RMweb Premium 03060 Posted May 6, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 6, 2020 Any ideas as to the identity of the 40 ? I'm seeing 40 03x .....definately an ex-named example as you can see the nameplate fixings position. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Phil Mc Posted May 6, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 6, 2020 27 minutes ago, 03060 said: Any ideas as to the identity of the 40 ? I'm seeing 40 03x .....definately an ex-named example as you can see the nameplate fixings position. lf you click on the pic, it takes you to Flickr, which says 40030. No idea if that’s correct though ! cheers, Phil. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted May 6, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 6, 2020 28 minutes ago, 03060 said: Any ideas as to the identity of the 40 ? I'm seeing 40 03x .....definately an ex-named example as you can see the nameplate fixings position. It says 40030 on the Flickr caption if that helps? Mike. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post montyburns56 Posted May 7, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted May 7, 2020 This one seems to feature two SR bogie vans, but is dated 1985. Were they really still in use at this date? 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmrspaul Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 3 hours ago, montyburns56 said: This one seems to feature two SR bogie vans, but is dated 1985. Were they really still in use at this date? There a number still around at the end of 1986. https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/srguvandb A guard whom writes on a website - and quite possibly on here - has proven via his official notebooks that the condemnation dates published for some of these is incorrect by several years. Paul 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted May 8, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 8, 2020 Top photo is Cardiff Central in late afternoon from the position of the sun, and is therefore probably the Cardiff-Southampton, a train that was loaded on the ‘Riverside’ platforms and brought over to platform 2 by the down side pilot; the loco was already there waiting for it. IIRC this was not a Canton job; probably Bath Road or Westbury. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted May 8, 2020 Share Posted May 8, 2020 17 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted May 8, 2020 Share Posted May 8, 2020 Weymouth 1974 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 (edited) Now is this a passenger train with some parcel vans or a parcel train with some passenger coaches? Edited May 10, 2020 by montyburns56 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 It's a passenger train (just). The Kyle line was always good for tail traffic; the oddest I've seen in a photo was a fitted Lowmac. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted May 10, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 10, 2020 The Blaenau Ffestiniog branch took Presflos as tail traffic (Sectional Appendix authority, they were’t XP rated). 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted May 13, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 13, 2020 Double duffs by NIGHTSHIFTWORKER, on Flickr Attenborough Chester Basingstoke 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northmoor Posted May 13, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 13, 2020 1 hour ago, Metr0Land said: Now THAT is how to photograph trains at Dawlish! None of this mid-summers day, three-quarter view, sun over the shoulder rubbish. I can almost feel the drizzle running off the end of my nose. 7 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted May 13, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 13, 2020 39 minutes ago, Northmoor said: Now THAT is how to photograph trains at Dawlish! None of this mid-summers day, three-quarter view, sun over the shoulder rubbish. I can almost feel the drizzle running off the end of my nose. Now that looks like the summer holidays I spent in Devon. 6 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 I always love seeing pictures of steam locos pulling blue grey coaches in the late 60s Bolton 1968 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southernman46 Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 (edited) Interesting - Fruit D ? followed by a ??? Anyone else see the "ghost" railwayman at the foot of the "off" signal post ? Edited May 13, 2020 by Southernman46 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 Followed by a 6 wheel vehicle, from the roof shape either LMS or LNER group. It most looks like a GE type, but I'm sure they'd have been long gone by then. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 3 hours ago, Southernman46 said: Interesting - Fruit D ? followed by a ??? Anyone else see the "ghost" railwayman at the foot of the "off" signal post ? LNER CCT perhaps? 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 (edited) ... with the centre lower step looking like an axlebox. Could well be, with the lower part of the doors not visible. I was seeing windows. The roof vent pattern fits and that makes more sense. Edited May 13, 2020 by jwealleans 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Flood Posted May 14, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted May 14, 2020 (edited) I can't see the point in starting a new thread for the following so I thought that it would fit nicely here. Nearly 25 years ago I bought a Phoenix/BSL kit of a Collett K42 Full Brake to use on a layout based around Didcot in 1976. The layout ended up being of Hayle instead, this was dismantled for new central heating in 2007 and the part built kit languished on an old piece of baseboard for a further ten or so years. Whilst looking at my other parcels stock (LMS Bs and CCT; LNER BG and CCTs; Southern B, BY and CCTs; BR CCTs, GUVs and BGs; Hawkesworth B) I decided to pick it up about a month ago and see what could be done. The sides, ends and roof were all complete, as was most of the chassis. All the holes had been drilled for the handrails and bumpstops on both sides but only the bumpstops and hinges for one side had been added. Below is the basic kit after the remaining bump stops and hinges had been added to one whole side along with the roof vents: The roof handrail holes were then marked out and all the handrails added: At the same time the truss rods were added to the chassis along with another underframe box. A few coats of blue for the body and frame dirt for the chassis later it was ready for transfers and glazing. Whilst looking at photos I noticed how prominent the glazing bars are so I decided to make up a few sets. Four strips of 80x15 thou plastic were marked out with the bar spaces, the bars were then glued across and the window sections separated: Luckily I realised that the corridor side didn't have them so those were removed before they stuck firm, I'd used contact adhesive. Finally here are the two sides of the completed model, just some light weathering needed: Hopefully this has been of interest and shows 1. that it is always worth digging out old models and 2. BR blue had some very interesting stock until the late 70s. Now where's that Ian Kirk Monster kit I bought a couple of years ago...? Edited August 19, 2022 by Flood 24 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted May 14, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 14, 2020 (edited) Thinking about converting one of my derelict Airfix B set E129s into a K40 with Comet sides. It has already sacrificed it's body to a cut'n'shut 'layout coach' ersatz all 3rd numbered as a C63. Edited May 14, 2020 by The Johnster 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ramblin Rich Posted May 14, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 14, 2020 Talking of BR blue, how about the train heading to Exeter in this Flickr image by Robert Carroll I know the Fruit D vans were used on the Barnstaple line for general parcels work in the 70s and there's at least 2 here plus a BG & GUV. Not sure what's going behind the goods store, might be another Fruit D but seems a bit taller; there's a hint of outside framing so maybe an ex-SR van. Nice inspiration for my fledgling North Devon line layout anyway. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 Bradford Forster Square 1981 15 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 Ferry van in the background. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 Do you want a train of just SR bogie vans in 1984? Maidstone West 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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