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44 minutes ago, Wickham Green too said:

All were allocated to the Scottish Region - though some, at least were overhauled at Brighton beforehand and might have passed through Donny on their way north.

True, apologies, my error there, saying Region markings - they were BR from 1948 and were initially Black, until Crests got applied later as they appeared / opportunity became available.  I have seen a table showing where the locos were distributed to, after WWII, but I can't find the B** thing now.

I have amended my post, with a strikethrough and correction.

I suppose that rather depends on what you mean by "first in traffic".  They were all WD run, during the WWII and I believe that would mean they all wore WD Khaki green.  After being sold off after the end of WWII they would have been black, {Post War austerity would not allow money for fancy colours} with the marking of the railway region they went to. {Edit. Apologies, to keep to your question they would have had BR markings, which for their first appearance in Civvy traffic would be Black, BR Early / Late Crests getting applied later.}  Some time later the two owned by the Army, at LMR, were Blue with red trim.  {The Black and Khaki Green can be seen here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WD_Austerity_2-10-0 The later Army colours can be seen here https://www.flickr.com/photos/david_christie/13757866044/in/photostream/  you may find some WD Khaki Green by scrolling through.} 

Are you looking at the Ellis Clark website?

56 minutes ago, KeithMacdonald said:

 

N-gauge warp drive?

More chance of success than a Ford 1,172 Side-valve**....?

**Even in N Gauge.

4 hours ago, The Johnster said:

 

The Taff Vale used lozenge-shaped cast iron notices barring locomotives over a weight limit from crossing road bridges; they meant traction engines and such of course.

 

 

Back along a while, we would see them, frequently, on bridges around the country, quite a common sight really.....

.....   Oh!,...  I think I might have just created a new definition for an Ancient Old F*rt!!   🤔 

6 hours ago, stewartingram said:

Looks like Amanda Holden...

Can't be, she's giving clear cut, precise, concise, directions**.

** Not Holdin'.....

15 hours ago, Gedward said:

 

Bodmin Moor

 

 

Umm.....  still no sign of the Black Panther.....    

.....  Err, have you checked...   Behind youuuu......!!

10 minutes ago, RFS said:

Fast train whistles.....  illustrated edition.

12 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

Driving home from Tesco's this evening I struck a pedestrian. It was coming up to five o'clock so it was already dark. I had just left the store when this idiot walking in the roadway despite there being a perfectly usable footpath a couple of metres away. As I swerved to avoid him my nearside door mirror struck him. I immediately stopped to check that he was OK but he was nowhere to be seen. He was wearing dark clothes and the LED street lighting casts deep shadows. He was walking from the direction of a working mens club so was possibly a little worse for drink.

Maybe a good idea to report it to the police, so they are aware of your good intentions, before any other story gets to them. {maybe you have already...}

2 hours ago, Sidecar Racer said:

That has to be a photoshop.....   not even over there.....   

On the other hand there many, over there, who seem to claim to be straight talkers.....??

Maybe.....?????

2 hours ago, big jim said:

Not sure whether to put these in ‘old cars’ or ‘modern classics’ as the pics were taken 30 odd years ago!

 

first one was Calais I think, me and my dad went for a day trip from Dover on the hovercraft

 

2nd one is Switzerland 1985 with was was probaly quite a new Suzuki SJ410, a Ford Granada and a Renault? 
 

 

and finally one for @russ p look at all those BL/Austin products, also a rather nice 205 gti lurking to the right, is this Bridgnorth? 

This seems to look like Dunster, looking towards the Conygar Tower.  I just noticed, the reflection from the inside of what looks like the inside of the windscreen, above the cream buildings, on the right.  That line on the Metro might be more of the same effect.

17 hours ago, Sidecar Racer said:

 

 I thought that when on the road there was a ' spotter' up high with a good all round view

to prevent that happening .

Yes, indeed there was.  I suspect that her car was small enough to be out of view, even for him and it was very close to the Tank, because the road was only just wide enough for the two vehicles.  Perhaps he thought that his Driver would head for the far left-hand lane of the 3 lane road they were turning into.  I rather think she just wasn't seen, as the space available was so small and she had to be so tight up against the Tank.  I didn't consider there was enough clearance for my Ford Escort.  The Tank was indicating right, too, so she must have missed that as well, or been silly enough to ignore it / maybe thinking she could outrun it, off the lights.  She can't have thought it out any too well.  I was the car behind her and stayed behind the Tank, as it was signalling right, like you would for any sizable vehicle.

32 minutes ago, 30801 said:

It's that time again...

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-67543666

I saw that on the News, what a complete pratt!  I'm no Chicken for many things - BUT!! - the very idea of taking a car down the road, with the visibility of a Tank Driver, scares the H*ll out of me!

{NB.  I do know what he visibility for a Tank Driver is, I was invited to have half a day driving a Chieftain.  I was also driving behind one, in Berlin, and witnessed a woman, in a small car draw up the right-hand side of a Chieftain, at some traffic lights, onto a main road.  When the lights went Green, the Tank Driver drove forward, sufficient to have space to turn right and hauled on the Right-hand lever!!  She wasn't quite so quick off the mark, lucky for her! She had only reached the front Idler Wheel when he turned, so the tracks went up and over the car bonnet.  It was a very close thing, as there was nothing left attached in front of the Bulkhead and one very scared, screaming lady.}

1 hour ago, Nearholmer said:

Back-pedal brakes were used in Britain, but I don’t think they were ever a big thing, I think the same thing is called a “coaster brake” in the USA, and was still used until recently on children’s bikes (it may still be, although I have a feeling it’s outlawed because in the event of chain failure or ‘unshipping’ of the chain, the main brake is gone too).

 

JC

 

Were the bars upside down north road bars, which were popular until the 1950s? Like this?

 

 

 

 

 

I think you are probably quite right, with Father's having the UK more drooped version similar to your picture. looking at it, it looks like it might be an improvement to the straight bars I currently have.  Maybe the Old Boy, was wiser than his sons gave him credit for.  {Ok, just joking, misquoting a Mark Twain observation about his Father, ours was a very wise and kind gent.}

23 hours ago, whart57 said:

In the Netherlands bikes from at least the 1930s on had something called terug-trap which translates as back-pedal for braking. You can free wheel but if you pedal backwards you apply a small drum brake inside the backwheel axle. There are still bikes around with that today and it was certainly still standard on the ordinary go-to-the-shops sort of push bike in the 1990s. Never seen them in England though, which made the bikes my mum and dad brought over with them in 1955 somewhat unique.

My father had a bike from pre-WWII times, with back pedal braking and it was still in the garage, in 1956.  It also had unusual handlebars, which could probably be best described as semi-drop bars; sort of halfway between modern straight bars and full drop bars.  It must have been sold then, as it didn't appear when we moved to Devon.

2 hours ago, ChrisN said:

 

Like when my friend got knocked off his bike by an ambulance, and so they then took him to hospital.  (He was not seriously hurt.)

That's an unfortunate accident and good to know that the ambulance was able to take him to hospital and not committed to another priority shout.

1 hour ago, 30801 said:

That , looks very much like active job creation...  tusk, tusk!!   🤫

5 minutes ago, iands said:

Ah, but which end?

'Twas on a Range, so it must have been the Butts.  😉

35 minutes ago, J. S. Bach said:

£75 for a rack of lamb???? I think that a tr[p to the local grocery store would be a lot less expensive!

I thought that at first, then thought about what the Range Warden might be offering...   the complete Rack....?   that's 2 dozen chops, so not quite such a bad price at that, particularly recently, in the UK.

All of little relevance, since the picture is a photoshop, albeit a funny one.

34 minutes ago, NIK said:

Such a shame the octopus always won.

......  Perhaps not "always won", but always bravely done.

19 hours ago, kevinlms said:

Looks like Australia, since that appears to be a Holden Commodore!

Very likely, grass drying out and no potholes...  wherever it is, it can't possibly be the UK.

17 minutes ago, 33C said:

"Avon calling!"

The question was UK rivers - That's called make up an answer......

46 minutes ago, KeithMacdonald said:

Did they work for Avon?

You might have to be Welsh to understand the joke.

Hint:  River river.

I seem to remember that they weren't working for the Welsh back then {or several other British River boards}, but may have been in Melksham at the time and got tyred of the direction it's river took.

An aside - does anyone know how many Avons (Afon) there are in the UK?

I knew a girl, a good few years back, who eventually got married and had two daughters.  Oddly she named them both after rivers, I never knew Wye, but I knew the other crafty one was Wylye.

Opps... wrong thread...

6 minutes ago, franciswilliamwebb said:

 

Can't say firrer than that 😉

3 minutes ago, PaulRhB said:

I’m pining for Dad jokes . . .

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