Prototype for everything corner.

[KeithHC]

14 hours ago, Wickham Green too said:

Anyone familiar with the layout of the place ? ........ the caption does, indeed, say the Standard has failed - but could the pannier be propelling it towards a place of safety ??!?  -  maybe after hauling it from wherever it failed ?

Could have been taken to the loco works. They did not shut until 1966.

 

Keith

[melmerby]

17 hours ago, KeithHC said:

In the original it says the 2-6-2 has failed.

 

Keith

That's why I asked whether the 16XX would be pushing.

[Wickham Green too]

10 hours ago, Market65 said:

... DMU hauling four what look like Mk1 CCT’s. ...

I'm pretty sure the first van is a Southern PMV/CCT and the second could be a Southern B or BY.

[Busmansholiday]

Here's your reason to have a US loco on your UK layout.

[melmerby]

I assume it means that UP will be running the trains in the UK as a stop gap, whilst they are on strike🙂

Edited May 22, 2022 by melmerby

[DavidMcKenzie]

On 01/05/2022 at 10:23, melmerby said:

Is it normal to mount buffers vertically?

Great photo, now you've pointed it out I've started to notice it in a number of old videos and photos from the period the 90s were in the intercity livery. 

Edited May 23, 2022 by DavidMcKenzie

[russ p]

1 hour ago, DavidMcKenzie said:

Great photo, now you've pointed it out I've started to notice it in a number of old videos and photos from the period they were in the intercity livery. 

 

The buffers twist and retract by removing a locking pin 

[45125]

On 21/05/2022 at 23:19, Market65 said:

This is the first time I’ve seen a class 124 TransPennine DMU hauling four what look like Mk1 CCT’s. The intriguing formation was the 17.08 York to Hull service on the 29th July, 1972. The photo’ is courtesy of Paul Haywood on Flickr.
 

York, Dringhouses. by Paul Haywood, on Flickr
 

Best regards,

 

 Rob.

Was a regular working when 1H89 17:08 stopped been a loco hauled job. lasted for a bout two years with vans attached.

[KeithMacdonald]

Network Rail introduces new inflation-busting economy class travel.

 

 

[KeithMacdonald]

Not just Weymouth

 

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Jinty 47308 on Special train Gloucester Docks Branch circa 1962 -
Derek Chaplin/Peter Brabham collection

Interesting line the Gloucester Docks branch as trains ran down the middle of the road. The people waiting at the bus stop look bemused to see a passenger train with enthusiasts hanging out and the two children look facinated. Nice pair of early 1960s cars maybe a Wolsey and a Ford?

 

 

 

Have I found the location?

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17&lat=51.85855&lon=-2.24123&layers=168&b=1&marker=50.767,-3.357

 

[KeithHC]

Yep looks about right. Not sure but is that a Vauxhall. Also the houses in the background are still there.

 

Keith

 

 

[LMS2968]

Yes, Cresta I think, with what looks like a MkII Zodiac to the left.

[KeithMacdonald]

I'm shocked, shocked!

A Southern loco pulling GWR rolling stock on GWR tracks!

 

From the Mike Morant collection. This is Bulleid West Country 34020 "Seaton".  The location is west of Teignmouth Docks, alongside the river at low tide, heading towards Newton Abbot. Presumably one of the route knowledge swaps? It seems to be pulling a mixed lot including a cattle wagon.

 

 

 

[Wickham Green too]

Looks very much like a 'Siphon' milk van to me.

 

Yes the Southern and Western men learnt each others road from Exeter to Plymouth in case one route or t'other became unavailable ...................... for some reason one route is permanently unavailable now, and, can't be used when the other one gets washed out periodically.

[Bulleidnutter]

2 hours ago, KeithMacdonald said:

I'm shocked, shocked!

A Southern loco pulling GWR rolling stock on GWR tracks!

 

From the Mike Morant collection. This is Bulleid West Country 34020 "Seaton".  The location is west of Teignmouth Docks, alongside the river at low tide, heading towards Newton Abbot. Presumably one of the route knowledge swaps? It seems to be pulling a mixed lot including a cattle wagon.

 

 

 

As said above I wouldnt be too shocked. There are plenty of photos of Churchward moguls working over the LSWR route with Maunsell coaches. I have also seen a Maunsell U 2-6-0 on the same diagram. 

[Michael Hodgson]

18 hours ago, Wickham Green too said:

Yes the Southern and Western men learnt each others road from Exeter to Plymouth in case one route or t'other became unavailable ...................... for some reason one route is permanently unavailable now, and, can't be used when the other one gets washed out periodically.

The Western Region didn't see fit to prefix the official title of Paddington Station with the word "London" in timetables etc. 

 

Many years ago at Exeter a friend (not a railway employee) took exception to the arrogant manners of an American in a hurry who yelled at him "Oi you!   Is this the train to London?" pointing at the HST which was due to depart imminenetly.  So he calmly gave the technically correct reply "No, that's only going to Paddington.  This train over here is going to London Waterloo."

[DK123GWR]

6 minutes ago, Michael Hodgson said:

The Western Region didn't see fit to prefix the official title of Paddington Station with the word "London" in timetables etc. 

 

Many years ago at Exeter a friend (not a railway employee) took exception to the arrogant manners of an American in a hurry who yelled at him "Oi you!   Is this the train to London?" pointing at the HST which was due to depart imminenetly.  So he calmly gave the technically correct reply "No, that's only going to Paddington.  This train over here is going to London Waterloo."

It's now announced as 'London Paddington' though and the signs on the platforms say the same (or they did the last time I went). The real dissapointment though (for the tourist) is that they would have emerged right next to all of the parts of London they wanted to see, so had no reason to use the Underground.

[Wickham Green too]

1 hour ago, Michael Hodgson said:

The Western Region didn't see fit to prefix the official title of Paddington Station with the word "London" in timetables etc. ....

The signage at Waterloo was changed some time between April 1986 and March 1987 - and I guess the other London termini ( and other designed-to-confuse-the-tourist places ) were altered about the same time .................... nobody seemed to think it necessary to prefix London Bridge for some reason, though.

[The Stationmaster]

8 minutes ago, Wickham Green too said:

The signage at Waterloo was changed some time between April 1986 and March 1987 - and I guess the other London termini ( and other designed-to-confuse-the-tourist places ) were altered about the same time .................... nobody seemed to think it necessary to prefix London Bridge for some reason, though.

Waterloo finished up with two different three letter codes in Eurostar days.  For the British, especially those with no railway operational experience, the Eurostar terminal was WIT (Waterloo International Terminal) which distinguished it from the rest of the station.  But for SNCF and SNCB it was LWO  (London Waterloo).   For outbound passengers it was 'Waterloo International' but for inbound passengers it was 'London Waterloo' - so at east they knew they were going to/arriving in London 

[Michael Hodgson]

48 minutes ago, Wickham Green too said:

The signage at Waterloo was changed some time between April 1986 and March 1987 - and I guess the other London termini ( and other designed-to-confuse-the-tourist places ) were altered about the same time .................... nobody seemed to think it necessary to prefix London Bridge for some reason, though.

 

That's an essential element of our appeal as a tourist attraction - visitors to these islands know that it's a quaint old country with strange customs like morris dancing and living in thatched cottages.  Same principle as the Irish bamboozling the punters with leprechauns and the Blarney or the Scots with hunting wild haggis through the glens to make sporrans for their kilts.

 

Confused tourists expect to see this edifice and it's only by visiting the place that they can learn that London Bridge is now a railway station while the real bridge is in a desert in Arizona!

 

[KeithMacdonald]

Think of the fun you could have with someone who demanded a train to London Airport.

 

London Oxford Airport

 

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London Oxford Airport is the Thames Valley area’s primary regional and business aviation airport

 

https://www.oxfordairport.co.uk/

 

You can get there on the tube as well.

 

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Oxford Tube: London to Oxford & Oxford to London Coach

 

https://www.oxfordtube.com/

 

[F-UnitMad]

On 29/05/2022 at 21:31, KeithMacdonald said:

Not just Weymouth

 

 

 

Have I found the location?

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17&lat=51.85855&lon=-2.24123&layers=168&b=1&marker=50.767,-3.357

 

Yes, the branch left the main line south of Gloucester Eastgate station at California Crossing, and went to the docks through the park along what is now Trier Way.

[Wickham Green too]

2 hours ago, Michael Hodgson said:

 

That's an essential element of our appeal as a tourist attraction - visitors to these islands know that it's a quaint old country with strange customs like morris dancing and living in thatched cottages.  Same principle as the Irish bamboozling the punters with leprechauns and the Blarney or the Scots with hunting wild haggis through the glens to make sporrans for their kilts.

 

Confused tourists expect to see this edifice and it's only by visiting the place that they can learn that London Bridge is now a railway station while the real bridge is in a desert in Arizona!

 

Yep - you should be sent to the TOWER for using that photo !

[KeithMacdonald]

5 minutes ago, Wickham Green too said:

visitors to these islands know that it's a quaint old country with strange customs like morris dancing

 

Well, this is the "Prototype for everything corner" ... anyone got some OO Gauge Morris Dancers?

 

 

 

[Wickham Green too]

2 hours ago, KeithMacdonald said:

Think of the fun you could have with someone who demanded a train to London Airport. ... London Oxford Airport ...

..... not to mention London Lydd Airport - whose station is long closed - or London Biggin Hill Airport - whose railway never got built .................................. at least London Gatwick, London Luton and London Stansted are accessible by rail - even though they're further from Town than the London Airport we all know and hate.

 

Then there was London Lullingstone - which had a station but the airport never materialised ! ( Imagine trying to say 'London Lullingstone' after too much duty free ! )

Edited May 31, 2022 by Wickham Green too