w124bob Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 18 hours ago, w124bob said: Now I know this is for photos of real locos but I did say this thread was directly responsible the purchase of a completely unnecessary Western, well here's a sneak peak at Western Consort in Dewsbury! More piccies tomorrow in the Dapol Class 52 thread after editing. Link to more pictures https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/133390-another-run-of-Dapol-westerns/page/3/#comments 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 On 26/10/2021 at 21:52, w124bob said: The Western competes with a Type 4 brush, sorry couldn't resist that. Is this one of your photos Bob or someone else's...? I'd like to post it in the Old Oak staff facebook group with due credit if that's ok . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
w124bob Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 1 hour ago, Rugd1022 said: Is this one of your photos Bob or someone else's...? I'd like to post it in the Old Oak staff facebook group with due credit if that's ok . Not a picture of mine, just one I found via Flickr. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Downendian Posted July 24, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 24, 2022 (edited) Well I’m still picking up the occasional copyright neg/slide, but the accurascale budget has been recently all consuming, and much time committed to previously neglected rolling stock projects. One has been the building of a rake of GWR design Herring ballast hoppers, so I was delighted to see a photo of D7010 near Cheltenham on a rake of them. A stunner and will serve as reference for when I get the rake in action- D 6XX NBL warships are hens teeth shots, so I didn’t expect to win this but did so this evening, I had expected it to fetch in excess of £50 but was much less than that. Very pleased to say this is now my copyright D603 at the site of Mutley station, Plymouth in the early 1960s. Taken before the multi-storey car park was built, I’m familiar with the location but it has changed a fair bit. both images are my copyright, please do not post elsewhere without my permission. Neil Edited July 24, 2022 by Downendian 10 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted July 24, 2022 Share Posted July 24, 2022 22 minutes ago, Downendian said: ... previously neglected rolling stock projects. One has been the building of a rake of GWR design Herring ballast hoppers ... Blimey, I feel your pain. I built seven of them for a customer and it was an ordeal (the seventh was an incomplete kit and I had to make/bodge quite a bit of it). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Downendian Posted July 24, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 24, 2022 Indeed Jonathan 20 of them! It was a labour of love and they are really quite cute little things. Neil 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halvarras Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 (edited) 16 hours ago, Downendian said: Well I’m still picking up the occasional copyright neg/slide, but the accurascale budget has been recently all consuming, and much time committed to previously neglected rolling stock projects. One has been the building of a rake of GWR design Herring ballast hoppers, so I was delighted to see a photo of D7010 near Cheltenham on a rake of them. A stunner and will serve as reference for when I get the rake in action- D 6XX NBL warships are hens teeth shots, so I didn’t expect to win this but did so this evening, I had expected it to fetch in excess of £50 but was much less than that. Very pleased to say this is now my copyright D603 at the site of Mutley station, Plymouth in the early 1960s. Taken before the multi-storey car park was built, I’m familiar with the location but it has changed a fair bit. both images are my copyright, please do not post elsewhere without my permission. Neil Nice. So it wasn't only Class 22s which shed various bits of side valance. I sometimes wonder if any of these still exist, hidden in former Western Regional lineside vegetation......🤔 Edited July 25, 2022 by Halvarras Clarification - the WR no longer exists! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Downendian Posted August 6, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted August 6, 2022 (edited) A couple more added this week. D1026 Western Centurion at Westbury July 1975 My prototypical memories of this particular loco start the previous summer. Laira were repainting Westerns at a very late stage in their careers, and included silver embellishments to valance footsteps and window surrounds. D1026 had this treatment in July 1974, no sign of it here a year later, and if it wasn’t for a single photo I’ve found and one of Adrian Curtis’s fine studies on these repaints I would have believed my memory was wrong. I remember it looked absolutely stunning, and very different to her work worn sisters seen in the same period. Next D1043 at the classic 52 location of Reading. Neil Edited August 6, 2022 by Downendian 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halvarras Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 (edited) On 06/08/2022 at 11:30, Downendian said: A couple more added this week. D1026 Western Centurion at Westbury July 1975 My prototypical memories of this particular loco start the previous summer. Laira were repainting Westerns at a very late stage in their careers, and included silver embellishments to valance footsteps and window surrounds. D1026 had this treatment in July 1974, no sign of it here a year later, and if it wasn’t for a single photo I’ve found and one of Adrian Curtis’s fine studies on these repaints I would have believed my memory was wrong. I remember it looked absolutely stunning, and very different to her work worn sisters seen in the same period. So Centurion must have looked like this when you saw it then....... .......my photo of it at Reading on 29th June 1974. According to Adrian C's 'Western Liveries' book D1026's Laira repaint occurred 25-29/6/74 so the paint may have still been a bit tacky in places! Note that the exhaust soot also indicates only one direction of travel since repainting. I didn't know it at the time but the other side was missing its double arrow logo! (It wasn't alone, D1006 also ran arrowless on one side for a while but I think both were quickly corrected). A pity that Laira didn't appear to have a stock of new OHLE flashes to finish the job properly but they weren't that important in a WR setting back then. Note also that these pics show the same side of the loco, in my photo the 'D' prefix has been painted out but a year later it has 'reappeared'. This was quite common and I often wondered whether somebody armed with a piece of abrasive paper was going around sanding them back to life! Edited August 7, 2022 by Halvarras My pic was in wrong position....d'oh! 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Downendian Posted August 8, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted August 8, 2022 Thanks for posting this Halvarras - yes my first sighting of D1026 was July 1974. It’s a Western modification (and a simple touch up with white/silver paint) that I rarely see modelled. A few of my fleet will be so treated, they did look stunning, and at the time we hoped that Laira could keep these wonderful machines running a lot longer - which they did for a few years. Neil 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
britishcolumbian Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 On 05/02/2015 at 12:34, Phil Bullock said: IIRC it was the solution used in the washers - Exmover, containing oxalic acid http://www.superfine.co.uk/sds/cnvw4qfk.pdf- which was to blame Phil To think we're eating that stuff when we eat sorrel... oxalic acid is what gives it that tang. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted November 30, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 30, 2022 59 minutes ago, britishcolumbian said: To think we're eating that stuff when we eat sorrel... oxalic acid is what gives it that tang. Don’t think I have ever eaten sorrel! Clue is in the Latin name I guess …. Oxalis 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 31 minutes ago, Phil Bullock said: Don’t think I have ever eaten sorrel! Clue is in the Latin name I guess …. Oxalis Related to rhubarb, IIRC, but with a lower concentration of Oxalic Acid. Quite palatable when used with eggs or cheese. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted November 30, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 30, 2022 4 hours ago, britishcolumbian said: To think we're eating that stuff when we eat sorrel... oxalic acid is what gives it that tang. 3 hours ago, Phil Bullock said: Don’t think I have ever eaten sorrel! Clue is in the Latin name I guess …. Oxalis 3 hours ago, Fat Controller said: Related to rhubarb, IIRC, but with a lower concentration of Oxalic Acid. Quite palatable when used with eggs or cheese. Every day is a school day! Mike. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 On 26/10/2021 at 21:52, w124bob said: The Western competes with a Type 4 brush, sorry couldn't resist that. Is that The Broom before it got to Trigger and the Road Sweeping Department in Peckham? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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