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

[The Fatadder]

1 hour ago, gwrrob said:

 

Found this very nice advertisement Rich.

 

Wonder when that advert is from.

 

 

As soon as my wife’s work restarts and I can get my hands on some modelling funds again I will get one ordered!

[St Enodoc]

8 hours ago, gwrrob said:

 

Found this very nice advertisement Rich.

 

How interesting that the lettering style is quite different on each.

[St Enodoc]

8 hours ago, Oldddudders said:

I went to skool with a girl called Susan Beer. She married later than some, and her married name is Stent. She said it was a pity he had the leading S, otherwise she could have become Susan Beer-Tent!

I worked with a chap called David Halfpenny. He married a girl called Penelope.

[St Enodoc]

13 hours ago, gwrrob said:

 

Found this very nice advertisement Rich.

 

I just noticed the rather good telegraphic address too!

[gwrrob]

5 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

How interesting that the lettering style is quite different on each.

 

Here's the model.

 

[Limpley Stoker]

The lettering seems to be similar on each wagon, but the spacing is different because the wagons are of different lengths,

presumably 9’ and 10’ wheelbases. No.2 is shorter than No.1 : if business was booming you would have thought Mr Beer would have invested in a larger No.2 !

[St Enodoc]

4 minutes ago, Limpley Stoker said:

The lettering seems to be similar on each wagon, but the spacing is different because the wagons are of different lengths,

presumably 9’ and 10’ wheelbases. No.2 is shorter than No.1 : if business was booming you would have thought Mr Beer would have invested in a larger No.2 !

...unless he bought no 2 first to make people think his business was big enough to need two wagons.

 

The lettering is arranged differently on the planks too.

[Oldddudders]

6 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

I worked with a chap called David Halfpenny. He married a girl called Penelope.

There is a jockey turned trainer called Joe Tickle. According to John Francome, Joe met a nice lady - but they didn't pursue it because their names were incompatible. She was called Tess.....

[Mallard60022]

For those with perfect pitch, hold tight now.

https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2020-04-30/captain-tom-moore-wished-a-happy-100th-birthday-with-the-sound-of-train-horns-on-great-western-railway/

[gwrrob]

As promised we see Castle class 5078 Beaufort on a down stopper. More anon.

 

[gwrrob]

Now please tell me who doesn't love a Castle.

 

[The Fatadder]

Shots like that make it hard to resist buying more Castles, must resist as I need to spend the money on point rodding, signals and ballast!

 

 

.....But another Castle would look so good.......

[Clive Mortimore]

2 hours ago, gwrrob said:

Now please tell me who doesn't love a Castle.

 

Cor Blimey mate, you'll never get the 25Kv under that bridge, it will need rebuilding and the track lowering.

[gwrrob]

1 hour ago, Clive Mortimore said:

Cor Blimey mate, you'll never get the 25Kv under that bridge, it will need rebuilding and the track lowering.

 

I'll worry about that in about 70 years time.

[gwrrob]

Castle class 5078 Beaufort didn't offend anyone so here's a few more. The completed water crane doesn't look too bad to a blind man on a galloping horse.

 

[colin penfold]

How does the height of the crane look with a lock alongside mate? Are you happy with the height?

[gwrrob]

26 minutes ago, colin penfold said:

 Are you happy with the height?

 

I think so as I followed the guidance given to me of @Miss Prism on the height from rail level.

[colin penfold]

Cool. I know you were very keen to get it right

 

[gwrrob]

[bgman]

The water crane looks good matey, erm, when I've finished this build ( bottom of the page ) can you open up the gauge so I can fill it up please ?

 

 

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[gwrrob]

As a way of comparison, here is the curve as it was four years ago when @AY Mod came with his hydraulics for a session. More trees have grown since then.

 

[bgman]

Something from an earlier period driving me around the curve bend ! 

 

 

 

One of Mr. Armstrong's work-a-day locomotives

 

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[gwrrob]

Currently on the workbench and inspired by a blog by @46444 is this unpainted Dapol fruit D [ AO13].I've fitted new roof vents [Comet] , new buffers [ BO23] and vac pipes [ VP02] from Dave Franks. I'm planning on adding screw links after painting although my might need to tweak the pipes so they don't interfere. A cheap worthwhile upgrade that will mean that I'll probably end up doing them all.

 

 

 

[gwrrob]

Talking of inspiration and especially for  @2ManySpams is this very informative video that was filmed yesterday on the SDR.

 

 

[2ManySpams]

2 hours ago, gwrrob said:

Talking of inspiration and especially for  @2ManySpams is this very informative video that was filmed yesterday on the SDR.

 

 

 

What a truly awful bit of filming. Can anyone hear what the chap is saying about the 1366?