Trains Being Refurbished

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mixturesweb
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Trains Being Refurbished

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Hey all

I'm currently converting a small shunting layout into a modern image carriage works. Does anyone have any pictures of any real trains (carriages, locos, wagons, multiple units) which are in mid refurb/repaint state?

I'm hoping you guys will have some great images to share and I feel it will add some variety to my layout by making an item of rolling stock look half finished.

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No rolling stock photos as such, but are these locos from Doncaster & Swindon any good?
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Re: Trains Being Refurbished

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Ex-Pat wrote:No rolling stock photos as such, but are these locos from Doncaster & Swindon any good?
They're great. They're the kind of thing that I can model using an old Lima model and have it being shunted in and out of a shed.
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Doncaster works is still quite a good place to see this sort of thing. I believe residents of the works now include a 321 driving car body, seven Class 321 TSO vehicles, a virgin livery mk3 FO, a former Nightstar Mk3 generator vehicle and four former Gatwick Express driving cars, and they still do work on multiple units and coaches from across the country. A Google images search of 'Doncaster works' or 'wabtec doncaster' should bring up a variety of vehicles to look at.
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Re: Trains Being Refurbished

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hairyhandedfool wrote:Doncaster works is still quite a good place to see this sort of thing. I believe residents of the works now include a 321 driving car body, seven Class 321 TSO vehicles, a virgin livery mk3 FO, a former Nightstar Mk3 generator vehicle and four former Gatwick Express driving cars, and they still do work on multiple units and coaches from across the country. A Google images search of 'Doncaster works' or 'wabtec doncaster' should bring up a variety of vehicles to look at.
Probably also the last place on the "non-preserved" network where you could see a class 08 shunting an unfitted wagon!! This was in 2016

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Other wagons and snowploughs

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Couple of shots highlighting what HHF mentions.

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One of the former Gatwick Express driving cars was on accommodation bogies making it sit higher than the rest - very "hornbyesque"

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