RMweb Premium Pannier Tank Posted August 1, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 1, 2011 Hi, Can any please identify the attached image, is it a railway seat, if so from what region? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 I'm going to hazard a guess and say yes. I'd guess this because we had a couple of benches like that at school (Beverley Grammar School) in a courtyard - also in the courtyard were ex-NER Serpent benches so they may well have been aquired at the same time from railway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted August 1, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 1, 2011 Probably yes, and I think Midland Railway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 Cooper Craft do something similar. About half way down page. http://ngtmodels.com/cooper-craft.htm Looks like it may be from a "Branch" line ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted August 1, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 1, 2011 I'm sure there is a OO scale model of just such a seat available, and IIRC it is a Midland item. Perhaps you should ask the NRM they may be able to tell you all you want to know. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 Gaugemaster have it as well, they say "Examples can be found everywhere from the Ffestiniog through to London Underground" Cooper Craft 3021 edit :- Just found this picture Ffestiniog Bench, looks similar. And this one Station Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Il Grifone Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 I remeber these on the Clifton Down (Avonmouth) line, which was MR/GWR joint. They are not a GWR design, so it follows that MR origins are likely. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Natalie Graham Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 There was an article on modelling those in Model Railways in the '70s. The author used a wire frame and added the knobly bits with PVA wood glue. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Pannier Tank Posted August 2, 2011 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted August 2, 2011 Thank you all for your replies. I inherited the Seat from my late father; it would make sense if it was a MR Seat as my father worked at Bletchley Station in the 60's. How the seat ended up at Bletchley (LMR) is unknown, possibly it came from Bedford Midland (MR). It was one of the many questions I wished I'd asked him before he passed away. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted August 2, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 2, 2011 It looks exactly like the benches Birmingham Parks used to have. Maybe it's a common foundry product. Keith Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Y Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Maybe it's a common foundry product. It's true that it may not be just a railway seat. The Coalbrookdale Company started casting such styled items from the Great Exhibition of 1851 onwards. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rail-Online Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 Hi, Compare it with a known MR seat as shown in the attached: http://www.rfbmidlandtrust.org.uk/gallery/image/203-12819-station-platform-seat.html BTW the Roy Burrows collection is a fantastic archive of everything Midland -well worth a look at the galleries.. Cheers Tony Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Pannier Tank Posted August 6, 2011 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted August 6, 2011 Hi, Compare it with a known MR seat as shown in the attached: http://www.rfbmidlan...tform-seat.html BTW the Roy Burrows collection is a fantastic archive of everything Midland -well worth a look at the galleries.. Cheers Tony Hi Tony, Thank you for the link, looks very much like the seat; I have all three legs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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