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Originally Posted by LNER
Hi all
As a young apprentice at British Rail Engineering at Shildon in 1965, I remember and worked on the construction of the freightliner rolling stock. There was a lot of aluminium welding required, and at that time Argon arc welding was something new to Shildon works. The braking system was heavy gauge copper tube with silver solder fittings. The fittings had to be heated up to a much higher temperature than your standard domestic plumbing fittings. Also an Emeto compression fitting (I thing that is the correct spelling) was used in parts of the system.
It is now some 47 years since I worked on the stock so memories are a bit thin on the ground.
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Yes I'm reading that they came a a five vehicle set with only the outers having buffers which make the offerings of Bachmann and Hornby wrong so needing to have some alterations done when eventually I get my hands on them
Apart from that do you remember if the inner wagons and outers were different in many ways