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

[colin penfold]

Please God let me have the coaches in the right order.

 

 Green one, green one, green one, green one.

 

Simples....

 

Aleksander Bulleid

[Clive Mortimore]

33 minutes ago, gwrrob said:

A beautiful sunny day in the South Hams and you probably weren't expecting to see Battle of Britain class 21C149 Anti Aircraft Command on a down express.

 

Please God let me have the coaches in the right order.

 

Hi Rob

 

I know I am not wise to the goings on in Bandit Country but has the driver of the processed meat tin engine taken a wrong turning? I am sure 2 many spams or the duck will enlighten me.

[The Fatadder]

10 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said:

Hi Rob

 

I know I am not wise to the goings on in Bandit Country but has the driver of the processed meat tin engine taken a wrong turning? I am sure 2 many spams or the duck will enlighten me.

North devon line must be closed  for a Southern loco to be passing through Brent pulling green coaches, although if it was hauling a BTK, TK, CK, BTK in great western colours that would be correct for the daily Plymouth Exeter  working that the southern powered in order to maintain route knowledge for the aforementioned diversions.

[gwrrob]

44 minutes ago, colin penfold said:

 

 Green one, green one, green one, green one.

 

Simples....

 

Aleksander Bulleid

 

Now you know there's more to it than that.

 

 

[brushman47544]

2 hours ago, gwrrob said:

Please God let me have the coaches in the right order.

 

Very clever, we can only see the first coach. At least that’s the right way round.

[A Murphy]

Are there little green people in the coaches?

 

A Murf with a hangover.....

[gwrrob]

2 hours ago, brushman47544 said:

 

Very clever, we can only see the first coach. 

 

Is this better then.

 

 

 

[Oldddudders]

1 hour ago, gwrrob said:

 

Is this better then.

 

 

 

Well - yes and no. We can now see the full four vehicles, but the third one doesn’t make sense in Southern terms. The Southern made most of its coaches up into permanent sets, and in most cases those sets had a BTK at both outer ends. The set number would be painted on the end of the brake. Here we have a brake mid-set, which was not usual. So flipping that third coach and placing it at the rear of the train would be better. However, comma, I fear one of the brakes may be a BCK, rather than BTK, and they tended only to appear in 2-coach sets, a specialist subject about which that Spams chappie is particularly knowledgeable. 

Edited August 25, 2019 by Oldddudders

[gwrrob]

We better wait for the third umpire to check then Dudds.

[brianusa]

6 hours ago, Miss Prism said:

 

Dunno about Old Hill bank, but the Prairies were (just) into the red engine zone, whereas the Moguls were at the upper end of the blue zone. Not much in it, actually, but maybe the Prairies had the edge in terms of tractive grip at the rail. Moguls pay the penalty also of having to haul a tender around (typically 1.5 carriages worth), but of course have the advantage of a far greater coal and water capacity. Horses for courses, I guess.

 

I like 9351. Its parallel chimney gives it a bit of class.

 

 

 

 

 

The copper capped parallel chimney gilds the GW green lily with even more class,  irrespective of its parentage.  If some of more critical bent would have their way it would have been black all over, looking like most of the others .

       Brian.

[Captain Kernow]

9 hours ago, Clearwater said:

What’s the considered view on the mogul given it’s origins? 

I refuse to condemn it.

 

[Captain Kernow]

11 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said:

Have you noticed 99 times out of 100 it is the hubby who is driving with that contented "I am on my holiday" look. She is sat next to him looking quite submissive. When they arrive he is boasting to the other blokes about how he likes the freedom of the open road as she is busy cooking his tea. The only time he does the cooking is when it is BBQ night, only men can cook with real fire.

I find such 'macho male' individuals to be execrable.

 

[Captain Kernow]

7 hours ago, gwrrob said:

you probably weren't expecting to see Battle of Britain class 21C149 Anti Aircraft Command on a down express

That's right, Robin, I wasn't expecting that. It was a nice surprise.

 

[Captain Kernow]

Just think carefully, should you be tempted to run anything from the 'LNER'.

 

[colin penfold]

Except the pigeon van, obviously

 

D. Dastardly

[Welchester]

3 hours ago, Captain Kernow said:

Just think carefully, should you be tempted to run anything from the 'LNER'.

 

 

What is this thing of which you speak?

[gwrrob]

[Captain Kernow]

I find myself thinking that this shade of green is rather restful on the eye.

 

[gwrrob]

55 minutes ago, Captain Kernow said:

I find myself thinking that this shade of green is rather restful on the eye.

 

 

Always happy to oblige the Southern followers of this thread, there's quite a few when all said and done.

[St Enodoc]

1 hour ago, gwrrob said:

 

Always happy to oblige the Southern followers of this thread, there's quite a few when all said and done.

True enough. I think I'm further South than most.

[Ashley Bridge]

If you were the other side of Exeter, in the domain of the Duck, the mixture of part rakes would be usual. It was normal practice to detach/attach  a single BCK for say, the Seaton Branch, or a BTK/CK pair for a heavier day, so only the main through trains used the longer sets.

Watch me get shot down in flames now

Rich

[Clive Mortimore]

18 hours ago, Captain Kernow said:

Just think carefully, should you be tempted to run anything from the 'LNER'.

 

 

3 hours ago, gwrrob said:

 

Always happy to oblige the Southern followers of this thread, there's quite a few when all said and done.

So what about us from the right side of the country? A nice 1500, or a Footballer with some coaches in natural wood livery. Love-er-ly

[brushman47544]

2 hours ago, Ashley Bridge said:

If you were the other side of Exeter, in the domain of the Duck, the mixture of part rakes would be usual. It was normal practice to detach/attach  a single BCK for say, the Seaton Branch, or a BTK/CK pair for a heavier day, so only the main through trains used the longer sets.

Watch me get shot down in flames now

Rich

 

You are indeed correct about the BCKs. The ACE, for example, was full of them off-peak when it ran as a single multi-portioned train. However, as Olddudders said above, when longer coach sets were used, singly or in multiple, they were formed with the brake coaches (4 or 6 compartment BTKs) and their brake van areas outermost.

[Captain Kernow]

56 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said:

 

So what about us from the right side of the country? A nice 1500, or a Footballer with some coaches in natural wood livery. Love-er-ly

Do you mean that you are from the right-hand side of the country or the correct side of the country?

 

[Clive Mortimore]

24 minutes ago, Captain Kernow said:

Do you mean that you are from the right-hand side of the country or the correct side of the country?

 

 Well it is both at the same time. 

 

A map showing how to upset most of the UK in one go.