where can i find network rail van with the logo on i try looking on e bay but you can tell there but put on by stickers
just like to vans to put on my track to look like there working on track side
Do you mind if I ask where you’re from?
The reason is, your town pics you posted on another thread have a very euopean flair to them (a breath of fresh air on my side of the pond), and you stated that you got your ideas from things you saw around town. Couple that with your questions about “rail vans” which is also has kind of a euopean sound to it (unless you’re talking about REA trucks).
Are you talking about the Railway Express Agency trucks, or train cars with flanged wheels (like an American boxcar)? I guess thats what I’m getting at.
OK, so Network Rail is the UK railway infrastructure (track and signals) operator.
Van I guess means a UK boxcar or a brakeman’s van (more or less a caboose). Unless you mean van as in ‘White Van Man’ (a British stereotype - but the van is your typical road motor vehicle type).
What did you mean, anyway? Where to get decals, or where to get model equipment (and in HO, N, or OO?)
Edit:
Going with the UK thing, You may need to check these forums if you haven’t already:
www.modelrailforum.com
www.rmweb.co.uk
www.modernrailwaymodelling.co.uk/forum
www.mremag.demon.co.uk
www.newrailwaymodellers.co.uk/Forums
http://www.brmodelling.com
(said with a strong hilljack twang) So what yer sayin’ is that y’all ain’t from round these hare parts, huh?[:o)]
So let me get this straight. A van can be a boxcar, a caboose, or a motor vehicle? Why, thats almost as confusing as the way we yanks do it![:D]
OK, cool. I thought it might be something like that.
I am from the Network Rail side of the pond, and I have never seen any rail vans logoed with Network rail, they mostly use road vehicles nowadays. Track mounted plant such as tampers are blue and white. However as NR took over all the contrctors kit they may well be in other colours depending on which part of the UK you are modelling. If you are in the US you have got the look of the UK very well.
Working on UK railways I’ve not yet seen anything other than five car sets of ballast hoppers and five car sets of ballast side-dump boxes with Network Rail markings. This is because Network Rail is the infrastructure organisation NOT a carrier. The locos on ballast trains were EWS and are currently Railfreight. Vans (boxcars in American) are unusual/ few in number as most van traffic goes by road in the UK (lines of semi trailers grinding up the motorways). Since the tunnel opened rail van traffic tends to be European stock that fits within the GB loading gauge… which is smaller than the Eu (Berne?) loading gauge… 'cos we started first and got ourselves stuck with the small gauge… except the Great Western… and (I think ) the Great Central???)
Most other Network Rail stock is probably still painted “Railtrack”. This would include things like brake vans (cabooses). Most, if not all, of these would be “Sharks”… that is ballast ploughs rather than brakes. this is because British Rail went to all Fully Automatic Braked trains about 1975/6/7 (?) and did away with brake vans on freights except for special loads and Permanent Way (MoW).
Hope this helps
Oh yes, van type traffic on rail is almost all containerised except for a very few specialised point-to-point users. General freight loaded in goods sheds just doesn’t go by rail any more. It’s not “commercially viable”… especially since they closed all the goods sheds…
Road vans and crew buses get repainted or replaced faster than the paint can dry every time there is a change of name or part of the privatised maintenance contracting network gets taken back into the still government run Network Rail. Personally I think that all that side of it will stay in government control (as BR was… BR was NEVER “state owned”… unlike most Eu railways)… the freight which can make money will be private and the passenger side will keep the TOUs (Train Operating Units) will stay as a franchise system getting way more tax payer
The last one I saw (on Monday) was a white Ford Transit-based tipper. I couldn’t see if it was the crew cab variant or the standard three-seater. The load bed was plain galvanised steel and there was a “Network Rail” sticker across the left hand side of the bonnet. I got a good look at that as the driver didn’t seem impressed with my obeying the speed limit!