RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted December 8, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted December 8, 2020 A bonus plonk. Similar to one you saw the other day, but not quite the same angle. 28 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted December 8, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted December 8, 2020 This evening we have Ladas starting out on the last leg of the journey to Grantham. Followed soon after by a KX-New England Class C, headed by my worst V2. I decided to mask its deficiencies by photgraphing it head on, and in the gloom beneath the roof. The poor old thing has started running very roughly and surging a lot, so it may not be seen much more anyway. 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timara Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 You know, Gilbert, I can't help but wonder whether that unidentifyable object in front of the V2 above is something lost off an item of stock or something else altogether! Either way, any idea what it might be and is it retrievable? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted December 9, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 9, 2020 14 hours ago, bigwordsmith said: what were you going st Craigentinny? I was Depot Manager for a couple of years in the early 1980s. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 8 hours ago, Tim said: that unidentifiable object in front of the V2 above it looks like a coupling to me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted December 9, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 9, 2020 9 hours ago, Tim said: You know, Gilbert, I can't help but wonder whether that unidentifyable object in front of the V2 above is something lost off an item of stock or something else altogether! Either way, any idea what it might be and is it retrievable? I'll check in a little while Tim. It might be a coupling, but I should have noticed something coming adrift if that is the case. Not sure if I shall be able to reach it, whatever it is. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted December 9, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted December 9, 2020 The first Ivatt of the day arrives from Kings Lynn. and from March, Doncaster Rovers brings in another local. 23 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigwordsmith Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 8 hours ago, St Enodoc said: I was Depot Manager for a couple of years in the early 1980s. Was that Deltic era or HST arrival? I Know they're not steam but I have a very soft spot for both! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigwordsmith Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 11 hours ago, Tim said: You know, Gilbert, I can't help but wonder whether that unidentifyable object in front of the V2 above is something lost off an item of stock or something else altogether! Either way, any idea what it might be and is it retrievable? Looks like a black refuse sack to me - talk about attention to detail! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 My guess is a bit of loco front end detail, eg the guard iron thingy from the front of a A3 or A4 bogie. Hey, GN - you've got a potential competition on your hands here. Don't tell us what it is straight away when you retrieve it. The person who correctly identifies the object gets ... er ... the satisfaction of knowing they guessed it correctly? 3 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted December 9, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 9, 2020 36 minutes ago, bigwordsmith said: Was that Deltic era or HST arrival? I Know they're not steam but I have a very soft spot for both! Peter, the Deltics were still running but the Haymarket allocation had all gone to York. HSTs had arrived, as had the Class 47/Mk3a/DBSO Edinburgh Glasgow sets. Plenty of other loco-hauled stuff too. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted December 9, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 9, 2020 1 hour ago, bigwordsmith said: Looks like a black refuse sack to me - talk about attention to detail! Wouldn't that create problems though? Did we have those in 1958? I don't think so. That could get me into trouble. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted December 9, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 9, 2020 Update. The black object has been recovered, with the aid of a piece of wood. I know what it is, but I'm totally puzzled as to how it got there. Jonathan is closest to the correct answer, but what type of coupling is it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 My first thought was a Kadee, but it didn't have the tail. Cosmetic buckeye? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted December 9, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 9, 2020 My guess about that coupling is possibly a Hunt Coupler. I bet I’m wrong! Rob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted December 9, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 9, 2020 28 minutes ago, Market65 said: My guess about that coupling is possibly a Hunt Coupler. I bet I’m wrong! Rob. Yes, you have won that bet, Rob. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted December 9, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 9, 2020 Oh goodness, Gilbert, that has made my day! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted December 9, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 9, 2020 11 hours ago, St Enodoc said: I was Depot Manager for a couple of years in the early 1980s. Blimey, you might have had to chuck me out.....but I was on an official visit! Gilbert, deffo no plastic Refuse Bags in1958; lots of old bags but not plassi ones! A. N. Ar$£ 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted December 9, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 9, 2020 The coupling conundrum solved. It is a ROCO close coupling. That's the easy part. How did it get there? I haven't a clue, as I took all ROCO stuff off months ago. I am absolutely certain it didn't come off a coach or wagon while under there, so I'm at a loss. It only appeared very recently too, not visible on previous photos of that area. Very strange. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted December 9, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted December 9, 2020 Lunchtime brought a parcel of goodies from Tim. There are three locomotives, but I won't show them all at once, as I don't want people getting over excited. The light wasn't good when I started taking the photos, and it got steadily worse, so these don't really do Tim's work justice. He was able to photograph them outdoors in sunlight before packing them though, so he will be posting those after I have shown each one. He has done a lot of detail work on these, and will explain exactly what he did, and how he did it. Here is the first one, KX A4 Walter H Whigham. Despite the clunky name, she was one of Top shed's best, but by August 58 had been out of shops for a year or so. We have a reliably dated colour photo dated October 58, so Tim was able to judge its condition from that. He also put on the (in)correct curly six, which it did not have before. I tried to get my body in the way to stop stray light which got between the small gaps in the blinds, but although the view finder said I had succeeded, the camera decided I had not. The great thing about Tim's work is that gradually all of my A4s, and others, are getting an unique identity, rather than being clones of each other distinguishable only by numbers and names. Anyway, Tim's images will do Walter full justice. 27 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Timara Posted December 9, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 9, 2020 (edited) As mentioned above by Gilbert, here is what 60028 looks like in winter sunlight. I did have to reposition the nameplates, since they had been poorly fixed on by whoever had done this one in the first place (some years ago too, I'll add!). A new front numberplate too, since that had also been butchered. Otherwise, this one was the more straightforward of the trio.... Edited December 9, 2020 by Tim 15 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 6 hours ago, Mallard60022 said: Blimey, you might have had to chuck me out.....but I was on an official visit! Gilbert, deffo no plastic Refuse Bags in1958; lots of old bags but not plassi ones! A. N. Ar$£ I've heard it said there are a lot of old bags in certain parts of Peterborough..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 18 hours ago, St Enodoc said: I was Depot Manager for a couple of years in the early 1980s. Proof, if proof were needed .... 16 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted December 9, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 9, 2020 (edited) 49 minutes ago, LNER4479 said: Proof, if proof were needed .... Crikey! My cover is blown! Where on earth did you dig that up from? That was a graduate recruitment booklet from about 1984 IIRC. What the first paragraph doesn't say it that the scheme was one of the most financially-attractive on offer and of course included the usual free and priv BR travel facilities. not that any of that swayed my decision... The photographer came down to Lovers' Walk and took loads of photos in and around the depot including me talking to the girl who operated our new-fangled office computer (just the one - we started with a Superbrain and moved up to a Sirius - wow!) to show how up-to-date BR was. Then we went outside and he took a couple of pictures with the R&R 45T steam crane just to finish the film. Of course one of those was the one that made the cut. Never mind. For the avoidance of doubt, I'm the one wearing the hard hat and I'm talking to my colleague and friend Glen Woods, who died recently. As well as being a top railwayman, Glen was an expert on many aspects of railway history such as SR coaches and milk tankers name but two. He was also a member of Brian MacDermott's Wish-List Team. RIP my friend. Edited December 9, 2020 by St Enodoc 9 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 Ah - you're awake then! Just goes to show - never throw anything away, JUST in case it comes in useful. Mwahahahaaaa ... It was actually the 85/86 brochure, must have come with my 'bumper pack' the year I joined (for many of the same reasons as you). You were in good company that year - Carolyn Griffiths was alongside you! And there does seem to be a predominance of pictures of folks standing next to weird and wonderful looking giant computers that were obviously hand-me-downs from the set of Star Trek ... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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