Popular Post montyburns56 Posted February 15, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted February 15, 2021 The train's makeup is interesting in itself, as is the fact that it's being propelled, but the miniature railway in the foreground is the icing on the cake. Arbroath 1979 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted February 15, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 15, 2021 (edited) Cracking pic featuring Kerr's Miniature Railway, which is closing/closed after 85 yrs due to declining custom (with a side order of out-of-hours vandalism). https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/157204-kerrs-miniature-railway/ When you saw Kerr's on one side and the caravan sites on the other side of the line, you knew you were nearly at Arbroath station. Edited February 15, 2021 by keefer 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 1 hour ago, montyburns56 said: .......... the icing on the cake. I don't know about icing and cake ......... I just hope that van's bringing me some smokies ! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted February 16, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 16, 2021 A 56 on a mail train? Why not? (Apparently a Swansea-Willesden working with the 56 covering for a failure, and the 56 ripped at Bristol). Photo at Cardiff Central. 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 When you are cleaning then track before the second day of an exhibition (remember those) and forget to put everything back on the track Not the UK, but found this wagon last summer sat at the back of the platform at Szamotuly, Poland where an awful lot of remodelling and rebuilding was taking place. Obviously they needed to put it somewhere out of the way, the platfom was the obvious (?) choice. Makes a change from sitting on a BRUTE to watch the trains go by. Andy 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 BRUTES ( remember those ? ) ............ hopefully exhibitions will reappear before those do ! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted February 16, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 16, 2021 2 hours ago, Wickham Green too said: BRUTES ( remember those ? ) ............ hopefully exhibitions will reappear before those do ! They were an essential part of my youth. Long may they be fondly remembered... 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold rodent279 Posted February 16, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 16, 2021 2 hours ago, Wickham Green too said: BRUTES ( remember those ? ) ............ hopefully exhibitions will reappear before those do ! Wonder if any are preserved? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted February 16, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 16, 2021 51 minutes ago, rodent279 said: Wonder if any are preserved? Son of brute does. A wonkey wheeled shopping trolley! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 Not sure any of those are preserved as such .............. buried in the bottom of canals for future archaeologists to find, p'raps. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyRule1 Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 10 hours ago, rodent279 said: Wonder if any are preserved? The Science Museum Group (aka NRM) have a number https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co507928/british-railways-brute-trolley-trolley https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co208031/four-british-railways-brute-parcel-trolleys-trolleys 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jbqfc Posted February 17, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 17, 2021 11 hours ago, rodent279 said: Wonder if any are preserved? they where some in use at Gatwick airport a couple of years a go not sure if they are still there John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidBird Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 On 08/02/2021 at 19:33, eastwestdivide said: Mid-1987, this 33 at North Staffs Junction/Willington power station took me by surprise heading towards Derby with a couple of departmental coaches. Any ideas on the coaches? Odd window arrangement on the blue one (ex-buffet?). I've tried enhancing the underframe area in the crop to see the bogies better. Best I can do unfortunately unless my notes turn up. There seems to be a brake van on a rake of air-braked HAAs on the left edge of the picture. These continuously braked trains didn't normally need brake vans. Was this a train from Denby on the Little Eaton branch? Brake vans were added to MGR trains of HAAs on that route as there were train-crew-worked level crossings. Loco crew would open the gates, drive across and the guard (was it a guard or just a crossing-gate-closer trainman?) would close them behind the train, thus avoiding the delay of walking the whole length of the train back to the loco after every level crossing. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted February 17, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 17, 2021 (edited) The verse would be more readable if it was formatted properly EDIT Strange, each device I view the F&S verse on shows it in a different format! On a large screen desktop, it is almost properly lined up. On a 16" laptop it is all over the place Edited February 17, 2021 by melmerby Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, DavidBird said: Was this a train from Denby on the Little Eaton branch? I think so, with double-headed 20s. I'd posted a wider pic showing the 20s before, can't find it at the moment. Edit: found it. Pretty sure it was the same day as the 33: Edited February 17, 2021 by eastwestdivide Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RP82 Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 18 hours ago, Metr0Land said: A 56 on a mail train? Why not? (Apparently a Swansea-Willesden working with the 56 covering for a failure, and the 56 ripped at Bristol). Photo at Cardiff Central. During 1999/2000 56011 was turned out by Tyne yard and worked the Low fell-Plymouth vans. Don't know if it was swapped at Doncaster or worked further south. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben B Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 15 hours ago, rodent279 said: Wonder if any are preserved? When I worked at the cafe at Carlisle Station in the mid-2000's we had an ancient one which we used for shifting the bin liners at the end of the night, up and over the footbridge to the main bins near the north bay platforms. Doubt it still exists though, even one of the two cafes has been demolished since I worked there Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 I'm taking this train, but I'll be back. Donington 2020 2 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben B Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 30 minutes ago, montyburns56 said: I'm taking this train, but I'll be back. Donington 2020 Either that or GBRF are employing snipers with laser-sights to deal with increased trespassing in these Covid times 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DK123GWR Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 (edited) 39 minutes ago, Ben B said: Either that or GBRF are employing snipers with laser-sights to deal with increased trespassing in these Covid times Stupid question perhaps, but if you shoot trespassers won't they still be on the railway? And equally dead? And won't you now be legally responsible for the death, rather than the trespasser? Sorry for being a spoilsport. Edited February 17, 2021 by DK123GWR Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bimble Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 only if they find the body... 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidBird Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 (edited) 10 hours ago, melmerby said: The verse would be more readable if it was formatted properly EDIT Strange, each device I view the F&S verse on shows it in a different format! On a large screen desktop, it is almost properly lined up. On a 16" laptop it is all over the place This is how it looks on my PC screen... when I wrote it out it was even more aligned. I did consider editing it to make it even better, but now I can only save 4 lines of signature, rather than the 15 I was allowed at the time. Can I save this image as a signature? (edit: just checked, images only 200 x 100 pixels allowed, so the resolution would be too poor to read.) Sorry folks, we'll have to put up with the formatting all over the place Edited February 17, 2021 by DavidBird 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 On 17/02/2021 at 21:14, bimble said: only if they find the body... 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post montyburns56 Posted February 19, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted February 19, 2021 Rotherham Trip 1976 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 37114 Posted February 19, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted February 19, 2021 51 minutes ago, montyburns56 said: Rotherham Trip 1976 I really hate it when people run locos straight out of the box with nicely weathered stock, you never saw it in real life.... 6 1 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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