RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted February 9, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 9, 2018 One thing that's disappeared in the first photo and won't be missed, Double Diamond. "DD is K9P", as they used to say. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahame Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 "DD is K9P", as they used to say. Yep, that was in response to Allied's promotion of Double Diamond with badges with slogans on like DD4Me in the 70s. I had one of the anti reactionary badges with DDisK9P. G 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted February 9, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 9, 2018 (edited) One thing that's disappeared in the first photo and won't be missed, Double Diamond. But what a wonderful photo, the poster is almost square on and doesn't have anything in its way. Ideal for adding to a period layout. Edited February 9, 2018 by Clive Mortimore 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
73c Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 There was the other one going round at a similar time. 'There's more hops in a dead frog than a pint of Watneys Red Barrel ' 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ramblin Rich Posted February 9, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 9, 2018 I really am liking the 70s era photos, but it seems like it's becoming a prototype images thread! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted February 10, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 10, 2018 I really am liking the 70s era photos, but it seems like it's becoming a prototype images thread! True, but hopefully it is the inspiration from prototype photos that enables modellers to create their own realistic train. Formations shown are often a bit rag, tag and bobtail, rather than uniform rakes of CCTs or whatever. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahame Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 There was the other one going round at a similar time. 'There's more hops in a dead frog than a pint of Watneys Red Barrel ' Wasn't that about Truman's - didn't they advertise 'you can taste the hops in Ben Truman'? Often the 's' on hops was scratched out to infer they only used one hop. The one about Grotneys was that it 'was like making love in a punt as it was . . . . ' G Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted February 10, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 10, 2018 There was a Courage one around 1970 which said "We've been brewing it since 1787". We used to add "but we still haven't got it right" 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 The Scottish version of the above was Ushers Beer, known to most as Flushers, awful stuff. Jim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted February 10, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 10, 2018 Then there’s Feeling Foul, and not to forget “You need Courage to drink that stuff” as a colleague put it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
73c Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 Wasn't that about Truman's - didn't they advertise 'you can taste the hops in Ben Truman'? Often the 's' on hops was scratched out to infer they only used one hop. The one about Grotneys was that it 'was like making love in a punt as it was . . . . ' G Ah you could be right there grahame. Think I'll go break out a party 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
w124bob Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 Bob, Probably the Manchester Area Saloon usually kept in the bays at Victoria or Red Bank - never saw it at Newton Heath Again as part of an empty parcels train for Red Bank 25042, DB999503 ManVic 010685 DB999503,25042 MV 010685.jpg I was based at Vic as a driver and your quite right, although I have took it upto NH for a quick wash and to stock up particularly after Red Bank closed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted February 13, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 13, 2018 E3096 Northchurch 021065 by Simon Barnes, on Flickr Stranier Class 5 4-6-0 No 44776 by John Evans, on Flickr Milton Keynes 31152 May 88 by Leighton logs on Flikr, on Flickr 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted February 15, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 15, 2018 31259 parcels east at Twyford 20.2.1976 by Richard Clayton, on Flickr 46 008 Liskeard by Gerard Fletcher, on Flickr slide-scans-August-15-295-Class-40-on-parcels-Todmorden-flickr by derekphillips1, on Flickr 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 The first shot is almost certainly a Newspaper train, being formed almost entirely of Siphon Gs. At the time, most WR 'Papers' were so formed, sometimes with a BSK for the sorters to kip in on the journey to London (the Bristol being formed like this), otherwise with a BG. This one looks to have a Stanier BG towards the rear, so is possibly the West-of-England, which had a specially-branded one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 One thing that's disappeared in the first photo and won't be missed, Double Diamond. Indeed - but a fantastic and rarely captured thing in any photographs, from pretty much any era - the counter-intuitively ubiquitous advertising hoarding. One for the archive, this!!! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmrspaul Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 (edited) Indeed - but a fantastic and rarely captured thing in any photographs, from pretty much any era - the counter-intuitively ubiquitous advertising hoarding. One for the archive, this!!! And if locally here in York is typical, fast disappearing. I only realised last week that the last of those which used to face traffic going over the Holgate railway bridge in York had gone. Is this true elsewhere - there had been others but they went when the land was redeveloped into non affordable houses. paul Edited March 13, 2018 by hmrspaul 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted February 18, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 18, 2018 008- Moses gate by David Flitcroft, on Flickr 47349 Crewe 11-04-1985 by fishpl8, on Flickr 86259 at crewe 1985 by Tim U, on Flickr 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisf Posted February 18, 2018 Share Posted February 18, 2018 Isn't the first vehicle in the shot at Moses Gate a CCT in Tartan Arrow livery? Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Signaller69 Posted February 18, 2018 Share Posted February 18, 2018 Isn't the first vehicle in the shot at Moses Gate a CCT in Tartan Arrow livery? Chris Certainly appears to be. Seen the odd photo of short trains just in Tartan Arrow colours, did they run in "normal" parcels trains too I wonder, or did this only happen after the Tartan Arrow contract ended, prior to repainting in BR colours? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted February 18, 2018 Share Posted February 18, 2018 Certainly appears to be. Seen the odd photo of short trains just in Tartan Arrow colours, did they run in "normal" parcels trains too I wonder, or did this only happen after the Tartan Arrow contract ended, prior to repainting in BR colours? I do wonder if this might be a train taking stock to/from Horwich Works? Can't think I've seen many parcels trains carrying headcodes indicating an empty stock working. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted February 21, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 21, 2018 Sulzer Type 2 on Crewe parcels by Awwalker1, on Flickr 31191 on parcels at Attenborough by Awwalker1, on Flickr A dinky little mail train for those with minimum space Royal Mail at Swinderby by Awwalker1, on Flickr 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted February 21, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 21, 2018 I do wonder if this might be a train taking stock to/from Horwich Works? Can't think I've seen many parcels trains carrying headcodes indicating an empty stock working. Hi Brian The caption says it is newspaper empties so a class 5 headcode would be appropriate in 1973. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahame Posted February 21, 2018 Share Posted February 21, 2018 A dinky little mail train for those with minimum space Royal Mail at Swinderby by Awwalker1, on Flickr And a dinky little signal box. G 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopardml2341 Posted February 21, 2018 Share Posted February 21, 2018 (edited) Sulzer Type 2 on Crewe parcels by Awwalker1, on Flickr That could equally be in the prototype for everything thread; for when the LEDs in your model are too bright and they shine through the black headcode panel. ps I know that the effect in the pic above is likely exaggerated by a long exposure time. Edited February 21, 2018 by leopardml2341 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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