hmrspaul

Possibly Ashington colliery but I never visited so my 9300 s are at other sites. Ask in the correct topic, not this modern one. Paul

With my sons family and our daughter we stayed at an airbnb in Katoomba just before Xmas. All of us adore animals, especially parrots and were therefore thrilled to find seed and feeder left for us to use. The Cockatoos, King Parrots, OZ Magpie and Crimson Rosella all queued for the food. And would knock on the kitchen window when the seed tray was empty - I'm glad we put out more for them! No fear! Paul

,,, and there is this ex southerner believing living in York he was in the heart of the NER - literally as I live at the center of the housing area they developed in Holgate alongside the gates to their main works and across the railway from their main station. And they had a link down to Doncaster, which is where the NERly started. https://www.lner.info/co/NER/ Paul

That is exactly how they were maintained, because the barrels were privately owned. As I've said recently it is why there were a few tanks in the freight yard at Staines Central - unfortunately the photos of the frames without a barrel have been lost. https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brmilktanks/e2e1a997b Paul

Some of the Brodsworth internals https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/brodsworthcolliery Paul

I love the way your supermarkets separate out the drink selling area and have it by the main entrance. So no need to be tempted by fruit or chocolate on the way to buying a few pints 😇. And yes, you have some decent beers on sale. Paul

Which the link I used earlier explains http://www.ws.rhrp.org.uk/ws/WagonInfo.asp?Ref=2678 as I said. Paul

As this rather poor snap as one caught me out going through York on Coalfish and Salmon https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/class88/eb418e34a Paul

Accepted mid to late 1920s, perhaps a little later. Both the LMS and LNER livery are in good condition so fairly new. The renumbering of ex NER wagons didn't commence until 1926 and Tatlow suggests only happened when a full repaint. Being repainted by the LNER before 1926 would see this C number continuing to be present for some years. Paul

Why, the wagon would have been less than 40 years old, the usual book life of such stock (as it is these days). We just got used to short lives for wagons after the BR Modernisation of 1958 which saw the destruction of much younger wagons because there were far too many for the traffic on offer in the 1960s. Paul

I believe that this is ex LMS, the fifth numeral is missing. SR milk tanks are very noticeable because of the very large auxilliary rubber suspension (often called J hanger suspension) Most of the St. Ivel repaints of this type appear to be ex LMS. The remarks in http://www.ws.rhrp.org.uk/ws/WagonInfo.asp?Ref=2678 about W3043 show how difficult using heritage site conserved examples can be. This repaint was quite common - I've a few all LMS numbered https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/lmsmilk There were some nice photos published in an HMRS Journal some years ago. Diag 1994 And as I said it is inevitable that a railway diagram is going to be occasionally inaccurate not least because the barrel was privately owned so swapping about could easily happen. My photos show several that are at variance to the LMS carriage book - not in small ways but 2 and 3K gallon tanks being exchanged. Richard Webster partially retrieved the Dapol 7mm one as his first work for them, but he acknowledges that he couldn't prevent it being generic, so please don't encourage copying to 4mm as it stands. It wasn't clear to him when he picked the job up whether wagon or carriage diameter wheels were intended - he opted for LMS as being the closest so carriage wheels. Paul

2 GUV, 2 BG. seater, 2 BG

Now illustrated in CWS green. http://www.ws.rhrp.org.uk/ws/WagonInfo.asp?Ref=504 I can see no mention of the SR building frames for CWS whereas the Express Dairy does appear to be a good interpretation of a livery used on the barrels of a couple of frames supplied by the SR. United Dairies appears to have been the main SR user and it's not clear why this isn't used by Didcot. Heritage railway stock should always be treated with caution as an historical source. In BR days UD and Express had much plainer finish, although MMB and IMS had some more interesting liveries. By the way there are lots of book sources of information on milk tank wagons, especially the SR ones. Paul https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/srmilk

Colchester had ADE 321074 Steam Heating Boiler van https://www.departmentals.com/departmental/321074

May I caution against believing all conserved examples are going to be representative of how they appeared when built 60 - 80 years ago. Ignoring the obvious addition of a third axle to the early examples they also appear to have swopped barrels. The barrels were owned by the companies and maintained separately - it is why I was able to record a few in Staines SR yard nearly a lifetime ago. Although I have no reason to doubt the accuracy of work done by Essery and Jenkinson several of my photos don't tally with their details. https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/lmsmilk/e19911708 https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/lmsmilk/e929a4c and others. Fortunately these vehicles were well recorded by official photographers and plenty of photos have been published of them when new. Paul https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/brmilktanks

From the other end. https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/internal07xxxxdocks/e30fd20a7 and earlier https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/internal07xxxxdocks/e3190d4cf Despite being described as unique only the frame appears to have survived in conservation http://www.cs.rhrp.org.uk/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=208 https://www.departmentals.com/departmental/071343 Paul

You may find the answer here https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/midlandpullman Paul

Looking at my own photos they don't appear to have relied on them. So kept, and used, the lamp irons. https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brcwclass33/e347b9354 Paul

Interesting that many of these in 2 and 4mm are using my photos downloaded from the site - they have the copyright on them so not even paid 85p. The TUAs appeared to use a lot of my photos for inspiration as well. I would expect an ex Journalist to understand copyright as other manufacturer's do. Paul

Simply looking up in Longworth saves the speculation. 395228 - 7627 a LMS MR diag 175 Hughes vestibule third - so 1st period. Built in 1923 and converted August 1957. This batch of coaches appears to have been very popular for conversion to various departmental uses. Withdrawn in 1979. 395227 was a similar conversion and written as Car 5A. https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/lmsdepartmentalcoach/e78075444 I've no idea how I missed 5B at the open day in August 1978. Paul

It was in the conventional blue and grey back in 1981 https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/departmental975800/e491bd9a6 https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/departmental975800/e491bda0e Paul

On the subject of internal use of these c1907 design wagons the Stanton Pipe works had a number when I did a quick visit on Jubilee day in 1977 Examples https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/bscstanton/e25c79ea9 https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/bscstanton/e3a01773f https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/bscstanton/e369d872b There are others in https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/bscstanton various body styles, with and without a through top plank and with/without end doors. So scope for some other finishes. Paul https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/industrialinternalwagons PS I should add that it is gratifying to see there is an interest in internal user wagons. There have been enormous fleets both private and mainline railway and very largely ignored - even by most in the IRS. However, they did publish a book on such wagons

https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/cwmcokeworksinternalwagons - by 1987 they were later RCH designs 7 & 8 plank with oil bearings. And although suitably crossed they don't appear to have been painted when in internal use - which is quite usual. https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/cwmcokeworks Interesting place, the chemist commented to us that they were importing coal from north America, and the shipping cost to delivery at the docks was less than the rail transfer from the dock to the works. Paul

Yes I have linked to some of my own photos. What isn't clear to me is why the small markers are being used when hauling trains, nor which lights should be on during daylight. There is little obvious pattern to the ones I've photographed through here in York. https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/class70 Paul

BR instructions were that X was to indicate internal user. Although I suspect it was supposed to be universal many internals never appear to have had the X, and the style varied as shown by some of these models. The NCB does appear to have often used the X; small such as https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/cwmcokeworksinternalwagons https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/cynheidreinternalwagon I have some unusable photos from my teens that show the large X but I didn't see more recently - perhaps the X was too confusing with condemnation Xs?? What the horizontal white lines were supposed to indicate I have no idea. https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/cadebycolliery https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/wakefieldstjohncolliery Perhaps an official alternative to the X. Paul