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[Fat Controller]

4 minutes ago, rodent279 said:

Looks like a road trailer horsebox-but did they exist back then?

They did

[cctransuk]

7 minutes ago, Fat Controller said:

Anyone got any ideas what the vehicle (?) on the second wagon is ?

 

I'd put money on all three road vehicles being in military ownership.

 

CJI.

[markw]

The bus is a Mulliner bodied Bedford SB

http://www.old-bus-photos.co.uk/?p=8272

[Sitham Yard]

10 hours ago, rodent279 said:

Looks like a road trailer horsebox-but did they exist back then?

Corgi produced a model in the 1960's if not earlier, and I think Dublo Dinky as well.

Andrew 

[keefer]

Seems to be similar to a Rice (or Rice Richardson) horsebox:

 

Company has creased trading but many trailers still exist, especially as artisan burger/coffee van conversions (Citröen H vans must be getting too expensive🙂) 

 

Edited November 26, 2022 by keefer

[KeithHC]

Probably a four wheel horse/animal box. Followed behind by a Morris J2 and what looks like a Bedford SB with possibly a Mulliner bus body mainly used by the armed services.

 

Keith

[KeithMacdonald]

16 hours ago, Fat Controller said:

Anyone got any ideas what the vehicle (?) on the second wagon is ?

 

Clicking through to the Flickr image and its comments shows this suggestion:

 

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Think the van nearer the 8F is a Commer and suspect the bus maybe a Bedford but it’s width needs an unusual wagon.

 

[keefer]

As KeithHC says probably a Morris J2 (1956-1967)

By Charles01 on Wikimedia Commons 

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Morris_J2_van_mfd_1957_1489cc_police_livery.JPG#mw-jump-to-license 

EDIT: not the similar Commer FC van/bus which was introduced in 1960 - van in photo has the smaller, more-square side windows of the J2. The Commer has longer, rectangular windows.

 

Edited November 26, 2022 by keefer

[Michael Crofts]

On 24/11/2022 at 19:06, Moxy said:

 

I wonder if the catch points and the adjacent gate posts are the start of the paper mill's private siding?  Catch points would be to protect BR lines.

Almost certainly because the difference in track maintenance is stark.

Question: I remember seeing little cast iron plates screwed to sleepers stating 'BR Maintenance Ends'. Did the Big Four and/or pre-grouping railways also have such plates where tracks passed out of their ownership and became private sidings?

[LMS2968]

I think they did but I can't find a photo, but they did have these track layouts. This is one is at Eccles Jct on the former Liverpool & Manchester line.

 

 

[Nearholmer]

Somewhere I’ve got a small cast iron boundary plaque SR-LPTB, which came from near New Cross on the East London Line (found lying about as I walked along the cess to a worksite).

[TheEngineShed]

I believe this answers the question of whether pre BR companies had end of maintenance markers...

 

A GNR MAINTENANCE ENDS sleeper plaque photo for sale is linked below:

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/192932819855

Edited November 27, 2022 by TheEngineShed
clarity

[TheEngineShed]

One of the ex Oxfordshire Ironstone Company girls with a Flamingo!  This might be Betty?

 

Harlaxton Quarries, July 1973

 

 

[Nearholmer]

Fancy pointwork.

[montyburns56]

Bersham 1975 by Paul Bryson

 

 

[montyburns56]

Drewry 'Dorothy Lightfoot' & 'Pepel'at Bidston Ore Terminal, Birkenhead 1983 by Martyn Hilbert

 

 

[KeithMacdonald]

On 25/11/2022 at 07:49, rodent279 said:

 

Interesting little short formation goods train, very modellable.

 

 

Is it a "works outing" from HMP Slade, on the lookout for Norman Stanley Fletcher?

 

[montyburns56]

Maybe not interesting or inspirational, but certainly moody and evocative.

 

Rayne Station 1973 by Pelican-blue railway

 

 

 

[Re6/6]

20002 at Brighton 1968. A rare picture of it in green livery with full yellow ends.

[Nearholmer]

It’s probably just me, but I’ve always thought those locos had a sinister face, whereas the EMUs looked friendly, especially the Bils. Subtly different proportions in the size of the windows, I think.

[balders]

35 minutes ago, Nearholmer said:

It’s probably just me, but I’ve always thought those locos had a sinister face, whereas the EMUs looked friendly, especially the Bils. Subtly different proportions in the size of the windows, I think.

It looks like a cyberman from Dr.Who! 

 

Regards 

 

Guy

[KeithMacdonald]

2 hours ago, Re6/6 said:

20002 at Brighton 1968. A rare picture of it in green livery with full yellow ends.

 

and

50 minutes ago, Nearholmer said:

It’s probably just me, but I’ve always thought those locos had a sinister face,

 

My first reaction was "It's Marvin The Paranoid Android"

 

The first ten million years were the worst, and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.

 

Life? Don't talk to me about life. Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they tell me to take you up to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction? 'Cos I don't.

 

I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.

[woodenhead]

25 minutes ago, balders said:

It looks like a cyberman from Dr.Who! 

 

Regards 

 

Guy

The original ones!

 

I've always wondered why I found these creepy, now I know.

[Re6/6]

Here's a more 'friendly' face!

 

20003 at Eastleigh in 1960

 

[rodent279]

8 hours ago, KeithMacdonald said:

 

and

 

My first reaction was "It's Marvin The Paranoid Android"

 

The first ten million years were the worst, and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.

 

Life? Don't talk to me about life. Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they tell me to take you up to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction? 'Cos I don't.

 

I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.

"Those new yellow ends really brighten you up"

 

"I know. Miserable, isn't it?"