Annie's Virtual Pre-Grouping, Grouping and BR Layouts & Workbench

[Annie]

Afternoon Cheer Up Catalogue Image:

 

[Annie]

A spot of fun.  This is a Nielson Box Tank made by one of the Sudrian creator groups for Trainz.  It needed some messing about with to get it to work properly in TANE, but once that was done it proved itself to be a sweet running little engine indeed.

 

[Edwardian]

11 hours ago, Annie said:

Afternoon Cheer Up Catalogue Image:

 

 

I deplore this unwonted frivolity on Mrs Hudson's part.

 

2 hours ago, Annie said:

A spot of fun.  This is a Nielson Box Tank made by one of the Sudrian creator groups for Trainz.  It needed some messing about with to get it to work properly in TANE, but once that was done it proved itself to be a sweet running little engine indeed.

 

 

😊

 

 

 

 

[Hroth]

16 minutes ago, Edwardian said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

A spankingly good picture!

 

[Schooner]

[Annie]

3 hours ago, Schooner said:

Now there's a fine sight.  A right good cheer up.

[Annie]

Late Afternoon Cheer Up Poster:  Courtesy London Transport Museum.  Artist, Gladys Mary Rees 1920.

 

Edited May 26, 2023 by Annie
Um.........

[Compound2632]

3 hours ago, Annie said:

Now there's a fine sight.  A right good cheer up.

 

Where and when? No mixed gauge in sight, so somewhere in the far west?

[Northroader]

Newton Abbot

[Schooner]

Anyone fancy a spot if geolocation before I post the caption (which is detailed and I have no reason to doubt)?

 

'Far West' rather depends on one's starting point, but I wouldn't say this qualifies.

 

Side question: is it preferable to drip-feed images from this collection, or dump them?

[Schooner]

Top timing Mr @Northroader! Date...?

[Compound2632]

20 minutes ago, Northroader said:

Newton Abbot

 

Ah, Midland territory. (The Midland held South Devon shares of face value £75,000 - about 6.8% of the original authorised capital - that came to it from the Bristol & Gloucester. In the Reports and Accounts for the half-year ending 30 June 1890, this is still shown as "South Devon Railway" under the heading "Subscriptions to other Railways" although by this time I presume it was actually held as Great Western stock.)

 

The drawback with otherwise fascinating broad gauge photos is that there are never any Midland wagons lurking in the background.

[Annie]

5 hours ago, Schooner said:

Anyone fancy a spot if geolocation before I post the caption (which is detailed and I have no reason to doubt)?

Round about 1889 at Newton Abbott and the engine is 'Wood' of the 'Hawthorn' class.

 

 

Here seen at Millbay station in Plymouth 1890. (Image courtesy of Wikipedia)

Edited May 26, 2023 by Annie
No 'e' on Hawthorn

[Schooner]

A splendid view of Newton Abbot seen from the east end on 17 July 1889. The main train shed is to the right, the down line shed in the centre and the left hand shed is for storing carriages, removed when the down avoiding line was installed just prior to the 1927 rebuilding. In the foreground is Wood a 2-4-0 of the Hawthorn Class, built in February 1866 she lasted until the end of the Broad Gauge.

[Compound2632]

1 hour ago, Annie said:

the engine is 'Wood' of the 'Hawthorne' class.

 

That just seems wrong to me. Surely it should be 'Hawthorn' of the 'Wood' class (with allowance for Swindon's dodgy spelling)?

[Schooner]

Sorry, it's a poor line*, what was that? Something about Swine-town...?

 

*I'll set 'em up...

[Compound2632]

Accord to Wikipedia*, the class name was spelled 'Hawthorn', the some of names being those of various people in the locomotive building business, such as (Charles) Beyer, (Richard) Peacock, and (Edward) Slaughter, the latter being one of the partners in the firm of Stothert, Slaughter & Co., which built these engines for the Great Western. However, that firm had just taken advantage of the Companies Act to become the Avonside Engine Co. Ltd., so the name 'Slaughter' was quickly changed to 'Avonside'. Presumably an engine named 'Slaughter' was not thought good for passenger confidence.

 

*Not to be confused with Kiwipedia, an online resource for flightless birds.

[Annie]

51 minutes ago, Compound2632 said:

Accord to Wikipedia*, the class name was spelled 'Hawthorn',

My poor spelling now fixed.

[Compound2632]

5 minutes ago, Annie said:

My poor spelling now fixed.

 

Named for Robert Hawthorn of the Forth Bank Works, Newcastle, not his contemporary Nathaniel Hawthorne, the American writer,

[Edwardian]

3 hours ago, Annie said:

Round about 1889 at Newton Abbott and the engine is 'Wood' of the 'Hawthorn' class.

 

 

Here seen at Millbay station in Plymouth 1890. (Image courtesy of Wikipedia)

 

Very handsome and well-proportioned

[Compound2632]

42 minutes ago, Edwardian said:

Very handsome and well-proportioned

 

That's me!

 

Well, no. But the locomotive and I no doubt share the characteristics of being too wide and running out of puff. 

[Annie]

This morning I decided to play trains for a nice cheer up.  I'd daringly upgraded my copy of TRS22 to the latest version and i wanted to see if it was working properly.  Needless to say I did a complete backup of all files before I did the upgrade as I've been bitten before with N3V and their so-called 'upgrade' patches.

 

'Sharpie' 2-4-2T No.065 heading south with the motor train set.

 

My faux GER steam railmotor and trailer heading towards Moxbury with the passenger service to Barrow Hills and Great Marsh.  I did take a snap under the train roof at Moxbury, but it didn't turn out very well.

 

 

And approaching the junction at Barrow Hills.

 

[Annie]

Just to check that everything was working properly I did some shunting at Elgar Junction.  With the time period for the TRS22 version of the layout moved on a bit from the TANE version my GCR 9F's are now painted black instead of MS&LR green.  Their role now is trip working and shunting along the Joint Line, - something that they do very well.  I have three of them altogether and they are older models by Cameron Scott. 

 

 

 

 

[Schooner]

I thought perhaps reference #6 could be posted here, hope that's alright?

Is it me, or is there always a staunch fellow in a soft hat and open jacket striking that pose in these photos? (Leaning against RH buffer). 

[Annie]

7 hours ago, Schooner said:

Is it me, or is there always a staunch fellow in a soft hat and open jacket striking that pose in these photos? (Leaning against RH buffer). 

Torres station 1865 with apparently all the station staff (28?) gathered together for the photo.  The fellow you've pointed out does seem to be somewhat of a contrast to the rest of the staff in the photo.