Porcy Mane Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 16 minutes ago, Gordon A said: Are there any more of this tippler? https://flic.kr/p/rL1obr Some nice pics of a different type of CEGB tippler here: https://thetransportlibrary.co.uk/index.php?route=product/search&search=ICI&page=2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
26power Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 1 hour ago, Porcy Mane said: Some nice pics of a different type of CEGB tippler here: https://thetransportlibrary.co.uk/index.php?route=product/search&search=ICI&page=2 Also a couple of views on page 1. Sorry to go off topic, but it would have been interesting to see the empty wagon reversing ramp in operation! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
26power Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 4 hours ago, Axlebox said: ...have we seen this before? Thanks for the link to another useful Flickr site! I don’t recall seeing it before. In the same album this “P” numbered 16T mineral might be a bit of a rarity? Especially caught in colour and in detail. At a Thornhill power station, West Yorkshire, July 1966. Quite a few other shots in colour in this album where there are 16 tonners as a more incidental part of the picture. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 15 minutes ago, 26power said: Thanks for the link to another useful Flickr site! I don’t recall seeing it before. In the same album this “P” numbered 16T mineral might be a bit of a rarity? Especially caught in colour and in detail. At a Thornhill power station, West Yorkshire, July 1966. Quite a few other shots in colour in this album where there are 16 tonners as a more incidental part of the picture. Does the P number indicate that Lima's brightly coloured PO steel minerals were not quite as totally fictional as we believed them to be? . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 I'd have to trawl the Larkin book, but there were PO steel minerals from the 1930s. That looks like the LNER diagram; were some of the MOS ones given P numbers in error? Someone with more time can pin this down, I'm sure. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 2 hours ago, jwealleans said: I'd have to trawl the Larkin book, but there were PO steel minerals from the 1930s. That looks like the LNER diagram; were some of the MOS ones given P numbers in error? Someone with more time can pin this down, I'm sure. Didn't the LNER design have top-flap doors? The closest to the photo I could find in Larkin were the 1/102, MoS-ordered wagons. However, these all seem to have B-prefixed, 5-figure numbers. It is, as you suggest, most probably a mistake; I had a summer job in the early 1970s, part of which involved checking wagon numbers on 16 tonners against a list BR had suggested were on site. It was not uncommon to have wagons with different numbers on either side, or painted and plated numbers being different I even found one with a number indicative of a vehicle transferred to Departmental ex-Coaching Stock (DMxxxxxM) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 No, the LNER diagram and the early LMS builds didn't have the top doors. The LMS diagram changed to have them during construction but the LNER one never did. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted August 8, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 8, 2020 Cudworth Heaton Lodge Dodworth Castel Coch 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted August 8, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 8, 2020 In the Dodworth pic the Brush 2 is a lesser spotted GFYWP example with arrows amidships. Mike 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted August 9, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 9, 2020 The Cudworth shot is oozing atmosphere! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
caradoc Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 On 07/08/2020 at 10:03, Fat Controller said: I had a summer job in the early 1970s, part of which involved checking wagon numbers on 16 tonners against a list BR had suggested were on site. It was not uncommon to have wagons with different numbers on either side, or painted and plated numbers being different I During my two year career hiatus in Mossend TOPS 1987-89, part of my job was generating train lists for engineers services consisting of 40-plus ZHVs (ex 16T minerals). Invariably some of the wagon numbers on the handwritten list faxed to us by the shunter (often smudged and rain-damaged) did not exist, or were hundreds of miles away; We just used similar numbers from previous trains, or did a search for similarly-numbered wagons in the area, to create the train list. 2 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted August 15, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 15, 2020 62618_Oxford_10-7-52 by Robert Carroll, on Flickr IT'S ONLY PASSING A LITTLE BIT OF TIME by Tom Derrington, on Flickr - Runcorn North 92110 with a westbound freight passes under Newlaithes Bridge near the closed Newley & Horsforth station. 23rd June 1967 by David S Bailey, on Flickr 92148 climbs Lickey near Vigo on 05.10.63 (DPH T09.17) by Dave Hill, on Flickr 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 Diagram 1/117, unfitted clasp-braked. Modified Airfix kit. 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted August 22, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 22, 2020 Hitchin Whiteacre Ardsley Pengam Penrhos Junction 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium iands Posted August 22, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 22, 2020 Might the first photo be showing the result of the Nov 1958 accident, or at least part of it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium SR71 Posted August 22, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 22, 2020 41 minutes ago, Metr0Land said: What an interesting image to my untrained eye. Smokebox door is open (burst open in impact?) But blower seems to be on and safety valves have wisps coming from them. Has it just happened so resently that the (two?) figures on the tender the crew making an escape or are they trying to get access to take the fire out? At that angle it can't be far off exposing a fusible plug? Anyone know a bit more about what is shown? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted August 22, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 22, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, iands said: Might the first photo be showing the result of the Nov 1958 accident, or at least part of it? According to the caption (click on picture) it is indeed 19 Nov 58 Edited August 22, 2020 by Metr0Land Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium iands Posted August 22, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 22, 2020 2 minutes ago, Metr0Land said: According to the caption (click on picture) it is indeed Nov 58 Ah, sorry and thanks for that Metr0land, I keep forgetting to click on the photos for more info. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 Airfix kit converted to 4-shoe vac-fitted, with extra detailing and Bil Bedford etched brakes. 18 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
michl080 Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 I thought you might like this one. A 7mm MMP 1.108 kit. great fun to build. The brake lever is actually working :-) Michael 11 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted August 29, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 29, 2020 Bescot Nantgarw Boughton on Northampton-Market Harborough line Northampton 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 Another Airfix conversion. This time VB clasp brakes and hydraulic buffers. 11 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted August 30, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 30, 2020 (edited) A couple of EM 16T Minerals New rust on the left.. coa Light dirt on the right Edited September 1, 2020 by Barry O 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Binky Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 On 29/08/2020 at 12:54, Metr0Land said: Northampton I love this. The rather motley collection of wagons behind twin class 20s. :) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 Another modified Airfix. This time a replated unfitted example. 8 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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