Thomas Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 A view of the engineers yard at Wigan Wallgate in the 1970's with two grounded vans and a coach now long gone, just a car park now. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 The top van looks like the LNER standard pre-war type, the lower van probably Midland Railway. The rounded vents on the coach body perhaps suggest ex-GER (also found on some GWR coaches too, but given the location GER seems more likely). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted August 30, 2016 Share Posted August 30, 2016 Grounded van (GW design?) visible just out of Thwaite on the Buttertubs road in N Yorks, spotted on the BBC4 TV programme last night "All Aboard! The Country Bus". Programme link here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07r2s1r The van is at 1:19:20 ish, just after the motortrike goes the other way. visible on street view here: https://goo.gl/maps/8W3dDrnMqaD2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
asmay2002 Posted August 30, 2016 Share Posted August 30, 2016 Grounded van (GW design?) visible just out of Thwaite on the Buttertubs road in N Yorks, spotted on the BBC4 TV programme last night "All Aboard! The Country Bus". Programme link here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07r2s1r The van is at 1:19:20 ish, just after the motortrike goes the other way. visible on street view here: https://goo.gl/maps/8W3dDrnMqaD2 Definitely a GWR van. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium figworthy Posted August 30, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 30, 2016 Grounded van (GW design?) visible just out of Thwaite on the Buttertubs road in N Yorks, spotted on the BBC4 TV programme last night "All Aboard! The Country Bus". Programme link here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07r2s1r The van is at 1:19:20 ish, just after the motortrike goes the other way. visible on street view here: https://goo.gl/maps/8W3dDrnMqaD2 And a couple of minutes later, it passed the one featured in post 268 of this topic. Adrian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted August 30, 2016 Share Posted August 30, 2016 Definitely a GWR van. And quite an old one at that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted October 8, 2016 Share Posted October 8, 2016 Not exactly a horse box: Levens, near Kendal, Sep 2016. Note the addition to the end wall (arrowed), looks like a security camera. Also a "porch" above the door. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandrover Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 Saw this van in the carpark at Glenfinnan station 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swindon 123 Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 Not quite a van, but a grounded coach body that used to reside in the Yard at Coton Hill, Shrewsbury. DBR7A-136 by Paul James, on Flickr Note the end doors. Photo taken July 1985. Paul J. 10 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikesndbs Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 Not a strong interest of mine, so I didn't take notice at the time. However, I noticed whilst in IA at Waterloo last week, in their new selection of 2017 spotting books, theis now one published on Grounded Wagons. I didn't even flick through it, but what a volume to produce! I think it might have been a Platform Five or ICRS publication. Stewart Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osgood Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 (edited) Not a strong interest of mine, so I didn't take notice at the time. However, I noticed whilst in IA at Waterloo last week, in their new selection of 2017 spotting books, theis now one published on Grounded Wagons. I didn't even flick through it, but what a volume to produce! I think it might have been a Platform Five or ICRS publication. Stewart Could be this one: http://www.stpublications.co.uk/showbook.php?bookid=156 Is it more likely to be a location listing than a visual feast of quality images? Edited May 13, 2017 by Osgood Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted May 13, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 13, 2017 Not quite a van, but a grounded coach body that used to reside in the Yard at Coton Hill, Shrewsbury. DBR7A-136 by Paul James, on Flickr Note the end doors. Photo taken July 1985. Paul J. GWR or Metropolitan? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swindon 123 Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 GWR or Metropolitan? It had been suggested on my Flickr site that it might be a "GWR 5-compartment 4-wheeled third, built for through services to the Metropolitan/District railways in London ", but apart from that , the coaches builder and identity still remain a mystery. Paul J. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swindon 123 Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 An interesting grounded van, complete with part of the underfame still attached at Holloway carriage sidings in 1972 to be found here. http://www.nrm.org.uk/ourcollection/photo?group=Liverpool%20Street&objid=1995-7233_LIVST_RC_267 Paul J. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin parks Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 (edited) Burnt out Toad brake van body at Upper Bryn Amman, South Wales. Visible on Street View and still there in 2016 (when I drove past it). (There is a grounded GWR coach body at Llangrannog, West Wales. Hope to take a photo of that later this week.) Edited May 29, 2017 by Colin parks 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 (edited) On saturday from the top deck of a bus when passing through Lympsham I glimpsed a grounded van body in a farm yard. Moments later I saw what looked like a van body, but with timber planking painted and in good order and a new chimney through the roof, if I did not know better it looked like a new build, does anyone manufacture a 'shepherds' hut in the style of a van body? edit - I think it is here https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.2860152,-2.9609199,3a,75y,182.9h,81.38t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1syDDbtu9OMWSfY-lmbWlA5A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 Here is a closer view, taken when I passed by yesterday Lympsham 20/6/2017 cheers Edited June 21, 2017 by Rivercider 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 On saturday from the top deck of a bus when passing through Lympsham I glimpsed a grounded van body in a farm yard. Moments later I saw what looked like a van body, but with timber planking painted and in good order and a new chimney through the roof, if I did not know better it looked like a new build, does anyone manufacture a 'shepherds' hut in the style of a van body? edit - I think it is here https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.2860152,-2.9609199,3a,75y,182.9h,81.38t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1syDDbtu9OMWSfY-lmbWlA5A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 cheers It could be one of these cases where someone's simply replaced the planking and re-roofed the thing. The rest of the place looks as though it's been done up recently, so perhaps the van was done up at the same time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 Used to be a couple of vans at a house on a road out the back of Towcester this road goes passed entrance to race course looked like GWR with rounded roofs .Sorry cant be more specific it was some time ago tempus fugit! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastglosmog Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 A few from Ireland, north west of Naas and near the Grand Canal. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 A few from Ireland, north west of Naas and near the Grand Canal. They look like ex-horseboxes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian Smeeton Posted June 4, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 4, 2017 Ex horses? The glue pot or Pedigree Chum? Regards Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandrover Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 Ex horses? The glue pot or Pedigree Chum? Regards Ian Nah probably Iceland Lasagne! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classsix T Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 The first person to YouTube link Python's parrot sketch will receive a slap...or a haddock...across their chops. C6T. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted June 19, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 19, 2017 I don't think that I have offered this one before. It is close to the Newhaven Swing Bridge (road only now) and it is next to a prefab type building formerly used by the Newhaven & District MRC. If any of its members frequent this site maybe they know the history of it. That area used to be the location of the Newhaven loco shed and the old rail and road swing bridge. . 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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