Jump to content
 

great central

Members
  • Posts

    2,308
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by great central

  1. Probably, is the best I can come up with, due to there being many examples at swapmeets when the TTS 37 was first released. The Lima bodied ones were accompanied by lots of Hornby yellow 37 bodies on Lima chassis!
  2. For those who would rather buy things from a shop instead of contributing more to the waste packaging mountain. Yes I know they're more expensive but hardly going to break the bank at around 1p each. https://www.hobbycraft.co.uk/hemline-brass-craft-pins-450-pack/566984-1000?query=brass pins
  3. Several hundred, I reckon, assorted railway mags. Rail Express, Rail, Railway Magazine and some modelling mags. Free for collection only from North of Nottingham. You can have the eco friendly bags as well, they've been cluttering up my garage for several years since I dismantled a friends deceased relatives layout.
  4. What has the Gas Works Railway done to deserve that
  5. As far as I am aware, the MSW locos, EM1s and 2s never had overhead warning signs fitted to them in quantity or possibly not at all. Someone will now come up with many photos showing such things.
  6. ^^^ 43102 back in that livery for the final month or so of HSTs on the Midland mainline, sadly missed by both staff and passengers. https://www.125group.org.uk/tag/43102/
  7. New Basford, my old stamping ground but a bit earlier than I remember, I was born in 1953. Still loco classes I recall although the J11 that sticks in my mind was 64420 as a regular in the pick up and pilot jobs.
  8. Ah right, like I said it was getting dark and the livery rather took me by surprise. Bus windows were rather steamed up as well!
  9. I'm fairly sure there's at least one in the sidings at Great Yarmouth among the many ex Caledonian sleeper mk2s and Anglia mk3s. I passed a few weeks ago on the bus as it was getting dark but the livery is pretty distinctive and only viewable from the road side.
  10. A regular problem at Norwich. It's amazing how many people don't know the difference between London Liverpool Street and Liverpool Lime Street. Several years ago, I watched a group of 4 leap off the train from Yarmouth and into mine, complete with a wheelchair! I did my usual pre-departure announcement adding as a final reminder ' this service does NOT, I repeat, does NOT go to London!' On stepping back to the platform I was totally unsurprised to see said group of 4 scurrying back off my train.
  11. An ongoing, very slowly (!), project is the conversion of a Hornby 110 into a 104 to be finished in green. I have the original Hornby glazing but the bars are silver and should be green for the 104. I ordered a set of the Flushglaze ones but the glazing bars are merely a raised 'ripple' in the clear plastic so still need painting. I've now painted, not particularly well, the bars on the Hornby glazing but it's a devil of a job to get the silver covered. So in my opinion, the Flushglaze doesn't offer any great advantage over the Hornby original.
  12. Had to grab this one very quickly, leaving Grantham on my way to Skegness as this rolled into platform 1. Sorry about the OHLE in the way.
  13. Never mind about the actual colour of bauxite, how about the loco livery? Presumably fresh from overhaul and a repaint, the works paintshop have obviously misread the painting spec! Smokebox and first two sections of boiler cladding in black??
  14. The angle and lighting on the last pic of 70052, latterly Firth of Tay, really makes it look like it's shouldering the load. Superb.
  15. Must say I admire your dedication and Mrs 4479s forebearance allowing you to spend, effectively, the whole of Christmas and Boxing Day on a model project. I haven't managed anything at all but I left my nice warm bed 20 or so minutes ago to make my small contribution to keeping the big railway running. I'm 04.00 standby.
  16. Like this, although it's coal.... https://youtu.be/6_gu0v33e7A
  17. Apparently another one had been cleaned and allocated for the working but was failed before departure. Perhaps appropriate given the way the GC had been treated since being absorbed into the dark side?
  18. Jvol4150, black 5 44984, 13 or so years later the same loco was to haul the final Nottingham-Marylebone in the GC.
  19. On all of today's photos if you visited any of the sites it would be almost inconceivable there was ever a railway there unless you knew. The only one you could get anything like a similar view is the one showing the bridge at Perry Road (Bagthorpe Junction), the bridge deck may still be in place but underfilled, I think there's an old people's home roughly at trackbed level now. I was standing roughly where the Annesley one was taken (I think!) a couple of days ago. The land has been partially filled ramping up to the tunnel, now all there is is grazing horses.
  20. I was standing looking at the demolition site that used to be the Broad Marsh centre in Nottingham yesterday, remembering that I was working there, dragging in service cables mostly, when they were building it in the early 1970s! It was absolutely freezing, just a concrete shell at the time. The day normally went along as an hour or so of work then half an hour in Woolworths cafe next door to warm up before back on site for an hour!
  21. Possibly the same as happened to me with a thread a while ago. I always view the forum on my phone, pages tend to jump around a bit when loading, especially with the 'Gold' advertising at the top of the page. If that happens and you're either a little bit quick or not watching carefully what you're doing, the ignore topic bar can be hit accidentally and 'bang!' the thread is gone
  22. Probably shouldn't have the nameplates either, although I'd have to check to be sure. Odd ones did retain them. Edit: I've just checked on the Annesley Fireman website and it must have been one of the best ones, kept it's nameplates, at least in the photos shown, and lasted in service for over a year. They did have some good dedicated fitting staff at Annesley!
×
×
  • Create New...