RMweb Gold A Murphy Posted May 27, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 27, 2020 Prince. This loco is older than me. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted May 27, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 27, 2020 Those Swiss jobbies are nice but they made me think of the narrow gauge Crocodile Ge6/6 locos, which are even nicer. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Metropolitan H Posted May 27, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 27, 2020 Wot - Like this? I once had a short cab ride in a real one from Samedan to Pontresina, it were marvellous. I will now desist from digressing quite so much from Grandfather's work place - quite a few years at Peterborough "North Box", but he retired from "Westwood Box" Regards Chris H 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigwordsmith Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 Another vote for the Krokodil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 27, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 27, 2020 Trip to Melton done, and full marks to Sainsburys. Click and collect is in a remote corner, a long way from the store, so no-one down there apart from us click and collectors, and there were only three of us when I arrived. All done very safely too. So, an almost perfect experience, save for watching the woman in front of me loading 28 bags into her car! Of course she did this very slowly too, so I had to remind myself that I was in no hurry..... more than once. Anyway, the drive back through the Vale on such a glorious day more than made up for that. Afternoon image is a close up of B17 Tottenham Hotspur. 28 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flying Fox 34F Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 5 hours ago, great northern said: Trains are running, and in complete contrast to yesterday, no problems at all so far. Tea is being consumed, and an excursion to Hunstanton is at Platform 6. It started from East, so it has a GE section loco. Why from March though? Spital Bridge must be a bit short. At least someone remembered that the B17 must have a short tender, otherwise there will be turntable problems at the other end. Gilbert, I’m puzzled by this excursion to Hunstanton. If it’s booked to run via Sutton Bridge and South Lynn, the B17 is barred in 1958. Route from Sutton Bridge to South Lynn was RA4 by then. Paul 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cctransuk Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 17 minutes ago, great northern said: .... save for watching the woman in front of me loading 28 bags into her car! She could have been buying for a care home - or not ! John Isherwood. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 27, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 27, 2020 35 minutes ago, Flying Fox 34F said: Gilbert, I’m puzzled by this excursion to Hunstanton. If it’s booked to run via Sutton Bridge and South Lynn, the B17 is barred in 1958. Route from Sutton Bridge to South Lynn was RA4 by then. Paul Oops, wrong excursion! The B17 should be on one to Skeggy, which leaves a bit later. This one of course should have an Ivatt 4. Someone will get a telling off. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 27, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 27, 2020 19 minutes ago, cctransuk said: She could have been buying for a care home - or not ! John Isherwood. My money is on not. I'd have thought a care home, which has vulnerable people, would have priority slots for delivery. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 31A Posted May 27, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 27, 2020 Have I missed the poll for narrow gauge locos? VERY difficult to choose, there being so many contenders, but I think I'll join the votes for the Rhaetische Bahn's Krokodil, having enjoyed several rides between Davos and Filisur behind one the last couple of summers (and was hoping to again this summer). I did vote for it before under 'articulated locos', so maybe second time lucky! 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 Favourite NG loco? Does a Hornby A4 count - well it is 4'1" gauge? Stewart 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodnok Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 Favourite narrow gauge loco. As much as I have fond memories of QR 2300s rumbling back and forth, they really aren't lookers. And we're doing this by looks. So I've got to hand it to the QR 1250 class. I've only ever seen one, and it's a museum piece. But there's just something about the way that sunvisor sits that looks amazing... 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cctransuk Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 25 minutes ago, Bloodnok said: .... there's just something about the way that sunvisor sits that looks amazing... My Dad had a Ford Consul which was fitted with a similar sun visor - in the 1960s, it spoke of exotic, hot places ....... ! ..... but it only ever got as far south as Cornwall. John Isherwood. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted May 27, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 27, 2020 I'm going to 'do a Clive' with an outlier..... Full size replica built by a friend. My oh my I have lost a LOT of weight since then! 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 27, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 27, 2020 That was a lovely day, made better by a change of scenery, and tomorrow I get to play golf again. Still thinking of a subject for the next poll though. Our train tonight is a relief to the 8.00am KX-Leeds, and A1 Amadis brings it through. That bloke has been up on Spital Bridge again, and trying different angles. Just this one for now, though. 31 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium thegreenhowards Posted May 27, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 27, 2020 I’ll also vote for the RHB Kroc having spent an enjoyable day on a mixed train with one. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manna Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 G'Day Folks For narrow gauge, 3'6" is narrow enough for me, I'll plump for a SAR T class,4-8-0. Nice engines, rugged and popular, I also like the fact that the tender is bigger than the loco. manna 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 (edited) On a further antipodean note there is no finer example of compact power than the New Zealand Railways K class 4-8-4 of 1932-on, a few preserved and still running. Here is a photo taken by my father in 1936 on the 1-in-37 grade leaving Wellington, with the 3pm 15-total Auckland express. I coloured the photo. 55mph with 400-ton express trains was the design brief, or unassisted on 1-in-50 with similar loads. I have a 1:64 scale version in brass, made by Ajin of Korea. Photos edited, but nothing radical. Will remove if asked. I spent much of my youth travelling behind and (rarely) on these engines, 14-ton axle loads, over 31,000 lbs tractive effort, sometimes timed at 70mph. I suspect beauty is in the eyes of the beholder when Britain was producing such as these... again, edited... but a tad closer to Peterborough North. Will remove if requested. No contest really. 4500 'Garganey' soon to be renamed 'Sir Ronald Mathews' eventually BR 60001, withdrawn 10/1964. From the Hornby 'Queen of Scots' pack. Lovely. Edited May 28, 2020 by robmcg foolishness 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 28, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 28, 2020 (edited) Morning pictures show more angles on 60149's progress towards Spital Bridge. I hope you like them, as the contortions my body had to put up with to get them were considerable. Should I abandon attempts to get that last angle? I think this is better than previous attempts, but I'm still not convinced. Edited May 28, 2020 by great northern to correct spelling 30 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil.c Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 I think we know the problem... because of the perspective, there's a lot of distant buildings etc missing, now a good photo of that area would be good 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 28, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 28, 2020 Today's poll winner is the Krokodil with 5 votes. Personally, I would call that striking, rather than attractive, but there we are. Next poll. We've done the good, will skip the bad, at least for a while, and move on to the ugly. Limiting to the UK for a while, as the continentals were much better at it than us, what do you consider to be the ugliest British steam loco design ever? I think Clive may have given us one or two sneak previews already. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 12 minutes ago, great northern said: Morning pictures show more angles on 60149's progress towards Spital Bridge. I hope you like them, as the contortions my body had to put up with to get them were considerable. Should I abandon attempts to get that last angle? I think this is better than previous attempts, but I'm still not convinced. Need to get that camera that can be controlled via WiFi!! Saves all those contortions! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted May 28, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 28, 2020 Just now, great northern said: Today's poll winner is the Krokodil with 5 votes. Personally, I would call that striking, rather than attractive, but there we are. Next poll. We've done the good, will skip the bad, at least for a while, and move on to the ugly. Limiting to the UK for a while, as the continentals were much better at it than us, what do you consider to be the ugliest British steam loco design ever? I think Clive may have given us one or two sneak previews already. The Kitson-Still locomotive. http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/kitson/kitsonst.htm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigwordsmith Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 Im going to be really controversial... W1 in its original format Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted May 28, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 28, 2020 10 minutes ago, St Enodoc said: The Kitson-Still locomotive. http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/kitson/kitsonst.htm That isn't ugly it is pure engineering beauty on wheels. Suppose I better think of an ugly loco, now some would say I am using my wooden spoon to stir up fans of this railway but who could ever say the GWR 2602 class was anything but ugly. 1 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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