Mark Saunders

29 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

I don't believe eternal life will allow sufficient time to complete what I have stashed away!

27 minutes ago, Bert Cheese said:

A possible return to silliness with this from Vault City...full of sticky fruity goodness and possibly the first empty beer can I think I'll be keeping hold of.

 

 

Can you imagine if Northern Monk had brewed it they would have done Benylyn and Buckie!

The photo at Newcastle Central is not a coal train but an engineers spoil train, there was a brief spell when rebodied MDO's were used by engineers in the North East which were replaced by MCV's.

45 minutes ago, Grovenor said:

 

'Flying Scotsman is rather more complicated, there are 14 registrations, not all current, of which 6 include class 28. So using Flying Scotsman as a trademark for a model you may need permissions from 6 others!

I have never followed the logic behind Flying Scotsman especially as the same name applies to Eric Liddle and the name has been in the public domain for years, especially after the film of the same name in 1929. 

The drawing for the plate conversion (without side doors) was published by Trevor Mann in the Model Railway Constructor, Annual of 1983.

The text states traffic from Rotherham.

28 minutes ago, Dunsignalling said:

 

I think the ice blue livery and data panels came in, if not concurrently, within a few months of one another.

 

However, IIRC, data panels were added to existing stock quite quickly, independent of overhauls and repainting. so I would expect "transitional" examples of white vans with data panels to be running around in the company of blue ones for at least two or three years.   

 

John

If I remember correctly there is a Timken Bearings advert with a ice blue fish van published somewhere, probably Modern Railways.

Your trying to judge yesterday by the revisionist standards of today!

The country was not long out of the war and was still rebuilding at the time and yesterdays heroes are todays monsters.

16 hours ago, Sidecar Racer said:

My Dad was still wearing railway issued stuff twenty years after he retired!

On 11/04/2024 at 19:49, Wickham Green too said:

How many piped vehicles survived at that time without having gained 'proper' vac-brakes ? ...... I've certainly never heard of a VANPIPE or similar coding !

The MoD Palvans and Highs were built with through pipes ; the Highs were later fitted. The TOPS diagram for the highs is on the Barrowmore site clearly shows through piped.

Why is this being mentioned on here when a phone call or email to Tails would sort it out?

14 hours ago, 11B said:

Whilst our local MP is busy supporting WCR he also seems to have been told that a tamper reported hitting a underground water pipe some 53hrs before the accident. He seems to be turning into a real railway enthusiast!

 

https://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/24226692.track-damaged-two-days-derailment---tim-farron/

 

Call me cynical but it’s getting towards election time; remember me I’m you MP vote for me!

40 minutes ago, TheQ said:

You can buy from the UK and find it's a copy from elsewhere, I bought something from a UK seller "UK made" item..

When it arrived under the UK label was the original made in Pakistan label.

 

Some years ago when doing a summer job we were called into the receiving warehouse to witness the opening of a case of whisky bottles.. three were missing from the sealed case. So you can guarantee 3 bottles from that case left the Bells factory by the back door.

Missing from a case is theft, however a full case can be lost in transit!

1 hour ago, PhilJ W said:

Auto correct and dyslexia is even worse as without the former at least there was a chance of a semi understandable message!

Eaglescliffe was allegedly meant to be Egglescliffe.

17 hours ago, lather said:

I've always loved this wagon, but there's one thing I've never seen - Does anyone know of any pictures of it on the road bogies? It was, after all, a "road-railer". I know there's been mention of the rail bogies being parked under the canopy at Wick station while the rest of the wagon was off at HMS Vulcan, but actual photos, or even drawings, of the road bogies seem to be non-existent. 

Teesside Archives have official Head Wrightson photographs of this including the road bogies.

3 hours ago, John M Upton said:

I was told that there there is an ancient agreement somewhere which guarantees that a certain percentage of rostered dutys are covered by rest day working, i.e. the railways are actually obliged to run with less than the required staff to ensure guaranteed overtime availability. 

 

Time a lot of the outdated nonsense in the railway industry was binned.

Sorry but ‘I was told’ is just hearsay unless you can prove otherwise!

They were to work with a high output ballast cleaner and a shuttle car took the loaded slips back and forward in the same fashion as the TRT does with pods of new and used sleepers. The only place I know it worked was on the single line at Choppington between Morpeth and Bedlington after the Pit Strike restoring the embankment after coal had been discovered there and dug out!

3 hours ago, Mark Saunders said:

The Ship Canal Sand Company wagons remained PO till withdrawal in the same way that the Pilkington ones did.

I have had a look at the photo and it isn't one of the non pool wagons as it had end doors while the NP ones had no doors numbers 50-61. info in the RCH Non Pool registered wagons book.

2 hours ago, Mol_PMB said:

Thanks Mark, that's interesting. Do you know roughly when they were withdrawn? I appreciate that the one illustrated above is an early example and that later Ship Canal Sand Company wagons may have been more conventional RCH types.

Alas no but I suspect that it was a fleet that didn't go far and probably just quietly disappeared! 

The Ship Canal Sand Company wagons remained PO till withdrawal in the same way that the Pilkington ones did.

I understand that there are documents relating to railway equipment lost on the continent after the fall of France! These are in the National Archives at Kew!

11 hours ago, lmsforever said:

I worked for Post Officce Telephones in the early sixties ,lots of mud .horrible lorries, clothing not much cop, but we had a good many fun adventures .We used do three days trenching and then went rabbiting with some of the lads.We always left at least four chaps working on site in case the inspector appeared.The rabbits were shared out amongst those on site as always about twenty were captured and on a good day thirty.  Happy days not like now,

No one would eat rabbits these days or even know how to prepare one for the pot.

On 22/03/2024 at 17:12, norfolkchinaclay said:

Maybe for a future batch? Possibly a different design to the ribs on these DRS livery ones?

 

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/VHSX9kR5R22Trsjk/?mibextid=KsPBc6

 

The link doesn’t work but they are the batch of 25 from Davis that is part of the 60 Davis  8170 5932 812-7 through to 8170 5932 871-3 are building of which the first 35 went to GBRf GBRf got some from a previous batch. They are similar to the Land Recovery ones, the other batches are a different design from Greenbriar.

10 minutes ago, Enterprisingwestern said:

 

Oh heck, is this the slippery slope to sandals and quinoa?

Mine are going in the bin!

 

Mike.

What's wrong with selling them on Ebay as you can buy the empty boxes from models on there!

They are the original bulk ballast new bodies on recovered bogies and brake gear from 100 tonne glw tanks. Originally hired to Railtrack from Caib for ballast to virtual quarries and modified with the cutout in the end stanchion.