RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted August 1, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted August 1, 2020 15 minutes ago, 2ManySpams said: Sounds like you're going through a black period Rob. As the LMS fans might say -black fives matter. 4 1 1 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Gough Posted August 1, 2020 Share Posted August 1, 2020 Oh dear! I now fear there will be a barrage of posts arguing either, "All Fives matter," or, "You don't understand the problem with Black Fives." 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted August 1, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted August 1, 2020 This is the 7000 + photo took with this camera and shews my Chiver's bolster build running with the other LMS wagons albeit in bauxite I have. Still in primer I'm yet to decide what grey paint shade to use to finish her. 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted August 1, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 1, 2020 17 minutes ago, gwrrob said: Still in primer I'm yet to decide what grey paint shade to use to finish her. It won't make any difference once TBG's finished with it. 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted August 1, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 1, 2020 4 hours ago, gwrrob said: As the LMS fans might say -black fives matter. Very true 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post gwrrob Posted August 2, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted August 2, 2020 Sunday morning trip for Laira's Hall class 4966 Shakenhurst Hall caught amongst the shrubbery near Tigley. 26 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgman Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 1 hour ago, gwrrob said: caught amongst the shrubbery 1 1 1 8 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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CCGWR Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 Looks rather nice Robin, what is the first coach in the train? Looks good. Connor 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted August 3, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted August 3, 2020 6 hours ago, CCGWR said: Looks rather nice Robin, what is the first coach in the train? Looks good. An old K's kit built example of the K16 running on Shapeway bogies. 2 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post gwrrob Posted August 3, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted August 3, 2020 (edited) An extra shot of 4966/3738 and some more large prairie work on an up parcels turn. More anon. Edited August 3, 2020 by gwrrob 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted August 3, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted August 3, 2020 Further to my photos of Dawlish sea wall last month I see the newly constructed bit is now open although a new railway fence is yet to be installed. Time will tell if it works. 8 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Siberian Snooper Posted August 3, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 3, 2020 I can confirm that you can still see over the top, from the train window, I went to Exeter last week for my final visit to the Model Shop. 1 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post gwrrob Posted August 3, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted August 3, 2020 Without going off on my usual rant about the lack of decent quality rtr GWR parcel vehicles, these shots shew how much we're behind the SR,LMS and LNER. 22 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ian Hargrave Posted August 3, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 3, 2020 Thank you for some atmospheric photography from ANTB over the last couple of days.There’s an accomplished landscape artist ( apart from railway modeller ) behind the lens.Given me an uplift which I can do with right now. Please keep them coming Robin. Thank you from me. 1 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted August 3, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 3, 2020 3 hours ago, gwrrob said: Further to my photos of Dawlish sea wall last month I see the newly constructed bit is now open although a new railway fence is yet to be installed. Time will tell if it works It will be a whole lot better than what went before. They've used the same methodology as the repairs done in 2014 a bit further along at Sea Lawn Terrace, namely pre-cast concrete sections as the basis for the new Sea Wall, with a proper wave return incorporated in the design. If it's like the Sea Lawn Terrace section, the whole thing will be several thousand tonnes of solid concrete, which isn't going to go anywhere for a very long time. Whilst I don't necessarily agree with the proposals to push the railway between Parsons Tunnel and Sprey Point further out to sea, the essential methods used for the new construction are, I believe, very sound. 2 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted August 3, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted August 3, 2020 Stood on the beach looking up at those concrete sections, what strikes me is the lack of character of them compared to the originals that had been ravaged by the sea for 200 years. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
simontaylor484 Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 Lovely photos again very atmospheric 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted August 3, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 3, 2020 2 hours ago, gwrrob said: Stood on the beach looking up at those concrete sections, what strikes me is the lack of character of them compared to the originals that had been ravaged by the sea for 200 years. May have a look myself next week. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted August 4, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted August 4, 2020 12 hours ago, Ian Hargrave said: Thank you for some atmospheric photography from ANTB over the last couple of days.There’s an accomplished landscape artist ( apart from railway modeller ) behind the lens.Given me an uplift which I can do with right now. Please keep them coming Robin. Thank you from me. Very kind words from the man who remembers sepia prints and horsehair in coach seating. An overall view. 13 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted August 4, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 4, 2020 See what happens when the boys from Swindon do "thinking outside the box" on the new Prairie tank after the Christmas knees-up... Who said that the driving wheels have to be inside the pony and trailing wheels? At least they remembered the shiny safety valve cover. 1 2 10 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted August 4, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 4, 2020 (edited) 14 hours ago, gwrrob said: Stood on the beach looking up at those concrete sections, what strikes me is the lack of character of them compared to the originals that had been ravaged by the sea for 200 years. Network Rail do concrete quite well, but not character. Edited August 4, 2020 by Captain Kernow A llama. 1 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cary hill Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 (edited) So the long lost missing sections of Herr Hitler's Atlantic Wall finally turn up on Dawlish Beach........ That new seawall looks to be a particularly fine example of 21st century "brutalist" construction, but I suppose it is entirely necessary as Mother Nature can be pretty brutal too when the mood takes her. Edited August 4, 2020 by cary hill 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted August 4, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 4, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, 2ManySpams said: See what happens when the boys from Swindon do "thinking outside the box" on the new Prairie tank after the Christmas knees-up... Who said that the driving wheels have to be inside the pony and trailing wheels? At least they remembered the shiny safety valve cover. Hi Spams I know you are cleverer than me when it comes to GWR matters so can you clear up a nagging question I have about the loco in your wonderful photo, please? When they came to name the "Out Side Privy" class was the one in the photo "Dad's Office" or "Thunderbox"? I do get them two mixed up. Edited August 4, 2020 by Clive Mortimore 4 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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