RMweb Premium melmerby Posted May 24, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 24, 2021 Pre 1963 as there is still active third rail leading to the High Level bridge. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 48 minutes ago, melmerby said: Pre 1963 as there is still active third rail leading to the High Level bridge. Late 1950s at the latest - the A4 still has the cycling lion on the tender. 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted May 25, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 25, 2021 Looks like 60002 which was at Gateshead for all (?) of it's BR career. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post montyburns56 Posted May 25, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 25, 2021 Guess the number of brake vans in this picture... Toton Yard 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
73c Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 Counting but still a guess at 18, with a bonus point for the wagon with a Hot Box 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
caradoc Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 37 minutes ago, 73c said: Counting but still a guess at 18, with a bonus point for the wagon with a Hot Box Which looks like a slope-sided version; Maybe a BSCO wagon ? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 24 minutes ago, caradoc said: Which looks like a slope-sided version; Maybe a BSCO wagon ? I don't think there'd be anything else like that around by then ! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 Also scope for a version based on spotting how many variations of BR steel mineral wagon are visible. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titan Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 I think my guess would be "all of them" 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 On 19/05/2021 at 19:54, eastwestdivide said: Were they a conversion specifically for this traffic? 'Converted' to the extent of having longitudinal beams as cradles. These all seem to be vac-fitted and BR-operated, and would have originated at SCoW's Port Talbots (Abbey) works. There were others that RTB bought for the same traffic, from their Spencer ( Llanwern) plant. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 On 23/05/2021 at 19:08, montyburns56 said: I believe that's an ex-LMS 6-Wheel Stove R in the train, which may not have been that unusual at the time, but still..... Pontardulais May 1963 The train is bound for Llanelli . The line to the right of the platform is the one served by trains on the ex-LN&WR line from Swansea (Victoria). The train is about to run into a short (88 yards) tunnel, which carries the Llanelli- Pontarddulais road. This road then descended to cross the L&NWR line on the level 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Steven B Posted May 26, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 26, 2021 I can't imagine that this combination of a Royal Mail Red Class 128 and a NSE Mk1 BG taken in Manchester was a regular occurrence: Class128DMU@McrPicc by Richard Vogel, on Flickr It's very modelable though! 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 6 hours ago, Titan said: I think my guess would be "all of them" Ah ...... can you point out the dia.1/116 aluminium-bodied one(s), please - I've always wondered what they looked like after umpteen years in traffic ! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karhedron Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 On 22/05/2021 at 20:41, Bulleidnutter said: Milk from Torrington is the most likely explaination. The Hawksworth BG and the Maunsell Van B will be carrying churns. The yellow/ orange patches denote the van being stove fitted. Churn traffic was pretty much extinct by the 1960s so I doubt there would have been much left in 1963. Also Torrington was a pretty modern dairy as it had a major rebuild after WW2 so churns would have been unlikely. Thirdly, the Torridge Vale dairy was located about a mile away from the station. Milk was driven down to the station in tanker lorries and loaded in the old goods shed which was converted into a filling point. Churns would have been twice as unweidly as at dairies with a direct rail connection as they would have had to be driven to the station, unloaded from the lorry and then loaded into the vans, all while warming. The passenger brake vans in milk trains were almost exclusively for the Guard by the 1960s. 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted May 27, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 27, 2021 Fed up with Network Rail yellow (sorry newbryford....)? How about some Jaffa Cakes? 081 track recording unit is seen near Chislehurst Junction on 29-1-92. Copyright Ian Cuthbertson by Ian Cuthbertson, on Flickr 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted May 27, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 27, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, Karhedron said: Churn traffic was pretty much extinct by the 1960s so I doubt there would have been much left in 1963. Also Torrington was a pretty modern dairy as it had a major rebuild after WW2 so churns would have been unlikely. Thirdly, the Torridge Vale dairy was located about a mile away from the station. Milk was driven down to the station in tanker lorries and loaded in the old goods shed which was converted into a filling point. Churns would have been twice as unweidly as at dairies with a direct rail connection as they would have had to be driven to the station, unloaded from the lorry and then loaded into the vans, all while warming. The passenger brake vans in milk trains were almost exclusively for the Guard by the 1960s. I had a friend at Uni who was, how shall I put it, a dairy spotter/photographer. He'd get kicked out of dairies while I would get kicked out of loco depots. Edited May 27, 2021 by brushman47544 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted May 27, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 27, 2021 On 26/05/2021 at 15:08, Wickham Green too said: Ah ...... can you point out the dia.1/116 aluminium-bodied one(s), please - I've always wondered what they looked like after umpteen years in traffic ! It's the one tucked in behind the 2nd Ventilated Van 1 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 Sellafield Station 1982 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben B Posted May 28, 2021 Share Posted May 28, 2021 10 hours ago, montyburns56 said: Sellafield Station 1982 Not sure if the water crane is still there now, but it certainly was in 2007, the last time I used Sellafield station 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karhedron Posted May 28, 2021 Share Posted May 28, 2021 On 27/05/2021 at 14:34, brushman47544 said: I had a friend at Uni who was, how shall I put it, a dairy spotter/photographer. He'd get kicked out of dairies while I would get kicked out of loco depots. I don't suppose you are still in touch? I wouldn't mind a flip through his photo album. Particularly rail-served dairies which gives the best of both worlds. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted May 28, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 28, 2021 11 minutes ago, Karhedron said: I don't suppose you are still in touch? I wouldn't mind a flip through his photo album. Particularly rail-served dairies which gives the best of both worlds. 'fraid not. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post montyburns56 Posted May 29, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 29, 2021 Super D 48895 Wolverhampton MR Goods Yard 1963. Or is it 1933? 36 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 I guess Bachmann put the wrong tender in the box ...... 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ramblin Rich Posted May 29, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 29, 2021 1 hour ago, montyburns56 said: Super D 48895 Wolverhampton MR Goods Yard 1963. Or is it 1933? I wonder if the XL5 on the tender is an ironic reference to Gerry Anderson's 'Fireball XL5' - I believe it did start in 1962. 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianmacc Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 1 hour ago, Ramblin Rich said: I wonder if the XL5 on the tender is an ironic reference to Gerry Anderson's 'Fireball XL5' - I believe it did start in 1962. Very sure it is and you beat me to it. Looks very incongruous even though it’s contemporary doesn’t it!!? 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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