RMweb Premium Ian J. Posted May 30, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 30, 2016 Our Vauxhall Chevette on a carflat at St Austell. Scanned slide from1979/80 or thereabouts. 1970s_113_Small.JPG It just goes to show. I'm more interested in the colour of the coaches in the background... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 Some nifty carflat pics in this thread. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/68623-morris-cowley-car-trains/&do=findComment&comment=958053 P Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrobuscp Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 It just goes to show. I'm more interested in the colour of the coaches in the background... I thought the coaches might provoke someone's interest. Colin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmrspaul Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 It just goes to show. I'm more interested in the colour of the coaches in the background... Black you mean? http://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/gwrdeptcoach/e29456ef8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium acg5324 Posted May 30, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 30, 2016 More Motorail info here http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/108323-motorail/ And slightly smaller Carflats here. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/75679-kensington-olympia-in-n-scale/?p=1742756 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian J. Posted May 30, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 30, 2016 Black you mean? http://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/gwrdeptcoach/e29456ef8 Funny, when I looked at the photo initially I thought they were dark blue. But thanks for enlightening me on them Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted May 31, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 31, 2016 3 wheel clockwork rats could be loaded on the last vehicle of a side loading ramp carflat, whether any ever where or not is open to conjecture as I would imagine they would blow off the carflat at any decent speed. Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glorious NSE Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 Was the Camden example the last one extant on the national network, as late as 2009? http://www.departmentals.com/photo/024783 Looks like till 2011 from the comments? ISTR some stored at Basingstoke for many years too, but not as late as that! There was also a heavily modified STVA example (air brakes, Y25 bogies etc) at Bordesley for years, definitely well into the 00s - that may have lasted a similar length of time? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 Looks like till 2011 from the comments? ISTR some stored at Basingstoke for many years too, but not as late as that! There was also a heavily modified STVA example (air brakes, Y25 bogies etc) at Bordesley for years, definitely well into the 00s - that may have lasted a similar length of time? The Basingstoke ones were there until about a decade ago; each was cut in half on site, then taken away by road . I passed a couple of artics with them on on the M3. The STVA one was used alongside French-registered stock, and some Cartic 4s that had had the top deck removed, on Land Rover traffic to Southampton. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium acg5324 Posted June 2, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 2, 2016 Another "modern" car in the n gauge range appears with the MGB Roadster. Produced 1962 - 1980 but got the big rubber bumpers in 1974. I think the hardtop MGB GT would have been better but the Roadster has been shrink rayed from the OO range. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fay Sets the Pace Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 (edited) Sheena Easton made a pop video singing from the running plate of the Bluebell's Radial Tank. Now that would make for an original sound option! https://vimeo.com/27937593 Edited June 6, 2016 by Fay Sets the Pace 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSpencer Posted June 6, 2016 Share Posted June 6, 2016 I learnt by e-mail today that Sheena Easton made a pop video singing from the running plate of the Bluebell's Radial Tank. Now that would make the basis of an original sound option! https://vimeo.com/27937593 Now that is an original idea. Thanks for the video. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
autocoach Posted June 6, 2016 Share Posted June 6, 2016 Now that is an original idea. Thanks for the video. Can we get a miniature version of Sheena Easton to go with the Bluebell preserved version? The coaches too..... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davefrk Posted June 6, 2016 Share Posted June 6, 2016 I watched all of 60 seconds of that.... not one of Bellshill's best exports... A police constable mate of mine claims he took Sheena Easton's name for loitering and causing a rabble at Bellshill cross before she was famous. Dave Franks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruffnut Thorston Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 And here was me wondering what RTR coaches I needed to cut up to model the various motorail services through carlisle in 1974. And with a Q1 2017 release, I don't even need to wait that long, excellent! I shall await with great interest. Regards Matt Has anybody thought this...Oxford make the Carflat, which is a MK1 Coach Chassis.... So, next COULD be a range of MK1 Coaches?????? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 Has anybody thought this...Oxford make the Carflat, which is a MK1 Coach Chassis.... So, next COULD be a range of MK1 Coaches?????? Look earlier in the thread - the coach chassis depicted is an ex-LMS 60 foot one. Diagram 1/088 included several different underframes, but only a few were Mk.1. (others were LNER 60' & 61.'6" and LMS 62'). Perhaps they're doing an LMS Stanier composite to complete the Hornby range! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted June 21, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 21, 2016 Sheena Easton made a pop video singing from the running plate of the Bluebell's Radial Tank. Now that would make for an original sound option! https://vimeo.com/27937593 Own up who also had their green cotton wrist band as a member of the Sheena Easton fan club Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 (edited) Sheena Easton made a pop video singing from the running plate of the Bluebell's Radial Tank. Now that would make for an original sound option! https://vimeo.com/27937593 More like cruel and unusual punishment..... Given the Victorian heritage of the Radial, perhaps she could have been filmed tied to the track with a caped, tophatted villain twirling his mustaches alongside? Sidles off, whistling in an innocent manner..... Edited June 21, 2016 by Hroth 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salmotrutta Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 Sheena Easton made a pop video singing from the running plate of the Bluebell's Radial Tank. Now that would make for an original sound option! https://vimeo.com/27937593 Gosh that would have been my idea of heaven in the 1980s - driving a train and rubbing shoulders with Sheena Easton! You have made an old man very happy... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike_Hector Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 I thought that the Motorail Carflats in Blue were just ex-BR types. I've never seen an ex-LMS one in blue. Did they turn out many in blue? Paul Bartlett's site has plenty in bauxite which is how I remember them but I'd happily be proven wrong! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
south Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 Oh Oh Oh fantastic. Proper car flats at last. Now i can do the ford transit train that went through woking in 70s and 80s. Absolutely fantastic Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Y Posted September 29, 2016 Author Share Posted September 29, 2016 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted October 1, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 1, 2016 (edited) Those look stunning.....thanks for sharing Andy Couplings a bit protrusive perhaps - NEM pockets but are they bogie mounted - or is there a close coupling mechanism? Edit...Did wonder about those round buffers - would the end ramps go flat over them - but Paul Bartlett's site confirms they are correct for vehicles built on LMS chassis http://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/brmotorail/h26bd9bfa#h26bd9bfa Phil Edited October 1, 2016 by Phil Bullock 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul 27 Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 Are these based on the 60ft LMS type. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted October 5, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 5, 2016 See Oxford web site http://www.oxforddiecast.co.uk/products/carflat-br-or76car001 Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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