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2 hours ago, montyburns56 said:

Basingstoke 2021 by Foulger Rail

 

66177 with a Royal Train MK3 coach 2916 working 5Z50 Wolverton Works to Eastleigh Works passes Basingstoke 29/12/21

 


Is that coming off the Reading line? If so, the scene has certainly changed since the 1960s! 😀

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2 hours ago, montyburns56 said:

Basingstoke 2021 by Foulger Rail

 

66177 with a Royal Train MK3 coach 2916 working 5Z50 Wolverton Works to Eastleigh Works passes Basingstoke 29/12/21

 

 

Even includes a white roof Royal train loco embellishment!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(In the case of 66177, it's an experiment to keep the cab cooler in summer)

 

 

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On 26/03/2023 at 19:10, luckymucklebackit said:

How's this for a compressed distance low relief backscene, Weymss Bay Junction Port Glasgow.

 

Jim

 

All buildings on the right gone now.

 

An interesting bit of signage just up the Wemyss Bay line opposite Bogston Station is this:

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On the overhead view it can be seen that this is just a  pedestrian entrance to Bogston station under the Wemyss Bay Branch.

Must be some heavy people in that part of Scotland.🙂

 

I assume it's left from when this was a proper road, but looks very low.

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3 hours ago, melmerby said:

All buildings on the right gone now.

 

An interesting bit of signage just up the Wemyss Bay line opposite Bogston Station is this:

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On the overhead view it can be seen that this is just a  pedestrian entrance to Bogston station under the Wemyss Bay Branch.

Must be some heavy people in that part of Scotland.🙂

 

I assume it's left from when this was a proper road, but looks very low.


Yes, it used to be Bogston Road, which connected the main road (A8) and the Gibbshill scheme. The weak bridge would have been the one over the Gourock line, beyond the bridge under the Wemyss Bay line in that picture.

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18 hours ago, F-UnitMad said:

Oh good grief!! 🙄🙄 some modeller just is NOT trying hard enough there, are they?? 🤦‍♂️🤣🤣

Agreed. Much better hauling your dummy power car with a pair of class 50s:

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One Exercise Session Only. by Stapleton Road, on Flickr

 

Or perhaps when the train set your ordered came with two dummy power cars:

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50008 5Z43 by Rob Reedman, on Flickr

 

 

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Wasn`t it the guards job to change the lenses in the side lamps, depending on which line the train was running? A train, such as that in the photo,

would have three red lights, two side and one tail. If the train were signalled onto the slow line or into a goods loop, then the guard would remove

the red shade from the lamp adjacent to the fast or main line. If the side lamps were carreied at the front of the van, they may not be fully visible

to a train approaching from the rear, such as on right hand curves?

 

 

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On 26/03/2023 at 19:10, luckymucklebackit said:

How's this for a compressed distance low relief backscene, Weymss Bay Junction Port Glasgow.

 

Jim

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The lines going off  to the left have got the perspective all wrong too, 

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