RMweb Premium melmerby Posted March 12 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 12 (edited) 1 hour ago, GMKAT7 said: Good evening Melmerby, Spot on! The area shown in the satellite photo/Google Earth view as Bedworth Leisure Centre is in what was formerly the Miners Welfare Park and the Bedworth Baths/Gym is the Leisure Centre. The area below those words used to be a pitch and putt course, where I spent my Tuesday mornings whilst in the sixth form. It was that or proper exercise! The exchange sidings were to the East (right) of the park, where the line curved into the colliery branch. Cheers, Nigel. I worked for a few years at a firm right next to Hawkesbury Junction on the canal. There was the trackbed of a railway running right alongside the unit. It used to be the Wyken Coilliery Branch and Exhall footbridge was made from the girders of the bridge over the canal. It's all houses now! Edited March 12 by melmerby 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMKAT7 Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 Hello Melmerby, Know it well. When I went to Foxford School (other side of the M6) we used to call in at Sutton Stop, Hawkesbury Junction. The old railway bridge was still in place when I started there in 1971. On Blackhorse Road there was also a Charringtons fuel depot right by Hawkesbury crossing and signal box. As you say, all changed now. Although the Greyhound pub is still there I believe and used to serve a damn fine pint of Bass 🙂 Cheers, Nigel. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
62613 Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 18 hours ago, woodenhead said: Less trees 🤣 Fewer! 4 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mol_PMB Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 From Dave Sallery on Flickr, a TC-set seriously off-piste, and it’s not even a railtour: 12 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted March 13 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 13 21 minutes ago, Mol_PMB said: From Dave Sallery on Flickr, a TC-set seriously off-piste, and it’s not even a railtour Quote "On July 1st 1989 Network SouthEast ran an excursion from Wareham to Bangor formed of 33109 and two of the 4TC push pull sets" A railtour is anything that isn't part of the normal passenger timetable, so an excursion to Bangor from NSE territory surely qualifies? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mol_PMB Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 I’m not going to argue the point, but it’s a bit more complex than that. For example a footex isn’t a railtour. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold nigb55009 Posted March 13 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 13 S0 if" A railtour is anything that isn't part of the normal passenger timetable" what does that make rail replacement buses? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted March 13 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 13 Bustitution tour?😄 Although the bus is actually deputising for the real timetable. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 No, it's not the lovely old 1/72nsd scale FIAT 124 Spider... it's the Wills embossed plastic stone sheeting, complete with unsightly gap...! 12 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave75 Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 B1 propelling 2 Pullmans on the Darnall triangle, it must be the Master Cutler stock. One can only assume it's propelled them from Nunnery CS to Darnall West junction, pulled them down to Attercliffe junction, then crossed over and is propelling them back to Nunnery via Woodburn Junction Was it common certain parts of a rake to be turned in this fashion? 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted March 16 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 16 (edited) The Carriage Working Notices specified not only the order of the coaches but which way round certain coaches should be e.g. restaurant coaches noted as 'kitchen north' or brake coaches 'brake van south' etc. The example in the pic maybe more likely to happen in trains with portions and/or reversals en route. Of course, it may be replacement coaches being prepared for formation due to a faulty coach or for maintenance etc. Edited March 16 by keefer 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 9 hours ago, keefer said: The Carriage Working Notices specified not only the order of the coaches but which way round certain coaches should be ... At first sight we've got two identical Kitchen Cars with the kitchen ends coupled ............ but the all-steel vehicle leading will be a Kitchen First and the wooden-bodied one a Kitchen Third so positioning is probably important. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingEdwardII Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 On 13/03/2024 at 18:08, nigb55009 said: what does that make rail replacement buses? A pain in the neck. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted March 17 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 17 (edited) 27 minutes ago, KingEdwardII said: A pain in the neck. Back in the 13 era - 313 in 2013. Kate's not the only one to do dodgy Photoshop jobs. Yes, it was snapped at Lewes, but it was heading to Seaford. Edited March 17 by phil_sutters 3 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 Code 83 to code 100 join: https://www.railpictures.net/photo/853680/ 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishplate Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 26 minutes ago, pH said: Code 83 to code 100 join: https://www.railpictures.net/photo/853680/ Hopefully there is something more substantial holding the track to gauge on the other side of these rails😬 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted March 17 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 17 4 hours ago, Fishplate said: Hopefully there is something more substantial holding the track to gauge on the other side of these rails😬 A couple more spikes?🙂 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 Using caravans as track-end buffers? What could possiby go wrong? Or is this a remake of that Top Gear episode, with the caravan trains? 5 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Cuttle Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 On 16/03/2024 at 21:46, Wickham Green too said: At first sight we've got two identical Kitchen Cars with the kitchen ends coupled ............ but the all-steel vehicle leading will be a Kitchen First and the wooden-bodied one a Kitchen Third so positioning is probably important. Some Kitchen 3rds were all steel. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
proton Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 Yes, but the roof details identify the First class car as a 1928 All-steel K car, whilst the third class is a standard K car with underframe trussing and wooden body. John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Cuttle Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 4 hours ago, proton said: Yes, but the roof details identify the First class car as a 1928 All-steel K car, whilst the third class is a standard K car with underframe trussing and wooden body. John Yes i see that, i built a lot of O gauge Westdale kits some twenty+ years ago and got really into them and all their detail differences. I remember that some the VSOE steel cars had a mock truss underframe for aesthetic reasons to mimic the older wooden bodies cars. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 18 hours ago, Captain Cuttle said: Some Kitchen 3rds were all steel. The window spacing of the All-Steel shouts 'First' to me - it's far tighter on the 'K' class. Operationally, we have a main line propelling move without any specific accommodation for the Guard ....... fully vac. braked so fine from that point of view but is the chap who's nominally in charge of the train travelling on the - very comfortable - cushions or is he slumming it on the footplate ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Nick C Posted March 19 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 19 21 minutes ago, Wickham Green too said: The window spacing of the All-Steel shouts 'First' to me - it's far tighter on the 'K' class. Operationally, we have a main line propelling move without any specific accommodation for the Guard ....... fully vac. braked so fine from that point of view but is the chap who's nominally in charge of the train travelling on the - very comfortable - cushions or is he slumming it on the footplate ! I'd have thought he'd be in the leading vestibule giving handsignals to the driver? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 That is a possibility - but with no gangway door and inward-opening passenger doors ( without droplights ) that wouldn't be the safest place to linger ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Steven B Posted March 19 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 19 Due to batch production, you have to take what you can get when you're starting out with a new model railway... Class 31-Hauled Coach Move At Holgate. by Neil Harvey 156, on Flickr 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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