Prototype for everything corner.

[Ian Morgan]

18 hours ago, melmerby said:

Often in Dry weather Steam tours can be restricted because of the possibility of lineside fires, diesels aren't affected.

This from the US suggests they might need to re-think that😄

 

 

 

Spaghetti Works? Don't they know it grows on trees?    🌳🌳🌳   🙂

 

 

[phil_sutters]

Roof details should anyone want to model a 313. Looking at Rail magazine's list of new trains, there don't seem to be replacements for these antiques.

While waiting for the Ore No More BLS special I snapped anything that moved - this was all that did move. That's the spotters and snappers turned out for two 50s. Mind you we do get a fair number of 66s and 59s on the aggregates trains now.

Edited April 23, 2022 by phil_sutters

[montyburns56]

Birmingham 1984 by Keith Wilde

 

 

[Michael Hodgson]

On 23/04/2022 at 18:00, Ian Morgan said:

 

Spaghetti Works? Don't they know it grows on trees?    🌳🌳🌳   🙂

 

 

I was thinking if that fire happened in England it would be next to the Jam Butty Mine.

[Down_Under]

Need to fit a crossover in but run out space, well there is always interlaced point work to help you out 
 

 

Liverpool Docks 

[great central]

2 hours ago, Down_Under said:

Need to fit a crossover in but run out space, well there is always interlaced point work to help you out 
 

 

Liverpool Docks 

 

Struggling to see how that works at all, unless the camera is causing it to look completely wrong 

[Nick C]

4 minutes ago, great central said:

 

Struggling to see how that works at all, unless the camera is causing it to look completely wrong 

Looks like a cross between a tandem and a single slip to me, with a heavy dose of extra check rails - though the slip appears to be asymmetrical, with the further pair of switches being longer than the nearer ones (though that might be partly down to camera foreshortening)

[BR(S)]

Regional Railways in the Westcountry.  https://www.class37.co.uk/fleetdate.aspx?strdate=15%2f02%2f1994 shows this as being in place of a DMU from Bristol to Cardiff.

 

Also pictured at Newton Abbot, in the snow: https://www.class37.co.uk/imagepage.aspx?strnumber=ih37422

 

 

Edited April 25, 2022 by BR(S)

[melmerby]

Fancy a classic English Auto on your US layout?

How about a RHD Rolls Royce complete with UK numberplate on the front (Wichita KS):

 

(The car is a UK prototype!)

Edited April 25, 2022 by melmerby

[KeithMacdonald]

19th Feb 1982 somewhere on the Parkandillack branch.

Looks like the driver of 37135 couldn't decide whether it was a push-me or pull-me operation. And what's a single closed wagon doing with all those empty clay wagons?

From "Ernies Railway Archive" on Flickr.

 

 

[Gareth Collier]

20 minutes ago, KeithMacdonald said:

19th Feb 1982 somewhere on the Parkandillack branch.

Looks like the driver of 37135 couldn't decide whether it was a push-me or pull-me operation. And what's a single closed wagon doing with all those empty clay wagons?

From "Ernies Railway Archive" on Flickr.

 

 

I'm assuming it's a roundy roundy layout and after an errant uncoupling incident the loco has gone full circle and is now pushing the escaped wagons. This formation is regularly replicated on my layout ;)

[eastwestdivide]

1 hour ago, KeithMacdonald said:

And what's a single closed wagon doing with all those empty clay wagons?

Wagon sheets? Just a guess, as the loaded clay wagons were normally sheeted over. 

[john new]

3 hours ago, KeithMacdonald said:

19th Feb 1982 somewhere on the Parkandillack branch.

Looks like the driver of 37135 couldn't decide whether it was a push-me or pull-me operation. And what's a single closed wagon doing with all those empty clay wagons?

From "Ernies Railway Archive" on Flickr.

 

 

 

Assuming it wasn't actually in use with a load to or from the loading/unloading site then most probably a vac fitted wagon put into the rake to add extra braking ability. A DIY brake tender, given it is next to the engine use as a fitted head does make sense.

[eastwestdivide]

Fitted head? By 1982 wouldn’t all the clay opens be vac braked anyway?

[Wickham Green too]

Actually only the nearest wagon is a 'true' clay open : the others are all ex-traffic highs without tip ends ....... but all do appear to be vacfits - either four-shoe with axleguard tiebars or LMS style eight-shoe.

[Artless Bodger]

20 hours ago, eastwestdivide said:

Wagon sheets? Just a guess, as the loaded clay wagons were normally sheeted over. 

Bagged clay? The odd 1 or 2 opens at a time we received our clay in were sheeted, we folded the sheets and sent them back in the wagons. Agreed it might be different for a block train (ours were sorted out at Strood or Hoo Junction I think). Weren't wagon sheets allocated to a particular wagon and numbered?

[melmerby]

3 hours ago, Wickham Green too said:

Actually only the nearest wagon is a 'true' clay open : the others are all ex-traffic highs without tip ends ....... but all do appear to be vacfits - either four-shoe with axleguard tiebars or LMS style eight-shoe.

 

Having blown the photo up, I would say the first and third wagons beyond the van are end tippers, the second and fourth aren't.

You can see the top rails in the photo, the first is facing away and the third is facing towards the camera.

 

 

 

 

 

[Wickham Green too]

4 hours ago, Artless Bodger said:

... Weren't wagon sheets allocated to a particular wagon and numbered?

They were always numbered but, in general, not allocated to specific wagons ...... those in special traffics - such as clay 'hoods' may have been different tho'.

[The Stationmaster]

On 25/04/2022 at 14:08, great central said:

 

Struggling to see how that works at all, unless the camera is causing it to look completely wrong 

Basically a Barry Slip with a difference.

[JN]

https://www.railscot.co.uk/img/31/451/

 

Apparently quite typical for odd wagons to be tripped from Milford Junction to Knottingley, but I am not sure how common for (what looks to be like) a whole rake of HAAs...

[JN]

 

[Steven B]

A4s could be found on freight trains - either express goods or running in turns. Photos of them aren't that common. Even less so on a cattle train or in colour:

 

 

 

 

Selby: A4 Express Goods. 1960. by jsb303, on Flickr

 

Steven B

[BR(S)]

Random collection of coaches at 4:19:

 

 

[keefer]

presumably a delivery run of ex-works stock but where from? Derby, York, Wolverton?

Certainly very clean stock, although i'd have thought NSE stock would be dealt with down South.

EDIT: On closer look, very interesting as the three Mk3 buffets are all different:

1st - Exec livery HST TRFB? (deep red/yellow band, yellow band over large windows and red band goes right up to there.)

2nd -  Blue/grey loco-hauled Mk3a RUB (narrow red band which does not go the full length of the Buffet section and no yellow band)

3rd - B/g Mk3a RFB (narrow yellow band with red band up to there)

Did the L/H Exec livery RFBs get the HST-style deep red/yellow bands? If so, then the 1st one may be one of these and not an HST trailer - there also doesn't seem to be a '125' at the end of the bodyside branding.

I would say the other two are Mk3a vehicles - in which case, you have RUBs still being outshopped at the same time as RFBs

 

And right after it, a Motorail train with Mk1 FKs and Carflats!

Edited April 30, 2022 by keefer

[keefer]

Just watched the rest of the video @BR(S) linked to and there's an interesting cl.86/2 @13:56

Can't quite get the loco number/name but notice the windscreen wipers - not the normal pantograph wipers mounted at the top but single-arm wipers mounted in the top inner corner with a (eyebrow) top gutter, very strange!