Nearholmer Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 So familiar from tins of custard powder when I was a boy. If nobody has already, this really ought to be ‘done’ by one of the diecast model suppliers. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidlandRed Posted March 15, 2022 Share Posted March 15, 2022 39 minutes ago, hexagon789 said: I like the picture of the birds on the trailer! And jelly as well (as stated on the trailer!). Agreed - a great potential variant for the Oxford model. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted March 15, 2022 Author Share Posted March 15, 2022 Anglo Scottish Car Carrier at Kelso 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Andy Kirkham Posted March 16, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 16, 2022 Fenit, SW Ireland, from Ernie Brack http://www.traleefenitgreenway.com/history/ The Tralee to Fenit railway was opened in 1887 with grand ambitions of capturing some of the valuable Trans-Atlantic trade, sadly this never came to pass and the line closed for regular passenger traffic in 1935 but remained in use for goods traffic, the beat (sic) campaign as well as excursions and summer specials up until 1978. The Tralee-Fenit branch was spared due to the policy of retaining railheads to ports and the proposal by the Great Southern Railway Preservation Society to reopen the Fenit branch as a heritage railway as much of the infrastructure remained intact, as part of this project the track was relaid and an engine brought to Fenit. Sadly these plans never came to fruition and the Fenit branch was to lay derelict until 2010. 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Steven B Posted March 16, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 16, 2022 May I present to you: The Future (Dudley Zoo, 1992): 15in gauge 4-car DEMU at Dudley Zoo. 1992. by Adrian Nicholls, on Flickr Steven B. 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted March 16, 2022 Author Share Posted March 16, 2022 Ilkley 1973 by Paul Haywood 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 Back to Fenit for a moment: my MiL comes from about 30km from there and in the early 2000s when we visited we used to go to Fenit, at least once to see https://focuskerry.com/jeanie/index.html, and at that date most of the track of the branch was still there in dormant state. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mol_PMB Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 I once half-built a model of Fenit in 4mm scale on EM track. I remember a research visit when the track was all still there, as well as a Ruston diesel. I have photos somewhere. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 (edited) A Ruston? Not a Deutz? Edited March 16, 2022 by Nearholmer Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mol_PMB Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 9 minutes ago, Nearholmer said: A Ruston? Not a Deutz? A Ruston. Not a Deutz. I have found the photos (I have more, but these give the general impression). 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 (edited) Ooh, er! I was expecting a 611 class loco. Who did that belong to? Brilliant photos. The internet knows everything: The Great Southern & Western Railway Preservation Society had moved it to Fenit station during an aborted attempt to set up a preservation centre on the closed branch from Tralee to Fenit. Edited March 16, 2022 by Nearholmer 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mol_PMB Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 It's actually a very modellable place - approached under a bridge and round a curve. Just enough interest in the track layout - passenger and freight loops, a loading dock and a turntable. The black corrugated shed in the distance had a rail weighbridge adjacent. The tracks used to run out onto the pier to a quay at the end where there were more sidings. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mol_PMB Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 I think the Ruston loco was from CSE (sugar mills) and had been acquired by the GSRPS. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mol_PMB Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 Heading dangerously off on a tangent because none of these photos are on my Flickr, here are the others. Weighbridge: Starter: Loading gauge: View from the road bridge towards Fenit: View from the road bridge towards Tralee: The other end of the pier, from a vintage postcard in my collection. If I could find it, I could do a better scan than this old one! 12 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hippel Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 Love all the wagons in that last postcard. Paul 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted March 17, 2022 Author Share Posted March 17, 2022 Carricks of Cumberland at Low Row station 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 I had to look-up what they did/made. Its a creamery, which amazed me because it looks so grubby. Were milk tank wagons filled here? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 (edited) 38 minutes ago, Nearholmer said: I had to look-up what they did/made. They made cakes and had a string of bakeries and restaurants in towns throughout the north and the borders. I used to spend my old mans luncheon vouchers (LV) upstairs in here. It's a bl00dy betting shop the noo. 042331: Carrick's Restaurant - 10 Market Street, Newcastle, 1982 by Newcastle Libraries, on Flickr One of their well ventilated vans. The series of Low Row pics has been debated before on RM web Edited March 17, 2022 by Porcy Mane 10 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Andy Kirkham Posted March 18, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 18, 2022 Bulleid's Irish Leader - the Turf Burner. One thing that strikes me is that the cab window seem to give practically no forward view 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted March 18, 2022 Author Share Posted March 18, 2022 Bursnips Road Box, Essington 1965 by Geoff Dowling 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ramblin Rich Posted March 18, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 18, 2022 19 minutes ago, montyburns56 said: Bursnips Road Box, Essington 1965 by Geoff Dowling I remember seeing that in a book after Holly Bank/ Hilton Main colliery closed and thinking what a brilliant place it would be to have as a home. It was very much a ruin at that time but been restored now as seen on street view Bursnips Rd https://maps.app.goo.gl/hadwvLnbZWcEx58f8 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted March 19, 2022 Author Share Posted March 19, 2022 23 hours ago, Ramblin Rich said: I remember seeing that in a book after Holly Bank/ Hilton Main colliery closed and thinking what a brilliant place it would be to have as a home. It was very much a ruin at that time but been restored now as seen on street view Bursnips Rd https://maps.app.goo.gl/hadwvLnbZWcEx58f8 Wow, I bet when people drive past it they would never guess that it used to be a signal box! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 Was the signal fixed to the house/signalbox? It is the most emmettesque place I’ve seen. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted March 19, 2022 Author Share Posted March 19, 2022 (edited) Taylor Bros Yard Works & Foundry at Sandiacre 1981 by Martyn Hilbert Edited March 19, 2022 by montyburns56 10 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mol_PMB Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 20 years later I had cause to visit the S&C yards at both Beeston and Sandiacre, I remember lots of new turnouts being assembled, and some impressively huge machine tools for shaping switchblades, but sadly no Planets! I do like Planets... 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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