RMweb Gold rodent279 Posted January 28, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 28, 2021 44 minutes ago, great central said: There were also some former Great Western ones in the mix, can't remember now if they were fag packet or road runner livery They'd have been green & cream, surely? I don't think purple livery was a thing at that point. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted January 28, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 28, 2021 Wellingborough 29Aug 2003. Rear PC in unbranded Virgin. No fGW carraiges in this consist but the cascaded ones were green like the power car. Very much mix and match at the time with most sets. 14 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RP82 Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 6 hours ago, great central said: There were also some former Great Western ones in the mix, can't remember now if they were fag packet or road runner livery It was a full 2+8 set in fag packet livery that was hired in. The power cars did end up getting split Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
great central Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 9 hours ago, rodent279 said: They'd have been green & cream, surely? I don't think purple livery was a thing at that point. Well before the purple livery anyway I think Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold rodent279 Posted January 29, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 29, 2021 (edited) Got a blue Bachmann class 85, with marker lights, and want to personalise it? How about remove the central arrow, relocate it to the cabside, and renumber it 85032? A similar trick can also be done with 85002, but it also needs the TOPS data panel removing from under the number. These photos are from 1987; unfortunately I only have photos showing the corridor side, so I don't know whether the equipment side was the same on one or both locos. Here's one of 032 in 1984, looking rather tatty and in need of a repaint, but showing the arrow (and worksplate) still in place on the corridor side. That's the trouble with AC electrics, they're all the same...... Edited January 29, 2021 by rodent279 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 Well, two years earlier ( 17th August ) '32 had a central arrer - both sides ........ yes, it did need a repaint. 11 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted February 2, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 2, 2021 A Class 50 at Bourne End? In Sep87 the Marlow-Maidenhead Users Assoc (or whatever their correct name was) organised an open day along with a lot of help from NSE. A Class 50 and Class 117 in NSE colours were positioned there for the day, and the choc/cream 121 was rostered for the Marlow shuttles. 50.035 Ark Royal looked splendid. 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR(S) Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 Accidentally pulled a piece off your railfreight sector transfer?: 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hesperus Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 Is that the cowboy construction sector? 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNERGE Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 19 hours ago, BR(S) said: Accidentally pulled a piece off your railfreight sector transfer?: I'm more interested in the propelling control container. Any more photo's of it? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR(S) Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 1 hour ago, LNERGE said: I'm more interested in the propelling control container. Any more photo's of it? It's not my photo. If you click on it, you'll be taken to the photographer's Flickr page. There used to be an indication of a photo being from Flickr, but that seems to have disappeared. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Steven B Posted February 5, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 5, 2021 (edited) The container was used on the Cricklewood-Forders binliner. Googling finds plenty of pictures including: http://www.hondawanderer.com/58047_Kempston_1996.htm It possibly ended up running between Avonmouth and Newport Alexandra Docks. https://flic.kr/p/6CE3sM The forum has started taking Flickr's "Share" links and using them to embed the photo (as it does if you share via the Embed or BBCode option). Steven B. Edited February 5, 2021 by Steven B 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 Another weird coking loco.... Glasshoughton Coke Works 1966 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted February 5, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 5, 2021 monkton coke works electric loco in action in this clip. also another use for a cl.03-type shunter @5:50 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 Poor little thing! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR(S) Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 One SWT liveried coach amongst the NSE: 159013 & 159022, Southampton, July 24th 2000 by Matt Taylor, on Flickr 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Down_Under Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 Brand new A4 on a coal train? Check out this page about a 1/8th of the way down (10 pictures) http://www.tracksthroughgrantham.uk/recording-the-railway/grantham-railway-galleries/highdyke-to-westborough-in-fifty-pictures/ 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium iands Posted February 7, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 7, 2021 Brilliant! Although the A4 is not brand new in 1959. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ColinK Posted February 7, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 7, 2021 Odd combination at Kings Cross in 1988. At one end there is a 91 with a test car behind. While at the other end of the train there is an HST power car and a Mk3 sleeper. 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted February 7, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 7, 2021 40 minutes ago, ColinK said: Odd combination at Kings Cross in 1988. At one end there is a 91 with a test car behind. While at the other end of the train there is an HST power car and a Mk3 sleeper. That power car looks to have 91 style horns not seen that before 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelly Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 I believe it is the test runs for the 91s before the Mk4s were fully ready. They did some runs up/down the WCML just prior to introduction, and I think the middle carriages in that formation were indeed Mk4s on test as well as the 91, with a Mk3 to provide a translation between the HST power car and the Mk4s and a translator coach of some kind between the 91 and Mk4s. I am however going on memory of a thread that was posted about it elsewhere! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel_H Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 (edited) Fancy running your brake tenders behind a BR blue Class 33? Then throw Rule 1 out of the window! Loose Grip's photo: "London Latchmere Junction 8th October 1976. I associate brake tenders with the North-east for some reason but here Class 33 diesel 33006 heads south with two of them at London Latchmere Junction, near Clapham Junction on the West London Extension Joint Railway from Kensington Olympia. "At that time the only passenger trains to traverse this section of railway were GPO staff services that only ran at rush hours during the week to and from Olympia. "What is startling compared to today's railway views is the lack of vegetation to shield sight of the train, even in urban areas like this. In the last couple of years I've passed this way quite a lot on support crew turns but I have failed to identify the location probably because it is behind a wall of greenery today." Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/loose_grip_99/353965414/in/photostream/ Edited February 8, 2021 by Mel_H 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel_H Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 14 hours ago, russ p said: That power car looks to have 91 style horns not seen that before Certainly does! I wasn't aware of that either. The tri-tone 'chime' horn was developed for the 91/DVT, I understand, due to the initial plan to run at 140mph/225 km/h to give sufficient warning for trackside staff. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted February 8, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 8, 2021 44 minutes ago, Mel_H said: Fancy running your brake tenders behind a BR blue Class 33? Then throw Rule 1 out of the window! Loose Grip's photo: "London Latchmere Junction 8th October 1976. I associate brake tenders with the North-east for some reason but here Class 33 diesel 33006 heads south with two of them at London Latchmere Junction, near Clapham Junction on the West London Extension Joint Railway from Kensington Olympia. "At that time the only passenger trains to traverse this section of railway were GPO staff services that only ran at rush hours during the week to and from Olympia. "What is startling compared to today's railway views is the lack of vegetation to shield sight of the train, even in urban areas like this. In the last couple of years I've passed this way quite a lot on support crew turns but I have failed to identify the location probably because it is behind a wall of greenery today." Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/loose_grip_99/353965414/in/photostream/ Picture doesn't seem right without a granada /consul tearing round that yard and some dodgy looking bloke sprinting down the path to the bridge! I didn't recognise the location Às you say all overgrown nowadays 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post Ian Morgan Posted February 8, 2021 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted February 8, 2021 (edited) Not got room for a fiddle yard, so like to keep all your trains on the layout instead? Edited June 23, 2023 by Ian Morgan re-loaded images 25 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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