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I know Facebook is not to everyone's taste but I've recently discovered this excellent group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/921387308231483 called GWR Modelling.  Suspect some of the regulars here may already be members...  There's some excellent modelling eg this from a guy called Nigel Wall who appears to have a model of Stourbridge Junction (my home town).  Here's his weathered and renumbered Hornby Prairie:

 

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37 minutes ago, Ian Hargrave said:

 
An object lesson in attractive packaging.It says “buy me” .

 

A colour photo by the late great Peter Gray of 1608 on a westbound freight skirting the Teign estuary was enough for me.;)

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5 hours ago, gwrrob said:

 

A colour photo by the late great Peter Gray of 1608 on a westbound freight skirting the Teign estuary was enough for me.;)

 

@gwrrob - thanks for that, I'd never heard of Peter Gray before, even though we were in the same town.

 

A little searching later...

 

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"I was doing all black and white until 1957, when I started taking colour photos as well - but not many at first because it was expensive. A 36 exposure film cost 36 shillings, so it was a shilling a shot which was a lot of money in those days."

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/content/articles/2008/10/09/trains_peter_gray_feature.shtml

 

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https://www.transporttreasury.com/f449715166

 

I wonder if the Transport Treasury is still work in progress?

 

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A few years before his death we started the process of scanning all of Peters' negative collection, so we thought we would share this with you. We hope to add more caption details as and when we are able to.

 

As they only seem to be showing Peter Gray's black and white photos, with no captions.

So another set of mystery photos ideal for RMWeb members to identify the locations.

e.g.

https://www.transporttreasury.com/p1039757392

 

Pic 598  and 619 - a Great Northern railbus?

https://www.transporttreasury.com/p1039757392/ha954f804#ha954f804

https://www.transporttreasury.com/p1039757392/ha9550241#ha9550241

 

Pic 775 - one loco, one coach, and one wagon - mixed traffic?

https://www.transporttreasury.com/p1039757392/ha9555b06#ha9555b06

 

Pic 811

A classic GWR BLT - Kingsbridge perhaps?

https://www.transporttreasury.com/p1039757392/ha9558e93#ha9558e93

 

 

 

 

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There is a great one of his showing 2785 in Newton Abbot in the late 40s painted in GWR black after being rebuilt after the air raid damage a few years previously.   It’s on the to do list one day likely from a Finney kit.   Would love to see a properly indexed list of his 1940s photos

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2 hours ago, KeithMacdonald said:

 

@gwrrob - thanks for that, I'd never heard of Peter Gray before, even though we were in the same town.

 

A little searching later...

 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/content/articles/2008/10/09/trains_peter_gray_feature.shtml

 

and

 

https://www.transporttreasury.com/f449715166

 

I wonder if the Transport Treasury is still work in progress?

 

 

As they only seem to be showing Peter Gray's black and white photos, with no captions.

So another set of mystery photos ideal for RMWeb members to identify the locations.

e.g.

https://www.transporttreasury.com/p1039757392

 

Pic 598  and 619 - a Great Northern railbus?

https://www.transporttreasury.com/p1039757392/ha954f804#ha954f804

https://www.transporttreasury.com/p1039757392/ha9550241#ha9550241

 

Pic 775 - one loco, one coach, and one wagon - mixed traffic?

https://www.transporttreasury.com/p1039757392/ha9555b06#ha9555b06

 

Pic 811

A classic GWR BLT - Kingsbridge perhaps?

https://www.transporttreasury.com/p1039757392/ha9558e93#ha9558e93

 

 

 

 

 

2 hours ago, gwrrob said:

His colour photos can be found in several albums dating back to the 90s published by Ian Allan.

Peter Gray's work is an invaluable resource for those of us modelling the railways of Devon or Cornwall.

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