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]

Newton's Grange class 6822 Manton Grange passes on a down stopper.

 

[KNP]

That sounds painful to pass a down stopper......?

[gwrrob]

[St Enodoc]

5 hours ago, KNP said:

That sounds painful to pass a down stopper......?

Don't tempt me...

[jcm@gwr]

6 hours ago, KNP said:

That sounds painful to pass a down stopper......?

 

I would have thought that a stopper made of down

would have been quite easy to pass!

[gwrrob]

No trains today. Now available with a sepia tinge.

 

[Ian Hargrave]

Remember it opposite a photo of The Tregenna Castle Hotel In 3rd Class compartment of Collett stock.Sepia is like Bisto Gravy. Brings tears of nostalgia to the eyes....and memory of prickles of horsehair to nether regions.

[gwrrob]

2 hours ago, Ian Hargrave said:

Remember it opposite a photo of The Tregenna Castle Hotel In 3rd Class compartment of Collett stock.Sepia is like Bisto Gravy. Brings tears of nostalgia to the eyes....and memory of prickles of horsehair to nether regions.

 

Happy days and they say romance is dead.

 

Edited July 27, 2019 by gwrrob
grammar

[St Enodoc]

7 hours ago, gwrrob said:

 

Happy days and they say romance is dead.

 

"Romance!" the season-tickets mourn,

"He never ran to catch His train,

But passed with coach and guard and horn -

And left the local - late again!"

Confound Romance!... And all unseen

Romance brought up the nine-fifteen.

 

Rudyard Kipling, "The King"

[toboldlygo]

22 hours ago, gwrrob said:

No trains today. Now available with a sepia tinge.

 

 

Buckled lines in the heat is it - where's the Train Replacement Service?  

[A Murphy]

Admittedly I have a hangover, but the photograph of the station does look real. The porter with the bags does it for me. Brilliant.

 

Best wishes,

 

Alastair M

[gwrrob]

15 minutes ago, toboldlygo said:

 

 - where's the Train Replacement Service?  

[gwrrob]

8 minutes ago, A Murphy said:

Admittedly I have a hangover, but the photograph of the station does look real. The porter with the bags does it for me. Brilliant.

 

 

Thanks Alastair, it's an Andy York composition.

 

 

[A Murphy]

'e one tough 'ombre that Andy York.

 

me again

 

PS glad to see they still have  proper buses where you live. That is magnificent. Bet it sounds good too......

Edited July 28, 2019 by A Murphy

[gwrrob]

1 hour ago, toboldlygo said:

 

Buckled lines in the heat is it - where's the Train Replacement Service?  

 

Although it’s been a few years I do remember laying my track in the summer and have had no warping occurrence track wise. Maybe I’m lucky.

[Captain Kernow]

16 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

"Romance!" the season-tickets mourn,

"He never ran to catch His train,

But passed with coach and guard and horn -

And left the local - late again!"

Confound Romance!... And all unseen

Romance brought up the nine-fifteen.

 

Poetry now?

 

Really?

 

You know my views on Art. Do you want me to get started on Poetry now, too?

 

[ian]

But poetry IS art, darling.

[Siberian Snooper]

2 hours ago, Captain Kernow said:

Poetry now?

 

Really?

 

You know my views on Art. Do you want me to get started on Poetry now, too?

 

 

We need a  NO button!!

 

 

[gwrrob]

On ‎23‎/‎06‎/‎2019 at 14:50, gwrrob said:

Followers of @checkrail Stoke Courtenay layout would have recently seen his coal wagons that use the POWsides transfers. I have a couple of Bachmann 7 planks going spare, the old GW coal wagons, so I've made a start on doing a couple myself. First I removed the transfers from the wagon using a fibreglass pencil before spraying with a Halfords primer. I then sprayed the body in Humbrol satin black No85 and the chassis matt black No33. I shall be ordering transfers for a Bradbury and Measham wagon although I doubt the lettering would have been visible post war. Lets see how well they apply and take it from there. Purists will tell me the wagon is wrong for the liveries but I want a cheap layout wagon in a livery seen in Kingsbridge yard.

 

 

Last month I made a start on these two wagons using Powside's transfers, not easy by any means is an understatement but I did get two liveries not available elsewhere.

 

@toboldlygo of this parish has given them a weathering.

 

[bgman]

3 hours ago, Captain Kernow said:

Poetry now?

 

Really?

 

You know my views on Art. Do you want me to get started on Poetry now, too?

 

 

Today instead of playing trains,

I went out on my bike again,

The photo taken wasn't at the start,

But D'harlings, do you consider it's art ?

 

 

 

[Captain Kernow]

2 minutes ago, bgman said:

But D'harlings, do you consider it's art ?

 

No, it's a photo of a bicycle leaning against a rock.

 

Hogg.

 

 

[bgman]

2 minutes ago, Captain Kernow said:

No, it's a photo of a bicycle leaning against a rock.

 

Hogg.

 

 

 

It was getting tyred !

 

Tready

[gwrrob]

At least it's not a photo of his chopper.

[bgman]

Just now, gwrrob said:

At least it's not a photo of his chopper.

 

Absolutely !

 

No one wants to see that on here, or anywhere else for that matter !

[KNP]

Looking at the size of those tyres I bet the bike is rock steady...

though it does appear to have been subject to some immense force on the saddle as the cross bar is bent!