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Somewhere I have an official GWR book that lists the default exchange points for traffic from a GWR station to every 'foreign' station. When I bought it 'blind' it seemed interesting. In reality Bordesley and Acton feature repeatedly! If I knew where it was (!) I could look up the locations in North Wales/NW but I suspect Whitchurch and Saltney might be shown. Tony
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It may not be the runner - the timber in the GN open in the distance looks like it has come from the same batch, in which case some shunting has already taken place Tony
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Gosh those look like ancient wagons on the Weymouth Tramway. They all have 5 link couplings. Tony
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Just a clip from as neg taken at Perth in 1930. The meat wagons with the ladder leaning against them are LMS and I really do wonder if they were actually all painted in lined Crimson as per the official photo! Anyway the MR D299 wagon and the end door version are more interesting.......... Cheers Tony
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Hi Guys, Here is another one for you 'wagon spotters'. Again at Dumfries in 1927 probably of the same train as previously but on a different day. Again there are two cattle wagons leading but here one is of GWR origin (was this during the brief time that the GWR allowed their cattle wagons to be pooled before pulling them out?). Cheers Tony
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It has been a good day with the old negs! I think this may just be an illusive end door MR 5 plank -and the number is visible! Taken at Windermere around 1928. Cheers Tony
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Marc, Don't get too excited - it is a LBSC cattle wagon! Not yet on the site. The first van looks interesting though -G&SWR? Cheers Tony
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Another D299 in LMS livery in a train at Dumfries in 1927. It retains early grease axleboxes which must be unusual......
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These drawings look like the ones sold by the LYR society in the 1970s. I seem to recall there was some doubt as to their accuracy and they dissapeared off the availability list. The name of J.B Hodgson rings a bell. There were an awful lot of them and I would love to know which ones were accurate and the story behind them. Tony
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Thanks them for me please! Cheers Tony
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This is different to the history as quoted in the Roger Harris book. In this is says wdn and stored at Bath Road 12/72-1/73, then moved to Laira and stored Jan to April 1973 and moved to Swindon Works for scrap on 26 April 1973. I had assumed all the pics of it at St Philips Marsh were just 'en-route' from Laira to Swindon Cheers Tony
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This is one of his best ones, many others were slightly out of focus or blurred so it is not necessarily the work of a well known photographer. All 35mm work and he took a few of the re-modelling of Haugley Junction from trackside so he may have been a BR man. Tony
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No, I think that is in range of the photograph (the photographers name we do not know - just came as a collection of negs) Tony
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On the original, if I reduce the contrast you can see a HT Pylon in the far distance. I think these were shown on OS maps - is there a run of Pylons North of Baylham? Tony
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Thanks Guys, Yes the road is very narrow, appears to go just to an Orchard. Tony
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Hi, This image is needed for an upcoming book but we need to know where it is first! The train is hauled by 6749 around 1969 and the phptpgrapher took similar shots of the same train on different days near Haughley Junction so this would be a logical starting place. I guess the train originated at Immingham. Any help really would be appreciated! Cheers Tony
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I don't mind it turning into spotting memories and operating tit-bits................ Tony
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Did the Hymeks ever work up the Forest of Dean line to Parkend after (or even before) the NB type 2s were withdrawn? I recall class 25s did later but I wonder what happend in-between? Tony
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I suppose for completeness I should ask what Hymeks were withdrawn in Blue with small yellow panels (BSYP), I know of D7034/6 - where they many? Cheers Tony
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Thanks for that - great photo! Not many '69ers' in your spotting notes........... Tony
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I am sure I have seen a list somewhere (the old RMWeb?) of which Hymeks continued in green livery until withdrawn............ I remember D7005 at Swansea High Street about 1971......... Cheers Tony
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I thought it was brought by coaster from South Wales and landed at Highbridge Wharf, there it was unloaded with cranes using big buckets (not grabs so they must have been manually filled) into S&D wagons. If so this would mean the S&D loco coal wagons, if destined for Highbridge Shed and works could be 'internal use' ones. Tony
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Regarding the West Bridge coaches. I once drew out the tunnel at Glenfield to scale for a model and found that it was actually high enough for normal vehicles, BUT the limiting factor was at the point where the cab side of a loco meet its roof (the 'eaves') therefore it makes sense that if the rainstrip of a coach was removed there would be sufficient clearances. Makes sense as this is what BR did with their Std 2-6-0s for the line in the 1960s. Tony
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Very interesting - I will look at other photos of the station now...... Cheers Tony
