During the early 70's I attended school in Worcester, and some of us 
regularly used to take in the delightful panorama offered by Railway Walk 
during the hour-long lunch break. Once I spotted a class 25 which had had a 
cab transplant (a common practice, I believe), but had obviously not 
subsequently visited the paint shop and therefore sported a different number 
at each end. It was in grubby green livery, with, IIRC, all over yellow 
ends. I think the cabs might even have been of different 
design.Unfortunately I have no record of the number(s).

I would like to model this locomotive, or one like it, preferably with two 
different types of cab, if such a thing truly ever existed. Does anyone else 
here remember seeing one of these hybrids? If so, do you have any record of 
numbers, or any photographs? Any such information would be greatly 
appreciated.

Best regards
Geoff

On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 15:15:10 +0100, "Geoffrey Mortimer"
 wrote:


>During the early 70's I attended school in Worcester, and some of us 
>regularly used to take in the delightful panorama offered by Railway Walk 
>during the hour-long lunch break. Once I spotted a class 25 which had had a 
>cab transplant (a common practice, I believe), but had obviously not 
>subsequently visited the paint shop and therefore sported a different number 
>at each end. It was in grubby green livery, with, IIRC, all over yellow 
>ends. I think the cabs might even have been of different 
>design.Unfortunately I have no record of the number(s).
>
>I would like to model this locomotive, or one like it, preferably with two 
>different types of cab, if such a thing truly ever existed. Does anyone else 
>here remember seeing one of these hybrids? If so, do you have any record of 
>numbers, or any photographs? Any such information would be greatly 
>appreciated.
>
>Best regards
>Geoff
>
> 
>


i remember a 44 being fitted with a nose with a headcode aperture
(can't remember which one tho) due to shortages of the correct one

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>
> i remember a 44 being fitted with a nose with a headcode aperture
> (can't remember which one tho) due to shortages of the correct one


44 009 (D9) "Snowdon" had one nose end with a headcode panel - but that was
more a case of that being the 'standard'  version at that time (some 'split'
headcode 45s also ended up with odd nose ends). They wouldn't have
deliberately built a new nose end with discs just so that it matched the
other end. The only time that that sort of thing happened was when Doncaster
swapped cabs between 31s and they tried to keep disc-fitted cabs to
disc-fitted locos (the exception being D5518, latterly 31 101, where both
original disc-fitted cabs were destroyed and replaced with headcode-fitted
ones).

Geoffrey Mortimer wrote:

> During the early 70's I attended school in Worcester, and some of us
> regularly used to take in the delightful panorama offered by Railway Walk
> during the hour-long lunch break. Once I spotted a class 25 which had had a
> cab transplant (a common practice, I believe), but had obviously not
> subsequently visited the paint shop and therefore sported a different number
> at each end. It was in grubby green livery, with, IIRC, all over yellow
> ends. I think the cabs might even have been of different
> design.Unfortunately I have no record of the number(s).
>
> I would like to model this locomotive, or one like it, preferably with two
> different types of cab, if such a thing truly ever existed. Does anyone else
> here remember seeing one of these hybrids? If so, do you have any record of
> numbers, or any photographs? Any such information would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Best regards
> Geoff


I cannot remember the true identity of the loco concerned but there was
a class 25 at Peterborough in 1973 which had been fitted with a cab
clearly showing D5114 under the top coat of blue. This particular ScR
class 24 having been withdrawn many months earlier. I later saw the
other (damaged) D5114 cab at Derby Works. I also have in my possession
a 1974 photo I took at Stoke in 1974 showing 24142 ex works with two
class 25 cabs fitted complete with class 25 headcode boxes and sealed
gangway doors.