Show us yours - Realistic modelling

[NorthBrit]

Looking towards Crown Point Yard

 

 

[NorthBrit]

Charlie Marston's  Salvage Yard    Early morning

 

 

 

 

During the day

 

 

[Dicky L]

[The Johnster]

Charlie Marston's Salvage Yard illustrates why most scrappies cut locos as quickly as they could after they arrived; you had to cut and dispose to make room for the next delivery (despite the belief in certain quarters that rapid destruction of the locos was required as part of the tendering conditions with BR).  This was certainly the practice at the Newport (Mon) yards, Cashmore's and Buttigieg's.  The difference at Dai Woodham's was that he had the use of the 'field', for which he paid a rent to the BTDB, and could store locos, which he did because the steady flow of wagons were easier and more profitable to cut than locos.  So he kept the locos back as what he called a 'banker', a reserve of work for his 'boys' against any period when the wagons dried up.  It was fortuitous coincidence that this co-incided with the start of the preservation movement, which required a supply of locos in reasonable condition to work on.

 

Barry locos rapidly developed a veneer of surface rust from the sea air and South Wales damp, but were in pretty good structural condition when most were purchased for preservation.  Boilers were usually sound, being contructed very solidly as pressure containment vessels.  Restorations were pretty heroic efforts, though, usually carried out by small numbers of people in spare time, fairly often in the open in appalling conditions with inadequate tools and funding.  A BR workshop could probably have got most of them in main line running condition in a few weeks!

[TT100 Diesels]

 

A new arrival*, 45127 sits on the table at High Peak Jn shed.

 

Cheers

 

TT100 Diesels

 

* - New arrival as in hot off the work bench.

[Dicky L]

[brylonscamel]

Backstreet Boys ..

[jcarta]

Absolutely stunning 👍

[Dicky L]

[Boleyn Road]

Gresley's grimy goods tank enters Boleyn Road. 
 

J50 68791 was a Hornsey loco for most of its BR life so, in my mind, it is visiting Boleyn Road as it’s been drafted in to work in Goodmayes Yard.