RMweb Gold Regularity Posted December 20, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 20, 2018 Coke, probably. Must be the stuff with sugar in it: Coke Zero would be useless. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin S-C Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 Coke, probably. * snort * Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sem34090 Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 Honestly... politics, pictures of beautiful women, drug taking... Careful chaps, we're *modernising*! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted December 20, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 20, 2018 (edited) Honestly... politics, pictures of beautiful women, drug taking... Careful chaps, we're *modernising*! Yeah... to 1891 when the first Sherlock Holmes came out... It had all that.. Edited December 20, 2018 by TheQ 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caley Jim Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 Honestly... politics, pictures of beautiful women, drug taking... Careful chaps, we're *modernising*! But weren't gentlemen of the upper classes into all of these things in Edwardian times? Jim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sem34090 Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 Yes, but we in the modern age like to pretend they weren't!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted December 20, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 20, 2018 Yes, but we in the modern age like to pretend they weren't!!! Ah you mean in 1903 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ian Posted December 20, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 20, 2018 (edited) Honestly... politics, pictures of beautiful women, drug taking... But weren't gentlemen of the upper classes into all of these things in Edwardian times? 'Twas ever thus. Edited December 20, 2018 by ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 It would probably be possible to make a sound case that social hierarchy, the thing necessary in order for there to be an 'upper class', owes its very existence to alpha-males battling for control of everyone else (politics), nubile women, access to pleasures (drink, drugs, rock n roll), and (missing from the previous list, but taken for granted) food and shelter resources, which usually translates into land, and doing so in order to increase the probability of spread of their genes. As noted in previous posts: the software shall inherit the Earth. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted December 20, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 20, 2018 That's just beaker people building sandcastles. My grand-daughter and I saw the original architects' model of that last year at Tate Modern 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 My very limited Greek tells me aneucaptic means non-smoking, sort of, but they didn't have the technology to do that in 1829. What gives? Rule 3: "The engine must effectually consume its own smoke" http://www.railalbum.co.uk/early-railways/rainhill-trials-rules.htm As noted by Nearholmer, achieved by using coke as the fuel. Looking at the list, it also pretty well set the standard British loading gauge in that the top of the chimney should not exceed 15ft. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 (edited) And for an intrinsically beautiful lady, in her "French" mode of 1904, GWR 171 "Albion". Now THATS "Modern Image"! Built 1903 as a 4-6-0, converted to 4-4-2 to run as a comparison to the De Ghlen Atlantics and conveted back to 4-6-0 in 1907, having proven that you DON'T need to use compounds for economical running! 171 was a Saint (29xx) class prototype, renumbered as 2971 and scrapped in 1946. Edited December 20, 2018 by Hroth 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sem34090 Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 Is it bad that my first thought when you said "French mode" was the high running plate thus revealing the lady's legs? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 Is it bad that my first thought when you said "French mode" was the high running plate thus revealing the lady's legs? Shakes head Actually, I was just thinking that the high running plate looked something that Riddles might have come up with in the early 50s. Never mind lads, one more big push and it'll be over (600) by Christmas! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted December 20, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 20, 2018 Shakes head Actually, I was just thinking that the high running plate looked something that Riddles might have come up with in the early 50s. Never mind lads, one more big push and it'll be over (600) by Christmas! That’s just writing posts for the sake of writing.. (dur)... posts......(trails off) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 That’s just writing posts for the sake of writing.. (dur)... posts......(trails off) As if anyone here would commit such a heinous and mischevious act! Anyhow, here's a seasonal photo of an Edwardian home, a pre-grouping Christmas tree! 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sem34090 Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 As if anyone here would commit such a heinous and mischevious act I would! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted December 20, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 20, 2018 At least do it properly . https://youtu.be/QblH9v6t9OU 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted December 20, 2018 Author Share Posted December 20, 2018 And for an intrinsically beautiful lady, in her "French" mode of 1904, Albion.jpg GWR 171 "Albion". Now THATS "Modern Image"! Built 1903 as a 4-6-0, converted to 4-4-2 to run as a comparison to the De Ghlen Atlantics and conveted back to 4-6-0 in 1907, having proven that you DON'T need to use compounds for economical running! 171 was a Saint (29xx) class prototype, renumbered as 2971 and scrapped in 1946. Is it bad that my first thought when you said "French mode" was the high running plate thus revealing the lady's legs? High running plate, part of Churchward's shockingly American aesthetic. The French, on the other hand,..... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted December 20, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 20, 2018 (edited) I'm sure fruit traffic from the area served by the WNR has been considered before, but here are some M&GN wagon labels. Urgent fruit, red on buff, non-urgent fruit, black on green? Or just a change in style - the red ones seem to be 1907, the black one 1920. The Ancoats and Glasgow labels specify the Midland route but Walton CLC could go either Midland or Great Northern / Great Central. Note also that the 1907 labels include space for details of sheets and undersheets, implying that the traffic could be conveyed in open wagons. Edited December 20, 2018 by Compound2632 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium corneliuslundie Posted December 20, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 20, 2018 Those fairies looks a bit heavy for the top branch of the tree. To get back to serious matters - sorry - how about some invalid saloons visiting CA for health giving visits to the bracing West Anglian coast? I have come across about a dozen examples in the GWR drawings i have recently been listing, and some are definitely pre-Edwardian If he GWR had so many I am sure other companies also had some. Please Moderators remove this post if it is too on-topic. Jonathan PS to Talltim - did you enjoy the John Betjeman book when your father read it to you? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 I'm sure fruit traffic from the area served by the WNR has been considered before, but here are some M&GN wagon labels. Urgent fruit, red on buff, non-urgent fruit, black on green? Or just a change in style - the red ones seem to be 1907, the black one 1920. The Ancoats and Glasgow labels specify the Midland route but Walton CLC could go either Midland or Great Northern / Great Central. Note also that the 1907 labels include space for details of sheets and undersheets, implying that the traffic could be conveyed in open wagons. MGN fruit Ancoats.jpgMGN fruit Walton.jpgMGN fruit Glasgow.jpg The Walton on the Hill one (as might be deduced) Is for Hartleys Jam factory in Liverpool. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 Those fairies looks a bit heavy for the top branch of the tree. To get back to serious matters - sorry - how about some invalid saloons visiting CA for health giving visits to the bracing West Anglian coast? I have come across about a dozen examples in the GWR drawings i have recently been listing, and some are definitely pre-Edwardian If he GWR had so many I am sure other companies also had some. Please Moderators remove this post if it is too on-topic. Jonathan PS to Talltim - did you enjoy the John Betjeman book when your father read it to you? Topic? What topic! (Are we there yet...) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted December 20, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 20, 2018 (edited) To get back to serious matters - sorry - how about some invalid saloons visiting CA for health giving visits to the bracing West Anglian coast? I have come across about a dozen examples in the GWR drawings i have recently been listing, and some are definitely pre-Edwardian If he GWR had so many I am sure other companies also had some. Please Moderators remove this post if it is too on-topic. Have we done invalid saloons? I know we've done family saloons and picnic saloons, probably more than once each. EDIT: updated links to the posts in which Edwardian himself discussed Great Western 6-wheel family and picnic saloons. Midland Invalid Carriages differed from Family Carriages in having double doors to the main passenger saloon, along with a bed in place of seating. Edited December 20, 2018 by Compound2632 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talltim Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 PS to Talltim - did you enjoy the John Betjeman book when your father read it to you? I thought we only got it when I was in my late teens? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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