Wickham Green

14 hours ago, Theakerr said:

I have some aircraft canopy cleaning fluid with a very fine suspension of something in it.  Bit tedious but it works.  Suspect the solution used to clean the plastic cover on car lights might also work.

..... or Brasso !

9 hours ago, MidlandRed said:

 

The book mentioned above has a whole section on the Swindon prototype Mk2, W13252, including photos of it under construction and after completion in lined maroon, and reproductions of official drawings including the underframe. The book also deals with the ancestry of the mark 2. 

Indeed - a fascinating book ............ though coverage of the AM10 / 312 classes is oddly sparse. ( The N.I.R. '80' class gets more column inches.)

1 hour ago, alastairq said:

Looking at the windscreen reflections, and the clarity and length of the shadows...and the obvious failure to control speed-on-approach, further back...I'd say the driver was 'blinded' by low winter sun?  Thus failed to spot the barrier being down, from further back down the road?

Still stupid driving, he should have been driving to the conditions.

1 hour ago, Darryl Tooley said:

Judging by the profile of the top of the box, these are GE oil axleboxes - the LNER ones were typically flat at the top.

 

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Maybe that's where the LNER design came from ? - though it wasn't adopted as standard ( largely replacing the RCH split box ) 'til many years after grouping.

You're still stuck with the Triang 8' + 8'6'' ( approx ) wheelbase !

An even quicker method - though the profile's not exactly unaffected : 

Sounds like someone might have been using superglue in these ??!?

On the Southern, end filler pipes first appeared on Bulleid's coaches and were retro-fitted to Maunsells and Pullmans from the late forties. It COULD be that your external type fillers were, similarly, retro-fits of coaches which started out with top-fill only ? [ OVSB would have been involved with Gresley's coaches of course - but I'm not trying to imply any significance with the filler pipes.] 

On 08/03/2020 at 09:27, 62613 said:

Gresley's wooden-bodied stock was wooden panels screwed to steel frames, a quite common method of construction pre-war. There were quite a few steel-panelled non-corridor diagrams built from about 1936 on, but their construction was contracted out.

I think the the problem the LNER had was that their workshops were equipped for construction of wood-bodied coaches, and they had to think long and hard about investing in change, given their financial situation.

 

I think we have a confusion over the word 'FRAME' here - yes, the chassis was steel but the body frame - on virtually everything prior to the Mk1s was timber - whether steel or teak panelled on the outside..

On 07/03/2020 at 21:42, MidlandRed said:

........ dimensioned drawings of different variants. 

Don't forget the Swsindon prototype FK had a rather different body profile.

They're standard LNER axleboxes - far newer than the wagon or spring-buffer conversion !

On 08/03/2020 at 09:32, malc60015 said:

 

At least that shelter can't be confused for the wrong train - but it does remind one of another Stephens railway ..... the old dear might have been looking for a WC&P !

Do you mean that bit's two rail - like my train set ?

1 minute ago, jazzer said:

 

............ it was far advanced compared to , say, the class H tanks. ........

.... but at least the 'H' class had power reversers !

I was thinking Feltham too ........ judging by the similar rust on the Five's piston rod and wheels it's a) been there a while and b) could have arrived under its own steam.

Was it something to do with the 'standard' cab layout rather than Ivatt's interpretation/redesign of whatever the LMS layout would have been ? ........ I don't think any of our preserved railways has both Ivatt and Standard twos so we probably can't ask current day crews of their opinions.

18 hours ago, friscopete said:

now thats what I call a sensible brake van, room for the guard ,his mum and her  sheep .

I think sheep singular - rather than the whole flock !

24 minutes ago, Robin Verth said:

There are pictures of an out of size round tank being hauled by a LNWR 0-6-0 the tank is part of a larger brewing plant manufactured in the USA and on route to Allsops Brewery pre WW1, Allsops went bankrupt in the 1920's, it was decided by the Official Receiver that the equipment and larger production be moved to Alloa, it was also renamed Graham's Golden Larger at this time, the larger was still packaged at Burton the wagons were used between Alloa and Burton, some loaded wagons worked to Southampton,  for the larger to be packaged for the ocean liners. About 1960 the product was  renamed Graham's Golden Skol Larger, then in a very short time after it became Skol Larger.  

Though not rail connected as far as I know the German brewer Holstein had a Brewery in the Wandsworth area of London pre WW1 it closed in the early 1920's due to anti German feelings. 

Clearly they didn't reallise how large the market for larger beers would become - largely because of heavy promotion by the larger brewery combines in the sixties.

14 hours ago, montyburns56 said:

While searching on Flickr I came across this rather unique looking shunter which I believe was called the Class D3/12 and was built by the Southern Railway. I've always been fascinated by the godfathers of the Class 08 and just thought that it would be nice to a create list of all of them.

 

http://www.semgonline.com/diesel/maunsell-350_01.html

 

 

 

Certainly not unique - there were three of it ! ..... what's probably unique is the design of the rear windows to allow a good view of the ( human ) shunter in action.

Odd that No.2 seems to have gone for scrap in the company of a Charlie ( not surprising ) and a Black Five !

Must be time Judith Edge ran out of other ideas and got round to a kit of this design !!?!

2 hours ago, brossard said:

.... like a LNER van but these didn't have corrugated ends .............

Far fewer corrugated ends than on the LMS - but the LNER did have significant numbers.

4 hours ago, PaulRhB said:

 

As a director of the Stoke, Easthill & Creech Rly ...........

 

Ah ..... I was wondering what ( else ) S E C  stood for ...

....... except that most wagons - meat vans in particular - would only spend half their lives carrying a load .......... and the other half returning for one. 

Beige, and later silver or grey, signified 'class A' liquids i.e. petrol etc. .......... heavier fuels were 'class B' and carried in black tanks. Non-hazardous liquids could be carried in any ( other ) colour tank.

Beige for 'class A' was superseded by grey during WW2 then by silver afterwards - though more recently ( 1970s ? ) this has changed to a pale grey.

1 hour ago, Dunsignalling said:

The version in the "Showman's Engine" livery should give the D celebrity status at least equal to that of the single among those who crave such ostentation. 

 

John

 

 

No, I don't 'do' bling ....................... beauty is more than ( paint ) skin deep when it comes to the 'D' class - I've ordered one in black with just a hint of sunshine.

38 minutes ago, PaulRhB said:

I’d ask a professional loco builder for a price on an etched one and see if a plastic one in black suddenly seems better value. 
The big investment in this is the tooling not the final liveries. That means that cost for a relatively small production run balanced against likely sales. This isn’t a celebrity loco like the GNR single. .........

As a fully paid-up member of the South Eastern & Chatham Railway Society ( SECSoc ) I object to the 'D' class - 737 in particular - not being considered a celebrity.