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..or an S&DJR one - http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/gallery/image/77588-sdjr-4wheeled-3-plank-open-wagon-no-6498/
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And the next photo will have...(real railway version)
phil_sutters replied to NorthBrit's topic in Wheeltappers
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Turntable deck question
phil_sutters replied to spikey's topic in Modelling Questions, Help and Tips
Maybe you can gauge the width from these photos - I only made one trip there - so the dates can't both be right - they are scans of prints which are undated - someone will know when 30075 was there. -
And the next photo will have...(real railway version)
phil_sutters replied to NorthBrit's topic in Wheeltappers
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And the next photo will have...(real railway version)
phil_sutters replied to NorthBrit's topic in Wheeltappers
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And the next photo will have...(real railway version)
phil_sutters replied to NorthBrit's topic in Wheeltappers
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And the next photo will have...(real railway version)
phil_sutters replied to NorthBrit's topic in Wheeltappers
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Large Locos on Short Trains
phil_sutters replied to PatB's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
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Large Locos on Short Trains
phil_sutters replied to PatB's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
Three from Dad's files. In the first I cannot see any further wagons after the first three. Maybe the next was an empty container wagon or something similar.. -
Transport of ploughing engines
phil_sutters replied to Prometheus's topic in Modelling Questions, Help and Tips
In 'Around Burnham-on-Sea and Highbridge in Old Photographs' which I am sure you will all have in your libraries*, there is a great photo of at least five**- Babcock steam rollers arriving in 1926 at Highbridge - the Wharf I think - on various Lowmac-type wagons. for the local road mending company of Buncombe's. They were still around in the 1960s when I lived in Highbridge - the company - not necessarily the same rollers, although I think they still had some steamers. They carried out contracts way beyond the Somerset borders. *Actually those sorts of local history photo books are very good sources of background detail, especially in the first half of the 20th century, when they seemed keen on recording local life. ** Looking closely at the photo, there could have been as many as 7 rollers on that train. -
The trafficator lights amidships must be a Brummie requirement, as I don't remember them on London cabs and have just done a quick search and not found any others elsewhere. Perhaps they wanted to have a specific signal for 'I am doing a 'U' turn in the middle of a busy street.' Perhaps they were for indicating that the taxi was available for hire, as one can only see the illuminated 'TAXI' sign from the front. I'll bet there's a RMweb member who knows the answers.
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Hot pants?! Just made to fry the fishcakes featured a few posts back. From a 'tofs' (The Original Factory Shop) advert.
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Weed-killing trains were also users of old tenders. There are a couple of photos - one from 1949 and the other undated at Wells - in Colin Maggs 'Branch Lines of Somerset' with short weed-killing trains with two or three tenders - ex-LNWR ones in the 1949 shot - and a couple of brake vans.
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Living within 400 yards of the Highbridge - Burnham line in the 1960s, I could never get my head round the Berrow branch. I admired the modelling but the back-story was a bit bizarre. I never saw Bulleid light pacifics up the Somerset Central line and even 2P 4-4-0s rarely ventured up there. Dad refused to call the line the 'branch' as it was the original bit of the S&DJR. Quite hefty excursion trains to Burnham were handled by 4Fs. As for the Ring'o'Bells - East Brent is actually well east of the Bristol & Exeter mainline, so miles away from Berrow and the pub must have been inspired by one of the four Ring'o'Bells in other Somerset villages as East Brent doesn't have one. Did I spy some of my wallpaper on the Dodo's roof? It cuts the mustard on what is a quality bit of modelling. I like its rather uneven look when compared with the more precise plastic roofing.
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I have just come across this fascinating photo album in the Great War Forum. The continental railway ones are at the beginning, with some UK ones at the end. https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/265562-photograph-album-of-steam-trains-france-1919/
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And the next photo will have...(real railway version)
phil_sutters replied to NorthBrit's topic in Wheeltappers
Sorry it's in mono, so the highly praised Midsomer Norton flower beds are a bit dull. Any more flowers - weedy or not - or do we want a w.c. - wild card - or perhaps a new theme 'toilets'!!!! -
And the next photo will have...(real railway version)
phil_sutters replied to NorthBrit's topic in Wheeltappers
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And the next photo will have...(real railway version)
phil_sutters replied to NorthBrit's topic in Wheeltappers
As this seems to be going nowhere, but inspired by the floral additions two posts back - how about station or signal box gardens or planters? Lewes has an excellent horticultural support group - More station flowers, preferably with some evidence that it is railway related, please -
Is anything off topic here? A previous Pegg movie Shaun of the Dead was filmed in a redundant pub in New Cross, SE London. This was the sign that greeted me on my way from work nearby - I know I have used it on RMweb - I hope not here. I never saw one though.
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Prototype for everything corner.
phil_sutters replied to jonny777's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
It worked like that for me. Trains, trams and scooters - that's the transport solution for all our cities. It makes sense of the 'Cake-box Challenge'- the only size of layout you can transport on the back of a scooter, to go to your exhibition! -