Comments left about this photograph:
From Jezmundomaximilliansmash at 2006-08-02 15:14:55 : Dear Jim, Please can you fix it for me to have a BR blue 9F minus yellow ends, as Kettles whoosh etc. and don't really need them. Thankyou.
From Steve at 2006-08-19 21:22:37 : No comrade. Mount TWO big two-tone horns on the smoke deflectors and paint them daylight pink. It whistles and it honks, Man. It's ugly-fantastic.
From Paul B-G at 2006-11-26 00:13:42 : I can't really imagine BR repainting the 9Fs even if they had survived, so my personal favourite fictitious 9F would be all over plain black, with a small white double arrow on the tender, and probably in fairly filthy condition.
From PrentonPimp at 2008-08-19 11:48:15 : Spoornet did this with some of it's ex- South African Railways Class 25NC's. They looked bloody AWFUL with their BR - like logo walloped on the tender. Really - It would have ruined the 9F's.
From BusDriverMan at 2009-01-01 22:21:01 : Would the bufferbeams be yellow too? Red bufferbeams were rare in the early 70s! Also, how would they be numberer pre- and post-TOPS? Mebbe they'd keep the original numbers pre-TOPS. Post-TOPS, I think steam would have its own number range (9xx xxx perhaps) if there were still a few about in the mid-70s. Keep thinking what would have happened if BR(S) had its way and kept the Merchant Navies past 1967 for southwestern workings, instead of all their routes being given to BR(W)...