br2975 Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 And a lot of BRUTEs too... Kevin British Rail Universal TRAINSPOTTING Equipment !!!!! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 Though not as comfy as the older platform barrows which had wooden floors. They were at a nice "sitting down" height and not as cold as a metal one. BRUTEs were a bit too low for my liking..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Flashheart Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 Hi Gareth Yes I have a copy of the dvd, of all the hydraulic loco types the class 14s are my favourite so the event was unmissable for me, it was also my first run with D9521 and it looked and sounded great, can't wait to see more of your superb photos. Rob Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted March 14, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 14, 2015 Just awesome!Many many thanks for sharing Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 Seconded. Thanks very much Gareth. I never knew that so many photos of class 14s in BR days existed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Flashheart Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 Absolutely brilliant Gareth and thanks again for sharing them with us all. Rob Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
br2975 Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 "Thirded" too . Thanks Gareth . Brian R Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEDDYBEAR D9521 Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 Just awesome! Many many thanks for sharing Phil Seconded. Thanks very much Gareth. I never knew that so many photos of class 14s in BR days existed. Absolutely brilliant Gareth and thanks again for sharing them with us all. Rob "Thirded" too . Thanks Gareth . Brian R Many thanks gents for your comments it's a pleasure to share these photos with people appreicate them. Cheers GARETH 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve fay Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 Mr Jones is that you ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEDDYBEAR D9521 Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 Mr Jones is that you ? It is 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve fay Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 Thought so, great pics mate. Any thing on Swansea East dock in your archives? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Downendian Posted March 14, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 14, 2015 Many thanks gents for your comments it's a pleasure to share these photos with people appreicate them. Cheers GARETH And "fourthed" too, some of the finest photos I've seen of the D95XX I've seen on the web.Neil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 Though not as comfy as the older platform barrows which had wooden floors. They were at a nice "sitting down" height and not as cold as a metal one. BRUTEs were a bit too low for my liking..... And water used to 'puddle' on the steel floors- give me a wooden barrow any day.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted March 15, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 15, 2015 And water used to 'puddle' on the steel floors- give me a wooden barrow any day.. If you found a luxury BRUTE with mail sacks in it, then you had a raised and comfortable vantage point. Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted March 15, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 15, 2015 No wonder parcels arrived damaged!Hee hee Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Trevellan Posted March 15, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 15, 2015 Meanwhile, back at the photographs... Here's another of my oldies and it's one of my favourite diesel portraits: Western Regent inside the old Pullman shed at Old Oak Common on Sunday 31st March 1974. 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted March 15, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 15, 2015 The diffuse lighting in that shot makes it very different!Can see why you like it Trevor - is super photo Cheers Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trade Member Strathwood Posted March 16, 2015 Trade Member Share Posted March 16, 2015 Though not as comfy as the older platform barrows which had wooden floors. They were at a nice "sitting down" height and not as cold as a metal one. BRUTEs were a bit too low for my liking..... How many of us moved those older type of trolleys or BRUTEs to a more suitable position in the sunshine and closer to the platform ends at Paddington when nobody was looking? The staff at Kings Cross used to flush us off them and send the tractor up to run a wagon train load of them all back up to the concourse, to try and discourage spotters during the half term breaks and the summer holidays. Passengers had to run for their lives as some West Indian gent with a gleeful smile charged back up the platform at full tilt driving the tractor with a rake of trolleys snaking and clattering along behind. Or there was the steel sand/salt/grit bin at Royal Oak station opposite Ranelagh Bridge, that made an improvised seat albeit uncomfortable one during the summer holidays in the sunshine to watch the comings and goings whilst taking in the fumes drifting across from the loco yard. If you were lucky the shunters would move the offending rakes of wagons or even the Class 08 itself that you couldn't get because its number was hidden from view in the once large expanse of sidings to the north of the LT station before you either went home or moved on. Yours truly never leaving until the evening Pullmans had departed westwards of course. One highlight around 1968/9 was the ever so brief arrival of a Class 27 D53xx from Cricklewood with some mail vans, before scurrying off light towards Mitre Bridge and home teritory once more. Cannot recall which one it was I am afraid as spotting notes all lost over FORTY years ago when I left school, my how time flies by! Happy days... Kevin 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted March 16, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 16, 2015 On a visit to Paddington in 1975, I saw a member of staff back his snake of BRUTES off the platform and onto the 4ft.... . I did not witness the outcome as my train was about to leave. Early BRUTES had very unreliable (hydraulic) brakes and a tendency to run away when 'stabled'. Back c.1966/67 there was regular parcels traffic from Slough in the shape of - among other things - Penguin Books and Berlei bras. Anyway one night the inevitable happened and a BRUTE loaded with traffic from those two customers fell off the Down Main platform only to be well and truly demolished by a D8XX 'Warship' (number not recorded alas) which duly carried on westwards for some distance festooned with items of ladies underwear and gradually shedding a trail of them, and mashed paperback books, all the way to Slough West. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted March 16, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 16, 2015 Most likely D855 Triumph I expect Mike ! Phil 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trade Member Strathwood Posted March 16, 2015 Trade Member Share Posted March 16, 2015 Early BRUTES had very unreliable (hydraulic) brakes and a tendency to run away when 'stabled'. Back c.1966/67 there was regular parcels traffic from Slough in the shape of - among other things - Penguin Books and Berlei bras. Anyway one night the inevitable happened and a BRUTE loaded with traffic from those two customers fell off the Down Main platform only to be well and truly demolished by a D8XX 'Warship' (number not recorded alas) which duly carried on westwards for some distance festooned with items of ladies underwear and gradually shedding a trail of them, and mashed paperback books, all the way to Slough West. On a similar vein I saw D0280 Falcon arrive at Reading c1971 having picked up a brace of pheasants, remains of which clinging to the vac pipes and a lot of feathers stuck to the buffers, that might be one for you to model Phil on Abbotswood. Kevin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted March 16, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 16, 2015 Most likely D855 Triumph I expect Mike ! Phil More likely to be 853 I reckon Phil. Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray M Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 On a visit to Paddington in 1975, I saw a member of staff back his snake of BRUTES off the platform and onto the 4ft.... . I did not witness the outcome as my train was about to leave. Do you know, I bet i was on the station that same day. unless it happened a couple of times. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted March 16, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 16, 2015 (edited) You have a vivid imagination Mr E-W!!!! And yup have been tempted by that too Kevin....watch this space! Phil Edited March 16, 2015 by Phil Bullock Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted March 16, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 16, 2015 My vivid imagination thinks it could also have been 811, 818, 828, 830, 849 or 867 Phil. My favourite subject as you might have guessed! Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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