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3 hours ago, BenL said:

Yes, I think the GWR Journal article I mentioned above has all the details of where the Swindon-built 8Fs were allocated from new and until when. There's also a chapter on them in the David Maidment book on GW Heavy Freight Locos, which I seem to recall has an appendix with the allocation details.

 

I'm away from my GWR Journals and books at the moment, but I picked 8427 as the number for my version both because there is a good photo of her in the aforementioned GWR Journal article and because she was the last to leave Laira to 'go back' to the LMS, I think from memory c. Sept/Oct '47. 

 

I do have an e-version of the 15th June '47 GWR shed allocations to hand (who doesn't?!) and 8427 is the only 8F allocated to Laira by then (none at NA by that time). They were of course replaced by WDs, something else that would be very fitting on ANTB although I understand Robin feels they are aesthetically challenged :)

 

 

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that makes life easy for me when I eventually make one, 8427 with a return Date  of September/Oct actually fits my chosen period perfectly 

 

I will definitely have to buy that issue of GWRJ to get the photo!

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On 23/04/2020 at 16:01, The Fatadder said:

Going back to the GW’s borrowed LMS 8Fs, I have found some interesting info in the fleet news pages of the GWR magazine in 1947 (curtesy of eBay) 

 

More to the point, it has the list of engines that had been returned to the LMS in the month preceding. (Along with the Halls and county’s which had been named 
 

So in Summer 47 issue (which I think was moved to April 47) 

Newton Abbot

8425

8432

Laira 
8434

8435 


(July issue listing moves in Feb 47 )

8409 NA and 8412 LA

 

Will keep an eye out for any issues towards the end of the year.  What I don’t know is which 8Fs were at LA or NA at the start of 47 (and from which which if any were still there after April)

 

Went trawling through the Swindon built 8F's on BRDatabase.

 

The caveats are it doesn't fully cover your era - many of the entries start in mid-47 or so, thus any early 47 allocations aren't in it's data.  Also, they all have the warning that the entries are raw unverified data from the Stephenson Locomotive Society.

 

I have also included 2 numbers that have been posted in this thread as having been at NA or LA but which don't show up in BRDatabase as such as the data isn't there.

 

8409 - ??                     -> 29/03/47

8410 - LA - 22/02/47 -> 29/03/47

8412 - LA - 22/02/47 -> 26/04/47

8414 - ??                      -> 14/06/47  (shedbash has this as a LA loco in 46)

8425 - NA - 28/02/46 -> 26/04/47

8427 - ??                      -> 23/08/47

8432 - NA - 22/02/47 -> 19/04/47

8434 - LA - 26/03/46 -> 12/04/47

 

Interestingly BRDatabase also shows 8431 as been allocated to NA much later - 10/09/55 -> 08/10/55

 

Shedbash has the following allocated + visitors in 1946/1947 if anyone is interested.

Laira - 24/02/46:

8404 Old Oak Common

8414 LA

8420 Exeter

8432 Exeter

 

Newton Abbot - 28/06/46

8440 Taunton - in works.

 

Exeter - 27/06/46

8474 Oxley

 

Old Oak Common - 29/06/47

8427 Laira

 

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The GWJ article mentioned by @BenL is by the respected author John Copsey, he of the excellent Wild Swan book  'The GWR in South Devon' .

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16 hours ago, colin penfold said:

Filthy mogul, natch....

 

You'll be lucky after that daft comment on another thread chum. Here's your prize.

 

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4 hours ago, gwrrob said:

A Bachmann LMS 3 plank weathered and a load offered up for comments on its likelihood. If it's ok I'll tie it up properly.;)

 

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Why not- it wouldn't need it's own WARWELL or WARFLAT for a load that light.  

 

Nice modelling.

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6 minutes ago, M.I.B said:

 

Why not- it wouldn't need it's own WARWELL or WARFLAT for a load that light.  

 

Nice modelling.

 

If I pushed it along a bit perhaps I could squeeze something else in too.;)

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2 hours ago, gwrrob said:

 

If I pushed it along a bit perhaps I could squeeze something else in too.;)

 

You could fit two of those gun limbers, or possibly a limber and gun, on that LOWFIT - the drawbar of one could be beneath the rear of the other; an authentic method of loading.

 

John Isherwood.

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