RMweb Gold 57xx Posted Friday at 22:43 RMweb Gold Share Posted Friday at 22:43 6 hours ago, 2ManySpams said: Obviously colour is a very personal (and polarising) subject but that bauxite looks more like chocolate brown to me. Is it that brown in the flesh @gwrrob? Don't confuse LMS bauxite with what BR later used. Quite different colours. 3 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 57xx Posted Friday at 23:02 RMweb Gold Share Posted Friday at 23:02 6 hours ago, gwrrob said: Yes, it does have a chocolate look to it but checking it against what's offered in a tin by Precision Paint it's not far away. Consistent with other LMS wagons [D1666] I have from Rapido. Corbs and crew have the LMS paint schedules for the freight liveries and am sure they have come up with a well researched colour, as you say it also matches closely with the Precisions paints. LMS Bauxite has an element of black in the mix giving the darker shade. 3 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Tim Dubya Posted Saturday at 10:41 RMweb Premium Share Posted Saturday at 10:41 18 hours ago, 2ManySpams said: Obviously colour is a very personal (and polarising) subject but that bauxite looks more like chocolate brown to me. Is it that brown in the flesh @gwrrob? Having seen them in a different photographs now, they look more like the bauxite I know (and love). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Tim Dubya Posted Saturday at 10:46 RMweb Premium Share Posted Saturday at 10:46 (edited) Any of you crazy kids fancy a LSWR Cross Country set? Rails have them on special for £129:50 for the 3 sets and £169:50 for the 4 carriage sets. https://railsofsheffield.com/products/efe-rail-e86015-lswr-cross-country-3-coach-pack-br-sr-green I'm tempted by another set but with the Toplights and LSWR Corridors* (🤞) coming, I have to calm myself down a bit. * pure speculation on my part but that T3 needs some corridors behind it, surely? Edited Monday at 13:10 by Tim Dubya more coffee 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Prism Posted Saturday at 21:01 Share Posted Saturday at 21:01 On 12/09/2024 at 12:23, gwrrob said: Those insignia seem too small to me. I can't find an official dimension. Or maybe were there height variations? 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Prism Posted Saturday at 23:44 Share Posted Saturday at 23:44 I've sent an enquiry to Ian Rathbone and Pete Speller. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Mikkel Posted Sunday at 06:18 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted Sunday at 06:18 9 hours ago, Miss Prism said: Those insignia seem too small to me. I can't find an official dimension. Or maybe were there height variations? Looks perfectly prototypical to me 😉 1 3 22 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMKAT7 Posted Sunday at 06:28 Share Posted Sunday at 06:28 Good morning Rob, Having seen your comment on the Little Muddle thread, all I can say is a no-day week (retirement) is better than a three day. Then you can listen to all the Pistols/Clash/Stranglers/etc you want 😃 Cheers, Nigel. 3 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post gwrrob Posted Sunday at 13:03 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted Sunday at 13:03 Seen before, it's the autumn of 1957 as black pannier 16xx class , 1608 heads bunker first west with a coal train comprising of Bachmann 16T mineral wagons. This is the Model Rail/Rapido model which I still think is available. 41 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TrevorP1 Posted Sunday at 15:40 RMweb Premium Share Posted Sunday at 15:40 I like the weathering on that first mineral wagon! 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted Sunday at 16:00 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted Sunday at 16:00 19 minutes ago, TrevorP1 said: I like the weathering on that first mineral wagon! The work of the late Mick Bonwick .😟 1 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Prism Posted Sunday at 16:35 Share Posted Sunday at 16:35 19 hours ago, Miss Prism said: Those insignia seem too small to me. I can't find an official dimension. Or maybe were there height variations? Silly me. I did flick through Russell, but in my haste, I didn't look at the last page! Here is the answer, courtesy of Pete Speller. So, the answer is 9" across the yellow. Pete adds that, according to his traced artwork, the red is 1-5/8" & the black 1-13/16" & the keyline is 1/8" black. The 3'6" + 3'6" spacing is for all classes except pannier tanks, where the letters are spaced to clear the tank joints. There may be some other exceptions, but I'll leave that for another day. Once again, apologies for the balls up. Somewhat egg on face, but I now know more than the textbooks say, so maybe there is a silver lining. Result! 7 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Siberian Snooper Posted Monday at 09:14 RMweb Premium Share Posted Monday at 09:14 Now all we need is some of the more elderly pannier tanks, like the 850, 1076 and 2021 classes. A few of each made it into BR, but not necessarily, BR livery. 3 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold melmoth Posted Monday at 10:01 RMweb Gold Share Posted Monday at 10:01 (edited) 46 minutes ago, Siberian Snooper said: Now all we need is some of the more elderly pannier tanks, like the 850, 1076 and 2021 classes. A few of each made it into BR, but not necessarily, BR livery. 850s and 2021s yes, but I thought the last 1076 went in 1946? Edited Monday at 10:01 by melmoth spelling, as ever 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted Monday at 10:28 RMweb Premium Share Posted Monday at 10:28 1 hour ago, Siberian Snooper said: Now all we need is some of the more elderly pannier tanks, like the 850, 1076 and 2021 classes. A 2021 shouldn't be far off, now that I've started my Nu-Cast kit. 1 1 7 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Prism Posted Monday at 12:47 Share Posted Monday at 12:47 (edited) 9 hours ago, melmoth said: but I thought the last 1076 went in 1946? Yes. 1287, 1585 and 1624 made it to early 1946. 1287 lived on as a stationary boiler somewhere until 1953 (so doesn't count as a running loco). Edited Monday at 19:44 by Miss Prism 1624 included 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Siberian Snooper Posted Monday at 15:01 RMweb Premium Share Posted Monday at 15:01 4 hours ago, melmoth said: 850s and 2021s yes, but I thought the last 1076 went in 1946? I'm not at home and couldn't double-check the info and wiki was no use either. Sorry for any inconvenience. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Prism Posted Monday at 21:50 Share Posted Monday at 21:50 In an idle moment, I charted the withdrawal dates of the Buffalo tanks: 10 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mikkel Posted Monday at 22:17 RMweb Gold Share Posted Monday at 22:17 Thanks Miss P. I wonder why the dip in 1933 (an unpleasant year for the world in various respects, but still). 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Prism Posted Monday at 22:52 Share Posted Monday at 22:52 (edited) I guess possibly reflecting a downturn in newer replacement locos in the early-1930s slump/recession. There was a bit of a gap between the 57xx locos (1929-30) and the first batches of the 8750s in 1933 onward. Edited Monday at 22:58 by Miss Prism 1 4 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted Tuesday at 08:53 RMweb Gold Share Posted Tuesday at 08:53 Some 2021s made it through to the mid-late 1950s and definitely in BR livery. 2 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold melmoth Posted Tuesday at 09:29 RMweb Gold Share Posted Tuesday at 09:29 35 minutes ago, Captain Kernow said: Some 2021s made it through to the mid-late 1950s and definitely in BR livery. Including several based at Birkenhead, which came under LM region control and were overhauled at Derby, if I remember correctly 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted Tuesday at 10:01 RMweb Premium Share Posted Tuesday at 10:01 1 hour ago, Captain Kernow said: Some 2021s made it through to the mid-late 1950s and definitely in BR livery. Including 2182, withdrawn from St Blazey in 1955. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Prism Posted Tuesday at 11:27 Share Posted Tuesday at 11:27 2136 at Tyseley, 1950. Almost certainly one of the locos overhauled at Derby (or were some done at Crewe?). Red-background plates and a white circle around the power group. I don't think any of the 2021s survived to receive late crests. On the 2021s, were the vacuum and steam pipe routing on the valances the reverse of the normal convention? 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted yesterday at 13:33 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted yesterday at 13:33 Right, what have I missed....... 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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