RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted March 16, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 16, 2020 Not very fast originally. As everyone knows, CCT stands for Covered Carriage Truck, i.e a vehicle upon which one's carriage could be transported. Carriage as in horse and carriage. 15 mph on a very good day? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullie Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 15 minutes ago, Oldddudders said: Not very fast originally. As everyone knows, CCT stands for Covered Carriage Truck, i.e a vehicle upon which one's carriage could be transported. Carriage as in horse and carriage. 15 mph on a very good day? So a lot faster than traveling through London by road then! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted March 17, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 17, 2020 (edited) ECML - Essendine Northampton New Mills Scremerston Edited March 17, 2020 by Metr0Land 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmrspaul Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 (edited) Somewhere on the ECML is Essendine according to the photographer. One of the rare (only 20 built) Bulleid Scenery vans - BR GUV - behind the loco. (The earlier Maunsell type had gone by 1961) Paul Edit to add a PS. If the date is 25 May 1979 (and no reason I know for it not to be) if Hugh Longworth is correct this was a very very rare van by then. Only BR built ones remained - and very few as revenue stock (some were in internal and departmental use by then. Edited March 17, 2020 by hmrspaul 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 Are pictures of the shunting of a parcel train "cheating"? Leicester 1976 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northmoor Posted March 20, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 20, 2020 On 17/03/2020 at 11:39, Metr0Land said: Scremerston That one of the 25 at New Mills looks like a Les Nixon shot. Weren't the early 80s great for train watching? I love this shot above, with Bamburgh in the distance, particularly as it reminds me of a family holiday in the area in 1981(?). Staying in our caravan at Berwick - backed onto the ECML - and things like this, Deltics and HSTs came past all the time. We took a day trip to Edinburgh to see relatives, Deltic-hauled both ways, my only rides behind them before preservation. One evening just like this we walked to the border sign North of Berwick and there's a photo somewhere of me and my sister standing on both sides of the border. Wow, nearly 40 years ago. Thanks for the memories. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
caradoc Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 If anyone has access to the InterCity Railway Society magazines of the mid to late 1970s, myself and a friend submitted details of the parcels stock we saw at Oxford, and a fascinating collection it was too ! I have tried in vain to obtain these magazines, having foolishly not kept them. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Metr0Land Posted March 23, 2020 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 23, 2020 Foxhall Jn - Didcot Foxhall Jn Dundee Iver 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted March 24, 2020 Share Posted March 24, 2020 Stock formed up in one of the eastern bays at Edinburgh Waverley 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post acg5324 Posted March 28, 2020 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted March 28, 2020 Apologies if I've posted these before. York Basingstoke Farnborough New Street Coventry 25 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted March 28, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 28, 2020 The New Street shot, being of a parcels train, is perfectly and very subtly balanced by the intruding BRUTE on the left of the frame. The subtext is clear; it's night, and we're handling mailbags and parcels while civilised men are a'bed, unknowing and uncaring... 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northmoor Posted March 28, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 28, 2020 6 hours ago, acg5324 said: Coventry Perfect - an 82 and just three (different) vans. Remember how at that time, people didn't want to model the modern scene because it was "All long, block trains"? 10 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Metr0Land Posted April 1, 2020 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted April 1, 2020 Midcalder Junction Etterby Tebay Iver 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmrspaul Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 Tebay 70011 is the first coach one of the Anglo - Scottish car carriers? So easy in this brightly vinyled days to forget how filthy the rolling stock could be in the later days of the steam BR. Paul 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted April 2, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 2, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, hmrspaul said: Tebay 70011 is the first coach one of the Anglo - Scottish car carriers? So easy in this brightly vinyled days to forget how filthy the rolling stock could be in the later days of the steam BR. Paul Hi Paul It is, I went to the Flickr page magnified the photo and you can see the lettering on the side appearing through the dirt. It's rebuilt from an LNER built Illford coach, the underframe angle trussing helps identify from a rebuilt GER Illford coach, they had turnbuckles not angle trust. The two types had different bogies, the GER coaches had a GER design of bogie and the LNER coaches ex GNR Fox bogies but in this photo they are not visible. One day I might finish this one Edited April 2, 2020 by Clive Mortimore 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo675 Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 1 hour ago, Clive Mortimore said: Hi Paul It is, I went to the Flickr page magnified the photo and you can see the lettering on the side appearing through the dirt. It's rebuilt from an LNER built Illford coach, the underframe angle trussing helps identify from a rebuilt GER Illford coach, they had turnbuckles not angle trust. The two types had different bogies, the GER coaches had a GER design of bogie and the LNER coaches ex GNR Fox bogies but in this photo they are not visible. One day I might finish this one But Clive, its only one colour !!! 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted April 5, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 5, 2020 Tring Acton Lower Basildon Kilburn 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted April 5, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 5, 2020 Guard's door open on BG second vehicle. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 1 hour ago, The Johnster said: Guard's door open on BG second vehicle. Nah, it's a shadow from the overhead support. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted April 5, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 5, 2020 Is an' all; it continues on to the roof when you blow the photo up! Well spotted, Porcy! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 1 hour ago, The Johnster said: Is an' all; it continues on to the roof when you blow the photo up! Well spotted, Porcy! The advantage of a really big Photoshop monitor. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted April 12, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 12, 2020 Newport Exeter SD Carnforth Bingham 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southernman46 Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 Can someone identify the interesting bogie van behind the 25 please ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 18 minutes ago, Southernman46 said: Can someone identify the interesting bogie van behind the 25 please ? I think it's a Thompson Full- Brake. 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmrspaul Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 1 hour ago, Southernman46 said: Can someone identify the interesting bogie van behind the 25 please ? LNER Thompson MAtchboard full brake Longworth has them as diag 327 A poor photo. https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/lnerparcels/e264c10c5 And a couple I've mislabelled as Gresley, and in the condition they went to the USA where Longworth seems to suggest they may still exist https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/lnerparcels/e3c03b81a https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/lnerparcels/e2c72af94 Paul 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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