Wickham Green too

2 hours ago, Combe Martin said:

...  Do two chassis, one the ex GWR/BR version, the other the ex LMS one. ...

... and a third one with those whopping great spring dampers the Southern used.

I think there's a link to something similar somewhere up-thread !

27 minutes ago, melmerby said:

Wow, how slow is that?

Carefully designed so that nobody gets run over  -  by the gate ! ( can you imagine the RAIB report ? )

Probably a fair guess - but unlikely to be recorded in official documentation anywhere.

Thus : -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syJH77RRsHw#:~:text=This level crossing was the,off when trains are due.

Weren't there a few earlier barriers that rolled across on wheels ? - also up in the North East.

I think any level crossing 'incidents' are permissible.

Doesn't look like the car was 'dragged' very far !

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Railways-Coaches-Standard-locomotive-hauled-illustrations/dp/B0014NWRHG is supposedly correct to 1/1/62 ..... Im not sure about earlier editions.

I think his 'legs' have been taken off for the move !

.... obviously not running from anywhere on the Eastern Region through Vauxhall !

Most definitely not as standard - very few locos were.

4 hours ago, Matt37268 said:

Was that part of one of the ‘control’ trains? 

Not quite - it was selected for conversion but never modified for some reason ................. and for some other reason it was stabled with the WR Control Train until it was disposed of.

20 minutes ago, wagonbasher said:

So contrived.

.... not least that leading bus - I've never seen one like that before !

16 hours ago, Edwardian said:

... We could even have a poll to select a suitably floral moniker. ...

...or - on a theme of inappropriate painting - "Banksya".

Still miffed that the NRM gazumped me for M27093M ......... then deacquisitioned it to Butterley fifteen years later. ☹️

Craven Arms : 19/12/79 

Actually yellow and red ! ..... no other insignia but it looks like there's a yellow spot after the number - maybe modified for carrying bananas ! 😁

Look like the third one might be unfitted ..... certainly plenty further back.

Hmmm ...... another NRM cast-off ! ☹️

Well, here's another group of Mk1s - non-catering - from later that day ( same film ) : -

.... not taken against the light.

Hmmm .... things have changed a wee bit since 1987 ( 12th Sept ) : - 

You'd have difficulty living in the NRM - most of it's closed !

2 hours ago, Southernman46 said:

Nevertheless that is proof such dark rail blue exists

... when photographed on AGFA CT100 film and scanned to computer thirty three years later.

1 hour ago, Edwardian said:

... We could even have a poll to select a suitably floral moniker. 

How about "Thomas" ? 🤢

More likely aromatic !

On 27/04/2024 at 18:32, Tallpaul69 said:

IMHO there is little merit in tutting over the details of the various RTR offerings when no-one , as far as I know, produces one in a credible "in use" livery. ...

But - notwithstanding The Johnster's comments - would you really want a long rake of factory-sh*tted cattle wagons with exactly the same splats on each one ............. arguably less noticeable than a rake of modern wagons all with the same graffiti sh*t - but ........

( On the subject of cattle wagons, isn't it time the trade came up with cattle in the same scale ? ..... yes I'm sure there are white metal beasts available - but a few wagon loads end up VERY heavy.)

Electrostar ? .... big in size and numbers compared to a 66 !