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I think the black tender top is correct for Woodcock's first livery. Maybe if I paid attention to the same photograph in RCTS 2A that confirms the colour for the tender copings I would also work out what the cab roof ought to be like? It may of course depend on light and shade...

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I think the black tender top is correct for Woodcock's first livery. Maybe if I paid attention to the same photograph in RCTS 2A that confirms the colour for the tender copings I would also work out what the cab roof ought to be like? It may of course depend on light and shade...

personally I'd go black weathering would certainly take it that colour. P.s. still got another of your v2's to do throughily enjoy able!!!!
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attachicon.gifJamieson V2 No. 3.jpg

 

Can Grantham have too many V2s? 

 

Yet another Jamieson resurrection (temporarily attached to a Hornby tender). It still makes up into a good enough V2 in my view. 

Probably not!

 

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I think the black tender top is correct for Woodcock's first livery. Maybe if I paid attention to the same photograph in RCTS 2A that confirms the colour for the tender copings I would also work out what the cab roof ought to be like? It may of course depend on light and shade...

Cab roof looks all Black in the Yeadon photos. I cant remember seeing a photo of any of the Green A4's not having a all Black roof.

 

I hope the Tender hasn't got a curved rear as it should be straight. Luckily the Tender fairing was removed prior to Garter Blue livery. The argument re Corridor Tender copings not being Black on Blue and Green engines has been mentioned before. I stick to Black.

 

Nice models as always.

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I hope the Tender hasn't got a curved rear as it should be straight.

It is curved, because text, tabulated class details and photo in RCTS 2A support such a tender for 4493 when new, with cut back copings around the water filler. Admitted, the fairings at the front should still cover the forward part of the coal space. All in good time.....

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It is curved, because text, tabulated class details and photo in RCTS 2A support such a tender for 4493 when new, with cut back copings around the water filler. Admitted, the fairings at the front should still cover the forward part of the coal space. All in good time.....ixed it up with the original Woodcock later Dominion of Canada Tender.

Mixed it up with original Woodcock aka Dominion of Canada version.

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It is curved, because text, tabulated class details and photo in RCTS 2A support such a tender for 4493 when new, with cut back copings around the water filler. Admitted, the fairings at the front should still cover the forward part of the coal space. All in good time.....

You're right, Graeme, about the streamlined corridor tender attached to the new WOODCOCK. I suppose confusion could arise because the original WOODCOCK (which quickly became DOMINION OF CANADA) was coupled to a 1928-style corridor tender (ex-A1/A3) which had a flat back. This loco was only ever painted in works grey (complete with lining) in the 'apple green' style, quickly changed to blue when renamed for the 'Coronation' services. 

What the tender shouldn't have is any beading. It's difficult to tell from your pictures, but I'm sure you've got this right. 

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Another pic of Waverley East, this time a top view around 1960. It is not the best quality negative but I feel it shows the crowded nature of the southerly end of the station well.

 

Tony

Many thanks indeed.

 

Given the reflected sunlight in the EE Type 4's front windows and the presence of a PV Thompson with ladies' retiring room (1st, but probably un-classed), might this be the Up 'Flying Scotsman' departing. By the departure time of the Up 'Heart of Midlothian' (which also had one of the PV cars in it), the sun would be due south. 

 

Being too indolent to check right now, in the summer which train went first, 'The Elizabethan' or the 'Flying Scotsman'? Probably the former, and if that's the case the A4 can't be on that service if my guess at the 'Scotsman' is right. 

 

Is such a view possible today with unrestricted tree growth? Probably not, but I doubt there's anything worth taking pictures of. 

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That B&W picture of Waverley looked as though the track was Peco code 75! I hav always been critical of this but now I am not so sure! Look at the way the sleepers stand out from the ballast.

 

Martin Long

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Yup - nothing much there that couldn't be replicated with Peco ... and a healthy overdraft.

 

Of course, the east end of Waverley does occasionally still get interesting...

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Yup - nothing much there that couldn't be replicated with Peco ... and a healthy overdraft.

 

Of course, the east end of Waverley does occasionally still get interesting...

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Most interesting shots, Graham. But only because of TORNADO's presence. 

 

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Nearly 80 years ago, this is what the west end of Calton Tunnel looked like. Yes, Auld Reekie has made sure that the (sand?) stone is black, but look at the infrastructure present. And, the lack of the puerile scribblings of the brain (I wish they were!) dead. 

 

Apart from the loss of those splendid NBR signals, a picture taken in BR steam days (other than the different branding) would have looked very much the same. 

 

How things change! 

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That B&W picture of Waverley looked as though the track was Peco code 75! I hav always been critical of this but now I am not so sure! Look at the way the sleepers stand out from the ballast.

 

Martin Long

 

I thought it was a model to begin with! :D

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Apart from the chassis being weathered, the glazing added and the bunker coaled-up, the Beames 0-8-4T is now complete. 

 

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Local friend, Geoff Haynes painted her. Naturally, more information latterly came to hand, and I've got an idea that the red-painted engines had Ross-pop safety valves, though no picture exists as far as I know. Still, it looks well.

 

A full write up will appear in BRM.  

 A less than perfect picture shows 7945 in lake with very small  L     M     S  on bunker rather than roundel. Ross pops believed carried from new by Nos.7943 onwards. (Jenkinson & Essery Illustrated History of LMS Locomotives Volume 2).

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Pretty boring actually - most of that lovely trackwork has been removed!

 

Sadly, the trees that have been allowed to grow everywhere have not been removed, even since BR days. Considering the amount of damage they are doing to the masonry, it's a false economy to let them grow.

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