Bulwell Hall Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 13 hours ago, Coach bogie said: I feel I need to highlight that the Kernow bogies are fitted with heavy duty axle boxes. These axle boxes were designed heavy vehicles such as 70 ft Dreadnoughts, Concertinas rail motors, and bogie bolsters wagons etc that carried extra weight. They were not commonly used on siphons and shorter toplights, where the more common and familiar OK GWR OK axle boxes were used. Once the Collett heavy duty bogies started to appear many coaches were rebogied and the Fish belly and Americans with the heavy duty axle boxes were pooled and reused. I suggest you check photographs to see where they were redeployed. I only have only found two siphon images and a couple of toplights showing them being used. They were clearly being used but not in great numbers. Heavy duty axle box General service OK axle box This is the only image I have of an early siphon with the Heavy duty axle boxes. Note the rod truss underframe. Mike Wiltshire Also it is not possible to alter the Kernow bogies to EM or P4 as there is insufficient space between the over thick frames. Gerry 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Harlequin Posted April 26 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 26 (edited) Hi Rob, Did you see that a small cache of four lovely colour photos from the 1950's was recently posted in "Everything Great Western" on Facebook? Kingsbridge, Gara Bridge, Brent and <Not sure, possibly Brent again?> Edited April 26 by Harlequin Corrected FB group name 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BWsTrains Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 (edited) 17 minutes ago, Harlequin said: "GWR Modellers" on Facebook IMO this migration to using such sites which are associated in any way with the horrific transmission of graphic violence is a big negative for our society. Supporting them is endorsing them It may not have made news there but in OZ it stoked a wave of sectarian violence which erupted after Facebook and X transmitted video of the event. I'll have nothing to do with them. Edited April 26 by BWsTrains 2 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Harlequin Posted April 26 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 26 3 minutes ago, BWsTrains said: IMO this migration to using such sites which are associated in any way with the horrific transmission of graphic violence is a big negative for our society. Supporting them is endorsing them It may not have made news here but in OZ it stoked a wave of sectarian violence which erupted after Facebook and X transmitted video of the event. I'll have nothing to do with them. That was not the kind of response I was expecting! The problem is people, not Facebook. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted April 26 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 26 31 minutes ago, Harlequin said: Hi Rob, Did you see that a small cache of four lovely colour photos from the 1950's was recently posted in "GWR Modellers" on Facebook? Kingsbridge, Gara Bridge, Brent and <Not sure, possibly Brent again?> Not a member but would be happy to see them if possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Harlequin Posted April 26 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 26 20 minutes ago, gwrrob said: Not a member but would be happy to see them if possible. Sorry, I quoted the wrong group. It's actually in "Everything Great Western". But the problem with sharing the pictures is the same: They are both private groups so I can't provide a link that would work and I can't simply extract the photos. I'll see what I can do. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BWsTrains Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 1 hour ago, Harlequin said: The problem is people, not Facebook. No. There'll always be an evil minority, it's giving them an uncontrolled voice I'm protesting. Facebook policy is the issue, $$$$ driven. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Andy Keane Posted April 26 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 26 (edited) 2 minutes ago, Tim Dubya said: What a wonderful set of images. A better world. Edited April 26 by Andy Keane 3 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Harlequin Posted April 26 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 26 15 minutes ago, Tim Dubya said: You obviously must have seen my post in EGW asking permission to post the images. Why didn't you wait for the answer. Did you get permission? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted April 26 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 26 21 minutes ago, Tim Dubya said: How close did I come to doing something featuring small prairies..........There's something about Kingsbridge. Rob 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Harlequin Posted April 26 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 26 Just now, Tim Dubya said: I am not in the EGW group, the images were from the Railways of Devon & Cornwall but deleted now so you can stop crying. Everyone seems to be very stressed out today. I was just trying to do the right thing and check it was OK before copying someone else's images and posting them here. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted April 26 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 26 Those images have a very Peter Gray look to them. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted April 26 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 26 1 hour ago, NHY 581 said: How close did I come to doing something featuring small prairies..........There's something about Kingsbridge. Rob I'd pay a fortune to still be able to stay in those camping coaches at Gara Bridge. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted April 26 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 26 I could be tempted by one of these beasts from Rapido, anyone else up for a S160. 10 6 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TrevorP1 Posted April 26 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 26 53 minutes ago, gwrrob said: I could be tempted by one of these beasts from Rapido, anyone else up for a S160. The Southern had half a dozen at Exmouth Junction. They were normally used in the Salisbury direction but one strayed over the North Cornwall line and got lost in the sidings at Delabole. By the time it was found, the boat for France had gone. Shame to waste a good engine... 6 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penrhos1920 Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 1 hour ago, gwrrob said: I could be tempted by one of these beasts from Rapido, anyone else up for a S160. I need 100 of them to model Penrhos in 1944. I think it’ll be cheaper to stick to modelling 1920 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Fatadder Posted April 26 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 26 1 hour ago, gwrrob said: I could be tempted by one of these beasts from Rapido, anyone else up for a S160. There are numerous things that are much more pressing, yet my finger keeps hovering over the buy button..... I have a Hornby Grange that I have weathered but never got round to fitting a decoder, quite tempted to see what I can get for it on ebay to cover part of the cost of one of these..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted April 26 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 26 3 minutes ago, The Fatadder said: There are numerous things that are much more pressing, yet my finger keeps hovering over the buy button..... I have a Hornby Grange that I have weathered but never got round to fitting a decoder, quite tempted to see what I can get for it on ebay to cover part of the cost of one of these..... Rapido haven't given the exact locos and liveries that they are producing yet, so no option to order one yet anyway @The Fatadder 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Harlequin Posted April 26 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted April 26 (edited) For what it's worth here are the images from Everything Great Western, copied with permission: They seem to be photographs of prints and digging around a bit, I find that some of them have been seen before so apologies if these are nothing new to you. One of them is credited to Peter Gray elsewhere so do you think they are all his? Edited April 26 by Harlequin 21 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BWsTrains Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 The first photo is quite like the one by Peter Gray from "West Country Railways" as posted on my topic here https://www.rmweb.co.uk/forums/topic/173620-upper-hembury-east-devon-a-gwr-sr-branch-line/?do=findComment&comment=5297368 in fact you could have a great game of "Spot the differences" between the two. In the finest tradition of Railway modelling one has a bus the other not! Your post is taken from a slightly changed position, I guess any day looks much like another on a sleepy Branch Line. Yours has large Prairie 5573 , the photo from the book is Small Prairie 4561. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BWsTrains Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 6 hours ago, TrevorP1 said: The Southern had half a dozen at Exmouth Junction. They were normally used in the Salisbury direction but one strayed over the North Cornwall line and got lost in the sidings at Delabole. By the time it was found, the boat for France had gone. Shame to waste a good engine... Slightly over-weight to run up from Exmouth Jct into Upper Hembury I'm afraid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 46444 Posted April 27 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 27 11 hours ago, Harlequin said: For what it's worth here are the images from Everything Great Western, copied with permission: They seem to be photographs of prints and digging around a bit, I find that some of them have been seen before so apologies if these are nothing new to you. One of them is credited to Peter Gray elsewhere so do you think they are all his? A copy of the third photo used to hang in the Pack Horse in South Brent. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post gwrrob Posted April 27 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted April 27 ANTB briefly turns into Coventry Colliery in 1964 as 1509 shunts some wagons. 20 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted April 27 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 27 36 minutes ago, gwrrob said: ANTB briefly turns into Coventry Colliery in 1964 as 1509 shunts some wagons. Rob, are you going to model that thingy on the chimbley (technical terms)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Limpley Stoker Posted April 27 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 27 (edited) That’s to stop birds nesting in the nice warm flue Edited April 27 by Limpley Stoker 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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