A Nod To Brent - a friendly thread, filled with frivolity, cream teas and pasties. Longing for the happy days in the South Hams 1947.

[Tim Dubya]

What's the possibility of the ex LSWR route from Okehampton to Bere Alston being reopened?  I'm sure there's plenty of concrete to be shoved into that rebuild

Edited August 4, 2020 by Tim Dubya
Location update.

[Clive Mortimore]

33 minutes ago, Tim Dubya said:

What's the possibility of the ex LSWR route from Okehampton to Gunnislake being reopened?  I'm sure there's plenty of concrete to be shoved into that rebuild

Are they going to make into a busway like they did the Huntington to Cambridge line? Get off the train at Exeter and catch a bus to Cornwall, sounds a very economic thing to do.  Don't worry about Plymouth having a rail connection, my sister who lives there has a car now.

Edited August 4, 2020 by Clive Mortimore

[Siberian Snooper]

1 hour ago, Tim Dubya said:

What's the possibility of the ex LSWR route from Okehampton to Gunnislake being reopened?  I'm sure there's plenty of concrete to be shoved into that rebuild

 

 

I would think that the line between Okehampton and Bere Alston reopening is virtually nil, we've been waiting for the Bere Alston to the outskirts of Tavistock to reopen for years and no one has picked up the shovel, yet!

 

 

[gwrrob]

Still unsure about these generic coaches from Hatton's but the way they present stuff coming from them is very impressive. Here's the full brake I'd be tempted by.

 

https://www.hattons.co.uk/newsdetail.aspx?id=594

 

https://p3d.in/UNTzQ/spin

[john dew]

Great minds think along similar lines! GWR livery?

 

cheers

 

john

[Captain Kernow]

2 hours ago, Siberian Snooper said:

I would think that the line between Okehampton and Bere Alston reopening is virtually nil, we've been waiting for the Bere Alston to the outskirts of Tavistock to reopen for years and no one has picked up the shovel, yet!

I agree.

 

The government are still determined to build HS2 and have the matter of paying for all the measures taken to support the economy during the current health crisis.

 

Plus, it's west of Bristol.

 

[Tim Dubya]

Thank you gentlemen.

[gwrrob]

44 minutes ago, john dew said:

Great minds think along similar lines! GWR livery?

 

 

Workman's train out of Laira. 

[john dew]

36 minutes ago, gwrrob said:

 

Workman's train out of Laira. 

Thats a good idea .....would work for me as well

 

I was thinking of the 6 wheel brake.....or is that too generic?

[gwrrob]

20 minutes ago, john dew said:

 

I was thinking of the 6 wheel brake.....

 

Yes to start with but if they did and they might, after talking to Dave at a show last year, in all over wartime brown, I would probably get a few of the range.

[toboldlygo]

2 hours ago, gwrrob said:

 

Workman's train out of Laira. 

 

Wartime Brown, heavily weathered no doubt  

[M.I.B]

5 hours ago, gwrrob said:

Still unsure about these generic coaches from Hatton's but the way they present stuff coming from them is very impressive. Here's the full brake I'd be tempted by.

 

 

 

I'm going for one as a mess van, all over brown, S&T Dept decals, nice and grubby. 

 

There is a lovely example of one stood at a platform on the Glos&Warks photos site.

[gwrrob]

This evening we catch another Hall class on a down service. This is 4943 Marrington Hall and as we approach the bridge the eagle eyed might notice some new scenic work.

 

Here I've put a couple of newly made trees, made from the armatures sold by Model Scenery Supplies , coated in Treemendus bark duly painted and then foliaged in my usual manner. Some undergrowth was fashioned and using dark Noch leaves I tried to simulate some ivy climbing the trunk. Fencing is again by Scale Model Scenery. The baseboard edge will be tidied up. The trees will get properly planted after I get some more of my favourite earth powder down to give a bit of bare earth underneath them.

 

[gwrrob]

A glorious late summer's day in the South Hams sees Hall class 4943 Marrington Hall arrive on a down service. As she leaves an 8750 pannier class 3738 arrives on an up trip to Exeter. She disturbs the morning chat of the throng assembled on the platform. Maybe the airman will catch this train.

 

 

[gwrrob]

[brianusa]

On 04/08/2020 at 07:57, Captain Kernow said:

I agree.

 

The government are still determined to build HS2 and have the matter of paying for all the measures taken to support the economy during the current health crisis.

 

Plus, it's west of Bristol.

 

 

Here we go again:https://www.railnews.co.uk/news/2020/07/20-new-plan-for-south-west.html

      Brian.     

[gwrrob]

Any knowledgeable members know if these are the original 3 hole wheels supplied by Wrenn back in their day.

 

[toboldlygo]

9 minutes ago, gwrrob said:

Any knowledgeable members know if these are the original 3 hole wheels supplied by Wrenn back in their day.

 

 

They look good for pizza cutting  

[toboldlygo]

On 08/08/2020 at 16:23, gwrrob said:

 

I've just found a set of plates for that one...  

[Limpley Stoker]

Thats good because the airman has just noticed they are not brass and can’t be bulled up!

[Northroader]

There’s always Blanco.

[Ian Hargrave]

Like the airman.Perfect representation of a postwar era. That figure with the addition of a shoulder slung kitbag is my first memory image of my father returning home from overseas service in 1945.I hadn’t seem him for a long time,so I watched this figure advancing down the road towards me ,RAF kepi on head,and when recognition finally dawned all I could respond was...”Oh, I thought it was you “...

 

Some things never leave your visual memory.This won’t.

[St Enodoc]

2 hours ago, Northroader said:

There’s always Blanco.

Great full-back.

[Clive Mortimore]

2 hours ago, Northroader said:

There’s always Blanco.

Just reading that has made me go all shivery and sweaty.

 

We were still using the stuff when I joined up in 1975. We had nearly finished our basic training and were issued new plastic belts to wear with working dress. So we set about our old 37 pattern webbing belts with there thick coatings of Blanco. Our platoon Staff Sergeant was duty sergeant and on his way to the NAFFI he popped into our accommodation. Oh bu88er. We all had to go and buy some white Blanco, get off the light green from our old belts and make them white for passing out parade, I will let you make up your own name for him, I think we ran out of them at about 100. 

 

Then on to trade training, fire picket where you paraded with full 37 pattern webbing in battle order................Blancoed.

 

We still had 37 pattern webbing when I moved to my first field workshop. I saved my beer tokens and purchased a set of 58 webbing from the surplus shop around the corner to the workshops in Tidworth.  If you had 58 pattern you were allowed to wear it on exercise. 

 

 

[john dew]

4 hours ago, Ian Hargrave said:

Like the airman.Perfect representation of a postwar era. That figure with the addition of a shoulder slung kitbag is my first memory image of my father returning home from overseas service in 1945.I hadn’t seem him for a long time,so I watched this figure advancing down the road towards me ,RAF kepi on head,and when recognition finally dawned all I could respond was...”Oh, I thought it was you “...

 

Some things never leave your visual memory.This won’t.

I have a very similar memory .......at Liverpool Central with my Mum and Sister watching this tall sun tanned stranger approaching us. I had the vaguest recollection of “Daddy”. He had spent the last three years in Kenya.....had to be one of the cushiest postings ever. We , on the other hand, had survived the Liverpool blitz........and I can still recall hearing the sirens and being taken down to the make shift Shelter....the cubbby hole under the stairs.

Ian, I have followed your posts for many years and have learned so much from them. It is therefore with some hesitancy I ask.... are you certain your Dad’s hat  was a Kepi? That is a peaked hat I would have associated with the French Foreign Legion or Gendarmerie. In the Army the airman’s headgear was called a side cap or forage cap.

 

A very minor point.....loved your post brought all manner of memories flooding back

 

Best wishes

 

John