Interesting and inspiring photos from Flickr....

[russ p]

1 hour ago, hmrspaul said:

CA 27ft container https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/speedfreight/e68e4cf20  https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/speedfreight/e67e0ad67

 

Paul

 

What type of wagon would it be on Paul? 

[hmrspaul]

26 minutes ago, russ p said:

 

What type of wagon would it be on Paul? 

I linked to the official that shows the wagon - Tube conversion. 

 

Paul

[luckymucklebackit]

On 22/12/2023 at 19:58, 55020 said:

The extended yellow was very rare.  There was a standard:  Full yellow ends and no wrap around.  99+% were compliant!

 

 

The class 311s were delivered with yellow cab doors, many 303s were also painted  this way.

 

Jim

[The Stationmaster]

On 22/12/2023 at 20:09, Mol_PMB said:

 

 

 

At the other extreme, no yellow panel at all (would it have been on the corridor connection cover?)

 

The Parcels cars were delivered new (in green livery) to the WR with the gangway shields painted warning  yellow and that continued when they first went into blue.

[montyburns56]

These are my scans from my copy of the Souvenir programme for The Great Railway Exposition 1830-1980 at Liverpool Road station, Manchester.

 

 

 

 

 

Some of the adverts were interesting. Does anyone remember the live steam Jinty or did you purchase some these overpriced tat valuable collectables?

 

 

 

 

[Mol_PMB]

3 minutes ago, montyburns56 said:

These are my scans from my copy of the Souvenir programme for The Great Railway Exposition 1830-1980 at Liverpool Road station, Manchester.

 

 

 

 

 

Some of the adverts were interesting. Does anyone remember the live steam Jinty or did you purchase some these overpriced tat valuable collectables?

 

 

 

 

A wonderful selection of old adverts and info!

Cheeky to call the MSC loco an export of Manchester - it was built in Leeds ;-) but I'm sure it shunted many Manchester exports.

Considering the passage of time, the O gauge Jinty seems quite expensive - for a comparable amount you could buy a Dapol one today.

Thanks for posting ;-)

Mol

[montyburns56]

Ford Green 1977 by David Blower

 

 

[johnw1]

When Derby works paint shop was busy locomotives were occasionally sent out for a test run following classified repair prior to final painting. One day in 1975 we find 25115 sauntering along the goods avoiding line along side Derby station, light engine, sporting a very interesting mottled colour scheme.

 

25115 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/8069652528/

[Nearholmer]

Those Leech live-steam Jinty locos turn up occasionally now. The better ones run quite well, and the less good (later made?) ones can be made to run very well with a bit of fettling. The price (c£680 in present terms) is “about right” for a small live-steamer; a Roundhouse ‘Bertie’, which is the basic end of their 16mm/ft range, costs over £700 today. Leech were originally an instrument maker, and I think trying to diversify to survive, but they didn’t quite have QC right, the market for live-steam in 0 was very limited, and there wasn’t the disposable income around then that there is in the “greying pound” now. If they’d gone 16mm/ft they might have been more successful, because that was beginning to popularise at around that date.

 

 

Edited December 26, 2023 by Nearholmer

[Steamport Southport]

On 24/12/2023 at 19:07, montyburns56 said:

These are my scans from my copy of the Souvenir programme for The Great Railway Exposition 1830-1980 at Liverpool Road station, Manchester.

 

 

 

 

 

Some of the adverts were interesting. Does anyone remember the live steam Jinty or did you purchase some these overpriced tat valuable collectables?

 

 

 

 

 

I would love to see the TV programme of that again. It was live on Granada TV on something like a Sunday afternoon or the Bank Holiday Monday, unsure whether it went nationwide.

 

 

Jason

[Nearholmer]

Here’s one that must work as a micro-layout, with that big building as a backdrop:

 

 

[lmsforever]

Interesting not a long siding but it looks busy is it a brewery?

[Mol_PMB]

2 minutes ago, lmsforever said:

Interesting not a long siding but it looks busy is it a brewery?

Grain hopper being shunted, barrels and bottle-crates stacked up, surely it must be?

[Nearholmer]

That’s what the caption says, and I think it’s a grain hopper being shunted, although I’m not sure.

[KeithMacdonald]

16 minutes ago, Nearholmer said:

Here’s one that must work as a micro-layout, with that big building as a backdrop:

 

 

 

That guard all-alone on his van, while the beer is being handled/mishandled cries out a cameo.

[beaumoc]

 

heres a shot taken from further back. cracking location

[Mol_PMB]

There's even a convenient overbridge to act as a scenic break for the diorama!

Shame it's the Skol brewery though 🤮

[ruggedpeak]

 

[Nearholmer]

Interesting history http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2012/08/grahams-golden-lager-skol-1933-1994.html?m=1

 

I’m fairly certain that they had tank wagons for the stuff in the dim and distant past, although maybe they were a fantasy on the part of tinplate toy train makers.

 

PS: they were real! 4W tank wagons with twin hatches on top.

 

 

Edited December 27, 2023 by Nearholmer

[Ramblin Rich]

10 minutes ago, Nearholmer said:

Interesting history http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2012/08/grahams-golden-lager-skol-1933-1994.html?m=1

 

I’m fairly certain that they had tank wagons for the stuff in the dim and distant past, although maybe they were a fantasy on the part of tinplate toy train makers.

 

PS: they were real! 4W tank wagons with twin hatches on top.

 

 

There's a bit more about this on @Graham_Muz 's Canute Quay blog

https://southern-railway.com/2023/06/20/the-lager-must-be-mine-grahams-golden-lager-and-a-tenuous-link-to-canute-road-quay/?amp

[montyburns56]

6 hours ago, KeithMacdonald said:

 

That guard all-alone on his van, while the beer is being handled/mishandled cries out a cameo.

 

He has probably been banned from the location due to previous misdemeanors. 

[montyburns56]

It seems that a lot of the Alloa area workings are very inspirational....

 

 

 

[KeithMacdonald]

18 hours ago, montyburns56 said:

It seems that a lot of the Alloa area workings are very inspirational....

 

 

 

Can anyone say where in Alloa the CoOp coal siding was located?

 

 

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17.1&lat=56.11781&lon=-3.79186&layers=168&b=1&marker=56.116,-3.793

 

[65179]

1 hour ago, KeithMacdonald said:

 

Can anyone say where in Alloa the CoOp coal siding was located?

 

 

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17.1&lat=56.11781&lon=-3.79186&layers=168&b=1&marker=56.116,-3.793

 

 

My money would be on it being the north end of the sidings marked as slaughterhouse at their other end here:

 

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16.0&lat=56.12147&lon=-3.78742&layers=168&b=1&marker=56.116,-3.793

 

That fits with the direction that the other train is propelling in and also there is a footbridge round the curve shown on at least one of the later maps.

 

Edit: Railscot also has the following:

https://www.railscot.co.uk/locations/A/Alloa_Co-op_Coal_Siding/

 

More helpful map here:

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17.6&lat=56.12091&lon=-3.78584&layers=258&b=1&marker=56.116,-3.793

 

Simon

Edited December 28, 2023 by 65179
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[montyburns56]

On 14/12/2023 at 17:40, woodenhead said:

 

In the 1990s there were HAA wagons stored along Wharf Road - would pass them daily driving to work, I presumed for scrapping, does anyone know?

 

I've just been re-reading the April 2009 Rail Express article about the TPE system and it says that the Nortons scrap yard had " a new contract to cut up 450 redundant MGR wagons"