Hi Richard. It was nice to speak with you this morning. I have travelled on this line across the North Yorkshire Moors a couple of times. It brings back some happy memories. Nice channel mate!!
Minor problem with the layout name ! 70A is of course the Nine Elms LSWR sheds BR era code, which was located alongside the LSWR mainline in Wandsworth. But "around Battersea" implies the LB&SCR shed. Further complicated by the fact that the ex SE&CR shed at Stewarts Lane is also in Battersea. While you could shuffle back & forth between Battersea shed & Stewarts Lane sheds as they were only a few hundred yards apart and directly connected. It wasn't possible to go between these sheds and Nine Elms shed. Unless you went via the West London lines to Clapham Junction, and then reversed up the South Western mainline towards Waterloo !! Nine Elms shed is today the site of New Covent Garden vegetable market. Happy Modelling !
Well if you are building another Southern/BR Southern layout, your SR coaching stock formations need a little organisation. SEE SOME EXAMPLES LISTED BELOW. 90% of Southern coaches ran in fixed formation sets of anything from 2 to 10 coaches. Where an express might be made up of two, three or more sets ! In addition to the "sets" there were also "Loose" vehicles. These were virtually all the catering vehicles, and many Open 3rds. As you appear to have Maunsell, Bulleid & BR Mk1's I've listed some suitable sets below: MAUNSELL 3-car set No: 239. From 6/1951 until 5/1961 when scrapped. Brake Third Corridor (BTK): S2802S Composite Corridor (CK) 1st/3rd : S5689S BTK: S2803S MAUNSELL 5-car set No: 270. From 6/1945 until 5/1957 when lengthened to 6 coaches. Brake Composite Corridor (BCK): S6687S TK: S1838S CK: S5646S TK: S1837S BCK: S6693S BULLEID 4-car set No: 81. From 6/1949 until 9/1965 when disbanded. Semi-Open Brake 3rd (SOBT) S4013S Third Corridor (TK) S27S Composite Corridor (CK) 1st/3rd S5824S SOBT S4014S BULLEID 3-car set No: 772. From new 1/1947 until 5/1966 when scrapped. SOBT: S4305S CK: S5753S SOBT: S4306 BULLEID 5-car set No: 841. From new 5/1950 until 5/1964 when disbanded. SOBT: S3993S TK: S63S CK: S5859S TK: S64S SOBT: S3994S BR Mk1 3-car set No: 522. From new 6/55 until 5/1966 when disbanded. BTK: S34635 CK: S15564 BTK: S34636 BR Mk1 4-car set No: 870. From new 1/1952 until 9/1966 when disbanded. BTK: S34241 TK: S24306 CK: S15028 BTK: S34242 Note: 3rd class was upgraded to 2nd class from July 1956. So coach codes changed. So a BTK became a BSK etc. Note also many Southern sets had consequetively numbered vehicles of the same type in the one set. Note also there were NO Maunsell 4-car sets after 1953 of types made in model form. The only remaining Maunsell 4-car sets after 1954, where all narrow bodied types for use on the London - Tonbridge - Hastings service and North Kent lines with width restrictions.
I'm hoping to do something similar from 1923 to 1968, SR/ BR type layout. So your formations guide of coaches for and around that period will be invaluable. So I'm trying to find out as much as possible from Pullmans to freight, private owners, milk tankers, oil tankers, banana vans. Also any other type of freight wagons from the other big three etc, that may have strayed on to Southern metals. So are there any good books you could recommend that would guide me in the right direction. Regards Paul
Mangapps Farm Railway Museum is located near Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex. They are open on Sundays during the summer and have a short standard gauge line, usually operated by a diesel loco, occasionally steam.
Wow, that was simply gorgeous Richard, some beautiful pictures there, and I also liked the people in the pictures especially the lady in the powered scooter thingy, sorry but I am not sure of the correct terminology of such things!! We go up there about a couple of times a year on average and take some video. It's a great shame that you tubers do not appear to appreciate these kind of shows, I have the same problem - not to worry though, keep on doing what you are doing. I about to take a look at your channel page to see what else is available. Thanks for the upload, Steve.
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Thanks, Stuart. Quality not too bad considering shot was taken on a Canon Mini DV tape camcorder. 1080p would be much better, of course and 4K would be superb assuming you could use a camera with a long focal length lens. If I had to take a similar shot today, I would use my Nikon D5300 with 200-500mm for very long shot, or 18-300mm which doesn't go quite long enough.
