Ozexpatriate Posted December 27, 2013 Share Posted December 27, 2013 I received the G W lettered version of this R6562 for Christmas. R6562 is not listed on Hornby's website. Perhaps this model has been around for a while? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted December 27, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 27, 2013 R6562 is not listed on Hornby's website. Perhaps this model has been around for a while? Yes and it was an ebay purchase.Not listed in stock on Hattons site either.I was hoping Hornby would do another number and shirtbutton livery but alas no mention for 2014.Perhaps they're not a good seller.I was pleasantly surprised to see black ends, I must admit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted December 27, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 27, 2013 R6562 is not listed on Hornby's website. Perhaps this model has been around for a while? It was in the 2012 catalogue but is not listed in the 2013 catalogue - but it's anyone's guess which year it was last manufactured. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted December 27, 2013 Share Posted December 27, 2013 ... the G W lettered version of this R6562 ...I think this is one I wanted but missed. (I wasn't paying attention and didn't get my pre-order in.) I have the one released earlier (and according to discussion here) more prototypically correct roundel. I haven't really tried hard to find it so clearly I'm not too worried. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted December 27, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 27, 2013 (edited) I think this is one I wanted but missed. (I wasn't paying attention and didn't get my pre-order in.) I have the one released earlier (and according to discussion here) more prototypically correct roundel. I haven't really tried hard to find it so clearly I'm not too worried. They crop up on ebay regularly and can be 'won' for less than a tenner on a good day. Edited December 27, 2013 by gwrrob Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamiel Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 A quick question about how far the GWR horseboxes traveled during BR days.If a horse were to be taken from the South West up to a meeting in Yorkshire, would they be put in a GWR box and that travel all the way to the racecourse, or would the horse be transferred into different stock as they crossed between regions?I bought a Hornby maroon box, but am not sure if I should go for something different on my Midland (South Yorkshire - ish) layout. I have the receipt to take it back, but I do like the look of the GWR box having such a different profile from BR MK1 coaches, when put at the head of a passenger train.Any suggestion would be most welcome. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 A quick question about how far the GWR horseboxes traveled during BR days. If a horse were to be taken from the South West up to a meeting in Yorkshire, would they be put in a GWR box and that travel all the way to the racecourse, or would the horse be transferred into different stock as they crossed between regions? I bought a Hornby maroon box, but am not sure if I should go for something different on my Midland (South Yorkshire - ish) layout. I have the receipt to take it back, but I do like the look of the GWR box having such a different profile from BR MK1 coaches, when put at the head of a passenger train. Any suggestion would be most welcome. Even prior to Nationalisation, horse-boxes would probably travel all the way through; you wouldn't want to detain a horse whilst it was moved from one company's wagon to anothers, and, unless the horse ended up at the knacker's yard, it would probably be travelling back to its station of origin in the van it arrived in. There was another traffic that saw the ex-GWR vans travelling far and wide; the Milk Marketing Board had a breeding station at Johnstown, just west of Carmarthen, which sent pedigree calves to herds around the country. This lasted into the 1960s, when it was superseded by super-insulated containers containing the bull's contribution to the process; you'd often see these on the platform at Llanelli, awaiting a connection for the Shrewsbury service. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamiel Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 Thank you so much for that Fat Controller.I though that might be the case, a lot of fuss loading and unloading horses, always the chance of a stray whistle sooking one, and you don't want a horse charging around the railways lines.Out of the box, and ready to be weathered then. It will look nice at the head of some maroon MK1s. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach bogie Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 A quick question about how far the GWR horseboxes traveled during BR days. If a horse were to be taken from the South West up to a meeting in Yorkshire, would they be put in a GWR box and that travel all the way to the racecourse, or would the horse be transferred into different stock as they crossed between regions? I bought a Hornby maroon box, but am not sure if I should go for something different on my Midland (South Yorkshire - ish) layout. I have the receipt to take it back, but I do like the look of the GWR box having such a different profile from BR MK1 coaches, when put at the head of a passenger train. Any suggestion would be most welcome. There are shots in the 1930's Soole collection of trains with large numbers of horseboxes from all regions leaving/returning from Aintree Grand National (run on a Friday then) with horseboxes of all ages/regions run throughout from the event. Similar views of specials from Newbury with whole trains of horseboxes travelling thoughout (the horses had to return unless auctioned after the race). Maurice Earley shot here http://locodriver.co.uk/Railway_Encyclopedia/Part226/Part05/img25.gif GWR horsebox special heading north for Manchester at Birmingham here http://www.warwickshirerailways.com/gwr/birmingham-snowhill/locomotives/gwrbsh1778.jpg Mike Wiltshire 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted December 7, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 7, 2016 I wonder if they'll be another run on these in 2017.I would say it has the most underframe detail of any GWR freight stock on the market. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted December 7, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 7, 2016 There are shots in the 1930's Soole collection of trains with large numbers of horseboxes from all regions leaving/returning from Aintree Grand National (run on a Friday then) with horseboxes of all ages/regions run throughout from the event. Similar views of specials from Newbury with whole trains of horseboxes travelling thoughout (the horses had to return unless auctioned after the race). Maurice Earley shot here http://locodriver.co.uk/Railway_Encyclopedia/Part226/Part05/img25.gif GWR horsebox special heading north for Manchester at Birmingham here http://www.warwickshirerailways.com/gwr/birmingham-snowhill/locomotives/gwrbsh1778.jpg Mike Wiltshire Your first link is coming up as an ad for Adidas - for me at least. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach bogie Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Your first link is coming up as an ad for Adidas - for me at least. It is two years old Mike Wiltshire Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
amdaley Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 The Adidas product is being transported in horse boxes Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chris p bacon Posted December 8, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 8, 2016 Your first link is coming up as an ad for Adidas - for me at least. It's a new type of horseshoe for flat racers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted January 12, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 12, 2018 With all the excitement of the recent Hornby announcement this set of three might have slipped everyone's notice. I can't tell if all three have the same running number, I would hope not . Due in April for around the 50 sheets mark. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neal Ball Posted January 12, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 12, 2018 With all the excitement of the recent Hornby announcement this set of three might have slipped everyone's notice. I can't tell if all three have the same running number, I would hope not . Due in April for around the 50 sheets mark. post-1-0-43765800-1514978107.jpg If only Henley had a racecourse, I could use loads then! It is after all a lovely model. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRman Posted January 13, 2018 Share Posted January 13, 2018 With all the excitement of the recent Hornby announcement this set of three might have slipped everyone's notice. I can't tell if all three have the same running number, I would hope not . Due in April for around the 50 sheets mark. post-1-0-43765800-1514978107.jpg All their past multi-packs have featured different running numbers for each of the wagons, and often, slightly different details as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coppercap Posted January 13, 2018 Share Posted January 13, 2018 With all the excitement of the recent Hornby announcement this set of three might have slipped everyone's notice. I can't tell if all three have the same running number, I would hope not . Due in April for around the 50 sheets mark. post-1-0-43765800-1514978107.jpg I know it's only a catalogue image, but just look at the vast distance between the buffers! Hornby have done this before on other vans (Southern) and it looks ridiculous and toy-like. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted January 13, 2018 Share Posted January 13, 2018 (edited) With all the excitement of the recent Hornby announcement this set of three might have slipped everyone's notice. I can't tell if all three have the same running number, I would hope not . Due in April for around the 50 sheets mark.If you open the picture provided by AndyY you can see that they are numbered consecutively: 554-555-556. I wonder if they'll be another run on these in 2017.I would say it has the most underframe detail of any GWR freight stock on the market.This was a good guess - you were just a year off! I've been looking forward to this being reintroduced. I'll jump at the opportunity to pick up a three-pack. This is probably the item that excited me the most in the Hornby announcement. Edited January 13, 2018 by Ozexpatriate 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
34theletterbetweenB&D Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 If only Henley had a racecourse, I could use loads then! It is after all a lovely model. But you may. Because the hay burner had a fairly short range, the gent who enjoyed riding (Henley surely would have some) could trot on it to the nearest station offering horsebox hire (which he would typically have prebooked) and proceed to go a distance by train before once more leaping into the saddle. While he lounged in 1st class, a groom could ride in the box to care for his transport. There would often be a horse for the groom as well. This is how people visited friends, went to hunts, race meets and other sports, until the motor car totally displaced the horse from normal personal transport to essentially leisure pursuit. It was so routine that no mention is made of it in novels where a character rides to catch a train and is back on the horse after leaving the train. One of the best early pictures of a friend's house shows a horse in the front garden in the 1920s. The house owner would in summer ride to the station and take horse up to town, where he would then ride to the office: the Army had an ample stable provision in London. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
john flann Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 I think you will find Trollpe has referred to this in his novels. It's also mentioned in his biography. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
34theletterbetweenB&D Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 Yes. It's on reading it in Trollope that you realise that so many others just gloss over this asepect of life. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted January 15, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 15, 2018 If only Henley had a racecourse, I could use loads then! It is after all a lovely model. Just had a thought about that Neal. All you need to do is apply some calendar flexibility and move forward the current annual international riding event from the present day to your layout's time frame so you have a choice of show jumping or horse trials and the latter attracts Olympic class competitors who would inevitably have come by train had the thing gone on in days of yore. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ian Hargrave Posted January 15, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 15, 2018 Such elegance and cultural refinement...Trollope on RMWeb.Next stop Barchester Central. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
No Decorum Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Such elegance and cultural refinement...Trollope on RMWeb.Next stop Barchester Central. If I were seeking to convey elegance and cultural refinement and choosing my surname … … not even with an “e” on the end. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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