kevsmiththai Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 Still a few of the North British 4-6-0 around in Thailand This is the one plinthed at Chachoengsao Junction on the Eastern line.I took a lot of detail picures of this one 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johann Marsbar Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 Go to Argentina if you want to see British built locos..... ...not to mention a lot of the infrastructure as well...... Water tank by Ransomes & Rapier, Ipswich...... 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevsmiththai Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 I got chased by the security guys when I tried to get closer to North British 4-6-0 165 at Makkasan. Apparently there was some sort of VIP visit going on Easily seen from the train or footpath though 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
whart57 Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 Less easy when they started building the new airport link though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevsmiththai Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 So my dad did his national service in the RAF and ended up in Egypt crashing Lockheed Constellations in the desert! he did take his 6x9cm roll film camera but mainly photographed his service mates but did take this one of a ROD 2-8-0 with the 6 wheel brake van full of guards on the front. Note the bent footplate I've got his service book somewhere and I'll try and find a date On the same roll of film are the following. All the LNER locos still carry their LNER numbers 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chen Melling Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 21 hours ago, kevsmiththai said: Thank you very much for this great photo, Kev. I is quite rare not only for the bent ROD but also (mostly?) for the clear view of the locally concocted 6-wheel brake van. There were, apparently, 70 of the type converted from flats, but I've never seen a good photo of one until now. I attach below the official Egyptian State Railway Diagram for the type (updated to the mid-1940s) from the collection of The Israel Railway Museum. And here is another shot of an ROD with this type of van, in a more ordinary consist, on a freight at Geneifa (Suez Canal Zone), 05.1947 (photo by Jeff Horsman, courtesy of my friend, the late Ray Ellis of Australia): 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevsmiththai Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Happy to help Kev Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mol_PMB Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Many British-built locos and/or designs were exported to Portugal but this is a particularly early and strange-looking example! The cab roof is unlike anything I’ve ever seen before! Built in 1857 and used until the 1920s, it is now preserved at Entroncamento. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 Fairbairn iirc 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieB Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 Yes, Fairburn, with various building dates given during the 1850s. It was preserved in working order for a long time at Braga, then moved to store at Nine before going to Entroncamento a couple of years ago. I believe there is an intention to move it again, nearer to its sphere of operation (Minho-Douro), but when I checked (before visiting in 2022) such plans weren't immediate. I'm very pleased to have finally caught up with the locomotive, have "dipped out" in previous attempts at Braga and Nine (twice). In total around 178 British built steam locomotives went to Portugal (besides diesels and electrics, some mentioned up thread), of which ten (possibly eleven) survive. Here's another - a rather spectacular "one-off" 2-2-2 built by Beyer Peacock (BP 328/1862), on display with carriages from the royal train. I first saw the locomotive/carriages at Santarém twenty years ago, but as with many items from the National Collection were moved to Entroncamento as the museum there was expanded and now has its own display hall. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
upneysidings Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 25 minutes ago, EddieB said: Yes, Fairburn, with various building dates given during the 1850s. It was preserved in working order for a long time at Braga, then moved to store at Nine before going to Entroncamento a couple of years ago. I believe there is an intention to move it again, nearer to its sphere of operation (Minho-Douro), but when I checked (before visiting in 2022) such plans weren't immediate. A shot on my web site taken outdoors when the 1850's 2-2-2T was displayed at Braga: 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben B Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 17 hours ago, Mol_PMB said: Many British-built locos and/or designs were exported to Portugal but this is a particularly early and strange-looking example! The cab roof is unlike anything I’ve ever seen before! Built in 1857 and used until the 1920s, it is now preserved at Entroncamento. Anyone else thinking this might be one for the "show us your pugbash" thread? :) Although I'm thinking that might be good for a build for my garden line, looks suitably Steampunk, especially the roof... thanks for sharing! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
25kV Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 On 22/01/2024 at 13:44, TTDB said: Not so much as a British outline but BREL did supply Taiwan railways with some MK2 based EMU units in the 1970s unfortunately all now withdrawn from service They even had AEI "cross-arm" pantographs (as originally on Class 87s). 🙂 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
25kV Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 The Cuban 47s got a mention about 10 years ago, but always worth a revisit: Photo by John Stein on Flickr: 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevsmiththai Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 (edited) The Thai Super Sprinters were built on a parallel production line to the Class 158s.Uprated Air Conditioning, Leather seats ( To Control bed bugs)and ,of course metre gauge. In service the air conditioning has proved to be the achilles heal of the class with several laid up waiting for repairs last time I was there The lack of gangway connections is obvious ABC Buckeye couplers are the norm in Thailand Edited January 25 by kevsmiththai 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevsmiththai Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 There was a lot of advertising vynils getting put on coaching stock. The BRELs were not immune 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold rodent279 Posted January 26 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 26 On 22/01/2024 at 13:44, TTDB said: Not so much as a British outline but BREL did supply Taiwan railways with some MK2 based EMU units in the 1970s unfortunately all now withdrawn from service Pretty much mk2e/f outline class 312's with a more up to date control system. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordonwis Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 (edited) '8F' 45153 at Ulukisla in the 1970s Photos by my late uncle, Jeremy Wiseman As ever with Turkey, a fascinating 'geopolitical' (and loading gauge) mix with the 8F attached to a DRG 'Hecht' coach Edited January 27 by Gordonwis 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chen Melling Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 It seems this fascinating thread has yet to mention one of the most historically significant British-outline locomotive to have worked overseas, one that is actually now being restored back in the UK - LMS 7069, one of the forefathers of the numerous Class 08. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LMS_shunter_No_7069.jpg https://www.pressreader.com/uk/rail-uk/20190911/282900912277171 I actually never heard of it until recently reading "British Rail Fleet Survey 7: Diesel Shunters" by Brian Harensnape, whence I duly googled this adorable photo of the loco when used in France: (source: https://www.cheminots.net/topic/40418-transvap-beillé-72/) 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevsmiththai Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 (edited) A few years ago I was exhibiting one of my Z gauge layouts at at a model railway show. Most trade stands have little interest for me as they are mainly new and second hand 00 and but there was one that has a box of colour slides. "What are they ? " I asked the vendor " Dunno, make me an offer" I'd had a quick look and there was some useful stuff so a deal was done. Sparse captions and quite a few are mysteries on the Southern region but, in amongst it, were some shots taken in Turkey of 8F 45160 just before loading onto Vikingland for its return to the U.K in 1989 with the dockside cranes in the background Noticeable air res tanks on the footplate The Turkish crew On board Vikingland prior to departure In steam on the dockside . As I understand the loco had recently been overhauled and was allowed to be steamed when it arrived at Swanage after unloading at Immingham Have a load of stuff of it on arrival at Swanage if anybody is intereted kev Edited February 12 by kevsmiththai 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevsmiththai Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 (edited) One of my great regrets, when I was in Thailand ,was getting to Kabin Buri and not photographing the surviving Brush 0-6-0T posed on the turntable there. I had been tipped off by the traincrew that they were not hanging around and that our train might be the last of of the day due to the weather Brush Engineering are not well known as steam loco builder but there were some Falcon works examples worldwide No 62 showing its metre gauge profile with Chopper coupling 61 was outside Makkasan works, I understand it has now been cosmetically restored and put on display at Hua Lamphong station in Bangkok Kev Edited February 12 by kevsmiththai 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
whart57 Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 A YouTube video has been posted recently confirming than No. 61 is indeed among the exhibits at Hualamphong. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieB Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 Or even a photo from last August showing no. 61 in new company at Hua Lamphong terminus, Bangkok... 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevsmiththai Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 And the Makkasan Henchel I see 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevsmiththai Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 So looking at the Video North British 4-6-0 165 is there along with Brush 0-6-0T 61. Ex Rhaetien Bahn 2-8-0 336, Hanomag 4-6-2 278, Henschel 0-6-0T 54 and the two Davenports. pretty much the enitre Makasan demic siding really except C56 2-6-0 733 ( Which was very tatty and incomplete). The cosmetic restoration of these is pretty incredible, almost too good Need to go and have a look for myself although my next full size project, Thomas Hill 0-6-0DH 10111 ( BNFL no 2) leaves Sellafield for the Eden Valley Railway at Warcop tomorrow and I have quite a bit of work to do getting the controls converted back to normal and training the crews on how to drive it ( Back when I was 'On the spanners' before becoming a Boss) it was my pet engine at Sellafield Sadly can't be there for it coming out, Still laid up with a broken ankle so tramping around sidingsin Cumbria with my leg in plaster is not really on 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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