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

[Mallard60022]

Woss that then ?

A Swindurn design Boiler with some bits attached.

P

[Siberian Snooper]

Swindon built 8F?

[Welchester]

Donor for a Hawksworth County?

[Captain Kernow]

Someone's hand holding the body of a model railway locomotive, with a pair of pliers or similar artistically placed in the bottom right of the picture.

Edited July 17, 2018 by Captain Kernow

[Captain Kernow]

Other tools are also visible, plus what looks like the surface of a work bench.

[Castle]

Hi All,

 

Don't you just love the way that the Captain cuts down to the nub of the matter?

 

Absolutely right my good Bishop - No. 48518. It's only just part of the collection but it gives us a bit of variety! It could also be said that it's an inside out 28XX with a county boiler perhaps?

 

I'll get my coat...

 

All the best,

 

Castle

[Captain Kernow]

I do like an 8F.

[gwrrob]

A little birdie tells me they’re installing a new footbridge at Totnes, Not as aesthetically pleasing as the old GWR type.

Edited July 17, 2018 by gwrrob

[Captain Kernow]

A little birdie tells me they’re installing a new footbridge at Totnes, Not as aesthetically pleasing as the old GWR type.

You could build a new bread pudding manufacturery faster than NR are building the new footbridge.

 

It's going to be one of those awful, tall, overpowering modern ones with lifts in the towers and steps as well. I don't know why NR felt that Totnes was a priority for one of these, as there is 'level access' between the platforms by using the existing public road bridge.

 

Stations like Dawlish are in more urgent need of a 'disabled-friendly' footbridge.

 

They have also obliterated the former station garden and pond on the upside, although they 'promised' to replace it with 'something equivilent elsewhere on the station'. Who knows whether this will actually transpire.

 

Not sure how the access to the signalbox cafe will be arranged, clearly a set of new steps but not sure whether they'll acquire some sort of disabled-friendly access as well.

 

It's change though, so I don't like it on principle.

[Mallard60022]

Where's Totnes?

Tom Tom

[Worsdell forever]

Where's Totnes?

Tom Tom

Darn sarf...

 

G.A.R Min.

[Northroader]

But, but you need the footbridge to get into the cafe, and they do cooked sausages and stuff, and they’re not electrifying down there for another two hundred years. With you all the way, capten.

[Oldddudders]

Totnes is Totnes. A world of its own, largely populated by people of a sort you won’t meet anywhere near you.

 

Expect nothing normal there.

[NHY 581]

I do like an 8F.

 

Possibly squeeze one onto Bleat..........

[Mulgabill]

Possibly squeeze one onto Bleat..........

It'll need to be 48309 a Bath Green Park loco - with steam heating in case you fancy a railtour visit.

[46444]

Totnesssh!...

 

Crystal Shops, Conker Shoes, Willow Vegetarian Restaurant .....

[brianusa]

A little birdie tells me they’re installing a new footbridge at Totnes, Not as aesthetically pleasing as the old GWR type.

 

Are any of the replacement bridges as aesthetically pleasing as the old GWR type!?

 

Brian.

[Siberian Snooper]

A little birdie tells me they’re installing a new footbridge at Totnes, Not as aesthetically pleasing as the old GWR type.

 

I thought there had been a partial rebuild of the footbridge, after the original was struck by a crane, i can't remember how long ago, that the mishap, happened.

[Stubby47]

Where's Totnes?

Tom Tom

 

 

Darn sarf...

 

G.A.R Min.

 

 

Nah, mate, norf east...

 

Em Met

[Captain Kernow]

Are any of the replacement bridges as aesthetically pleasing as the old GWR type!?

 

Brian.

No.

 

Sorry, Brian!

Actually, belay that thought - the glass fibre/plastic one that replaced the original rusting one at Dawlish is supposed to be an exact copy.

 

No, I'm not joking about the materials used!

[Captain Kernow]

I thought there had been a partial rebuild of the footbridge, after the original was struck by a crane, i can't remember how long ago, that the mishap, happened.

It happened in the late 1980s, as far as I can recall, although Re6/6 may know better.

 

It was a complete replacement, the original bridge was written off.

 

The Engineer in charge of that operation later became a good colleague of mine, but unfortunately had the misfortune to be in charge of a job a few years later when one of his gang, in charge of a R/R machine, managed to demolish a signal gantry controlling the Up Main on Dainton Bank, only a few miles away.

[Stubby47]

That must have been a big crane, to demolish a gantry a few miles away !!

[Captain Kernow]

That must have been a big crane, to demolish a gantry a few miles away !!

Anything's possible if you live in Cornwall, eh, Stubs? 

[Mallard60022]

I too like an 8F, however I couldn't eat a whole one. (Panto time again).

T.Wanky

[81C]

My my you are very lucid today your Duckship nice to see some one happy .

 

BTW did you hear Mike went @sre over B0llOx yesterday in the bedroom

and ended up in  A&E he is back home now, he said he's OK just a bit bruised.

  

  A Hack.

 

Bumped from SOSJ

Edited July 18, 2018 by 81C