Pictures of steam locos

Herewith some pics as promised

30053 at the SDR. 2014








30120 at B & W. 2013






Beattie Well Tank at B & W. 2013






 Will put some more up later

Nice pics Mike. :thumbs

30053 is a dinky little loco, as is the Well Tank but what is amazing, is the length of the tender on 30120.   Imagine having to fetch the coal from the back of that beastie …….. :shock::shock:

I agree with that Petermac. But it's Southern Railway who hadn't heard of Water Troughs so to get any distance out of the locos they had to have big tenders. I think those 8 wheelers were known as watercarts.

Now a couple for the G W R fans and a couple more for Southerners.
34046 at Plymouth North Road.





34067 at Plymouth




4612 at Bodmin General






Metropolitan Railway No. 1 at Bodmin




That's it for now folks. More later in the week

T9 at Corfe Castle this week

Nice one Mike. It is a beautiful looking loco. I'm in the process of building the Wills version with the wide cab.

Union Mills do a wide cab one in N gauge, I converted mine to narrow cab and an 8 wheel tender, they look much better in Maunsell dark olive!

The tender is form a Langley S15 kit, slightly over scale to fit over a Fleischmann drive; (I need more lining practice!)

Some nice photos of some very beautiful engines, but with an exception of one little green pannier…

Although I'll except the E Class (very nice) as it looks very similar to a M7 Class…. :hmm

Thanks for sharing Mick and Mike. Actually, panniers are ok, just in the wrong railway company ! :cool wink

Cheers, Gary.

Start of the 2015 Season. Herewith pics from the South Devon Railway today.



GWR Pannier Tank No. 1369







GWR 0-4-2 Tank No 1420. This loco is probably going into the works this year for overhaul.







GWR 0-6-0 Tender loco No. 3205







GWR 2-6-2T No. 4555







Diesel Railcar No. W55000







That's it for now. Going again next weekend weather permitting so should have some more.

What no A4's (real loco's!):)

Already put them up a few months ago. Will put a couple up on here again later.

Saw this yesterday heading along the Plym Estuary towards Laira Depot

Colas Rail Matisa B41U Tamper No. 75406 'Eric Mashell'. Ok it's not steam but you don't see them that often.

 G`day Mick,

 Great pics…….it`s nice to see the real thing.

:cheers  Gormo

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Colas Rail Matisa B41U Tamper No. 75406 'Eric Mashell'. Ok it's not steam but you don't see them that often.

That's good …………………..:pedal

A few from around the preserved lines


S15 828 at Swanage



4247 on the Bodmin & Wadebridge


M7 30053 at Norden, Swanage railway



41312 on the Bluebell with Metropolitan coaches



Beattie well tank 30587 at Bodmin double heading with a pannier



4MT tank 80078 at Swanage


Hope that's enough to satisfy the cravings for a while.

I've been making jigsaw puzzles out of these and others, as one per week from the forum ain't enough!:roll:

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I've been making jigsaw puzzles out of these and others, as one per week from the forum ain't enough!:roll:

And I've done more than a few of them Mike. thumbs:thumbs

Thanks for posting that latest batch of photos Mike. Warmed the cockles of my heart seeing the old girls in their glory!
 

Anyone in the West Country who may be interested the first Steam Special of the year (down here anyway) will take place on Wednesday 1st April. It is the Cathedrals Express from Oxford to Kingswear. At the moment the loco pulling it will be  B1 No. 61306 'Mayflower'. Will put times up later when to hand.

Captured this yesterday travelling on the Plym Estuary in all it's yellow glory.

Network Rail's Measurement HST. 'The Flying Banana'. It was heading up the line and probably came out from Laira. There must be something going on as the Ballast Tamper I saw the other day was also heading out of Plymouth about half an hour later.

Great photos.Its nice to see steam in action.
Cheers,
Derek,