Guest Jack Benson Posted August 11, 2019 Share Posted August 11, 2019 Hi, I haven't got a copy of the Oakwood book, can someone explain the true significance of the orange paches on the Van B? Thank you JB Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green Posted August 12, 2019 Share Posted August 12, 2019 Specifically to indicate that they had stoves to keep the guard warm - but, yes, the Southern didn't want to keep other Railways' guards warm so restricted them to home metals. There's a question about how orange the patches were - some sources suggest more yellow than orange ! ( Intriguingly, there's a photo of a NON-Southern bogie van in https://www.amazon.co.uk/Historic-Carriage-Drawings-Vol-Non-Passenger/dp/1899816097 which seems to have similar patches - can't remember what it is I'm afraid ..... and no idea whether the significance is the same ! ) The safe fitted vans had red patches to denote their special status - until they were painted red in BR days, when they got blue patches. Running numbers on these vans were very much larger than normal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted August 12, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 12, 2019 1 hour ago, Wickham Green said: Intriguingly, there's a photo of a NON-Southern bogie van in https://www.amazon.co.uk/Historic-Carriage-Drawings-Vol-Non-Passenger/dp/1899816097 which seems to have similar patches - can't remember what it is I'm afraid ..... and no idea whether the significance is the same ! On page 15 there's a picture of a Highland 37' 9" bogie brake at New Street in 1954 with the bottom panel of the guards door and the extreme ends of the top panel painted in a different colour to the rest of the body. It also carries STOVE branding. Three vehicles were rebuilt to brake vans from older mail vans around WW1. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Alder Posted August 12, 2019 Share Posted August 12, 2019 Here is a crop from an image of a SR van at The Mound, so this one at least escaped to wander. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green Posted August 12, 2019 Share Posted August 12, 2019 I guess the fact that The Mound is on Highland territory is a total red ( or orange ) herring !!?! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted August 12, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 12, 2019 1 hour ago, Ben Alder said: Here is a crop from an image of a SR van at The Mound, so this one at least escaped to wander. Possibly the one photographed behind a Brit on a parcels train at Tebay in 1967? Third picture down. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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