than accurate, it is exactly the same paint that was used on 2509 as the model was produced by apprentices at Doncaster at the same time as 2509 was being built.

I remember when 60019 Bittern was painted silver to represent Silver Link and displayed at the Stephenson Railway Museum at Wallsend. The colour looked very similar to the model above, but many of the old railwaymen who came to see it maintained that the colour was wrong and that the original was a bright silver, more like the aluminium paint that people used to use on their car exhausts and wheels.

Yes Blackout thats what 2512silverfox has stated several times before.

I'm hoping to get up to the NRM this summer. Really looking forward to seeing this exhibit, but why is it stuck high up on a shelf? Is there some sort of reorganisation going on? BTW what scale is this model built to?

60041 wrote:I remember when 60019 Bittern was painted silver to represent Silver Link and displayed at the Stephenson Railway Museum at Wallsend.

I really regret not seeing Bittern in this livery and hope she is reinstated in it at some point in the future. Anyone got any photos?

MikeTrice wrote:

60041 wrote:I remember when 60019 Bittern was painted silver to represent Silver Link and displayed at the Stephenson Railway Museum at Wallsend.

I really regret not seeing Bittern in this livery and hope she is reinstated in it at some point in the future. Anyone got any photos?

Not the best of photos; taken over 25 years ago, long before I got a decent camera: the shameless bit of self publicity was one day when we had it out of the shed and were shunting it back in again, yours truly had the job of sitting on the footplate in order to work the handbrake.

60041 wrote:Not the best of photos; taken over 25 years ago, long before I got a decent camera: the shameless bit of self publicity was one day when we had it out of the shed and were shunting it back in again, yours truly had the job of sitting on the footplate in order to work the handbrake.

Was it really that long ago? The closest I got was seeing it in Loughborough shed but not being able to enter with poor photographic viewpoints so thanks for posting these.

It was that long ago... I didn't have a decent camera either, being an impoverished student in those days, but this might have been a never to be repeated shot (and may still be, as Mallard was in steam)
There's a much better shot on Arthur's thread 'Two Grand Days Out' on RMWeb.

Ay up!

I was there but can't find my piccies. AAAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!

Which part of the NRM is that? Is it the front of the great hall, or closer to the mainline?

It's just that I was born in '96 so never saw what the NRM used to look like.

Ay up!

Its the old diesel depot between the Great Hall (off to the right in the piccie) and the main line (to the left).