RMweb Gold The Fatadder Posted November 17, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 17, 2012 Can anyone confirm if 5813 was fitted with whistle guards in the late 40s Have the knife ready to chop it off, but the photos I am working from are not 100% clear Have the rest of the body detailed up ready for paint, with this the last detail to sort The painting does however have to wait for the spring... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted November 18, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 18, 2012 Have you seen or have the book on these locos Petos register as it might have info of help to your build.I'm sure other stockist will have it. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Petos-Register-Great-Western-Locomotives/dp/1871608880 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Fatadder Posted November 18, 2012 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted November 18, 2012 Not a book thats currently in my collection, will keep an eye out for a copy Re the whistle shields, I have found a photo of 5813 in BR days (undated) which shows a whistle shield fitted. Does that mean that it is likely to have had it in 47/48? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
6959 Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 Can anyone confirm if 5813 was fitted with whistle guards in the late 40s Have the knife ready to chop it off, but the photos I am working from are not 100% clear Have the rest of the body detailed up ready for paint, with this the last detail to sort The painting does however have to wait for the spring... I just looked thro' Peto 14xx book and can find only two pictures of 5800 class. These are 5800 with top feed and whistle shield on 31 October 1954, and 5805 without top feed but with whistle shield on 18 February 1955. Your 5813 was a Neath engine from 9/3/37 to 18/6/42 at least. By 11/42 it had moved to Reading - Henley on Thames area until 12/45. From 3/46 to 3/9/48 it worked from Yatton. From then until 23/4/56 it is listed as Bath Road. In its last years (1957) it was at St. Philips Marsh, Leamington and Swindon Pool before being cut up there on 25/1/58. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach bogie Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 All I can find is a 1955 shot recently on ebay with whistle shield. Interesting it still had GWR livery that late only two years before scrapping. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Photo-Ex-GWR-0-4-2T-No-5813-at-Bristol-1955-/221138644247?nma=true&si=oor82ZvqycQk8ztXOIXOp80Ri0Y%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 Mike Wiltshire Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Fatadder Posted November 18, 2012 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted November 18, 2012 All I can find is a 1955 shot recently on ebay with whistle shield. Interesting it still had GWR livery that late only two years before scrapping. http://www.ebay.com/...=p2047675.l2557 Mike Wiltshire Fantastic, very useful photo in that it clearly shows the livery (my working photo from 1949 from one of the Cheddar books, you cant see which livery it is in) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffalo Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 The RCTS volume gives no specific dates but says that all except perhaps 5814 acquired the whistle shields at some time. It also mentions that the last fifteen 48XX were built with a short shield and these may have appeared later on others following boilers changes. However, I've not seen any post-war or BR era photos without the long shield, and no 58XX with the short version. If we can assume that Mike's ebay photo suggests that 5813 had not had a major overhaul since late GWR days, then it seems likely that it had the whistle shield from somewhere around 1947, if not earlier. Nick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev_Lewis Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 All I can find is a 1955 shot recently on ebay with whistle shield. Interesting it still had GWR livery that late only two years before scrapping. http://www.ebay.com/...=p2047675.l2557 Mike Wiltshire 5802, 5813 and 5814 were all still GWR green when withdrawn in 1957/8. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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