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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

 

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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.

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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.

 

 

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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.

 

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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?

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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.

 

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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.)

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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

 post-7081-0-15050200-1498059707.jpg

Lympsham  20/6/2017

 

cheers

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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.

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 ​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! 

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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.

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