Boscarne Posted April 20, 2013 Share Posted April 20, 2013 Going back to slate dust traffic, have we had this picture before? http://www.flickr.com/photos/irishswissernie/5732822011/sizes/l/in/set-72157626748755256/ Presflo's and a Covhop at Wadebridge! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted April 21, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 21, 2013 Going back to slate dust traffic, have we had this picture before? http://www.flickr.com/photos/irishswissernie/5732822011/sizes/l/in/set-72157626748755256/ Presflo's and a Covhop at Wadebridge! Ernie is an occasional RMwebber. Interesting to note the departing bubble-car with whiskers, rather than yellow panel. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted April 21, 2013 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 21, 2013 Going back to slate dust traffic, have we had this picture before? http://www.flickr.com/photos/irishswissernie/5732822011/sizes/l/in/set-72157626748755256/ Presflo's and a Covhop at Wadebridge! Fantastic shot. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted April 21, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 21, 2013 Going back to slate dust traffic, have we had this picture before? http://www.flickr.com/photos/irishswissernie/5732822011/sizes/l/in/set-72157626748755256/ Presflo's and a Covhop at Wadebridge! I've been trying to decide when this would have been. There is a steam loco in the left distance, with a very white vacuum pipe, which suggests it was going to do something special, probably with the line of brakevans on which the assembly of gricers are almost certainly going to ride. The bubble-car has, as I noted, no yellow panel. There are leaves on the trees. Perhaps the occasion was the 8th September 1962, when the LCGB ran a Wenford Branch Rail Tour with 30587? My source is of course 6 Bells Junction http://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/. The Irwell Press book quotes 30587 as being the last 0298 in the area, and leaving in the same month. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torr Giffard LSWR 1951-71 Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 Going back to slate dust traffic, have we had this picture before? http://www.flickr.com/photos/irishswissernie/5732822011/sizes/l/in/set-72157626748755256/ Presflo's and a Covhop at Wadebridge! ...I was pleased with this picture too as I hadn't considered the option of such wagons this far west. Cheers Dave Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torr Giffard LSWR 1951-71 Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 I've been trying to decide when this would have been. There is a steam loco in the left distance, with a very white vacuum pipe, which suggests it was going to do something special, probably with the line of brakevans on which the assembly of gricers are almost certainly going to ride. The bubble-car has, as I noted, no yellow panel. There are leaves on the trees. Perhaps the occasion was the 8th September 1962, when the LCGB ran a Wenford Branch Rail Tour with 30587? My source is of course 6 Bells Junction http://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/. The Irwell Press book quotes 30587 as being the last 0298 in the area, and leaving in the same month. ...the steam loco appears to be a pannier tank though Ian...could it have been when they were being phased out? Cheers Dave Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted April 21, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 21, 2013 Pannier on the right - 0298 left distance? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torr Giffard LSWR 1951-71 Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 (edited) ...look at how the light catches the top right of what I think is the pannier tank. I may be wrong but the profile of the front end of that loco appears more oblong than round. Dave Edited April 21, 2013 by Torr Giffard LSWR 1951-71 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted April 21, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 21, 2013 I see what you mean, but the detail is indistinct. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torr Giffard LSWR 1951-71 Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 (edited) ...looking at the Bradford Barton book on 'Bodmin and Wadebridge 1834 -1978' 1369 was continually 'dolled up' for the Wenford trips and is pictured in 1964 and 1965 with white buffers etc. There is also a lovely 1951 pic from a similar angle to the one in this thread which shows a caravan on a lowmac wagon in a similar position to the Covhop. Dave Edited April 21, 2013 by Torr Giffard LSWR 1951-71 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted April 21, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 21, 2013 I think the lack of SYP on the bubble-car made me think it might be earlier than that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torr Giffard LSWR 1951-71 Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 ...I was with you on your initial summary and logic Ian but closer examination of the loco outline troubled me. Dave Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted April 21, 2013 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 21, 2013 Given everything else in the photo, I fairly convinced the far left loco hiding under the gantry is another 13XX tank thingy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irishswissernie Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 Enlargment attached; it was probably 1369. The date may have been 19september 1964. Ernie 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted April 21, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 21, 2013 This the one big ambition to build a model of Wadebridge in OO. Just need the space to build it. I drew up the shed in 4mm back in College and still have the plans somewhere. One day.... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boscarne Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 Many thanks for the enlargement Ernie. Sixbellsjunction also lists Wadebridge to Wenford tours on 27th April 1963 'The Camel Valleyman' and on 31st October 1964, the 'Commemorative Steam Special' both hauled by 1369. The latest dated photo I can find of a railcar with whiskers (Branch lines around Bodmin) is of W55001 at Boscarne Exchange Platform on 24th July 1964. Freight services over the NCR ceased on 7th September 1964, so it's fair to assume this view is post this date. I just thought that Covhop's had been banished from Slate Dust traffic by this time. However with the forthcoming Bachmann model I'm certainly not complaining.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted January 20, 2014 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 20, 2014 Found this website at the weekend, some great photos of the NCR late in its life. For me I was really pleased to see photos of Std 4 4-6-0 75025 on the line, something I've been looking for. http://www.cornwallrailwaysociety.org.uk/north-cornwall-line-including-route-to-bude-and-okehampton.html and a few more in this collection: http://www.flickr.com/photos/12549538@N08/sets/72157628649864207/ 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted January 20, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 20, 2014 The "Standards" were never particularly common but they were by no means unknown west of Exeter. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted January 20, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 20, 2014 (edited) Found this website at the weekend, some great photos of the NCR late in its life. For me I was really pleased to see photos of Std 4 4-6-0 75025 on the line, something I've been looking for. http://www.cornwallrailwaysociety.org.uk/north-cornwall-line-including-route-to-bude-and-okehampton.html and a few more in this collection: http://www.flickr.com/photos/12549538@N08/sets/72157628649864207/ Superb shots that make we want to drop everything else and build the long that wanted model of Wadebridge station in 4mm that I mentioned a few posts ago. Ian Edited January 20, 2014 by roundhouse Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted January 20, 2014 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 20, 2014 The "Standards" were never particularly common but they were by no means unknown west of Exeter. I knew they ran on the line in the twilight years of the line, but other than a shot of one buried on at the back of Wadebridge shed and another crossing Meldon Viaduct, these shots are new to me. Nice too as it's 75025 that I've 'done' in 4mm. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted January 20, 2014 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 20, 2014 By the way, there were 4no Std 4 4-6-0s shedded at Exmouth Junction: 75005 75008 75022 75025 All had BR2 3,500 tenders and carried BR lined green. The first 3 had double blast pipes and chimneys. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium rab Posted January 20, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 20, 2014 (edited) Enlargment attached; it was probably 1369. The date may have been 19september 1964. wadebridge pn img350.jpg Ernie Having lived in Wadebridge in my younger years I may be able to add some background.The panniers replaced the Beatties so the chances of seeing both at the same time were pretty slim. Of the 3 panniers 1369 was always kept in the best condition. She was almost permanently allocated to the same driver, I think it was Norman Wills, and he treated her like his baby. Admittedly she was given an extra clean up for the brake van trips but I think it's almost certain the loco on the left is 1369 Edited January 22, 2014 by rab 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted January 20, 2014 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 20, 2014 Having lived in Wadebridge in my younger years I may be able to add some background. The panniers replaced the Beatties so the chances of seeing both at the same time were pretty slim. Of the 3 panniers 1369 was always kept in the best condition. She was almost permanently allocated to the same driver, I think it was Jack Wills, and he treated her like his baby. Admittedly she was given an extra clean up for the brake van trips but I think it's almost certain the loco on the left is 1369 Great memories Rab, By 1964 the Beatties had well and truly gone, however, there are photos of various of the GWR tanks 1367-9 with various of the BWTs 30585-7 in June 1962. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted January 21, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 21, 2014 My late Great Uncle had retired by the time "furrin" motive power was shedded at his home of Wadebridge. But the name Jack Wills is familiar to me in this context. The Wenford Goods duty was usually reserved for the senior men on the shed being considered a light duty after having often worked hard for many years over the main line to Okehampton or Exeter. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium rab Posted January 22, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 22, 2014 My late Great Uncle had retired by the time "furrin" motive power was shedded at his home of Wadebridge. But the name Jack Wills is familiar to me in this context. The Wenford Goods duty was usually reserved for the senior men on the shed being considered a light duty after having often worked hard for many years over the main line to Okehampton or Exeter. Talking to my Dad last night I realised I'd got the driver's name wrong.It was Norman Wills not Jack Wills. I've edited the previous post accordingly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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