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

[Captain Kernow]

8 minutes ago, The Fatadder said:

Now I do rather like the first one, ugly as anything but very interesting looking

Careful now, you're clearly weakening!

 

8 minutes ago, The Fatadder said:

the other just looks like most other midland prototypes, all very practical but devoid of elegance in its design.  To many straight lines

But just think how much easier the boilers are to roll!

 

[gwrrob]

On 17/05/2020 at 09:57, Mikkel said:

 

Rob, that view beneath the branches is one of my favourites on ANTB.

 

Made me think that in a future of dirt cheap micro cameras, we could build them permanently into the layouts during construction and they would all feed wirelessly to a central screen. Maybe even motion-triggered so they take their own pics/videos. Then you simply select the crop of the day.

 

On the other hand, where's the fun in that? Bending into impossible positions and knocking down things to get a good angle may be stressful, but somehow it's also part of the challenge and fun of taking the photos.  

 

 

Here's a couple more my old friend of pannier 6417 on a three coach branch train. The yellow gorse was inspired by the stuff on @2ManySpams Treneglos.

 

[gwrrob]

Never seen on the real branch, a liberty taken here with a train featuring 64xx class 6417. An 8750 class yes but never a 64xx. The wartime black Bachmann model will do the job nicely.

 

[Clive Mortimore]

19 minutes ago, The Fatadder said:

Now I do rather like the first one, ugly as anything but very interesting looking.  
 

the other just looks like most other midland prototypes, all very practical but devoid of elegance in its design.  To many straight lines

 

round off the corners of the tanks and the joints between cab and bunker/tank top, get rid of the lump on top of the boiler,  and get rid of all of the lumps around the smokebox door.....

Young Richard, go and wash your mouth out with soap after saying that.

 

Elegance and design, gold medal winner at the Royal Jubilee Saltaire Exhibition of 1887

 

 

 

[Ian Hargrave]

3 hours ago, gwrrob said:

 

That won't happen. I just hope the timing is right for my stay when we can officially and legally enjoy my favourite part of the world.

 
Just think of it Robin.Those leafy South Hams lanes......and meeting a 4x4 coming the other way.Or as happened to me once when attempting avoidance on an equally leafy side lane,a spooky confrontation with a woman on a large black stallion ....no ,a horse it was honestly....equally truculent to give way. Anyway it was one of the four from The Apocalypse.

Genuinely spooky.The thing towered over the car.     Enjoy soon,avoiding all services on the M5.

,

[gwrrob]

25 minutes ago, Ian Hargrave said:

 
Just think of it Robin.Those leafy South Hams lanes...…

Enjoy soon,avoiding all services on the M5.

,

 

We could always catch the 10.30 Limited from Paddington. King class 6009 King Charles 2nd at the fore , with us sat on those horsehair filled seats in a Centenary coach adorned with roof boards labelled Paddington - Kingsbridge, in the Exeter portion. We leave platform 1 bang on time.

 

The Weymouth and Minehead portions are slipped on route and soon we arrive at Exeter where we change. A nice Hall backs onto our train and we are on our way skirting the Exe Estuary and passing Dawlish and Teignmouth.

 

A spotters dream of stopping at Newton Abbot next , as the exhaust beat changes for the climb up Dainton and next stop Totnes. Before we know it we are climbing again, this time Rattery and soon we arrive at Brent, change for Kingsbridge  [Salcombe].

 

Our coach is detached and is shunted by the branch locomotive, 5551, onto the B set sat in platform 3 ready for the run down the branch.....

 

 

 

[2ManySpams]

1 hour ago, gwrrob said:

 

Here's a couple more my old friend of pannier 6417 on a three coach branch train. The yellow gorse was inspired by the stuff on @2ManySpams Treneglos.

 

 

I was going to press like for the gorse but that might have been misconstrued as liking the pesky pannier. Better safe than sorry.

[Ian Hargrave]

34 minutes ago, gwrrob said:

 

We could always catch the 10.30 Limited from Paddington. King class 6009 King Charles 2nd at the fore , with us sat on those horsehair filled seats in a Centenary coach adorned with roof boards labelled Paddington - Kingsbridge, in the Exeter portion. We leave platform 1 bang on time.

 

The Weymouth and Minehead portions are slipped on route and soon we arrive at Exeter where we change. A nice Hall backs onto our train and we are on our way skirting the Exe Estuary and passing Dawlish and Teignmouth.

 

A spotters dream of stopping at Newton Abbot next , as the exhaust beat changes for the climb up Dainton and next stop Totnes. Before we know it we are climbing again, this time Rattery and soon we arrive at Brent, change for Kingsbridge  [Salcombe].

 

Our coach is detached and is shunted by the branch locomotive, 5551, onto the B set sat in platform 3 ready for the run down the branch.....

 

 

 

Dream on. We need these dreams right now.

 

 

[Captain Kernow]

53 minutes ago, gwrrob said:

Our coach is detached and is shunted by the branch locomotive, 5551, onto the B set sat in platform 3 ready for the run down the branch

Only for the Finching sisters to get in your compartment, a bit pongy and squabbling about the price of turnips again, all the way to the destination.

 

Perhaps you get off at Avonwick and walk the rest of the way, to preserve your sanity.

 

[gwrrob]

39 minutes ago, 2ManySpams said:

 

I was going to press like for the gorse but that might have been misconstrued as liking the pesky pannier. Better safe than sorry.

[Mikkel]

2 hours ago, gwrrob said:

 

Here's a couple more my old friend of pannier 6417 on a three coach branch train. The yellow gorse was inspired by the stuff on @2ManySpams Treneglos.

 

 

Making sure to quote this with the photos again, just to annoy 2ManySpams   Very nice Rob!

[The Fatadder]

1 hour ago, gwrrob said:

 

We could always catch the 10.30 Limited from Paddington. King class 6009 King Charles 2nd at the fore , with us sat on those horsehair filled seats in a Centenary coach adorned with roof boards labelled Paddington - Kingsbridge, in the Exeter portion. We leave platform 1 bang on time.

 

The Weymouth and Minehead portions are slipped on route and soon we arrive at Exeter where we change. A nice Hall backs onto our train and we are on our way skirting the Exe Estuary and passing Dawlish and Teignmouth.

 

A spotters dream of stopping at Newton Abbot next , as the exhaust beat changes for the climb up Dainton and next stop Totnes. Before we know it we are climbing again, this time Rattery and soon we arrive at Brent, change for Kingsbridge  [Salcombe].

 

Our coach is detached and is shunted by the branch locomotive, 5551, onto the B set sat in platform 3 ready for the run down the branch.....

 

 

 

Im more concerned as to what must have been wrong with the 10:30 for it to stop at Brent. 

 

 

im also thinking that I can’t believe I don’t have a model of 5551

[checkrail]

5 hours ago, Ian Hargrave said:

Unsociable distancing reigns...e.g cars parked cheek by jowl in lay bys etc.

I didn't know cars could catch it. 

[gwrrob]

[St Enodoc]

6 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said:

Young Richard, go and wash your mouth out with soap after saying that.

 

Elegance and design, gold medal winner at the Royal Jubilee Saltaire Exhibition of 1887

 

 

 

She's a one, that Beatrice bird. Gets around all over RMweb these days. Dunno what her mother would say.

[Oldddudders]

Beatrice is certainly elegant. But am I right in thinking the Midland ran lighter trains than some other companies? After  all, Robert Billinton had worked for Johnson at Derby, but his B2 design for the Brighton did not really cut the mustard on that line's heaviest trains. He needed a bigger and better version to do that, and his B4 was it. A competent person on RMweb is now making one of those for me, albeit in 1930s condition. 

[2750Papyrus]

22 hours ago, cctransuk said:

 

Then think again ! The attitude of far too many visitors to holiday areas is that they are 'theme parks', that close down when they go home.

 

Not true - those areas are permanant homes to a sizeable population, with a disproportionate percentage of elderly, vulnerable residents.

 

Furthermore, the medical and other essential services, including food outlets, in those holiday areas are far more restricted than those in the more populated, urban areas.

 

Second home owners who wish to travel to their secondary residence for lockdown risk introducing COVID-19 from the worst affected areas into the relatively low infected holiday areas - the Southwest has been consistently the area of lowest infection throughout this crisis.

 

What possible justification can there be for travelling around the country, potentially spreading infection, purely for one's own pleasure?

 

My wife and I have been following government advice for weeks now, and staying indoors, with minimal exercise, and having food delivered.

 

Surely, sitting in your primary home, with all your facilities to hand, is preferable to sitting in a second home or caravan, with limited facilities? ..... or do you imagine yourself behaving as you usually do when on holiday? If so, that's why we don't want you here !!

 

John Isherwood.

 

I believe Colin replied to my post, which appears to have been deleted.  Let's just say there are two sides to every story.

[Captain Kernow]

1 hour ago, 2750Papyrus said:

Let's just say there are two sides to every story.

Perhaps so, but sometimes one of the two sides of the argument is supported by considerably more people than the other.

 

[NHY 581]

On 21/05/2020 at 13:53, bgman said:

 

Buttercup Syrup

 

Bless ewe!

 

23 hours ago, The Fatadder said:

 
 

the other just looks like most other midland prototypes, all very practical but devoid of elegance in its design.  To many straight lines

 

 

 

Say what!!!

 

Proper tank engines............courtesy of Ivo. 

 

 

[toboldlygo]

 

Working on something, for you know who  

[gwrrob]

13 minutes ago, toboldlygo said:

 

Working on something, for you know who  

 

Who's that, Henry Ford.

[toboldlygo]

3 minutes ago, gwrrob said:

 

Who's that, Henry Ford.

 

The King himself  

[Captain Kernow]

14 minutes ago, toboldlygo said:

 

The King himself  

Elvis?

 

[bgman]

36 minutes ago, toboldlygo said:

 

The King himself  

 

Burger ?

 

Kong ?

 

Stin-....

[NHY 581]

1 hour ago, Captain Kernow said:

Elvis?

 

 

Ah!

 

"You ain't nothin'but a Dukedog!"

 

 

R