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Here are a couple more from my 'Severn Valley' collection. A brace of visiting Pannier Tanks sat waiting for the 2014 Spring Gala in Bridgnorth shed yard.

 

There is a certain charm to the little 16xx's and 6435 has whet my appetite for the forthcoming Bachmann release.

 

 

Regards,

 

Andy. 

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A couple from Germany, taken last October. I know they have appeared elsewhere on here, but they are portraits, so I thought worth including here...

 

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Class 218 stabled at Stuttgart station

 

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Class 181 at Stuttgart hauling a rake of SBB stock

 

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Class 143

 

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Another 143, this time at the opposite end of the country; in the Baltic port of Warnemunde...

 

 

 

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"Trailing clouds of glory..."

 

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Tangmere departing west from Reading. Apologies for the poor quality but this was an opportune shot taken some years ago with a phone camera. I'd just got off a local from the Newbury line and was presented with this living, breathing monster facing in the down direction on the up fast platform (5). Not being in a hurry, I waited for her to depart, hoping for a characteristic slip. And she did slip. Sort of. The drivers spun maybe a quarter turn before snatching again, and that was that. But I was happy.

 

It was a chilly day, steam oozing from every pore, and she looked like only a steam loco can on such days. This shot is the last of a sequence of four that I took and is easily my favourite. Steam traction. You cannot beat it.

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Hi All

 

Only just found this thread with some fantastic photos on it.

 

I thought I would start by posting a small selection of my own photos I took at a photo shoot at Barrow Hill MPD exactly five years ago to day.

 

Regards

 

David

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Snapped near the A66 this morning by my Cousin.

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Taken by - Vic Wright

It is Statfold Barn Railway's Isibutu plus the brake tender wagon, but where are they heading? Obvious destinations (of the right gauge!) from there are South Tynedale but no info on them expecting visitors, or Beamish but their webpage lists only Isabel from Amerton and Peter Pan as visiting for this month's Great North Steam Fair...
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I know this isn't a real locomotive, and is probably bending the rules, but an interesting painting by the late Phil Belbin of how the C38 class was originally planned to look, as the AC38 Garratt class. This is AC3801 on the Caves Express, named Nepean after the Nepean River.

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Back to the real ones. Possum, a Manning Wardle 0-4-0ST, sitting outside Eskbank House in Lithgow.

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A most unusual locomotive....RT18 (Rail Tractor) sitting outside the Pacific National service centre in Lithgow. Originally a wagon, this was one of several wagons converted to shunting locomotives by VR (Victorian Railways) in the 1950s. RT18, 28 and 43 were gauge converted to Standard Gauge to help with the construction of the Epping to Chatswood line.

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Now, what do you do when you own a model company, and also part of a real railway company? Easy. Combine the two! SSRs B65 in Auscision Models livery in the State Mine Museum, Lithgow site, also home to SSRs NSW workshops.

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