Hroth Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, Compound2632 said: ... and this isn't 70033: Get your period headgear on! Dickens, eh? Is that his REAL tender, or is he off on a jaunt with someone elses tender? Hope you're not setting a precedent there..... Edited February 23, 2019 by Hroth Because... 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium corneliuslundie Posted February 23, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 23, 2019 Best if he keeps north of the Thames. Nasty things happened to Dickens when he went too far south. Jonathan 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted February 23, 2019 Author Share Posted February 23, 2019 34 minutes ago, corneliuslundie said: Now can I justify a visit from a West Norfolk Railway wagon in South Wales? Jonathan Boxes of Huntley & Palmer's Royal Sandringham Lavender Biscuits, made at their west Norfolk factory? 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 24 minutes ago, Edwardian said: Boxes of Huntley & Palmer's Royal Sandringham Lavender Biscuits, made at their west Norfolk factory? Lavender biscuits and chamomile tea, a taste sensation! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted February 23, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 23, 2019 2 hours ago, Martin S-C said: Regrettably my distracted mind took me back on Evil Bay and I bought more loco and wagons kits that I really cannot justify. When in a funk some use retail theray to buy shoes or hats or handbags; in my case its rolling stock. I just sold off a bunch of wagons that are out of geographic location I'd bought early last year "because they were pretty colours". You have my sympathy. Very little U.K. outline S scale appears on the bay of e, although some has in the past. Unfortunately, I also like US outline, which tends to manifest itself in small-batch brass models: very expensive. I bought some lovely stuff, but it wasn’t the geography that made me sell it do much as the era. Even if I can sell for the original dollar price, I lose out on shipping plus VAT on the whole bundle... I have learned (or been forced to learn by SWMBO!) to curb my enthusiasm over this... (I still lament selling the USRA Mikado which is a design dating from 1918, and which ran on East Lynn until literally stopped by a signal: see that bracket in the background? Well outside the GER loading gauge. But not the cab roof ventilators. Lovely beast, but simply too big for me. Thankfully, the signal is strongly built from brass bar.) 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium corneliuslundie Posted February 23, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 23, 2019 "Boxes of Huntley & Palmer's Royal Sandringham Lavender Biscuits, made at their west Norfolk factory?" But whole van loads in the valleys? I think they would have come in the daily parcels van, or in the brake van of the local passenger train. Or do you have a local agent in Nantcwmdu? And I am sure they would be important and urgent enough not to go by goods train. How about sacks of guano based fertiliser? Jonathan 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted February 23, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 23, 2019 36 minutes ago, corneliuslundie said: "Boxes of Huntley & Palmer's Royal Sandringham Lavender Biscuits, made at their west Norfolk factory?" But whole van loads in the valleys? I think they would have come in the daily parcels van, or in the brake van of the local passenger train. Now there's something you don't see modelled every day: ... biscuit crates, stacked and sheeted. Detail from a photo in the Huntley & Palmers Collection, reproduced in the pursuit of the advancement of knowledge. Note also the dry-stone-walled coal stack in front. 4 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 Coal-stacking must have been a bit of a thing pre-WW1. I noticed a 'ready-to-plant' model reviewed in a 1909 magazine the other day: coal merchant's hut and two coal-stacks. the stacks being in exactly that drystone wall style. 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted February 23, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 23, 2019 3 hours ago, Hroth said: Dickens, eh? Is that his REAL tender, or is he off on a jaunt with someone elses tender? Hope you're not setting a precedent there..... If the extent of tender-swapping that went on at Crewe had been public knowledge at the time, the damage to the Premier Line's reputation as an upholder of high Victorian moral values would have been irreparable. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted February 23, 2019 Author Share Posted February 23, 2019 The GE went in for coal stacks big time. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buhar Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 The coal bing (or byng) was a feature of many Scottish loco yards, I'm sure I've seen photos of the "walls" whitewashed. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted February 23, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 23, 2019 25 minutes ago, Buhar said: The coal bing (or byng) was a feature of many Scottish loco yards, I'm sure I've seen photos of the "walls" whitewashed. That's getting into dangerously Agutterish territory... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted February 23, 2019 Author Share Posted February 23, 2019 7 minutes ago, Compound2632 said: That's getting into dangerously Agutterish territory... No, not again so soon! Keeping strictly to the point .... 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caley Jim Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 5 hours ago, Buhar said: The coal bing (or byng) was a feature of many Scottish loco yards, I'm sure I've seen photos of the "walls" whitewashed. The walls were whitewashed to deter pilfering! Jim 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted February 24, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 24, 2019 15 hours ago, Nearholmer said: Coal-stacking must have been a bit of a thing pre-WW1. I noticed a 'ready-to-plant' model reviewed in a 1909 magazine the other day: coal merchant's hut and two coal-stacks. the stacks being in exactly that drystone wall style. I knew I had seen one among Dad's photos. although it is in the BR period I don't have any details of the date or location as this was a loose negative. As I haven't digitized his spotting books, and given the quantity I am not likely to, I can't use that resource, but my guess that it is in mid-Wales or the Marches. Sorry that my only example is so horribly post-grouping! 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium corneliuslundie Posted February 24, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 24, 2019 A nice photo but I suspect not the Mid Wales line both because there are rather too many sidings for most stations - though it could possibly be a bit of Llanidloes I don't recognise - but more because that particular member of the class does not appear in either of the two photo books on the line in my collection. Does anyone have the appropriate shed book? It seems to have spent time at Bescot and Gloucester according to photos on Flickr Jonathan 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted February 24, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 24, 2019 It was allocated to Oswestry at various times: http://www.brdatabase.info/locoqry.php?action=locodata&type=S&id=426003128&loco=46527 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted February 24, 2019 Author Share Posted February 24, 2019 The Beast Cabinet is installed! Bit of a tidy up required, but, by next weekend I should be modelling again. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 You weren't thinking of being preserved, similarly to Comrade Lenin, when you bought that, were you? 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted February 24, 2019 Author Share Posted February 24, 2019 15 minutes ago, Nearholmer said: You weren't thinking of being preserved, similarly to Comrade Lenin, when you bought that, were you? Good idea , but, on the whole, I think I'd prefer a vat of alcohol. 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted February 24, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 24, 2019 It's like some antique shop front - the Edwardian model shop of one's dreams; your 4mm scale models will look like Gauge 1 at least! Perhaps a fascia above with the shop name... 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Rixon Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 26 minutes ago, Edwardian said: The Beast Cabinet is installed! Bit of a tidy up required, but, by next weekend I should be modelling again. You have a dinosaur skeleton to display? 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 It IS a bit on the sinister side..... Although it could be used for a cameo-style layout? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted February 24, 2019 Author Share Posted February 24, 2019 Just now, Guy Rixon said: You have a dinosaur skeleton to display? Can't promise that, though most of my stuff's pretty antediluvian. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted February 24, 2019 Author Share Posted February 24, 2019 2 minutes ago, Hroth said: It IS a bit on the sinister side..... Although it could be used for a cameo-style layout? The thought had crossed my mind. Better make it a Necropolis line ...... 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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