159 Posted June 21, 2010 Share Posted June 21, 2010 Apologies if this has been posted before : - Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted June 22, 2010 Share Posted June 22, 2010 Go for it as I would like to see the blueprints for myself. That would be ideal if you can James and would be a great starting point. Blueprints would enable some form of costings for the project. I'll ask my contact at Brush then! Can't promise anything though but you'll probably get an answer on the existence of drawings if nothing else. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 7013 Posted June 22, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 22, 2010 Just seen the photo of Kestrel, sad and poingnant. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
balders Posted June 22, 2010 Share Posted June 22, 2010 Apologies if this has been posted before : - Nice little feature...........Mr Chalmondley-Warner narrating, a natty Kestrel test-engineer in the cab with his white lab-coat and pipe (looks like my dad), Kestrel passes a rare blue/grey LMS BSK on the way out of the station (the number is visible, couldn't make it out) And the APT is staffed by a bunch of mutton chopped Jason King porn-star wannabes. Marvellous Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdseyecircus Posted June 22, 2010 Share Posted June 22, 2010 Nice little feature...........Mr Chalmondley-Warner narrating, a natty Kestrel test-engineer in the cab with his white lab-coat and pipe (looks like my dad), Kestrel passes a rare blue/grey LMS BSK on the way out of the station (the number is visible, couldn't make it out) And the APT is staffed by a bunch of mutton chopped Jason King porn-star wannabes. Marvellous Loved the APT-E feature. It reminded me of the opening sequence to the film 'The Full Monty' Paul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozzyo Posted June 23, 2010 Share Posted June 23, 2010 Loved the APT-E feature. It reminded me of the opening sequence to the film 'The Full Monty' Paul i liked the sequence of the prototype H.S.T. on the east cost main line. and the trolley doily's. I dont remember them on the real railways. Just grumpy old gits in a new uniforms, or did I just get the wrong trains? OzzyO. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted June 23, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 23, 2010 cracking you-tube find!! have a look in the background on the apt feature at 1:57 and the metro vic is parked up behind the apt on the RTC Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyman7 Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 Fascinating films - and poignant too. Kestrel and the APT are effectively might-have-beens - but I've just watched the HST film (dated 1973) the day after a trip back from York on an East Coast HST, 32 years old and still looking and running fantastically. That, at least, truly did depict the train of the future - microwave ovens and all! Incidentally, the last panning shots of the prototype HST in the film seem to show the early trial formation with a Mark 1 catering vehicle (in reverse blue/grey) I believe because the Mk3 catering vehicles were not yet ready. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnd Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 cracking you-tube find!! have a look in the background on the apt feature at 1:57 and the metro vic is parked up behind the apt on the RTC I thought that to Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve K Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 Meanwhile, anyone wanting to model Kestrel in Lego could do worse than start here! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 I knew when my lad was taking me, page by page, through the new release catalogue at the weekend, the loco looked familiar Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve K Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 I knew when my lad was taking me, page by page, through the new release catalogue at the weekend, the loco looked familiar Of course, it's too short and it's electric, but it's Lego, so that needn't be a problem. From memory, the set is going for about £130 in Smyths - a lot of money for something you probably wouldn't let your lad play with much... Nice, though! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicester Thumper Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 Must... resist... Urge... to... Buy... I'm 17 for heavens sake..... although like i once read on a fridge magnet 'growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional' Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevor H Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 If I can get this to work. Kestrel was stripped of all it equipment way back in the 70's and was filled with concrete blocks and was used as a rolling dead weight for a while. The loco was then dumped for many years at VNITI, later Ð’ÐИКТИ which was the research & development centre at Kolomna in Russia. Kestrel never moved again and survived there into the 90's, it is rumored to of survived into the 21st century, but I have no evidence to this. Link to the rather run down research centre at Ð’ÐИКТИ Kolomna. Image is a few years old now, but post Kestrel days. http://maps.google.c...010943&t=k&z=17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl. H. Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Found this. Apologies if its' been posted before. http://eastmoor.blogspot.co.uk/2010/01/just-supposing.html Carl Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevor H Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Another shot taken that same day in August 1985. http://www.parovoz.c...=239443#picture Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philwright Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Yes these two pics are and have been doing the rounds now for a while surely more can come out of 40 years in the USSR than these two super photos. Every thing we have is all hearsay we have nothing in concrete regarding the scrapping/survival of Kestrel. Another shot taken that same day in August 1985. http://www.parovoz.c...=239443#picture Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevor H Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 The only other photos I've ever seen at VNITI are one when it was dumped up against the compound wall, where it spent most of its time. Along with a couple of the cab interior stripped of everything and one of the engine compartment showing the concrete strapped to the floor. As to any dates or other info, or if even they are still on the web, afraid I can't help. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mogman1969 Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Yes these two pics are and have been doing the rounds now for a while surely more can come out of 40 years in the USSR than these two super photos. Every thing we have is all hearsay we have nothing in concrete regarding the scrapping/survival of Kestrel. i wonder if the concrete survives ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philwright Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Aye the concrete may well in a pile where if the loco was scrapped! Who knows maybe she is languishing under vegitation. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
69843 Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Has anyone actually been to Russia to look for her yet? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philwright Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Not sure but sure someone will know the definative answer. Time to start writing russian translation letter i think. Has anyone actually been to Russia to look for her yet? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Found this. Apologies if its' been posted before. http://eastmoor.blog...-supposing.html There's a lot of rubbish on that site... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 HS4000 Derby 31/8/1968 by Glevumblues, on Flickr Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 i wonder if the concrete survives ? It probably forms part of the stuff covering the Chernobyl site..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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