RMweb Gold Donw Posted December 14, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 14, 2018 (edited) There may be a drawing or two in Atkins, Hyde and Tourette GWR wagons Don PS If you don't have it forget it Amazon are listing one @ £99 Edited December 14, 2018 by Donw Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted December 15, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 15, 2018 The Touret book doesn’t cover the milk vans, their diagram O is a passenger diagram, not O for opens, so I’ve saved you £99, ching ching. The HMRS publications do a booklet “GW siphons” which must be the gospel, although I don’t have it. I use Jim Russell’s “GWR passenger coaches part 1” which has some photos and drawings. The four wheeler you’re doing is an O1, which appears with two kinds of doors. The 6wheeler you fancy with the end panel X bracing is an O2, which was built with both varieties of roofs. I’ve got an O1, which was made as a one piece resin casting coming from the Broad Guage Society, and this has gone on a chassis from Slaters (MR, but promise not to tell our Compound matey) It just so happens I was at the Reading GOG trade fair a couple of weeks ago, and picked up, quite cheaply, a part completed kit for an O4, the Slaters model with the diagonal end panel braces. So there’s a nice little milk train forming, although I fear with finescale wheels. It’s getting teamed up with a 4wheel brake van, a V2. This comes from Scorpio as a set of brass etched sides, which keeps the costs down, and then you add the chassis and so on as you can. To pull them, I’m making a 2-4-0ST, but the trouble is, I sort of make a loco that will run and pull a train, then doing the superstructure finishing off always seems to last forever. I was looking at the Jan Railway Modeller in the paper shop this morning, and drooling over Jools Holland’s London line which was featured. Some of the background would do well for Paltry Circus? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted December 15, 2018 Author Share Posted December 15, 2018 Very good train emerging there. Mr Holland’s layout is interesting, isn’t it? A very personal creation, not really like anything I’ve ever see before, his mental map of London. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Donw Posted December 15, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 15, 2018 Very good train emerging there. Mr Holland’s layout is interesting, isn’t it? A very personal creation, not really like anything I’ve ever see before, his mental map of London. Just flicking through the pages it shouted London to me before I had seen whose layout it was or what it was intended to be. some of my siphons 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Isambarduk Posted December 17, 2018 Share Posted December 17, 2018 The HMRS publications do a booklet “GW siphons” "Great Western Railway Siphons: an account of vehicles built for milk traffic on the GWR" a useful book but long since out of print. David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted December 20, 2018 Author Share Posted December 20, 2018 (edited) One of my favourite Christmas Railway pictures. Kings Cross, 1960. Christmas special parcel trains lasted until the 1970s, possibly the 1980s. Edited December 20, 2018 by Nearholmer 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted December 22, 2018 Author Share Posted December 22, 2018 And, in old-fashioned times railways clearly felt it quite appropriate to come the bossy-boots with their customers. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simond Posted December 22, 2018 Share Posted December 22, 2018 Ah, that’ll be the nanny state in its infancy... Wouldn’t be needed were common sense more common Season’s Greetings Simon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted December 22, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 22, 2018 And, in old-fashioned times railways clearly felt it quite appropriate to come the bossy-boots with their customers. What a peculiar typeface. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted December 22, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 22, 2018 No send before date given, just “early” a bit vague, and why hand in during daylight? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRASinBothell Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 Railway Executive Committee makes it wartime, when the blackout was in force... Gordon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ian Simpson Posted December 23, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 23, 2018 (edited) No send before date given, just “early” a bit vague, and why hand in during daylight? The REC co-ordinated the railways during WW2, answering directly to the Minister for Transport. It's a reminder that a bossy tone has always been popular with bureaucrats. The lack of a final posting date does seem strange, but if everyone had waited to the final posting day that might have put extra strain on an already very overstretched system. Perhaps the very vagueness of the exhortation was designed to make people post earlier than necessary. At least the REC poster has reminded me to wish everyone a Very Happy Christmas! And your parcel? Probably delayed by enemy action, I'm afraid ... Edited December 23, 2018 by Ian Simpson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymw Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 I think that bossy and /or patronising tone has always been pretty popular with bureaucrats It's instructions, orders if you like, telling folk the best way in getting their parcels delivered for Christmas. How would you/why would you want to dress it up in any other way? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ian Simpson Posted December 23, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 23, 2018 It's instructions, orders if you like, telling folk the best way in getting their parcels delivered for Christmas. How would you/why would you want to dress it up in any other way? Personally I wouldn't change it at all. After all, there's a reason why bureaucrats use the bossy voice when they want us to do something. It's because we tend to ignore everything else. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold unravelled Posted December 23, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 23, 2018 Something about that image looked familiar I think they used a similat typeface in The Prisoner. Probably no coincidence... Good Morning (and seasons' greetings) Dave 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bigbee Line Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 Nothing wrong with telling people what to do. Saves time and effort. Too much time wasted being nice. I want a hat that has “JFDI” on the front. Best wishes for the season. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymw Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 These days, you'd have to worry about the pc'ness of using words like 'Black' and maybe 'white' and 'duplicate' may even be transgender. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted December 23, 2018 Author Share Posted December 23, 2018 Hmm ........ I think that only a person with a very strange understanding of the world would be prey to such worries. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted December 23, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 23, 2018 https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/128546-all-the-world-is-queer-save-thee-and-me-and 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Donw Posted December 23, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 23, 2018 Nothing wrong with telling people what to do. Saves time and effort. Too much time wasted being nice. I want a hat that has “JFDI” on the front. Best wishes for the season. Unless you are telling contrary obstinate folk what to do. Don Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bigbee Line Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 Unless you are telling contrary obstinate folk what to do. Don Has to be done..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ian Simpson Posted December 23, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 23, 2018 Nothing wrong with telling people what to do. Saves time and effort. Too much time wasted being nice. Then I'll say it. You should ALL be modelling LBSCR. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted December 23, 2018 Author Share Posted December 23, 2018 (edited) Should implies suggestion, rather than instruction, to me. Try shall, or must. Although, if you are Scots or Irish the sense maybe different. My observation is that people are perfectly happy to be ordered about if they can see the necessity for it and the logic of the orders, but that barely anybody (anybody in Britain at least) is happy to be ordered about if they can’t see either the necessity or the logic. I’m guessing that during WW2 people did understand the necessity and logic, at least most of the people for most of the time did. People certainly ignored orders not to shelter from the blitz in the tube, because they couldn’t see why they shouldn’t, and they were right. Edited December 23, 2018 by Nearholmer 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted December 24, 2018 Author Share Posted December 24, 2018 Best wishes for a merry Christmas and a peaceful new year. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted December 31, 2018 Author Share Posted December 31, 2018 Ting, Ting .......Ting. The Signalman of Time rings the Old Year out of section. Ting! Ah, the 'Call Attention' that heralds the approach of the 20:19 Up Mixed Goods. I hope that it is bringing a cargo of peace and good fortune for all of us. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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