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Welcome to SRPS C&W Department

The activities of the Carriage and Wagon department of the Scottish Railway Preservation Society at Bo'ness are featured on this site. There is a lot of information on the 24v battery system as fitted to Mk1 coaches built in the late 50's and early 60's to operate the carriage lighting system.

Stone's Regulator

Stone's Regulator (updated Feb 2009). Also Wolverton Lighting System (in non-patentese language). Excellent paper on Rotax system from 1949 (Jan 2009)

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openBVE

openBVE - Bo'ness Rescue mission for openBVE added (Oct 2009)
openBVE routes to Aberdeen use the new timetables. Updated 27-11-09 Check it out!.

openBVE v1.2.3 HST route Edinburgh - Aberdeen (Jan 2010)
This route is constructed from "$Includes" so many small downloads required. but it's worth it! Most of the trains running in the opposite direction do exactly that! Move! Dimming of the cab under bridges all the way to Aberdeen. Did I miss one?

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Latest Photographs

256 at Bo'ness (June 2009), GC 506 and streamlined 6229 and a bunch of others as well.
Tornado 60163 in Edinburgh revised (Feb 2009).

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Restoration

Restoration of 644 chapter 24 (July 2009).
Renovation of NB saloon no 461 chapter 8 (Nov. 2009).

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If you have any comments on the site or an interest in any of the subjects covered, please contact Don via email on [anti-spam - remove the X's, translate the "dot" and the "(at)"] don(at)XgotopcsXdotXnet - he'd be delighted to hear from you.

This site is updated whenever a relevant amount of new or changed information is available. There may be gaps of several months - the restoration business is not fast moving - it would go faster if there were more hands to help - please click on the "Help wanted" link above to see how could help this very worthy cause.