A friend of mine has one, and it does run well. Here is a video of a recent run. Are these coaches prototypical of what she might have pulled in real life?
Tom, I’m sorry to say that I can’t see the video - ‘Due to regional licensing agreements it is not possible to display this video in your region - sorry’.
If the coaches are green and look like those in my video they are good. As are ‘blood and custard’. NO chocolate and cream, although maroon is acceptable.
Please feel free to repost my post onto the other forum if you care to do so. I have no problems with the forum as a whole, just a couple of the posters on it who made my presence there considerably less than fun.
tac
Ottawa Valley GRS
Tac,
I don’t understand this “regional licensing agreement” BS. I took the video.
The coaches are similar to the ones you are pulling, are green, and say Southern on them.
Thanks for the response.
Tom, I was able to see your video and the answer is yes. Green coloured cars would be correct for the Southern Railway. Whether they are the exact type of cars I cannot say, but to me it looks right. However, the Southern was not my railway of choice, always living very close to Great Western tracks. I am not sure the ‘blood and custard’ would be quite accurate, nor the maroon, as the loco is lettered Southern Railway and bears the pre 1950 French style of numbering.
You must remember Tac still is in the Stone Age area of England - he posted a pic of his home recently. I live in the South West and have benefitted from the more advanced Roman civilization that we had a while ago which maybe explains why I could see this vid. (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-undecided.gif)
Guess I don’t have enough bandwidth here down by the stream.
If the coaches you are talking about are green and have ‘Southern’ on them, then they are perfect.
tac, living history, day by day.
Edit - I was wrong about the paint-scheme, but it DID have the smokebox token on it in December 1957.
Maybe Tac could fly back to Oregon and view video(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif) Later RJD
Your coaches look just right as they appear to be of the Bullied design and not the later, post 1951, BR Mk I design. The loco is in the Southern’s Malachite green livery and their loco numbering that would have been normal till the UK rail network was nationalised in 1947. Post that date the loco tender would have initially been given the “British Railways” legend rather than “Southern”. The whole loco/tender package eventually would be repainted to the more familiar orange/black lined Brunswick green with the British Railways “Cycling Lion” logo on the tender as well as renumbered. Some at one point were painted blue as an experimental livery for BR. I have seen pictures of the Bullied coach stock in “blood and custard” mixed in with BR MkI’s but then you would need the loco in the later livery. Yours, ever the putative rivet counter, Max.
Max,
The coaches are actually mine, on loan to my friend. They were built by David Leach, and are works of art, like everything David builds.
Tom - it WAS a bandwidth problem for me. Half of the village has fibre-optic BB, but the poorer part, where we live, has yet to take up on the offer en masse. Unless we get sixty users the company will not change from banging rocks together to high-speed FOBB. Hence the mention of the regional licensing conditions.
On the bonus side, the plutocrats really DO live along the banks of the brook/creek, and get flooded impressively and expensively. The poorer element, in much newer accomodations, live around the raised areas of the village, as evinced from the name of our adjacent street - HIGHFIELD Ave.
The clue lies in the name - at around 18 feet higher topographically-wise than the plutocrats, it would have to be some kind of a bursting dam happening before WE would get flooded.
The nearest dam is seven miles to the south away from us, and faces east.
tac, ig etc…
Tom Myers said:
Max,
The coaches are actually mine, on loan to my friend. They were built by David Leach, and are works of art, like everything David builds.
Very nice work Tom and a perfect compliment to the “Spam Can” as presented. Very prototypical, as they say.
I grew up across the road from London Victoria, one of the termini of the Southern Railway as was (London Brighton and South Coast prior to grouping in 1923). My first train set as a small child, a Triang TT scale, included a Bullied “Light Pacific” in BR livery with wood body baggage car, a rake of green BR Mk I coaches, and station and signal box in the Art Deco Southern railway style. The significance was lost on me as a 7 year old. Remember seeing them in the station on the reserved platform for the “Golden Arrow” London/Paris cross channel service. Max
Max,
If you grew up across from Victoria Station, you must be familiar with my favorite British pub, The Albert. Whenever I am in London I always make it a point to go there for the Shepherds Pie.
Tom Myers said:
Max,
If you grew up across from Victoria Station, you must be familiar with my favorite British pub, The Albert. Whenever I am in London I always make it a point to go there for the Shepherds Pie.
Left the area before legal drinking age in 1970. But very familiar with Overtons restaurant opposite the main entrance, up on the 1st floor of an island site building…very old school service. Also the cartoon cinema adjacent to platform 17,for the soon to be recreated Brighton Belle Pullman service. Developed a love of all things Warner Bros voiced by Mel Blanc. Sadly all redeveloped and gone now. Meep Meep, That’s all folks. Max.