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

[gwrrob]

5 hours ago, 2ManySpams said:

Went for a bit of a wander yesterday (ended up walking 20 miles). Partook in an ice cream at the local preserved railway. They had something green and tanky, with polished bits. Thought you might enjoy this action shot of it running passed spoiling my view...

 

 

 

I take it you were at the Battleaxe line chum.

[brianusa]

10 hours ago, Stubby47 said:

Interesting juxtaposition of the platform height to the relative and corresponding visible elements of the locomotive.

 

Informative and highly useful observations, well done.

 

And here was me thinking it was a gauging issue!

    Brian.

[gwrrob]

A few 4855 leftovers for Monday's tea.

 

[gwrrob]

I might not have a GWR Monster but I do have a LMS BG.

 

[Mallard60022]

Any connection between a something looking like a monster and anything GWR is purely coincidental isn't it Rob?

Ar$£

P.S. Still having troubling thoughts about that Dapol 7mm 14XX...…….need medication...…...ummmmmmm!

[bgman]

43 minutes ago, gwrrob said:

I might not have a GWR Monster

 

I've fitted a bottom bracket and pleased to say I no longer have a noisy crank !

[Siberian Snooper]

20 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said:

Any connection between a something looking like a monster and anything GWR is purely coincidental isn't it Rob?

Ar$£

P.S. Still having troubling thoughts about that Dapol 7mm 14XX...…….need medication...…...ummmmmmm!

 

 

Repeat after me, ' I like small GW tankies ', ' I like small GW  tankies', ' I like small............

 

There, that's better isn't it!

 

 

[Waraqah]

Hi All,

 

Apologies for going slightly OT, but I've just got home from the Eid celebrations in Small Heath park, having caught the train at Small Heath.

 

I wonder if anyone can think of other examples of stations where platforms 1 & 2 are closed, and trains stop (occasionally) at higher-numbered platforms (3 & 4 in this case).

[Clive Mortimore]

19 hours ago, Mallard60022 said:

Any connection between a something looking like a monster and anything GWR is purely coincidental isn't it Rob?

Ar$£

P.S. Still having troubling thoughts about that Dapol 7mm 14XX...…….need medication...…...ummmmmmm!

Oi!

 

You don't need it, you really don't want it, you cannot afford it and it is too big to carry up the ladder to the loft.

[Mallard60022]

55 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said:

Oi!

 

You don't need it, you really don't want it, you cannot afford it and it is too big to carry up the ladder to the loft.

Yo Clive. I have a servant to carry me up to the Loft!!!!!!!

Ar$£

[gwrrob]

Horsebox action seen at Tigley Junction as a small 4575 class prairie, 4582, heads west.

 

 

 

[M.I.B]

Very impressed by the 28XX/48XX oiler Rob.

 

The Shapeways modification kit is excellent and I feel very lazy for not getting round to fitting mine.

 

You may just have spurred me into action on that task.  Thanks again for the inspiration.

[gwrrob]

1 minute ago, M.I.B said:

Very impressed by the 28XX/48XX oiler Rob.

 

The Shapeways modification kit is excellent and I feel very lazy for not getting round to fitting mine.

 

You may just have spurred me into action on that task.  Thanks again for the inspiration.

 

Agreed but I must reiterate that it's the work of @toboldlygo of this parish. The Shapeways moulding is very crisply cast.

[M.I.B]

My bad Rob.  Apologies to all concerned.

[gwrrob]

No prizes for the location [ ! ] I was at this afternoon. More anon.

 

[brianusa]

"Its not Brent, Toto!"

     Brian.

[colin penfold]

There's no place like Brent

There's no place like Brent

There's no place like Brent

 

D O'Rothy

[colin penfold]

Here's a question for you GWR experts. PECO make a 7mm scale steel open which is a PWay vehicle. A steel open would make a nice change from wooden ones, so here's my question. Is there a general merchandise version I could make from the same kit?

http://www.gaugemaster.com/item_details.asp?code=PEW-605&style=&strType=&Mcode=Peco+W-605

Thanks

 

CP

[toboldlygo]

3 hours ago, gwrrob said:

No prizes for the location [ ! ] I was at this afternoon. More anon.

 

 

What kind of contrivance is that?

 

It's the work of the devil, I tell you 

[Mulgabill]

Yes but he was one of our (Western) Devils.

 

 

Have to say I found myself on that same platform last September, and the same train came in. I was transported

immediately to Truro in the Sixties. Can't say what it was, but the way it crept along the platform stirred memories I

didn't know were there.

 

 

[mattingleycustom]

41 minutes ago, toboldlygo said:

 

What kind of contrivance is that?

 

It's the work of the devil, I tell you 

 

Don't look!, don't look!, it is an oil-engine! - and I am not referring to that nice clean oil used for lubrication purposes, but dirty disgusting smelly oil. Awful, simply awful.

... hmmm, maybe a little over the top perhaps?

 

Glenn

[Miss Prism]

7 hours ago, colin penfold said:

Here's a question for you GWR experts. PECO make a 7mm scale steel open which is a PWay vehicle. A steel open would make a nice change from wooden ones, so here's my question. Is there a general merchandise version I could make from the same kit?

http://www.gaugemaster.com/item_details.asp?code=PEW-605&style=&strType=&Mcode=Peco+W-605

 

No.

 

[gwrrob]

A few more of that maroon beastie Greyhound courtesy of my youngest daughter and something more appropriate for this thread. 

 

[gwrrob]

Some of our party was lucky enough to indulge in afternoon tea on this LNER restaurant coach. A GWR version was also there but not in service.

 

[gwrrob]

Various wagons seen at Bewdley.