How realistic are your models? Photo challenge.

[Captain Kernow]

Coalville's 58143 has ended up near Bristol on a goods working to Westerleigh Yard and has then been 'borrowed' by the Yard Foreman to work the tripper to Callow Lane:

 

[Gallows Close]

One Ten

[The Johnster]

On it's way to a Blur concert, perhaps?  Those point mechs look the biz!

[Captain Kernow]

New Year 1964 on the Somerset Levels and not much is moving. The peak works staff were in so much of a rush to get to the pub yesterday, that they left the Lister diesel outside the peat shed:

 

[LDM34046]

[PMP]

Industry at rest 

 

[Irish Padre]

The ash ballasted horror that was the permanent way of the Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sligo,_Leitrim_and_Northern_Counties_Railway

[Erixtar1992]

[Captain Kernow]

9 hours ago, Irish Padre said:

The ash ballasted horror that was the permanent way of the Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sligo,_Leitrim_and_Northern_Counties_Railway

Absolutely splendid!

 

[PayntersDocks]

A long way from their original stomping ground, Ex L&Y ‘Pug’ 51212 and crew visit Tinley Rose Sidings before the long and slow trip back up to Bristol Barrow Road Shed

[PayntersDocks]

Standard 5 73082 ‘Camelot’ at rest in road 2 at Tinley Rose Sidings. Q1 33001 is sat on road 1 with the local goods train marshalled in road 3 furthest from the camera

[great northern]

A quiet moment at Peterborough North.

[Captain Kernow]

One of Bath Roads 350hp diesel shunters works a transfer freight between Stoke Gifford and Westerleigh yards. Included in the consist is a Kerr Stuart industrial loco, on its way to a new home:

 

[Ruston]

A special low height Peckett, on its way to the BR yard with empty vans from the Metal Box works, for return to Ebbw Vale.

 

[jcredfer]

1 hour ago, Ruston said:

A special low height Peckett, on its way to the BR yard with empty vans from the Metal Box works, for return to Ebbw Vale.

 

 

Given that the vans are not likely to be  going there, which part of the loco working would requires such a low cab roof?

 

Please forgive me if that's already been answered, but 350 pages {at the speed(??)} my computer fails to reach.....

 

[Ramblin Rich]

1 hour ago, Ruston said:

A special low height Peckett, on its way to the BR yard with empty vans from the Metal Box works, for return to Ebbw Vale.

 

That reminds me so much of photos of Port of Par locos Alfred and Judy, with the difference in height to standard vanfits. (Yes I know they were Bagnalls not Pecketts).

[Ruston]

22 minutes ago, jcredfer said:

 

Given that the vans are not likely to be  going there, which part of the loco working would requires such a low cab roof?

 

Please forgive me if that's already been answered, but 350 pages {at the speed(??)} my computer fails to reach.....

 

It doesn't require a low roof. The layout has a scrapyard on it that provides motive power for shunting the adjacent works. Many locomotives arrive at the scrapyard that are still capable of being used and get put to work. In the case of this one, it was built for a quarry line that that was originally narrow gauge and so the tunnel on it now has very limited clearances.
Scrapyard and works sidings layout - https://www.rmweb.co.uk/topic/148034-charlie-strong-metals-and-watery-lane-sidings/

Stone processing layout - https://www.rmweb.co.uk/topic/168474-harboro-stone-co/

[jcredfer]

41 minutes ago, Ruston said:

It doesn't require a low roof. The layout has a scrapyard on it that provides motive power for shunting the adjacent works. Many locomotives arrive at the scrapyard that are still capable of being used and get put to work. In the case of this one, it was built for a quarry line that that was originally narrow gauge and so the tunnel on it now has very limited clearances.
Scrapyard and works sidings layout - https://www.rmweb.co.uk/topic/148034-charlie-strong-metals-and-watery-lane-sidings/

Stone processing layout - https://www.rmweb.co.uk/topic/168474-harboro-stone-co/

 

Thank you for the information about the loco and those links.  I hadn't seen the Stone Processing Plant before and like it a lot, very clever stuff.  I had seen the Scrap-yard and remember the picture of the lorry driver, with his Lions football shirt, very well, the comments were spot-on.  I hadn't made the connection with the recycled use of the locos, which was an interesting angle, too.  I reckon, I will be back again...

 

Thanks again.

 

[Irish Padre]

Waiting for the crossing keeper

[Captain Kernow]

Waiting for the road on the Somerset Levels:

 

[Irish Padre]

Just before withdrawal, ‘Lurganboy’ rests at Abohill halt, 1951. 

 

Sligo, Leitrim

and Northern Counties Rlwy. https://transportsofdelight.smugmug.com/RAILWAYS/IRISH-RAILWAYS/SLIGO-LEITRIM/i-tQw992v/A

 

 

Edited January 15, 2023 by Irish Padre

[Captain Kernow]

11 hours ago, Irish Padre said:

Just before withdrawal, ‘Lurganboy’ rests at Abohill halt, 1951. 

 

Sligo, Leitrim

and Northern Counties Rlwy. https://transportsofdelight.smugmug.com/RAILWAYS/IRISH-RAILWAYS/SLIGO-LEITRIM/i-tQw992v/A

 

 

Lovely!

 

Surely a scratchbuild, this one?

 

[Irish Padre]

10 minutes ago, Captain Kernow said:

Lovely!

 

Surely a scratchbuild, this one?

 

Thanks ! North Star kit. This one (a larger variant of the class) is scratch. Wooden buffer beam from an old ruler! 

Edited January 16, 2023 by Irish Padre

[Captain Kernow]

 

[92912]

Abandoned slate wagons quietly rotting