MarkSG Posted June 4, 2023 Share Posted June 4, 2023 3 hours ago, Buhar said: If the Grumpy one had been a bit more subtle I might have succumbed. Something like GRUMPY then Oldbloke Colliery. I think we should get one done for the forum. R. M. Webb Nutty Slack 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penlan Posted June 4, 2023 Share Posted June 4, 2023 14 minutes ago, MarkSG said: I think we should get one done for the forum. R. M. Webb Nutty Slack Presumably that will have a LNWR registration plate 😇 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted June 4, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 4, 2023 41 minutes ago, Penlan said: Presumably that will have a LNWR registration plate 😇 Agree; quite apart from the Webbery, "Nutty Slack" is definitely somewhere on the Lancashire Coalfield. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buhar Posted June 4, 2023 Share Posted June 4, 2023 1 hour ago, Compound2632 said: Nutty Slack is a variety of coal, at the cheaper end of the range rather than a colliery, Stephen. But in our worlds it could easily be a colliery. Out Wigan way, probably. As could F. Roth of Overwhinge. Alan 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted June 4, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 4, 2023 11 minutes ago, Buhar said: is a variety of coal, at the cheaper end of the range Was aware... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buhar Posted June 4, 2023 Share Posted June 4, 2023 43 minutes ago, Compound2632 said: Was aware... Amazed if you weren't, but out of context danger lurks. Alan 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted June 5, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 5, 2023 On 04/06/2023 at 08:59, Compound2632 said: To which the answer, clarifying my previous post, is: none. I dare say someone will turn up an exception. Note that the GW and GC-liveried wagons are representations not of wagons built by or for those companies but hired bu those companies from the wagon builders, on similar terms to those which any private owner would hire their wagons. This is indicated in both cases by the numbers having an initial 0. Hoist by my own petard. A.G. Atkins, W. Beard & R. Tourret, GWR Goods Wagons (3e, Tourret Pulishing, 1998) p. 291, plate 376: Two five-plank opens Nos. 08104/5 hired in from the Gloucester RC&W Co built in May 1911. Painted black with white lettering. Presumably part of a larger batch of hired wagons, they are typical Gloucester 10-ton 5-plank wagons of the period. It's HMRS ACG923, of which this is a thumbnail: 4 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted June 6, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 6, 2023 Note that, as wagons built by Gloucester to the RCH specification, these wagons have registration plates (towards the LH end of the solebar) just like any other private owner wagon, even though they are on hire to a railway company rather than a private firm. The other three plates are The Gloucester RC&W Co.'s standard built by, owned by, and for repairs advise plates, showing that the wagons remained Gloucester property and that it was Gloucester, not the Great Western, that was responsible for repairs. 2 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welchester Posted June 6, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 6, 2023 15 hours ago, Compound2632 said: Hoist by my own petard. A.G. Atkins, W. Beard & R. Tourret, GWR Goods Wagons (3e, Tourret Pulishing, 1998) p. 291, plate 376: Two five-plank opens Nos. 08104/5 hired in from the Gloucester RC&W Co built in May 1911. Painted black with white lettering. Presumably part of a larger batch of hired wagons, they are typical Gloucester 10-ton 5-plank wagons of the period. It's HMRS ACG923, of which this is a thumbnail: Black. Interesting. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted June 6, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 6, 2023 I've succumbed to temptation, curiosity, or some such, and been through my library looking up the prototypes of the liveries Rapido are producing, with the aid of Joe Greaves' index on the Lightmoor Press website. My list is incomplete, as there are a number of books I don't have, notably the first and fifth volumes of Bill Hudson's series and Ian Pope's Forest of Dean volume. Rapido RCH 1907 wagons.pdf 3 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 On 04/06/2023 at 15:18, Compound2632 said: ... "Nutty Slack" is definitely somewhere on the Lancashire Coalfield. ... and leaves knotty nutty ash when it's been burnt ! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted June 9, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 9, 2023 A colleague many years ago was wont to refer to Alfred Robens as Lord Nutty Slack. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welchester Posted June 9, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 9, 2023 1 hour ago, Oldddudders said: A colleague many years ago was wont to refer to Alfred Robens as Lord Nutty Slack. The people of Aberfan were even ruder about him. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Popular Post AY Mod Posted June 21, 2023 Moderators Popular Post Share Posted June 21, 2023 On 04/06/2023 at 14:20, MarkSG said: I think we should get one done for the forum. 11 1 2 4 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkSG Posted June 21, 2023 Share Posted June 21, 2023 1 minute ago, AY Mod said: Take my money now! 1 2 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted June 21, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 21, 2023 Will it be available in N as well ..... 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators AY Mod Posted June 21, 2023 Moderators Share Posted June 21, 2023 13 minutes ago, gwrrob said: Will it be available in N as well ..... You may find the couplings cause injury when I give you it. 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Mikkel Posted June 21, 2023 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 21, 2023 2 hours ago, AY Mod said: Here are some crates to go with it 🙂 16 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted June 21, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 21, 2023 5 hours ago, AY Mod said: Sorry - totally unacceptable. You have used the post-grouping Ariel font with the infamous letter 'S'. 5 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-Mo Arts Posted June 21, 2023 Share Posted June 21, 2023 7 hours ago, AY Mod said: I'd buy that! 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinnylinny Posted June 21, 2023 Share Posted June 21, 2023 I'm not going to lie, I'd be tempted by one... Go nicely with the G. Fawkes gunpowder van, with the explosion of froth that happens occasionally around here! 5 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ChrisN Posted June 29, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 29, 2023 If the 1907 RCH specs were the consolidation of good practise from previous years, and I am told that the POW Sides Charles Roberts wagons are fine for my period, if I find a suitable Rapido one with split spokes and single sided brakes, would it be alright for 1895 mid Wales? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buhar Posted June 29, 2023 Share Posted June 29, 2023 1 hour ago, ChrisN said: would it be alright for 1895 mid Wales? Chris, if that were my area and period I'd look to be asking you! I'd have a look at the 1887(?) RCH plan to see what changes there were compared to 1907 and consider what a progressive builder like Gloucester or Chas Roberts might have developed based on that. Alan 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted June 29, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 29, 2023 There were plenty of builders building 16' 0" over headstocks 10 ton wagons in the 1890s. 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rapidoandy Posted June 30, 2023 Author Share Posted June 30, 2023 We couldn't resist hand painting a few samples... 17 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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