hmrspaul

On 12/01/2024 at 23:44, kevinlms said:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-12/tasmanian-woman-claims-worlds-ugliest-lawn-title/103312950

I must show Julie that there is worse than ours!

On 12/01/2024 at 23:41, monkeysarefun said:

 

 

The RSPCA are down on you doing that, as well as pouring Dettol on them. Toads have feelings too!

I was surprised that the original article didn't give any advice on how to dispose of them. I do agree fridge then freezer does sound reasonable, but then I'm not a Cane Toad. 

I love your Ibis 

Paul

Stationmaster, do you think they would have been a better, more flexible, loco if they had been fitted with steam heating? Or were they correct to assume all of the passenger traffic that the 0-6-0Ts had been responsible for had become operated by DMUs (or already lost - plenty of closures pre-Beeching)

Paul

2 hours ago, Sjcm said:

 

The itraveller 0-4-0 diesel set is half-way there to a point as it has the new phone technology (albeit DC), but there's nothing to the lay-out. if they can knock that out for 80 pounds, then a layout with a better model with some actual interest with the track and buildings for 160 pounds should be possible

I haven't kept up with current offer. But, in the recent past Hornby did various starter packs that were restricted to sale by individual large catalogue companies such as Argos. 

Paul

1 hour ago, billbedford said:

 

I've looked through my copy of 'A Pictorial Record OF LNER Constituent Signalling' and found a photo of a NER signal with a red face and a black band. I feel that signal colours were changed or standardised before the grouping. 

The HMRS book also mentions that the only way to distinguish distant signals was the V cut in the end of the arm. Also having the black band on the back came in later, with comments that this hadn't happened for some of the signals illustrated. 

Paul

The GWR (Which the WR remained faithful to) was notorious for mis-ordering. Consider the hundreds of 0-6-0 tanks they had delivered in the first years of BR, many built (partially) by private works, many put straight to store. 

On the other hand, the lack of class 20s or similar in South Wales does seem to have led to O8s being used for trips which might have been better worked by a Class 14. I remember steel trains being worked into Newport Docks https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/br0809/e38e6c62e https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/br0809/e28e846e7 and  Llanwern steel works or the Ford trains in Dan-y-Graig. https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/br0809/e2e8c7978 But, these workings probably didn't inconvenience local mainline working too much. 

Paul

5 minutes ago, Ian Rathbone said:

I remember, at spotting session at Crewe in the late fifties, seeing a calf in a sack being loaded into the brake van of a passenger train. 
 

Ian R

That is the correct way to carry a calf. I saw similar, one on a platform truck at Derby c1966. 

This discussion appears to overlook that unfitted cattle wagons were common until the 1950s. 

There is a full BR booklet on livestock. They must have been very happy to lose this traffic, very complex to operate. 

Paul

16 hours ago, SRman said:

 

Not all that unusual. All of the RTs built up to a certain time had top box bodies, as did the non-standard versions from Cravens and Saunders Roe. Top box bodies tended to be disposed of first in the 1960s, including sometimes putting them on Leyland RTL chassis at overhaul, because the RTLs were destined to be sold off before the majority of the AECs. I could give chapter and verse on this, but it would take a lot longer ... such details fill up entire books on the RTs and on London Buses in general.

I always ask the (rhetorical) question, what other bus company would consider 120 buses as non-standard? 😁 There were 120 Cravens bodied RTs.

 

Thanks,. I don't have my bus spotter book anymore but IIRC RTs ran into several thousand. Annoyingly RMs appeared on the 117 route very early but we never got the RM on the 90 (1960-68). 

Paul 

Weren't top box RTs unusual. We only had one used on the 90 route I used every school day for 7 years. 

Paul

https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/alliedsteelwire  Some years ago. 

Paul

Upwell is in an area that had glasshouses. They would be heated with anthracite - so from some of the South Wales field IIRC the western end. 

Paul

Saxby Junction 2 Class 20s heading north, photo taken from trackbed of MR Saxby to Bourne line July 74 C1688

Is that working from Boston Docks. There were similarly loaded Tubes when I found my way there in 1980

https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brtube/e36d59874   https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brtube/e5df3bd7

Paul

On 20/10/2023 at 10:13, WCML100 said:

do you mean the KEA’s with the TML branding? I could do with a load of those too 

You mean PXA https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/pxatmlyeoman

Paul

19 hours ago, arran said:

HI All

 

As far i can see its 1967 as Per Paul Bartletts site https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/brfreightlinercontainer this is what we took this livery from with help from Paul. 

 

I've seen this Freightliner versus Freightliners Ltd discussion before and if you look the Ltd containers are all ISO so can go deep sea , i was told it was always freightliners ltd . Coco Cola don't have Ltd on the front of their cans .  One other thing is Freightliner in the USA make trucks so i wonder if it was to make things clearer .

 

A definitive answer to this would be good but as of yet its still not nailed down.

 

Regards arran

My (rather old) friend Roger Silsbury is the expert on the early Freightliners history. OK, I put my hands up a typo or misreading of the date of lot 3693. All my details on the scans need checking, I did 20 or 30K of them when coming home from work (and for 100 days a year I was either away or home after 21.00). It is quite possible the 1967 was working from an order date.

I am grateful for the information on when "Freightliner Limited" became the title. I couldn't find it in Roger's book, nor clearly on Wikipedia but I was concerned it wasn't 1967 - but also had assumed the container could have been repainted. Perhaps someone could enter it on Wikipedia if they have a clear reference.

I now consider my photo  https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/brfreightlinercontainer is of it in original 1969 condition. So apologies to Arran for the small mistake [no one gave a ..... when posting these scans 20 years ago]  Does suggest that the alternative earlier Freightliner livery could be produced on this model. 

Now what is needed is the type M curtainsided container  https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brfreightliner/e3d898f2f introduced in 1966 and pre-dating the now universal York curtain side trailers. 

Paul

69001 with 66793 worked a special returning RHTT wagons to York Network Rail workshops from Tonbridge. An interesting journey for the crews via Olympia, Willesden, Peterborough, Lincoln Doncaster and into York. 

Paul

Detail photos of 155385 in York yesterday at https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/153385

Paul

On 28/12/2023 at 21:55, J. S. Bach said:

Where I worked in south Florida (off-campus location for a while), there was an off-shoot of a large retention lake and these white Ibises would congregate on the shore:

 

There were many more than those in the photo.

 

I am not sure what this one is, but it was common to see it perched on the structure:

Note that there were fish in the pond.

 

 

🙂

Anhinga anhinga - notable for usually swimming with only their head out of the water an appearance that gives them the name Snake bird. Common throughout much of the Americas.

Paul

Sept 86 twin piped https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brhaapost80/e3e15b870  &  https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brhaapost80/ec688f53  &  https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brhaapost80/e3ee4bd30  https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brhaapost80/e38995ee5

May 87 twin https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brhaapost80/e2f12f296

It looks like they came off by 1988. https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brhaapost80/ef4daea39

I'd understood that BR dispensed with the reservoir pipe because the wagons coming in from Europe didn't have them, only a single pipe. So one of them in a train and the reservoir didn't work. [Mark responded whilst I was watching TV]

Paul

On 19/12/2023 at 11:58, bluedepot said:

this is their new 16 ton mineral wagon 

 

https://www.hattons.co.uk/1559120/peco_products_nr_1001b_16_ton_mineral_wagon_mco_in_ex_br_grey_unfitted_b89616/stockdetail

 

The number is familiar, the model brake rigging isn't! https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brmineralweld/e2f25b7b5  I thought N gauge was improving. And no, I cannot remember the last time I had any contact with Peco models. Perhaps the 13t hopper 7mm kit that was promised but never appeared. 

Paul

5 hours ago, montyburns56 said:

Croes Newydd 1980 by Lewis Bevan

 

Wrexham 1980 https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/?q=wrexham

Paul

On 16/10/2021 at 19:36, montyburns56 said:

Foss Islands 1982 by John Carter of Mars

 

 

 

Foss Islands, York April 1980 https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/?q=fosse

Paul

15 hours ago, RetiredBod said:

Merry Christmas from the Quorn Wagon & Wagon team.

 

Here's the update for this week, including the completion of the restoration work on tank A6090:

 

https://quornwagonandwagon.co.uk/2023/12/24/24-12-23-merry-christmas/

 

That was a SMBP tank! http://www.ws.rhrp.org.uk/ws/WagonInfo.asp?Ref=9629   next we'll have some manufacturer copying it!

Paul

A Pied Butcherbird feeding a large offspring in a Brisbane Park a month ago. 

Paul

26 minutes ago, russ p said:

 

What type of wagon would it be on Paul? 

I linked to the official that shows the wagon - Tube conversion. 

Paul

On 21/12/2023 at 11:04, Mol_PMB said:

A Mk1 coach, a Freightliner(ish)* container flat, and a rake of 16t minerals, all in the same train:

from Ernie on Flickr. 
 

*Is this actually a former Speedfreight container in blue stripe livery?

Mol

CA 27ft container https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/speedfreight/e68e4cf20  https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/speedfreight/e67e0ad67

Paul

On 19/12/2023 at 16:20, gardenwall said:

Those built up until 1966 were vacuum braked, eventually the survivors were converted to air brake but  the Shell-BP livery had ceased by then. The mid grey Shell would have been air braked from new, let us hope later runs will add air brake detail, the earlier liveries are fine (as long as you only look at one side). 

Although rather tired the two logo Shell BP livery could survive a long time. Such as on this TTB in 1988 https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/p125474082/e7c1d3b85 Despite the TOPS code I doubt it still has a vacuum pipe. Or this in 1989 https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/p125474082/e74f2eb6f

Paul