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

[John Besley]

5322 looks too cream to be Khaki or is it just the photo?

 

 

Edited February 3 by John Besley

[gwrrob]

On 26/01/2024 at 17:11, sjrixon said:

Is the railcar run in yet? We want more pictures!!!! 

 

Sorry for the delay.😉

 

 

 

 

[Fair Oak Junction]

14 minutes ago, John Besley said:

5322 looks too cream to be Khaki or is it just the photo?

 

Certainly model photo lighting often does light colours no favour, but it's such an overly light tone I'm not sure it's correct even in normal light.

It would be interesting to see one in the flesh.

[Mike_Walker]

Here's the GWS interpretation, I presume they got it reasonably correct.

 

Edited February 3 by Mike_Walker
Typo - sausage fingers!

[Fair Oak Junction]

The GWS Khaki is definitely closer to what I would expect of a loco painted in such a scheme. Black and drab green seem to have been the most common ROD/WDLR colours, which I feel would blend in better in the European theatre. Khaki I guess would have been more useful in the Middle East theatre.

But end of the day you can only do so much to try and camouflage a steam loco. It's still going to be pretty obvious to any pilot 😄

Edit: I also can't help but feel that if you are trying to have your locos blend into the scenery more, painting huge block letters/numbers on them in white is counterproductive.

Edited February 3 by Fair Oak Junction

[Ian Hargrave]

So where did they serve during The Great War ?

[Nick Gough]

29 minutes ago, Fair Oak Junction said:

But end of the day you can only do so much to try and camouflage a steam loco. It's still going to be pretty obvious to any pilot 

 

Watch out for the Fokkers!

[Fair Oak Junction]

50 minutes ago, Ian Hargrave said:

So where did they serve during The Great War ?

 

I wish I still had my ROD book on hand, it has some good info on where locos were distributed.

 

46 minutes ago, Nick Gough said:

Watch out for the Fokkers!

 

As ex-LBSCR D3 365 ‘Victoria' proved in the Second World War, it doesn't always end well for pilots attacking trains 😉

Edited February 3 by Fair Oak Junction

[1466]

5 minutes ago, Ian Hargrave said:

So where did they serve during The Great War ?

There  is photo at Didcot ( I recall) of one in the Middle East on a barge ! being floated across a river .

An enthusiastic female volunteer showed me the brackets welded into the corners of the cab roof  to hold Army rifles .She explained that the crews were soldiers in the ROD first and railway crew second .

My maternal grandfather was a plate layer and volunteered in August 1914 so ended up in the ROD .

[Captain Kernow]

2 hours ago, Fair Oak Junction said:

As ex-LBSCR D3 365 ‘Victoria' proved in the Second World War, it doesn't always end well for pilots attacking trains 😉

Don't tell me the German pilot anticipated that awful first 'Mission Impossible' film and followed the loco into a tunnel?...

 

[Fair Oak Junction]

It's quite a good story. For those who haven't heard it before:

[John Besley]

3 hours ago, Fair Oak Junction said:

It's quite a good story. For those who haven't heard it before:

 

So she was obviously rebuilt to last untill 1952... did she have a German cross added to the cabside ... 

[Fair Oak Junction]

4 minutes ago, John Besley said:

So she was obviously rebuilt to last untill 1952... did she have a German cross added to the cabside ... 

 

She didn't but she absolutely should have done! 😄 And yes it's great that she wasn't just written off there and then.

[St Enodoc]

10 hours ago, Nick Gough said:

Watch out for the Fokkers!

Well, nobody else has bitten, so:

 

"No, those Fokkers were Messerschmidts!"

[Tim Dubya]

13 minutes ago, St Enodoc said:

Well, nobody else has bitten, so:

 

"No, those Fokkers were Messerschmidts!"

 

and if you don't know...

 

 

 

[gwrrob]

A feature I do like on the Kernow railmotor are the blank destination boards that come with it. You get four in the polybag and I've liaised with John Peck at Precision Labels to produce bespoke destinations in self adhesive vinyl to fit to these. More on these anon.

 

 

 

[St Enodoc]

13 minutes ago, gwrrob said:

A feature I do like on the Kernow railmotor are the blank destination boards that come with it. You get four in the polybag and I've liaised with John Peck at Precision Labels to produce bespoke destinations in self adhesive vinyl to fit to these. More on these anon.

 

 

 

That photo just emphasises the grossness of the lamp...

[Miss Prism]

I'm not convinced the destination boards should have a perimeter beading - I thought they were just a plain board.

 

[Miss Prism]

Hmmm, there might be beading on this early destination board, and the early boards do seem like they have rounded corners.

 

 

[longchap]

1 hour ago, St Enodoc said:

That photo just emphasises the grossness of the lamp...

 

I think some smokey black wash may tone it down to a less striking degree, but will need to wait for mine to arrive after Kernow do final fettling.

 

[gwrrob]

3 minutes ago, Miss Prism said:

Hmmm, there might be beading on this early destination board, and the early boards do seem like they have rounded corners.

 

 

 

That's also the railmotor [No.45] that ran the short lived service between Saltash and Kingsbridge, usually seen on the Plymouth suburban service, a photo of it is in the Middleton Press book on the branch. Not fitted with boards but mine will be 😉

[Mikkel]

And Flora Finching sat on the bench. But where is Minnie and why are they in Penzance?

[figworthy]

1 hour ago, Mikkel said:

And Flora Finching sat on the bench. But where is Minnie and why are they in Penzance?

 

Minnie is probably in the ladies, and the two of them were having a day out.

 

Adrian

[gwrrob]

1 hour ago, Mikkel said:

And Flora Finching sat on the bench. But where is Minnie and why are they in Penzance?

 

2 minutes ago, figworthy said:

 

Minnie is probably in the ladies, and the two of them were having a day out.

 

Adrian

 

They might have joined the other pilgrims in visiting St Michael's Mount.

[Captain Kernow]

1 minute ago, gwrrob said:

 

 

They might have joined the other pilgrims in visiting St Michael's Mount.

Surely they have simply popped into the nearest tea shoppe, for a cup of tea and a toasted teacake, like all civilised individuals?

 

Edited February 4 by Captain Kernow