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[Right Away]

Unusual Pilot

 

 

 A worn out C class has assistance on the 3-45pm goods. The pair are seen topping the 1 in 200 climb from the yards in fine style.

 

[Adrian Stevenson]

4555 sits in the station with a fitted freight train awaiting the signal.

[Covkid]

On 25/08/2022 at 16:45, PjKing1 said:

D326 stands next to the fuel storage tanks 

 

 

Just walking home off night shift via Bescot TMD.

 

Slap some oily crud on the track and you have got it - well done 

[43110andyb]

Class 20’s 081 and 124 head south with 7V22 Barrow Hill yard to Didcot PS

[CloggyDog]

Peering between the trees. 

 

České Dráhy 742 diesel and Daa-k road van at Nové Město na Nedostatku (TT 1:120)

[mullie]

A lone wagon on Upbech Town Quay.

 

[Covkid]

12 hours ago, 43110andyb said:

Class 20’s 081 and 124 head south with 7V22 Barrow Hill yard to Didcot PS

 

 

 

Oh yes !!! Like it. 

The Didcots had become type 5s when I became focused on tonnage for Didcot PS. Our 7V95 Bescot-Didcot was mostly a class 58 back then but 56s were just as, if not more able.  Diagrammed 45 MGRs but rarely ran with more than 44. 

[43110andyb]

15 minutes ago, Covkid said:

 

 

Oh yes !!! Like it. 

The Didcots had become type 5s when I became focused on tonnage for Didcot PS. Our 7V95 Bescot-Didcot was mostly a class 58 back then but 56s were just as, if not more able.  Diagrammed 45 MGRs but rarely ran with more than 44. 

It’s usually diagramed for a 56 on Charwelton but it had failed so the 20’s deputised for the weekend of the show at Wigan!

[saxokid]

Busy afternoon at banks road traction depots during 1990s..

[Lowlander]

A newly restored 45 106 awaits it's first duty. The new Heljan model with some details still to be added.

Edited October 25, 2022 by Lowlander

[D6775]

Somewhere in the Welsh Valley's 37674 plies its trade with a rake of HEA's.

 

[class27]

12 hours ago, D6775 said:

Somewhere in the Welsh Valley's 37674 plies its trade with a rake of HEA's.

 

It is the low Sun effect that makes this for me.

[The Johnster]

Sort of bit of a Radyr looking north feel to it; are those the towers of Castell Coch peeping out behind 37664's horns?  The railings at the back of the platform evoke the drop at Radyr into the River Taff, though here the up platform is missing, and the trees would be on the other bank where the Taff Trail bike route runs. 

 

It's not Radyr, obviously, but shares some features.

[D6775]

10 hours ago, class27 said:

It is the low Sun effect that makes this for me.

 

Its actually artificial light, its part of the lighting rig on our Dovedale layout.

 

3 hours ago, The Johnster said:

Sort of bit of a Radyr looking north feel to it; are those the towers of Castell Coch peeping out behind 37664's horns?  The railings at the back of the platform evoke the drop at Radyr into the River Taff, though here the up platform is missing, and the trees would be on the other bank where the Taff Trail bike route runs. 

 

It's not Radyr, obviously, but shares some features.

 

I couldn't tell you to be honest, its actually a friend of a friends layout with my wagons and someone else's loco. My friend is just storing it for a while which gives us a nice little back drop to take pictures on and I was quite pleased with the angle on this one. I am told its called 'Cwm Rhiw' and is based in the Valleys. 

[The Johnster]

Certainly looks the part!  Most Valleys mountainsides are wooded these days, but 5 or 6 decades ago many were bare grass, kept down by the sheep.  Wooded is their natural state, but during the coal mining era all the trees were very quickly cut for pit-props, which had to be imported once the local supply was exhausted.  The typical scene was of bare hills, with coal spoil tips on the tops or sides, connected to their collieries by 'the buckets', aerial ropeways carrying the spoil much like ski lifts but a bit less glamorous, and their squeaking and clanking was a background noise so all-pervasive that you only noticed it when it stopped. 

 

My Great-aunt Nell, a marvellous character whose parents had come over fleeing the Great Famine in Ireland and who died in 1966 at 103 years of age, a life-long clay pipe smoker who'd lived in the same house in Tonypandy for nearly all her life, reckoned she could remember when 'a squirrel could go all the way from Ponty to Blaencwm without once touching the ground, the trees were so thick'.

[tomparryharry]

On 15/10/2022 at 11:50, saxokid said:

Light engine 37046 on banks road 

Light engine working south past Pontypridd goods yard. Rhondda Cutting was on the right, and the road bridge carries the road from Ponty library, over to Tyfica Road. Goods yard exit is obscured by the locomotive.

 

Nice picture!

[Captain Kernow]

'Bill' the Sentinel was always well looked-after by his crew at Cuthbertson's chocolate factory.

 

Here he has just run forward onto the main running line at Callow Lane, so that a BR loco can retrieve the loaded box vans that he has just brought out of the factory:

 

[6990WitherslackHall]

13 minutes ago, Captain Kernow said:

'Bill' the Sentinel was always well looked-after by his crew at Cuthbertson's chocolate factory.

 

Here he has just run forward onto the main running line at Callow Lane, so that a BR loco can retrieve the loaded box vans that he has just brought out of the factory:

 

There's a loco that looks like that on display at the Streetlife museum in Hull

Edited October 29, 2022 by 6990WitherslackHall

[Worsdell forever]

Time to get a bit of muck out.

 

[Mrkirtley800]

Midland Leyburn Junction to Bradford (Market Street). sometime in June 1908, passing through Canal Road station, drawn by one of Mr Johnsons 2183 class engines.

Right hand lines are Skipton to Ilkley.
 

 

 

Edited October 29, 2022 by Mrkirtley800

[AY Mod]

7 hours ago, Worsdell forever said:

Time to get a bit of muck out

 

There should be flies round that. 🤢

[Mrkirtley800]

Haw Bank No 1 & 2 tunnels.

 

 

[Worsdell forever]

31 minutes ago, AY Mod said:

 

There should be flies round that. 🤢

Did them to scale so that's probably why you can't see them, they are there... 

[The Johnster]

Shouldn't it be steaming a bit as well?

[franciswilliamwebb]

16 hours ago, Worsdell forever said:

Time to get a bit of muck out.

…as the cart is needed to deliver groceries.