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I understand all of the negativity in the above posts and can understand the questioning behind such an event, however if I could just put forward my own personal thoughts:
- Yeah I went round the depot with my Dad as a kid in the early 80's and yep it's gone
- OOC is still currently a depot of some description which as I understand is due to close
- Maybe the current staff there are proud of their heritage and wish to show off their skills (one last time) keeping the current GW mainline running with an aging fleet
- Maybe they do want to promote new fleets, what operator wouldn't in this day an age
- I don't work in the rail industry (to my dismay at times) so I don't get to see the inner workings of a current rail depot and collect images to base my modelling on
- And for Christs sake it's for charity, maybe the men and women working there currently think we all might like to see it one last time and from the proceeds maybe a few lives will be changed
Perhaps that is a nice parting gesture on their part
Sorry rant over, shoot me down or delete the post admin, I just feel at times we all forget a bigger picture
You are right, but i prefer to remember the place i started my railway career as it was, not as it is. I think i'll give this a miss.
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Step change in passenger experience................................but in which direction ??
My thoughts exactly.......................................
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This ^^^^. Just fantastic!!
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And without lots of other things they had - like the small bore plumbing!
Did you mention small bore plumbing
If normal stock manufacturing is followed, build it then spend several years re-engineering it with a massive mod program......................
And anything involving water is always a nightmare on a train.
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Alas Ron I doubt if Newton's laws of Physics can be changed. Advances in electrical equipment will no doubt allow reductions in loads for some purposes but even efficient water heaters will still consume electricity. As a matter of fact the ENS coaches - or certainly a large part of their electrical fit - wasn't designed 30 years ago but just over 20 years ago in the early half of the 1990s while at least one item was designed in 1994/5 (albeit a safety related item).
And I'm not poo-pooing anything - merely drawing attention to the fact that vehicles with significant hotel loads ca consume a lot of power and, notwithstanding advances in design, sometimes things can turn out to be not exactly what vehicle specifiers expected (as happened with ENS stock in certain respects where the electrical load would have turned out to be quite a problem on most dc electrified sections of railway but particularly so on 3rd rail - which of course doesn't apply here). And as I said - it all depends on the formation over the West Highland Line.
As for vehicle lengths are they all going to be the same length or will there be some shorter vehicles to allow what looks like being an 18 coach formation? (still) to fit certain stations or is somebody already chatting to the S&T engineers?
Is it actually confirmed that the hotel power will be provided by the loco?.Id be surprised.
I would have thought that some form of on board power would be built in somewhere. Means you are not dependant on having a loco attached all the time. Chiltern have done that with the DVT's.
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I was thinking that too. From your name I'm guessing the word 'Crunch Bucket' means something to you ?
Sure does
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Yes you're right, but it was not the one pictured. It was a couple of years before. 47435 Kings Cross to York / Scarborough and back to York, then 47415 from York, which caught fire at Newark and blocked the East Coast mainline until the fire brigade could find us, then rescued by 31117 as far as Peterborough, where 47096 took us back to Kings Cross, arriving well after midnight. I believe BR had to lay on taxi's to get a lot of people home.
Thanks for the clarification. My memory isn't what it could be............................
I had to include this one. Summer 1985 running round it's train at Barry Island after arriving with a £7.50 Merrymaker from Ealing Broadway.
Given that i was on this too i recall, im guessing we know each other??
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For a number of years in the 80's and 90's my local model railway club had a yearly outing. It originally started with booking a few seats on a service train, then chartering our own DMU, and ended up with our own 10 coach loco hauled train. These are 3 from the last few years it ran.
47513 Westbury
47606 York
47837 Kings Cross
Ahhh, yes. Those were the days. Didn't the one to York have a little difficulty on the way back? Bogie fire on the the 47 as i recall. Got rescued by a 31 at newark. Very very slow journey back to kings cross. After midnight by the time we got back. Ones parents were most concerned where i had got to!
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here are the pics of brackley, first post on the page
Ahh, yes, i remeber that industrial estate with the station at the top of the drive. Our new buisness was based there for the first 2 years after i left the railway.
Always rather fancied the station as a house. The station masters building at the other side of the entrance drive has been demolished now i believe
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Cracking photo - I loved those peak hour Thames Valley commuter services. Well maintained large logo Old Oak 50s on 7 coach VB Mk1 sets, with enthusiastic drivers like RMWeb's Brian Daniels - what's not to like? Fast from Paddington to Reading, often above the rated maximum for the stock with the BR1 bogies banging and hunting away over the points at Dolphin Junction and Ruscombe, before rolling into Reading in 27 mins for the 36 miles. Then crossing to the Down Relief for the main event - all stations to Didcot: flat out in notch 7 from each start until the last possible braking point, then hard in with the brake for a beautifully judged stop each time....Tilehurst, Pangbourne, Goring, Cholsey, Didcot....before a final sprint to Oxford. Deep joy! If I ever make enough money, one day I'd like to pay for a preserved 50 and Vintage Trains' VB set to do it all over again....
David
Bit late to the party here, but you are just so right! In 86/87 when i was at apprentice school in swindon, mid week when the rest of them were trying to get served in the pub, once or twice a week i would scoot down to reading straight after work soley for this purpose. As you say, the stoppers were just the best. Count me in when you hire the stock to to it again
:).Happy days!
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How do you guys remember the dates or even the year?
I only recall one. Was 83/84/85, not sure which from Ealing Broadway to York on the weekend of the model railway exhibition. I remember it was 47622 Institution of mechanical Engineers, Vauguely seem to remember it was £4?
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Why not call what you are modelling what it is?
Im modelling the late 80's.
Modern it isn't. Almost everything i remember/want to re-create is gone.
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As much 1st gen DMU stuff as possible. In OO of course.
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Fantastic work. Love it.
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*( Despite its quarter million population Milton Keynes still isn't a city but as a town it's a bit odd as it incorporates the established towns of Bletchley, Wolverton and Stony Stratford) .
Im not sure the residents of Stony see it that way......................................
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Having notices that both Hattons and Kernow have commissioned various departmental versions of these units (class 960) suitable for the Railtrack / Network Rail era, I was wondering if anyone can advise as to how extensive their geographical operation was in the recent past. I'm assuming that since they seem to have been based at Aylesbury, they have primarily been used for sandite / route learning / video survey duties in the south of England, in which case justifying one on a Scottish layout in 2007 would be difficult?
Regards
David
None of the Aylesbury based stuff got that far afield! Lots of odd places, but not over the border.
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Oh dear - them again;
Exactly what i thought! May of course be infrastructure of course, maybe.
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Excellent vids. Love it
Love the lights on the 37. The right colour! Not blue as you see so often, just a nice yellow colour. Just how it used to be.............
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Glad they've clarified the NSE liveries. I've changed to the original one as it will definitely fit into my era.
There don't seem to be that many pictures of 121s in the original NSE. Here's two I've found, both 55022 that Dapol/Hatton's will be doing:
BR Class 121 "Bubble Car" W55022, in NSE colours, near Acton on 16th. May 1988. by Crewcastrian, on Flickr
I think only 3 were ever done in the early upswept livery.
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I've just looked it up on Six-bells Roger. 12 June 1993! If I remember correctly they were cast offs, sent North to cover the F W - Mallaig steam trips but I've no idea why they went to the trouble of repainting the blue! Kev
Excellent. Thanks for that. Quite late on then. Never seen a pic of them before.
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What year was the pic with the Network Mk1's with the IC dark grey? Never seen that before. Dont suppose you know how or why?
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What year was the pic with the Network Mk1's with the IC dark grey? Never seen that before. Dont suppose you know how or why?
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Congratulations to Dapol on this. Im pretty sure this will turn out to be well worth the effort for them. I will be having a clear out of converted lima units, thats for sure.
Im guessing that 116 and 117 are the logical next step. I hope so. That will need another clear out!!!!
Cant believe how many versions are already announced. Just fantastic.
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good news, any chance of a chiltern one or is it too modified? (ie no end exhausts, CDL lights, step protectors etc)
Its in one of the lists Jim.
But yes, after i went to the trouble of shifting the exhausts off the front, it would be good to see a correct model unlike the Hornby one. And the gurads compartment windows!
Class 50 why fifty.
in UK Prototype Questions
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Indeed. It was certainly in occasional use in the late eighties as i recall on services out of Padd.