RMweb Gold colin penfold Posted October 4, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 4, 2015 Ashchurch Gazuntite! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted October 4, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 4, 2015 A beautiful sunny ,autumn day sees a Collett goods getting ready to depart, just as 4582 arrives from Kingsbridge. 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted October 4, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 4, 2015 (edited) Senior moment this morning when mentioning a Hawksworth Auto Trailer. It was this particular vehicle. I didn't get the running number so it is either a Diagram A26 or A28. Unlike the longer 62' Auto Trailer on which the Airfix model is based, these 58' 6" vehicles did not have recessed drivers door and ran on 7' w.b. Plate bogies, As can be seen the coaches were not flush-sided. My wife is sat on the bench refusing to have her photo taken, bless her cotton socks. WEB Auto trailer A.jpg At least she isn't freezing and left next to the WC brazier on this occasion. That's actually a very good pic Larry. If it was not for the MK1 with B4 (is it?) bogies & the modern attire of folk, that could be a mid/late 50s WR branch anywhere pic. Phil Edited October 4, 2015 by Mallard60022 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted October 4, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 4, 2015 A timely reminder that my N class 1848 will be seen next weekend at the Gaydon show.It will be on Graham Muz's Fisherton Sarum layout and is appropriate as he did the excellent repaint/renumbering and it was Salisbury based post war. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted October 4, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 4, 2015 Gazuntite! Why are you asking blokes called Gary to unite? Is this some kind of cunning master plan? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted October 4, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 4, 2015 Bristol Panel Signal Box nameplate for a locomotive. You can't make it up! I used to watch futuristic movies in the 1950's and even the writers could not have dreamed up the things that actually have come to pass in this land of cretins. Whilst I understand exactly what you are getting at here, Larry, I'm nonetheless a bit bemused/taken aback/disappointed to read this, because virtually everyone involved in this loco naming is a time-served railwayman, (which is what I understood you also were at one time?). It was one of the signalmen in Bristol Panel that asked for a loco to be named after the panel, as this has been done elsewhere. A GBRF driver was waiting to relieve a freight train in Temple Meads station one evening, and rang the panel to ask where it was. The signalman told him to come up and have a cup of tea, because the train was some way off. When they were sat chatting, the signalman asked how they could go about getting a loco named after the panel. The driver said he'd text the MD of GBRF (and they do seem to have that kind of close, informal relationship in that company), and thus it got arranged. Yes, there are some completely idiotic and cretinous names, along the lines of 'A.R.Sehole, Ffahrt and Bloggs Solicitors, 45 years of faithfully serving the Community', or 'Haverfordwest District Council, 25 years of Achievement' and that sort of ilk, but I do think this is different. We name locos after battleships, areas of the country and (even) football teams, for goodness sake, so I don't really understand the objection to naming them after one of our railway buildings, which is now 45 years old, yet only has about 2 or so years of operational life left. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted October 4, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 4, 2015 Back to the Collett and prairie double act scene. 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted October 4, 2015 Share Posted October 4, 2015 (edited) Oh dear. It is inevitable that a comment on a public forum is going to upset someone, but what can I say. A locomotive carrying a signalbox nameboard just looks plain odd to me. No offence intended Captain Kernow and thank you for taking the trouble to give some background to the honouring of a signalbox on a locomotive. Edited October 4, 2015 by coachmann 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted October 4, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 4, 2015 Someone mentioned Cardiff? - so just for you. This is the last pic I took, through the train window 019_DS~1.jpg before I took this one 020_DS~1.jpg and the next one after that was this one 021_DS~1.jpg Takes me back Mike, I've walked over the top of the arch on that there bridge. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted October 4, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 4, 2015 Oh dear. It is inevitable that a comment on a public forum is going to upset someone, but what can I say. A locomotive carrying a signalbox nameboard just looks plain odd to me. No offence intended Captain Kernow and thank you for taking the trouble to give some background to the honouring of a signalbox on a locomotive. WEB signal box nameboards 2 .jpg Don't worry Larry, thanks for the comments, but especially thanks for the photo, it made me laugh out loud and got the Missus seriously wondering what I was looking at! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted October 4, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 4, 2015 A final few for the weekend. I must think about the weathering of my kit built stock as suggested by John Flann of Hintock fame. 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted October 4, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 4, 2015 What's the provenance of that rather nice looking coach, please, Robin? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted October 4, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 4, 2015 Here's another photo of that rather colourful Class 66 arriving at Bristol TM on Friday, without all the people and curtains in front of it: The extremely tenuous link to Brent is that locos of this type now sometimes run through the real Brent these days, albeit not normally GBRF ones. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Captain Kernow Posted October 4, 2015 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted October 4, 2015 Back to the Great Western: 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted October 4, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 4, 2015 What's the provenance of that rather nice looking coach, please, Robin? Triang/CKD I think..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianusa Posted October 4, 2015 Share Posted October 4, 2015 Cap'n, as one who agreed with Larry and his comments on unusual names, I appreciate your remarks. While it is great that credit was given where due, it means very little to the travelling public or most people outside the industry. Most of us here are enthusiasts who, should it be known, have very little knowledge of the ins and outs of the railway other than what we read or learn. To those involved, it means a whole different thing and we must be forgiven for not understanding the other side of the story. Most of us are familiar with the traditional naming of engines which over the years have included some doozies! But these were accepted and in time no doubt, todays more unusual names will be also. Certainly no offence or derision meant! Brian. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted October 4, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 4, 2015 (edited) They're not security bars in quite the way you're thinking - the 'security' bit is to stop lumps of coal coming through (hence the change to fully sheeted ends). Now as that duck chappie likes big green streamlined engines here's his special treat for today. I always liked the look of these in pictures when I was a youngster so it really was something to come across this one completely by chance while on a trip to somewhere else one Saturday morning. 204_DS~1.jpg Currently in bits at Chullora workshops being overhauled including a new boiler. Edited October 4, 2015 by St Enodoc Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted October 4, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 4, 2015 Senior moment this morning when mentioning a Hawksworth Auto Trailer. It was this particular vehicle. I didn't get the running number so it is either a Diagram A26 or A28. Unlike the longer 62' Auto Trailer on which the Airfix model is based, these 58' 6" vehicles did not have recessed drivers door and ran on 7' w.b. Plate bogies, As can be seen the coaches were not flush-sided. My wife is sat on the bench refusing to have her photo taken, bless her cotton socks. WEB Auto trailer A.jpg Doesn't look as though she's wearing 'em. Gazuntite! Arsenal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted October 4, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 4, 2015 That's Humbrol GWR green (Silk) that is............................... Quackersstillrecoveringfromwatchingtheexconvictsmakinguslookreallyreallydisorganisedmatch. Where's Stu when you need him? How about a small side bet on this coming Saturday's game, say a pint of something refreshing next time I'm West of the Tamar (the one in the Northern Hemisphere that is, not the one in Tasmania)? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted October 4, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 4, 2015 Whilst I understand exactly what you are getting at here, Larry, I'm nonetheless a bit bemused/taken aback/disappointed to read this, because virtually everyone involved in this loco naming is a time-served railwayman, (which is what I understood you also were at one time?). It was one of the signalmen in Bristol Panel that asked for a loco to be named after the panel, as this has been done elsewhere. A GBRF driver was waiting to relieve a freight train in Temple Meads station one evening, and rang the panel to ask where it was. The signalman told him to come up and have a cup of tea, because the train was some way off. When they were sat chatting, the signalman asked how they could go about getting a loco named after the panel. The driver said he'd text the MD of GBRF (and they do seem to have that kind of close, informal relationship in that company), and thus it got arranged. Yes, there are some completely idiotic and cretinous names, along the lines of 'A.R.Sehole, Ffahrt and Bloggs Solicitors, 45 years of faithfully serving the Community', or 'Haverfordwest District Council, 25 years of Achievement' and that sort of ilk, but I do think this is different. We name locos after battleships, areas of the country and (even) football teams, for goodness sake, so I don't really understand the objection to naming them after one of our railway buildings, which is now 45 years old, yet only has about 2 or so years of operational life left. Cap'n, as one who agreed with Larry and his comments on unusual names, I appreciate your remarks. While it is great that credit was given where due, it means very little to the travelling public or most people outside the industry. Most of us here are enthusiasts who, should it be known, have very little knowledge of the ins and outs of the railway other than what we read or learn. To those involved, it means a whole different thing and we must be forgiven for not understanding the other side of the story. Most of us are familiar with the traditional naming of engines which over the years have included some doozies! But these were accepted and in time no doubt, todays more unusual names will be also. Certainly no offence or derision meant! Brian. Didn't the LB&SCR stop painting the names of towns and villages on the side of its locos because folk thought that that was where the train was going to? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted October 4, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 4, 2015 Where's Stu when you need him? How about a small side bet on this coming Saturday's game, say a pint of something refreshing next time I'm West of the Tamar (the one in the Northern Hemisphere that is, not the one in Tasmania)? I accept the challenge and fully expect to have to pay - the number of injuries has decimated the Welsh squad and I don't think passion alone will win this time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold colin penfold Posted October 4, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 4, 2015 Im not sure about this as Kings are not on my radar http://www.burevalleymodels.com/p/1142/R3074---The-Royal-Mail:-GWR-King-William-IV Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianusa Posted October 4, 2015 Share Posted October 4, 2015 "Didn't the LB&SCR stop painting the names of towns and villages on the side of its locos because folk thought that that was where the train was going to?" That was the GW Duke class, but I could never understand why anyone could mistake a firmly affixed nameplate could be so misunderstood. Brian. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted October 5, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 5, 2015 I accept the challenge and fully expect to have to pay - the number of injuries has decimated the Welsh squad and I don't think passion alone will win this time. Digital virtual cyberspace handshake duly exchanged. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Edwardian Posted October 5, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 5, 2015 King William IV special edition - Is this not the old Hornby King with a flash new paint job, rather than the forthcoming re-tooled version? If it is the old King, it is yet more mutton dressed up as lamb and somewhat cheekily priced, or, rather, perhaps it is the last flogging of a long dead horse. If collectors buy this, instead of waiting for the new Kings from Hornby and Hatton, it vindicates every doubt I have ever had concerning their intelligence and powers of discernment. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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