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Not quite 1947 but Pannier 9717 features a few times in the books 'Great Western Steam in Cornwall' and More Great Western Steam in Cornwall' shunting Long Rock/Marazion. Some of the dates in these books are obviously unreliable but the dates given for the pictures of 9717 are July 1950* and to my untrained eyes that looks about right. It does have a top feed in the pictures. Not quite your time period but closer than 1958. *apart from one picture of a Hall dated 1959 but clearly taken at the same place on the same day. The same image but a different angle appears in the second book again dated July 1950. Hopefully this is helpful

I feel like that coffin has always been pretty well nailed shut. Making one excellent coach will sell to a few people but a range of not quite accurate ones will satisfy a lot more people if not as thoroughly as a truly accurate prototype. The (similarly named I might add) Genesis range proved their was a market, it's good business to capitalise off that. They'll make what they can sell in the largest quantity Nothing in this range of liveries for me but I'll be watching for batch two!

On the basis that each announcement could contain multiple items, I'm very much hoping for the Hawlsworth County as has been teased before and I've been frothing for everytime Rapido make an announcement. Alongside that some GWR mainline Coaching stock. Rapido have done several GWR wagons and the B set now, I reckon they'll be finishing off the GWR range with some mainline coaching stock to match the County

There's a handy booklet included that tells you what goes where though I do query the recommended mirror. The booklet suggests that it should have the low mounted square mirror on the drivers side only. Studying the film though shows the round mirror in the same place. I've fitted the round mirror on mine, none of the aditional rear lights appear necessary on the Pearce and Crump OB

I believe the books 'Great Western Steam in Cornwall' and 'More Great Western Steam in Cornwall' have pictures of 9717 shunting in Marazion Station though the dates are unreliable. I believe two photos have dates years apart but you can clearly see from the rolling stock in the background they were taken the same day. I think the latest suggested date was some time in the early 50s, I can't recall if it had a top feed or no but I'll have a look in my books when I get home. Doesn't help you with 1947 exactly, 9717 was in penzance from 49-54 but it's a little closer

I believe only the Welsh Lined Green Manors come with headboards, the rest do not

Now that is interesting, I've heard of locos being shed pets but not tenders before

I did, the main plan as it stands at the moment is to actually do a little earlier but with the option to run the layout a little later if the mood arises. I'm still gathering information, it's likely to be years before I can actually build the layout as the current house is far to small. Interesting you say you see lining on the tender, I hadn't spotted it before but I'll be looking again shortly. I'm a sucker for something unusual and this is unusual enough and local enough to tickle my interest. Thanks Mike, it's interesting how a lot of transition liveries were quickly done away with but some locos in even older pre-nationalisation liveries persisted for quite some time. Unfortunately I missed the operation of steam in Cornwall by well over 3 decades so I appreciate everyone's help in building a better understanding Many thanks Rhys

I won't post the image on the forum but I'd be happy to pm you the image after work if you'd like to take a look? Thanks Rhys

Thanks That's a shame, they look quite well proportioned behind most of the 2 cylinder 4-6-0s

Many thanks, I thought that would probably be the case but in a black and white photo it's hard to tell. I hope it wasn't green, I posed a Lined black loco with a green tender and it looked... strange. That's unfortunate, I'm currently looking for a Churchward tender to do 6809 but that will leave me with a small Collett Tender spare and having a lot of trouble finding a loco to pair it with. I can only find photos of them with Granges in the period buy even that seems unusual. Were they particularly rare tenders? What were they paired with? Apologies for asking every question under the sun, I've got so many but I'm trying to keep it reasonable haha I'll have a good look through those links Thanks Rhys

Questions about Halls So another question for the good folk who know their GWR 4-6-0s In the book 'Great Western Steam In Cornwall' on page 34 there is a picture of 5972 Olton Hall sat at Truro Station taking on water. The picture is undated but is most likely in the very early 1950s. The loco is in BR Lined black livery, the lining is very easy to make out on the cabside, the tender on the other hand does not appear to be lined and you can clearly make out 'BRITISH RAILWAYS' in written format and in the old Great Western shaded typeface. What I'm wondering is, is it more likely the tender is black or green? I would assume black but I have never seen a black tender with the shaded the early written 'BRITISH RAILWAYS' in the Great western typeface. If anyone else can offer an educated guess or another photograph of the loco at the time that would be fantastic. I like modelling oddities and this is an era and location appropriate oddity. While I have your attention, were any halls running with the Collett long fender 3500g tender that could have conceivably be seen in west Cornwall into the 1950s? Many thanks Miss Prism for the tender information link Thanks all Rhys

I shan't repeat the language I used when I read the announcement lest the good Mr York ban me for life but there were several outbursts of expletive joy! Now just decide which ones to get and how I can justify four of them to my wallet...

These are an entirely fictions livery and so represent a what if scenario. As described above the bar was only a film set but in this fictitious scenario where they received maroon livery why not say it had the bar as well. They look rather fetching in BR Maroon as mine turned up this morning and I've not stopped admiring them since

Received my email today for balance payment for my pair of tramcars. Apparently the BR Maroon ones have arrived and are nearly ready for dispatch Very much looking forward to these!