mullie Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 Portland Bill for me too. Martyn 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manna Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 G'Day Folks I'll go for Beachy Head, the new one as there is a lot of GN loco in there. I worked a class 156 from Leeds to Manchester on day, I was in shirt sleeves, when we left Leeds, by Huddersfield, we were in a Blizzard, at Manchester it was pouring down !! manna 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted January 26, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 26, 2021 The Needles for me too, as I wasn't aware that one was named that! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted January 26, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted January 26, 2021 We now come to photos taken on a difficult day when the sun could not make up its mind what to do. When I took this one it was stubbornly absent, so I put the camera on the mini tripod to get what light there was, and then reached over and plonked it at the limit of my reach, and where I couldn't see the view finder properly. Entirely predictably, this is what I got. Oh yes, during the four second delay to eliminate any camera shake, the sun came out as well. All in all, not much going for it, but here it is anyway. 25 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 I must say Gilbert that your photos and models are an inspiration to me, particularly because they capture, more than any other others I have seen, that subtle fine line between steam engines which are work-stained in various ways and those which are simply covered in usually matt soot or dust. Having lived with working steam in the 50s and 60s just like some readers here I know what working heavy main line steam actually looked and smelled like Having just ordered a weathered A2/2 60505 'Thane of Fife' from TMC I am hoping to find that delicate balance to show in my own photos, rather like your own recent photos of B17s and 60504.... although I will edit my pics rather than further weather the models... Your layout and photos are superb, and so is the rather bare architecture and street atmosphere.. Thankyou. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted January 26, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 26, 2021 3 hours ago, thegreenhowards said: I will also go for the Needles as I’ve sailed past them many times. Hi Andy I take it you read my experience of going around the Isle of White in a landing craft a few days ago. Not something I would recommend in even a slightly choppy sea. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 25 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said: Hi Andy I take it you read my experience of going around the Isle of White in a landing craft a few days ago. Not something I would recommend in even a slightly choppy sea. Clearly you have no knowledge of the seas around New Zealand, even the old salts in the Navy shudder when they recount some of the storms in Cook Strait or Taranaki Bight in a frigate... and when you are stuck outside the heads of Wellington Harbour for 5 hours in a 6,000 ton ship it is no fun either... been there done that, Never enjoyed tomato sauce on me fish and chips after that... but Britain Rules the Ocean Wave, God Bless 'Er. 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 (edited) I have just taken the liberty of cropping a couple of the lovely pics by Gilbert which I alluded-to two posts back... will remove if asked. Lovely stuff. I must have green engine deprivation syndrome having grown up with black ones.... Edited January 26, 2021 by robmcg addition 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted January 27, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 27, 2021 Here is a slightly better try at last night's image. It does make a difference when you can see what the image is going to look like. 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted January 27, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 27, 2021 Portland Bill 7 Beachy Head 4..... and the Needles 4 too, which shows that Clive is no mystic Meg. Needles also appropriate as I've been invited to be jabbed next week. Today we will do Merchant Navys. Just the one poll, no distinction between air smoothed and rebuilt. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarrMan Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 10 hours ago, robmcg said: Clearly you have no knowledge of the seas around New Zealand, even the old salts in the Navy shudder when they recount some of the storms in Cook Strait or Taranaki Bight in a frigate... and when you are stuck outside the heads of Wellington Harbour for 5 hours in a 6,000 ton ship it is no fun either... been there done that, Never enjoyed tomato sauce on me fish and chips after that... but Britain Rules the Ocean Wave, God Bless 'Er. Not quite a storm off New Zealand, but someone I knew had a fascinating but earie story. He was on a Ship called the Norfolk off Hastings in the 1930's when the big earthquake occured. The previous ship of the same name, an old sailing vessel, had sunk in that area. During the earthquake, in the dark, the wreck rose up just beside them, and they could read the name and recognize the rigging. The crew were very quiet for a while after that! Lloyd 3 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Hawkins Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 35004 Cunard White Star 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted January 27, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 27, 2021 Port Line. A number of years ago, I visited someone in New Zealand with whom I had corresponded on railways for some time. In his front hall hung a nameplate from Port Line. He explained that before emigrating he had worked for the company and, when it was sold to another organisation, one of the directors said to him "you like railways, don't you? You'd better have this". So 35027 it must be, in David's memory (oh, and in his basement he had a super EM layout based on Devizes). 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarrMan Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 I'll go for New Zealand Line this time. That was who the fellow on the Norfolk worked for. Lloyd 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium SJR Posted January 27, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 27, 2021 New Zealand Line for me too. Unpatriotic to choose any other however, having worked for the post office, Royal Mail would be my second choice. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 My brother-in law's first job way back when(1970's) was with Ellerman Lines so I will go with that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieR4489 Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 British India Line. It's the only Merchant Navy I've seen in steam. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold CHAZ D Posted January 27, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 27, 2021 (edited) 35002 UNION CASTLE Must be this as my Grandfather (a quaified boilermaker) sailed on Carnarvon, Windsor, Winchester and Kenilworth Castles on the South Africa Run (Cape Town Johannesberg) from the 30's to the 50's. Here on my layout a year ago:- As pointed out by FarrMan not Joberg but my grandad used to talk a lot of Joberg and I thought he must have sailed there! Edited January 27, 2021 by CHAZ D 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 3rd Rail Exile Posted January 27, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 27, 2021 Very tricky to choose this one... I'll go for Ellerman Lines - my heart always sinks when I see her in that state. I know there are plenty of other Merchant Navies preserved (you can never say too many), couldn't they have turned an anonymous tank engine into a sectioned educational exhibit? 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzer Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 Clan Line. Because of Stephen Austin’s lovely book Atlantic Coast Express which gives every detail of the ACE running from Waterloo to Padstow in 1960, starting with preparation of the engine and train the night before to the end of the journey in Padstow. The best part is Clan Line taking the first part of the journey from Waterloo to Basingstoke which gives a brilliant account of the excitement of driving and firing a top express in steam days. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TrevorP1 Posted January 27, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 27, 2021 Nederland Line for a fast run down Sway Bank. Dad said we were “doing about 90” and that impressed little me! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarrMan Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 1 hour ago, CHAZ D said: 35002 UNION CASTLE Must be this as my Grandfather (a quaified boilermaker) sailed on Carnarvon, Windsor, Winchester and Kenilworth Castles on the South Africa Run (Cape Town Johannesberg) from the 30's to the 50's. Here on my layout a year ago:- How did he manage to sail to Jo'burgh? Lloyd 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted January 27, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 27, 2021 (edited) I'll go for Ellerman LInes. My reason is that I was able to see the loco being sectioned and prepared for the NRM as my late father managed the business where much of the work was done. It's one of the few locos that I can honestly say I know what all the parts look like and how they fit together. David Edited January 27, 2021 by DaveF 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TrevorP1 Posted January 27, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 27, 2021 13 minutes ago, DaveF said: I'll go for Ellerman LInes. My reason is that I was able to see the loco being sectioned and prepared for the NRM as my late father managed the business where much of the work was done. It's one of the few locos that I can honestly say I know what all the parts look like and how they fit together. David I vaguely remember seeing it at Bill McAlpine's railway at Market Overton. I was with a party from the railway at Whipsnade and another vague(!) recollection from the outing is of riding in open wagons pulled by an industrial saddle tank on a steep gradient. It was the first time I'd seen a smokebox door actually glow red... Come to think of it, I've seen a few burnt ones since but none that glowed like that one! I would have been about 19 at the time and it was winter, so 1973/4? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold lezz01 Posted January 27, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 27, 2021 (edited) New Zealand Line for me. For no other reason that I once had a girlfriend from Auckland who was totally nuts. I would have married her but her ex rocked up from NZ and messed it all up. Still I got over it and the girl I ended up with has been my wife for 26 years this May. Regards Lez. Edited January 27, 2021 by lezz01 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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