GreenGiraffe22 Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 (edited) This topic has inspired me, I put this together today, pulling ideas from photos I've seen here, 40s rather than 60s/70s. Edited December 14, 2016 by GreenGiraffe22 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted December 18, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 18, 2016 Apologies if this has been up before, but the parcels stock is incidental to the general scene. Note not one SR vehicle in sight. R0680 - Birmingham Snow Hill by Bill Wright, on Flickr 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahame Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 Apologies if this has been up before, but the parcels stock is incidental to the general scene. Note not one SR vehicle in sight. But there might be, or probably is, some in the part of the train that is out of shot. G. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted December 18, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 18, 2016 But there might be, or probably is, some in the part of the train that is out of shot. G. Probably room for the loco and possibly one more vehicle. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted December 19, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 19, 2016 Probably room for the loco and possibly one more vehicle. I think the loco is a DSL at the further end? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 Looks like an 08 to me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted December 19, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 19, 2016 I think the loco is a DSL at the further end? DSL? is that control speak for diesel shunting locomotive? Looks like an 08 to me. I think it is a 350....or may be a Jocko. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted December 19, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 19, 2016 I think the loco is a DSL at the further end? Yes, there's an 08 at the far end. It appears in another of Bill's shots on the same day. I'm not sure but think it may be a stock collection of stuff lying around at Snow Hill as it was the last day of main line operation and the last booked parcels working would probably have been the day before. I was working elsewhere that day but on the Saturday there had been quite a lot of BRUTES about on the platform. Note the other details, the passengers on Platform 5 waiting for the Birkenhead train, the well-loaded BRUTE probably for the same one when Royal Mail was a 24/7 operation, and the man at the bottom of the steps who used to sell newspapers and magazines on Sunday morning when Menzies didn't open. He would have them all laid out on a GWR platform barrow. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian Smeeton Posted December 19, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 19, 2016 Apologies if this has been up before, but the parcels stock is incidental to the general scene. Note not one SR vehicle in sight. R0680 - Birmingham Snow Hill by Bill Wright, on Flickr What is the vehicle closest to the camera? Regards Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopardml2341 Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 What is the vehicle closest to the camera? Regards Ian Looks like an LNER CCT to me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian Smeeton Posted December 19, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 19, 2016 Looks like an LNER CCT to me. Thanks. Regards Ian 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted December 19, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 19, 2016 What is the vehicle closest to the camera? Regards Ian Hi Ian A LNER long CCT (beaten by Andy). 4mm models by Hornby, RTR, Parkside, plastic kit and if you can get hold of one Chivers etched kit. All very good models, at some point in time I have had all 3 but not at the same time to do a close comparison. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted December 20, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 20, 2016 DSL? is that control speak for diesel shunting locomotive? I think it is a 350....or may be a Jocko. I think it is the WTT column heading for such a loco. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith George Posted December 20, 2016 Share Posted December 20, 2016 DSL? is that control speak for diesel shunting locomotive? I think it is a 350....or may be a Jocko. I thought it was a Grunter. Keith. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
26power Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 Captioned as: Northallerton, 1953. The spectacle of double-headed A3s 60086 'Gainsborough' ( leading) and 60075 'St Frusquin' with a Newcastle - Holloway empty stock and parcels train; https://www.flickr.com/photos/thanoz/6781901903/in/dateposted/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 Captioned as: Northallerton, 1953. Much more like Raskelf to my eyes and the working will probably be the Delaval Sidings to Holloway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted January 24, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 24, 2017 Some parcels trains regularly carried odd items of ecs to balance workings, which might be an excuse/reason to have the odd restaurant or sleeping car where it wouldn't otherwise be seen. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 Indeed. We ran the Restaurant Car I built for Thurston in a parcels rake until I finished the rest of the set it was to run with. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted January 24, 2017 Author Share Posted January 24, 2017 Brit-passes-nbd-rebuilt-Jubilee-Shap-Wells-cropped-flickr by derekphillips1, on Flickr 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted January 25, 2017 Author Share Posted January 25, 2017 DMU car in consist. https://flic.kr/p/ecHNVx 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Signaller69 Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 DMU car in consist. https://flic.kr/p/ecHNVx The DMU appears to be missing an engine, on way to works perhaps? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 The DMU appears to be missing an engine, on way to works perhaps? I don't think it had one to start off with; it seems to have been one of the Driving Trailer Composites, intended to be used in conjunction with the single-car Class 121 and 122 units during peak periods. They seem to have originally have been used around the London Division; not sure why one might be in S Wales, which didn't have a lot of single-car duties. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted January 25, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 25, 2017 The DMU appears to be missing an engine, on way to works perhaps? 54286 was an unpowered Driving Trailer Second for use with a Class 121 single car. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FelixM Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 DMU cars in parcels trains were always unpowered trailer cars, that's because the motor cars could propel themselves to the works. For moving unpowered trailer cars parcels trains would have been the most handy thing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted January 27, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 27, 2017 54286 was an unpowered Driving Trailer Second for use with a Class 121 single car. I think you scrambled a digit there SE - 56286 according to my Combined Volume Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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