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

[Bulwell Hall]

13 hours ago, Coach bogie said:

I feel I need to highlight that the Kernow bogies are fitted with heavy duty axle boxes. These axle boxes were designed heavy vehicles such as 70 ft Dreadnoughts, Concertinas rail motors, and bogie bolsters wagons etc that carried extra weight.

 

They were not commonly used on siphons and  shorter toplights, where the more common and familiar OK GWR OK axle boxes were used. Once the Collett heavy duty bogies started to appear many coaches were rebogied and the Fish belly and Americans with the heavy duty axle boxes were pooled and reused. I suggest you check photographs to see where they were redeployed. I only have only found two siphon images and a couple of toplights showing them being used.  They were clearly being used but not in great numbers.

 

Heavy duty axle box                                                                                                                          General service OK axle box

           

 

 

This is the only image I have of an early siphon with the Heavy duty axle boxes. Note the rod truss underframe. 

 

Mike Wiltshire

 

 

 

Also it is  not possible to alter the Kernow bogies to EM or P4 as there is insufficient space between the over thick frames.

 

Gerry

[Harlequin]

Hi Rob,

 

Did you see that a small cache of four lovely colour photos from the 1950's was recently posted in "Everything Great Western" on Facebook?

 

Kingsbridge, Gara Bridge, Brent and <Not sure, possibly Brent again?>

 

Edited 7 hours ago by Harlequin
Corrected FB group name

[BWsTrains]

17 minutes ago, Harlequin said:

"GWR Modellers" on Facebook

 

IMO this migration to using such sites which are associated in any way with the horrific transmission of graphic violence is a big negative for our society. Supporting them is endorsing them

 

It may not have made news there but in OZ it stoked a wave of sectarian violence which erupted after Facebook and X transmitted video of the event. I'll have nothing to do with them.

 

 

Edited 8 hours ago by BWsTrains

[Harlequin]

3 minutes ago, BWsTrains said:

 

IMO this migration to using such sites which are associated in any way with the horrific transmission of graphic violence is a big negative for our society. Supporting them is endorsing them

 

It may not have made news here but in OZ it stoked a wave of sectarian violence which erupted after Facebook and X transmitted video of the event. I'll have nothing to do with them.

 

 

 

That was not the kind of response I was expecting!

 

The problem is people, not Facebook.

 

[gwrrob]

31 minutes ago, Harlequin said:

Hi Rob,

 

Did you see that a small cache of four lovely colour photos from the 1950's was recently posted in "GWR Modellers" on Facebook?

 

Kingsbridge, Gara Bridge, Brent and <Not sure, possibly Brent again?>

 

Not a member but would be happy to see them if possible.

[Harlequin]

20 minutes ago, gwrrob said:

Not a member but would be happy to see them if possible.

Sorry, I quoted the wrong group. It's actually in "Everything Great Western".

 

But the problem with sharing the pictures is the same: They are both private groups so I can't provide a link that would work and I can't simply extract the photos.

 

I'll see what I can do.

 

[BWsTrains]

1 hour ago, Harlequin said:

The problem is people, not Facebook.

No. There'll always be an evil minority, it's giving them an uncontrolled voice I'm protesting.

 

Facebook policy is the issue, $$$$ driven.

 

 

[Andy Keane]

2 minutes ago, Tim Dubya said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

What a wonderful set of images. A better world.

Edited 5 hours ago by Andy Keane

[Harlequin]

15 minutes ago, Tim Dubya said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You obviously must have seen my post in EGW asking permission to post the images.

 

Why didn't you wait for the answer. Did you get permission?

 

[NHY 581]

21 minutes ago, Tim Dubya said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How close did I come to doing something featuring small prairies..........There's something about Kingsbridge.

 

Rob

 

[Harlequin]

Just now, Tim Dubya said:

 

 

I am not in the EGW group, the images were from the Railways of Devon & Cornwall but deleted now so you can stop crying.

 

 

Everyone seems to be very stressed out today.

 

I was just trying to do the right thing and check it was OK before copying someone else's images and posting them here.

 

[brushman47544]

Those images have a very Peter Gray look to them.

[gwrrob]

1 hour ago, NHY 581 said:

 

 

How close did I come to doing something featuring small prairies..........There's something about Kingsbridge.

 

Rob

 

 

I'd pay a fortune to still be able to stay in those camping coaches at Gara Bridge.

[gwrrob]

I could be tempted by one of these beasts from Rapido, anyone else up for a S160.

 

[TrevorP1]

53 minutes ago, gwrrob said:

I could be tempted by one of these beasts from Rapido, anyone else up for a S160.

 

 

The Southern had half a dozen at Exmouth Junction. They were normally used in the Salisbury direction but one strayed over the North Cornwall line and got lost in the sidings at Delabole. By the time it was found, the boat for France had gone.  Shame to waste a good engine...

[Penrhos1920]

1 hour ago, gwrrob said:

I could be tempted by one of these beasts from Rapido, anyone else up for a S160.

 

I need 100 of them to model Penrhos in 1944.  I think it’ll be cheaper to stick to modelling 1920