Rugd1022 Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 A slighlty different shot here from the usual positions used at Exeter St David's, taken off the end of the south end of Platform 1. The train is on the long-since-removed centre road and unless there was a set of points there I don't know about, I assume it was just passing through: http://www.flickr.com/photos/68861278@N03/8244176634/ That was taken on a Saturday so would probably have been a booked through working, there were quite a few back then which didn't stop at Exeter. The loco has just passed over the toe of the points which otherwise could have taken it up the bank to Central Station ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR(S) Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 You guys should be ashamed of yourselves posting such video and pictures. I should . . . I'm a third-rail man you know! I should really be camped out in the Dapol Class 73 thread. What's all this BR(W) stuff? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 (edited) It's partially your fault Dave for producing such a lovely model, I'm looking at all those flickr photos wondering which blue Thousands to 'do'.... what goes around comes around! Jim - at the time of it's Knowle & Dorridge accident D1040 wasn't that long out of Swindon after having it's yellow warning panels painted on. After the accident it went back to Swindon for repairs and resurfaced in early '64, the cab having been rebuilt but minus the headborad clips at that end. Edited February 27, 2013 by Rugd1022 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Still awaiting a shot of a wezzie at bedford can do a shot of a Western with a Bedford 1009 and old Bedford at Newquay - 20th September, 1975 by Deadmans Handle, on Flickr 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D1030western musketeer Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Have noticed the shot of queen shows headboard clips removed in that clip,possible due to that accident mentioned was it as early as 1963.also noted the date of withdrawel seems wrong..again thought it was feb 76. nice shot thou. richard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Swindon Convoy - 2 by Sir Hectimere, on Flickr being towed to Swindon, happy ending to this sad scene as both ended up preserved, the 31 didnt. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D1030western musketeer Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Yes dave.27/2/77 westerns taken out of service...27/2/2013 westerns reborn thks to you and Dapol. ha ha bedford vans dont count but very funny. richard. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 will keep a look out Richard, anymore info to go on tho, such as year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D1030western musketeer Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 1973-76 will do as this is wene i saw them around bedford/bletchley on stone workings but alas no damm camera at the time. cheers. richard. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the-gog Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 I'm so, so glad that Dapol opted to use warm white LEDs for the running light and headcode backlight. Am I correct in thinking Dapol are the first to do this, and the Western the first RTR to feature it? Everything else I've seen photos of uses blue-white LEDs and/or yellow LEDs to represent tungsten. Arrrggghhhh! Tungsten white is *white*, not yellow. Bachmann, Heljan, Hornby take note! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ikcdab Posted February 27, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 27, 2013 A Western in less glamorous surroundings. Some lovely detail in this photo. You can run, but you can't hide! by Deadmans Handle, on Flickr And to answer Jim's question, there are lots of pictures of "Western Queen" after the date of the accident, so looks like she was rebuilt, as alluded to here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/geoffsimages/7896655232/ Just in case anyone was wondering and I apologise if it's obvious but this pic was taken at castle Cary. My train spotting home when I spent many hours in the 1970s watching westerns and in fact getting quite bored with them. Oh no not another western! I remember quite a lot of shunting there in the goods shed siding, one particular occasion was a school special which put the brake into the old cattle dock to load the school children's baggage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogmatix Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Am I correct in thinking Dapol are the first to do this, and the Western the first RTR to feature it? No - some continental RTR models have them already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 This section is nothing but porn now! You guys should be ashamed of yourselves posting such video and pictures. Go hang your heads in shame, naughty boys! :-) Yes, but it's your fault for offering (five-)pole dancing...... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jim s-w Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 I'm so, so glad that Dapol opted to use warm white LEDs for the running light and headcode backlight. Am I correct in thinking Dapol are the first to do this, and the Western the first RTR to feature it? Everything else I've seen photos of uses blue-white LEDs and/or yellow LEDs to represent tungsten. Arrrggghhhh! Tungsten white is *white*, not yellow. Bachmann, Heljan, Hornby take note! Running Light? Are you sure westerns had them? I understood they had headcode lights (white) and shunting lights (display a red and white together at the same end) but they didnt run with any lights other than the headcodes. Cheers Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted February 27, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 27, 2013 Running Light? Are you sure westerns had them? I understood they had headcode lights (white) and shunting lights (display a red and white together at the same end) but they didnt run with any lights other than the headcodes. Cheers Jim They ran with illuminated headcodes ony (when they needed to be illuminated that is). The marker lights were purely there for when they were acting on station pilot duties and the red marker was not permitted to be used as a tail light. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the-gog Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Running Light? Are you sure westerns had them? I understood they had headcode lights (white) and shunting lights (display a red and white together at the same end) but they didnt run with any lights other than the headcodes. Cheers Jim Yes, shunting lights if you want to call them that. Perhaps I should have referred to it as the "round little light on the right". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the-gog Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 No - some continental RTR models have them already. I should have specified UK RTR models. After all, this is a board about UK modelling primarily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 can you switch the marker lights to one red one white on the model? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
campaigner Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 (edited) Didn't 1040 get withdrawn following another collision in 1976? Edited February 28, 2013 by campaigner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted February 28, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 28, 2013 Didn't 1040 get withdrawn following another collision in 1976? Overdue C exam and hole in boiler water tank. W/D 20/02/76. Mike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DapolDave Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 Looking at the face of a Western in some pictures the marker lights are red to the left and white to the right. Fine, no problem there then......except.........i'm looking at a colour picture of D1071 Western Renown with what seems to be red on the right and white on the left. In fact ive just found D1040 with the same and D1030, oh and Western Sultan with the marker light on in Daytime on passenger too! where's Nidge when you need him? cheers Dave 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the-gog Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 Prototype for everything, then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 1973-76 will do as this is wene i saw them around bedford/bletchley on stone workings but alas no damm camera at the time. cheers. richard. Richard - I have a feeling one of the links to some flickr or other website photos posted further back in the thread has a couple of photos of a Wizzo being dragged round from Bedford St.Johns on a stone train.... the old track layout back then was different to what it is today and these workings were often dragged in order to save a time consuming run round move. I wish I could remeber which site they're on...! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 (edited) Looking at the face of a Western in some pictures the marker lights are red to the left and white to the right. Fine, no problem there then......except.........i'm looking at a colour picture of D1071 Western Renown with what seems to be red on the right and white on the left. In fact ive just found D1040 with the same and D1030, oh and Western Sultan with the marker light on in Daytime on passenger too! where's Nidge when you need him? cheers Dave I'm over in the blue corner Dave perusing Wizzo porn, where else would I be...? (actually I've only just got up on account of driving trains in the wee hours up the WCML!). I'll have to dive into the naughty cupboard and dig out a few of 'the books' as I'm sure there are loads of published night shots showing the white marker light illuminated as well as the headcode lights, even though they shouldn't have been... it's just a case of finding the blighters. In the meantime chief, please, please, please, please, please can we definitely have one just as good in 7mm...? I'd love to go to town on weathering a big 'un, complete with enamel mash can in the cab and a copy of the Sporting Life from 1971 stuffed down behind the AWS gubbins.... Edit : viz-a-viz those pesky little lights... if you've found some that are about face Dave it could be that the lens covers were just swapped over on Laira or somewhere for some unfathomable reason, as the bulbs behind them were white (er, sorry, yellowish!). Edited February 28, 2013 by Rugd1022 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 wouldnt the lights be changable as to what side they want the red or white on? like they did with brake van lamps when next to running lines? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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