[GWR 3 plank wagons appreciation thread]

A round-ended "backgrounder" here, number not quite readable, is it 3xx47? 

 

https://railway-photography.smugmug.com/GWRSteam-1/Churchward-Locomotives/Churchward-Tender-Locomotives/Churchward-County-class-440/Churchward-2221-County-Tank/i-SDLhxMs

 

I won't mention the foreground as that will only lead us astray 🙂 But the wider album (of which this is a sub-sub- album) is of general interest I would think.

 

[Helston Revisited]

Just looked it up, hadn't heard about it. 🙂 But no it is just good old Daisy.

[Traeth Mawr -Building Mr Price's house , (mostly)]

1 hour ago, ChrisN said:

Thank you.

 

I think most people would find it very boring.  Just normal everyday life.  People working hard and trying to get on with each other. Not much industry, plenty of hotels on the sea front, lovely beach, (of course), a boy's boarding school, and a girl's boarding school, whose pupils are rigorously kept apart, half a dozen churches, (not counted them up really), a happy little community with two or three gossips so that everyone knows everyone else's business, and no TV cameras trying to rake up things to keep people from switching off as it is ordinary boring life.

 

I had thought of writing a blog of interviews with locals, but I have not done so, 1) because I want the layout to look more like the town before I do, and 2) I think it would probably be misunderstood, as the people would speak with the mindset of 1895, although written in a way to poke fun at some things, ( "What is the point of giving bursaries to local girls to go to Lady Gwyneth's school.  What is the point of educating girls anyway?)

 

I was thinking of the station. This sort of thing:

 

19 hours ago, ChrisN said:

The contractor has had him locked up somewhere, just to stop him complaining.

 

19 hours ago, ChrisN said:

He sleeps in the Station Masters office, except on Saturday night

 

🙂

 

Anyway, the blog sounds good, I hope that will appear some day!

 

[Traeth Mawr -Building Mr Price's house , (mostly)]

It strikes me that life in and around Traeth Mawr would make excellent reality TV, and the first of its kind that I'd actually want to watch.

 

Though I am not sure the contractor would approve 🙂

[Carlisle Citadel in Late Victorian Times]

They look excellent. The moustache always makes a big difference and helps established the period so well.

 

5 modelling sessions was well worth it, I think. Just another 50 for the passengers now 🙂

[GWR 3 plank wagons appreciation thread]

Which one is that please, Stephen?

 

Quiite a lightfooted look, but presumably that's the angle.

[Inspired by Brent June 1947]

A classic modelling situation. You start off thinking "here's a nice readymade item that will give me a quick result", but before you know it you're deep into conversions and new builds!

[Stubby47's buildings and other modelling]

Best looking worst looking structure I've seen for a while.

 

It's thought-provoking to compare it with your earlier build of the same house. I assume it's for someone who has restored the house, what a nice idea. 

 

[The Dean brake tricomposite and brake composite (and Slips too) appreciation thread]

From my "Trains worth modelling" folder. With apologies to Churchward 🙂

 

 

Pembroke & Tenby line. Source: Embedded link from Pembroke & Monkton Local History Society.

 

[S7 LNWR]

Wonderful coaches. It must be very challenging to do dark lining on a light base - very unforgiving.

 

[BRM May + Traction. It's ON-SALE NOW!]

3 hours ago, Keith Addenbrooke said:

@AY Mod seems to be working overtime on the reviews in this issue!  Much to enjoy, Keith.

 

I was thinking the same. I can imagine it's a pleasant exercise until it all has to be written up!

[GWR 3 plank wagons appreciation thread]

On 14/04/2024 at 02:08, Schooner said:

Two interesting photos, if one is interested in raising the profile of a certain class of tank engine...

 

😇

 

 

Here's one of the best photos I know of GWR corduroy. And some familar stock. This is alledgedly 1905.

 

 

 

But no 3-plankers in that shot, so here is one to compensate.

 

 

[Birmingham Bull Ring]

On 12/04/2024 at 10:10, brumtb said:

Last week Shirley and I spent a very enjoyable (if rather wet) holiday in Cumbria, split between railways, wildlife and Hadrian's Wall.

 

Impeccable taste!

 

[Little Muddle]

Maybe one door was painted in GWR days and the other under BR!

 

For Little Muddle you'll want something neater I think.

[Little Muddle]

Good grief, that is outrageously good.

 

I looked and looked to see if it was real or not. In the end only the shoe not firmly on the ground gave the game away.

 

Incidentally Kevin, here's a proposed paint scheme for your famous shed doors 🙂

https://www.rmweb.co.uk/forums/topic/165383-western-times/?do=findComment&comment=5487517

 

[Carlisle Citadel in Late Victorian Times]

I agree. In fact I am not sure that you need a forced perspective at all.

 

Will the sloping parts not give you trouble when viewing (and taking pictures) along the platforms?

 

 

 

[Western Times]

I like the shed doors on the front cover. Not mentioned in any BR livery instructions I think :-)

 

[Helston Revisited]

1 hour ago, Andy Keane said:

Those four-wheelers have been built to a beautiful standard. Something to aspire to and would look lovely in Helston.

 

Thanks Andy, though I really should add lighting (gas piping etc) ! The darkness inside has led to numerous unfortuante incidents on late night trains at Farthing. For example, there was that situation with the parrot, the vicar and the butcher's wife...

 

Here's how it should be done, Steve's lovely build: http://www.gwr.org.uk/prot36.html

 

 

[GWR 3 plank wagons appreciation thread]

Interesting photo in Andy's thread, here:

 

 https://www.rmweb.co.uk/forums/topic/163683-helston-revisited/?do=findComment&comment=5487694

 

 

 

[Helston Revisited]

11 hours ago, Andy Keane said:

 

 

What a lovely photo. And a rare good shot of a round-ended 3- planker with lefthand GWR!

[Chippenham - The Work Bench]

Hi Matt, very pleasing to see an old kit like that coming to life. The aluminimum look is almost arty.

 

I'm sometimes tempted to pick up one of the old wooden wagon/van kits that come up on ebay etc sometimes. Just to see what they're like. I doubt they can match this though!

[Oxford Rail announces - OO gauge GWR Dean Goods]

Interesting. Turns out that Sam is a hands-on person.

 

 

[Inspired by Brent June 1947]

 

Looks great.

 

I've been looking at RTR tenders for it, ended up with the Oxford Rail 2500 G for mine (but hard to get on its own,had to nick it off one of my existing Dean Goods).

 

@Miss Prism provided a useful overview of GWR RTR tenders here: https://www.rmweb.co.uk/forums/topic/183088-gwr-4mm-rtr-tenders/

 

 

[Penzance 1913 - GWR in Linear Motor T Gauge]

Very effective. A lot of work must have gone into that in front of the screen. 

 

1 hour ago, martink said:

and a little program of my own that places rows of houses with scaling and perspective

 

That sounds useful for railway modellers. This hobby never stops developing!

 

[“BEYOND DOVER”]

12 hours ago, Northroader said:

RED/GREEN - COLOUR BLINDNESS.

 

A snowy night in 1875, and I’m sorry to say two of the B.P. Singles were involved in a tragedy with the premier trains in Sweden. I thought I’d post this as a look into operating circumstances back then, and it’s not from a link you’d expect on RMweb, but most interesting.

My first move when joining BR  was a trip to the Crewe works, which was the nearest to where I lived, for a medical, including a colour blindness test, and the need for this ties into what happened back then.

 

https://vision.psychol.cam.ac.uk/jdmollon/papers/MollonCavoniusOnLagerlundaCollision.pdf

 

 

 

Setting aside the tragedy for a moment, the authors clearly had a lot of fun researching that case.

 

Holmgren's little trick is very clever, it must have been exciting to analyse the lamps!