How about a Dictator Loco Class? Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 (edited) I've hunted online for years and looked through books to find a picture of this train or any information on it but have failed. Does anyone know about it? May be in Waterloo station Toby from steam railway suggested. I kind of recognise the livery and coach type but I can't remember what the livery is either or the donor coach. Thank you. Rob Edited October 13, 2020 by How about a Dictator Loco Class? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted October 13, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 13, 2020 Some kind of exhibition train? 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian Smeeton Posted October 13, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 13, 2020 A quick google of the image throws up three suggestions of the 'K P Nuts (!) Exhibition train' Regards Ian 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 Definitely Waterloo .... judging by the door hinges I'd guess the coach was a BSK - probably from the Exhibition Van fleet based at Salisbury : which ties in with waterloo, of course ................... but why the 'K9' / APT snout is a mystery. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 There was something similar on Facebook recently and it concurred with KP Nuts trains 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 (edited) The photo is on Colin Marsden's site at http://www.dawlishtrains.com/npccs.html saying September 1980 KP Nuts I searched "kp nuts exhibition train" and found a Tim Dunn Twitter post from 2016 saying 1970 (typo?), which sent me to Marsden's page: Edited October 13, 2020 by eastwestdivide 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 Roger Roger 3 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
How about a Dictator Loco Class? Posted October 13, 2020 Author Share Posted October 13, 2020 5 hours ago, Steamport Southport said: Roger Roger That's hilarious lol!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
How about a Dictator Loco Class? Posted October 13, 2020 Author Share Posted October 13, 2020 5 hours ago, Ian Smeeton said: A quick google of the image throws up three suggestions of the 'K P Nuts (!) Exhibition train' Regards Ian Wow you are a genius. Thank you so much. I'd like to know more about that interesting end! And how you search an image? I didn't know it was possible. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted October 13, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 13, 2020 IIRC if using Chrome you right-click (or press-and-hold if on a phone or tablet), then select 'search Google for this image' or whatever it says. This then brings up a Google image search which may or may not provide other images of the same scene (generally depends on how distinctive the image is) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
maico Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 (edited) A google images search come up with the duck-billed platypus version of the Shinkansen... Edited October 13, 2020 by maico Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted October 14, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 14, 2020 Did the KP nuts train travel with the protuberance on, or was it removed and bolted back on? Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheatley Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 There is no lamp iron visible and, although it looks as though it tapers, it looks too long to remain in gauge on a sharp curve. I suspect it is in sections to go through the van doors. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 It was probably just a bit of plywood. The only thing I can remember about KP Nuts which was railway related was the van Hornby did. http://www.hornbyguide.com/item_year_details.asp?itemyearid=432 Jason 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 Perhaps it was meant to be an APT-KP ? 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
standardblue Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 A bit of googling had turned up a colour photo here: https://www.railscot.co.uk/img/53/121/ Mark 1 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 (edited) Good find. For searchability in future, railscot says it was called the KP Adventure Express, a term which brings up very few results on google, other than a badly scanned Financial Times article on archive.org, mentioning the creative mind behind the idea, one Gary Withers at Imagination Group (still going today as a creative company), at https://archive.org/stream/FinancialTimes1986UKEnglish/Mar 06 1986%2C Financial Times%2C %2329872%2C UK (en)_djvu.txt Quote When one year Imagination’s profit level threatened to fall short. Withers and Co toed: aim at United Biscuits as a likely target. It proposed taking a train around the country, offer- ing children rides and with each of the carriages designed around a different company product United Biscuits bought the Idea, tying it into an on-pack pro- motion for its snack brands. Seven weeks later, the “KP Adventure Express” left Marylo- bone Station Edit: I guess "toed:" is an OCR scanning error for "took" Edited October 14, 2020 by eastwestdivide toed: = took Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomScrut Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 On 13/10/2020 at 17:30, Steamport Southport said: Roger Roger These are not the droids we are looking for! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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