A Nod To Brent - a friendly thread, filled with frivolity, cream teas and pasties. Longing for the happy days in the South Hams 1947.

[Captain Kernow]

17 minutes ago, gwrrob said:

Anyone else spot this today in the latest Rapido announcement video.

 

Not sure about that livery!

[checkrail]

The 1940s 'G <crest> W' lettering looks rather good on the small tender.  How many Manor (or, for that matter, other) 3,500 gall. tenders carried that style, and how long did it last? 

[Tim Dubya]

Wasn't there meant to be a Hawksworth County announced today?

 

 

[toboldlygo]

3 hours ago, gwrrob said:

 

Most definitely but probably not to the new year as we don't want to overwork the fragile @toboldlygo 😉

 

 Not dead yet...

[gwrrob]

7819 has gained a Modelu crew and as the fall plate had come away on arrival I replaced it with this etched offering from Precision. Having a fireman slightly obscures the rather gimmicky firebox glow somewhat to a more pleasing effect.

 

 

[John Besley]

On 10/11/2023 at 19:53, gwrrob said:

Anyone else spot this today in the latest Rapido announcement video.

 

4405... Ashburton branch engine back in the 50's

[gwrrob]

On 08/11/2023 at 18:00, Star-rider said:

I came across this yesterday afternoon as I was catching up on the tread again – thanks for sharing.

£190-210 was a no-go but at that sort of discount it seemed viable, so I plucked a card out of the deck and bought one. Caerphilly was always my preference as I believe it spent some time at Wolverhampton and the larger tender should make for a better / easier speaker installation.

I shan’t buy a decoder until it arrives though as there seems to be conflicting information about 8 or 21 pin depending on which website one looks at.

 

Hornby’s latest Castle seen in an unlikely setting of Little Bytham, photo courtesy of @Tony Wright

 

[Oldddudders]

For the benefit of us peasants, TW's pic is full of good things - but how often did a Castle haul clerestories?

[Tony Wright]

12 hours ago, gwrrob said:

 

Hornby’s latest Castle seen in an unlikely setting of Little Bytham, photo courtesy of @Tony Wright

 

Good morning Rob,

 

Highly unlikely I admit, though GWR/WR items have run before on LB on many occasions................

 

Including............ 

 

 

Even a loco I built myself.

 

 

Pre-production samples.

 

 

Right from Bytham's early days, though.................

 

 

This Castle....................

 

 

And this one are more-appropriate.

 

At least three....................

 

 

 

 

Halls, but................

 

 

This one is more-appropriate.................

 

 

How about this for a bit of GWR antiquity?

 

 

And something more up to date (on the right).

 

 

At least one big Prairie as well. 

 

There are more, but these'll do for now.

 

May I ask, please, do you have any shots of LNER locos on Brent?

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

 

P.S. My question is (as expected) tongue in cheek. Your layout thread is one I look at regularly; it's always interesting and entertaining. 

Edited November 13, 2023 by Tony Wright
to add something

[Tony Wright]

1 hour ago, Oldddudders said:

For the benefit of us peasants, TW's pic is full of good things - but how often did a Castle haul clerestories?

Good morning Ian,

 

I have no idea in answer to your question, but given the Castle model represents its condition as-built in 1922, surely there must have been GWR clerestories still running at the start of the Grouping? 

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

[Miss Prism]

https://www.rail-online.co.uk/p974673392/ee7ae3c7b
https://www.rail-online.co.uk/p974673392/eef028ff1
https://www.rail-online.co.uk/p974673392/ef2630f6f

 

[checkrail]

1 hour ago, Oldddudders said:

how often did a Castle haul clerestories?

Plenty of pics in the various 1930s albums showing clerestories in trains hauled by Castles - and, indeed, Kings.

[Oldddudders]

Hey - I'm genuinely glad I asked! Lots of decent pics there, thanks, and as we all know cameras - in them thar days, less so today - really didn't lie. Tony's cornucopia is interesting, too - and I actually saw 60523!

[Limpley Stoker]

I think you ought to scramble your Flying Scotsman now Rob!

[A Murphy]

Or your ROD...... 😅

[Dunsignalling]

1 hour ago, Limpley Stoker said:

I think you ought to scramble your Flying Scotsman now Rob!

I have a heavy duty food processor at the ready.👹

[Tony Wright]

My 'cornucopia' of things GWR/WR on Little Bytham seen earlier seemed to be popular. So, a few more............

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The origins of many of these are lost in the mists of time, but it's been my privilege to have so many visitors bringing their models (of all types) to run on Little Bytham.

 

 

I've even built some GWR types which have run on my depiction of the ECML (though they never appeared in reality, but it's my trainset!).

 

 

Not on Little Bytham (I built this SEF 61XX before Bytham was started), but on Charwelton. 

 

I hope folks like the selection above. 

 

 

 

 

[gwrrob]

2 hours ago, A Murphy said:

Or your ROD...... 😅

 

[gwrrob]

4 hours ago, Tony Wright said:

Good morning Rob,

 

Highly unlikely I admit, though GWR/WR items have run before on LB on many occasions................

 

Including............ 

 

 

Even a loco I built myself.

 

 

Pre-production samples.

 

 

Right from Bytham's early days, though.................

 

 

This Castle....................

 

 

And this one are more-appropriate.

 

At least three....................

 

 

 

 

Halls, but................

 

 

This one is more-appropriate.................

 

 

How about this for a bit of GWR antiquity?

 

 

And something more up to date (on the right).

 

 

At least one big Prairie as well. 

 

There are more, but these'll do for now.

 

May I ask, please, do you have any shots of LNER locos on Brent?

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

 

P.S. My question is (as expected) tongue in cheek. Your layout thread is one I look at regularly; it's always interesting and entertaining. 

 

Some beautiful stuff there Tony , of course if you had Flying Fox I could run it through Brent like the real one did in 1923.

[gwrrob]

5 hours ago, Tony Wright said:

 

I have no idea in answer to your question, but given the Castle model represents its condition as-built in 1922,  

 

 

I'm assuming Tony you have this to review for BRM , so can you share your thoughts on it with potential purchasers that frequent this thread please.

[Harlequin]

24 minutes ago, gwrrob said:

 

Some beautiful stuff there Tony , of course if you had Flying Fox I could run it through Brent like the real one did in 1923.

I guess you mean the famous 1925 exchange trials?

 

Flying Fox was slated to take part in the home runs on the LNER, and was used in the publicity photos, but she ran hot during the first run and was replaced.

 

The loco that ran on the GWR was Victor Wild, driven by Albert Pibworth, "Old Pib".

 

[gwrrob]

22 minutes ago, Harlequin said:

I guess you mean the famous 1925 exchange trials?

 

 

My typo and yes you are correct @Harlequin as I have now found a photo dated 1/5/25 of LNER 4474 Victor Wild heading west. A very busy goods yard in the background.

[Limpley Stoker]

Did Flying Fox leave LNER metals before it failed.? Asking for a friend who has a Hornby Flying Fox …….

Edited November 13, 2023 by Limpley Stoker

[Harlequin]

5 minutes ago, Limpley Stoker said:

Did Flying Fox leave LNER metals before it failed.? Asking for a friend who has a Hornby Flying Fox …….

No. C J Allen says:

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Flying Fox ran very hot on the first down test run and this engine had to come off the train at Corby.

 

[checkrail]

1 hour ago, Tony Wright said:

My 'cornucopia' of things GWR/WR on Little Bytham seen earlier seemed to be popular. So, a few more............

Wonderful stuff!