Axlebox Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 ...have we seen this Pilkington wagon before? https://www.flickr.com/photos/28083135@N06/38494377946/in/faves-159486954@N02/ 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axlebox Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 As the notes on the first link explains, there was a further accident when one of the recovery cranes toppled over killing its driver. https://www.flickr.com/photos/56639754@N02/37648670870/in/faves-159486954@N02/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/56639754@N02/37648669310/in/album-72157644040480441/ 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Saunders Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 ...have we seen this Pilkington wagon before? https://www.flickr.com/photos/28083135@N06/38494377946/in/faves-159486954@N02/ I have seen a different shot showing these two wagons before and a colour photo of the low height rebodies was on the Industrial Railway Society Yahoo group and there is this one curtesy of Paul Bartlett. http://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/paulbartlettsrailwaywagonphotographs/h3a595fcb#h3a595fcb Mark Saunders 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 Birmingham, with permission of David Icke to post here.. A6E394E1-1520-401E-A0A0-5DE748F520EB.jpeg I do like the contrast between the shiny new Rotunda in the background and the essentially Victorian railway and warehouses in the middle and foregrounds. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted December 21, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 21, 2017 As the notes on the first link explains, there was a further accident when one of the recovery cranes toppled over killing its driver. https://www.flickr.com/photos/56639754@N02/37648670870/in/faves-159486954@N02/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/56639754@N02/37648669310/in/album-72157644040480441/ These could also go in the Bachmann crane thread, or is it a different crane? Mike. (Crane ially deficient). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilkirby Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 (edited) In that Birmingham photo, that's a very odd looking effect on the warehouse, it looks like a fire has burnt away years of soot build up above the windows, leaving cleaner patches. I have never seen that before. Neil Edited December 21, 2017 by neilkirby Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon A Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 These could also go in the Bachmann crane thread, or is it a different crane? Mike. (Crane ially deficient). Different crane. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted December 21, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 21, 2017 In that Birmingham photo, that's a very odd looking effect on the warehouse, it looks like a fire has burnt away years of soot build up above the windows, leaving cleaner patches. I have never seen that before. Neil It did get burnt out by a fire, summer of 1963 I think it was. It was spotted by the signalman at Proof House box which was a couple of hundred yards behind the photographer. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted December 25, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 25, 2017 Towards Pighue Lane by Chris, on Flickr 15a EE type 4 class 40 D353 passing Edge Lane by Chris, on Flickr 6a Unidentified 8F with empty coal wagons from Stanley by Chris, on Flickr 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted December 26, 2017 Author Share Posted December 26, 2017 Didcot Easter bank holiday 1962. Mike Peart shared with permission. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted December 26, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 26, 2017 (edited) Didcot Easter bank holiday 1962. Mike Peart shared with permission. 77D21A4D-F7DF-4AE3-80B8-B143EE0BF870.jpeg Besides the minerals, what a nice combination to drop in an exhibition and wait for the comments. 2201 in dirty lined grot green and a tender in ex-works unlined green. Death steam pick'n'mix at its best. Edited December 26, 2017 by TheSignalEngineer Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted December 26, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 26, 2017 I like when Swindon works did the horizontal row of rivets they didn't set the GW rivet press up correctly and bent the sidesheet, makes me feel a lot better now! Mike. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 I like when Swindon works did the horizontal row of rivets they didn't set the GW rivet press up correctly and bent the sidesheet, makes me feel a lot better now! Mike. And that low viewpoint shows the usual gaps around the traders flap* and end door. Something you don't often see modelled. * Why do I always feel a little uncomfortable when I type "traders flap"? P Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted December 26, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 26, 2017 And that low viewpoint shows the usual gaps around the traders flap* and end door. Something you don't often see modelled. * Why do I always feel a little uncomfortable when I type "traders flap"? P Does 'trader's top door' make you feel any better? Thought not... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 Slightly but since reading the description "traders flap" on the rear an official LNER photograph I've never quite been the same. Seeing old enamel signs on Victorian houses that proclaim "Tradesmen Entrance to Rear" has a similar effect on my constitution. P Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted December 26, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 26, 2017 Slightly but since reading the description "traders flap" on the rear an official LNER photograph I've never quite been the same. Seeing old enamel signs on Victorian houses that proclaim "Tradesmen Entrance to Rear" has a similar effect on my constitution. P Could be worse P. http://c8.alamy.com/comp/A7Y1R1/back-passage-smithfield-london-A7Y1R1.jpg Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 Could be worse P. http://c8.alamy.com/comp/A7Y1R1/back-passage-smithfield-london-A7Y1R1.jpg Mike. Ripostes aplenty M. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Rude+street+names&num=100&newwindow=1&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=i41GmViw5rpyHM%253A%252CUlEkYOEYEraEnM%252C_&usg=__ZNIyV3aY6uyfAkK0oxWfrMqWGuE%3D&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwif9-37jKjYAhXjI8AKHSqIBboQ9QEILTAC#imgrc=i41GmViw5rpyHM: P 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted December 26, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 26, 2017 Preston 1968, LNWR gent's urinal; 'Gentlemen please adjust your dress before leaving'. I though this sort of thing was the preserve of effete Southerners... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Flying Pig Posted December 27, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 27, 2017 Preston 1968, LNWR gent's urinal; 'Gentlemen please adjust your dress before leaving'. '...as a refusal often offends.' 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray M Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 I remember a Janet & John story, from Terry Wogan. That had words of taking someone up the back passage Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted December 28, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 28, 2017 If you live in Swansea you can take somebody up the Salubrious Passage; very edifying! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 Banbury went one better- there was a 'Gropec**t Lane' in the town centre. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueeighties Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 Morning all. Just stumbled across this thread. I wonder if anyone could help me. I am building a layout based in the 1983-88 period, and wonder if I can get away with either running, or having some condemned 16tonners in a siding or 2. I'm sure I can recall seeing them running about back in the day mid eighties, but I can't remember liveries or types. I would be interested to know if any suitable versions are available in kit form from the Parkside/Peco stable. Any advice greatly appreciated. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 Morning all. Just stumbled across this thread. I wonder if anyone could help me. I am building a layout based in the 1983-88 period, and wonder if I can get away with either running, or having some condemned 16tonners in a siding or 2. I'm sure I can recall seeing them running about back in the day mid eighties, but I can't remember liveries or types. I would be interested to know if any suitable versions are available in kit form from the Parkside/Peco stable. Any advice greatly appreciated. By the period in question, any left running around would either be in service with the engineers as spoil carriers or on local scrap workings, the majority of the traditional coal yards having closed after the Miners' Strike. They'd all have been vacuum-fitted. The Parkside range includes an unfitted 1/108 mineral, which can be converted to a fitted one with the addition of brake-cylinders and tie-bars between the axleguards. They do list a fitted one, but it's a representative of a small batch based on a longer underframe. With careful carving, you used to be able to model the 8-shoe fitted underframe using the 'Red Panda' underframe, but I'm not sure what's happened to that following the Peco takeover. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Bernard Lamb Posted December 29, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 29, 2017 Going back a few posts to things that could be taken the wrong way. While doing some local research over the holiday I have found a servant who was at the big house down the road around 1880 who went by the name of Fanny Sparks. Bernard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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