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Bulleid Pacifics - Past or Present

Discussion in 'Steam Traction' started by 34007, May 13, 2008.

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  1. Dan Hill

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    I wouldn't mind seeing one take on the liviery that 34090 had in original condition. Malachite green with stripes but with BR Early Crest and number plate.
     
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    Isn't that the livery blackmoor vale is in? Edit just realised its Southern on the tender not British Rail! Doh!
     
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    Why does nearly everybody like BR green or black. I feel like I need to start a thread mentioning all the different colors on a pallet. I might.
     
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    Mainly because they're appropriate! Red 8Fs don't go down well for example.
     
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    Or Green 9F's....
     
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    Only with the "purists". Joe Public seem to like such things and why not?
     
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    Correct.
     
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    Wot? Stroudley's improved engine green?
     
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    The reason I don't like the BR green is also because it is dark whether the sun is hitting it or not.
     
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    Ticking along nicely. Had a minor niggle with the new grate, it was a smidgeon too big for the ash pans but some judicious fiddling around and fettling has resolved the problem. Construction of the new smoke box is well under way and a new smoke box door has been pressed by the SDR. A new blast pipe cap will soon be cast now that we have taken delivery of the patterns. Work on the tender continues apace. Making new bolts for the centre slide bar and crosshead assembly as the old ones were found to have stretched. Once these are done we can finish assembly of the middle engine and rewheel her.
     
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    Well now, she is a Brighton product. :)
     
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    Paint one Cambrian 'Invisible Green' as it would be highly appropriate as Bulleid was brought up on the east side of the Cambrian mountains in Llanfyllin. Anyway, paint 'em whatever colour you like, but it won't change the fact that BR green suits them rather well. Anyway, shots taken of 34101 at Grosmont this Sunday:
     

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    I guess it's because there's more to recreating the steam age than the loco up front. At least a BR Green or black loco gives you a tolerably authentic looking train if it's hauling Mark 1 stock, which is now the norm at least on the main line and on many heritage lines too. Maybe this is a bit of a "purist" attitude, but I cannot blame a heritage line for recognising that unless it had a very early start (e.g, the Bluebell) or sets itself very tight criteria regarding authenticity (e.g. the IOWSR) it's not a bad idea to aim for a reasonably convincing recreation of the 1950s than a hotch-potch.

    I think if we could roll back the Nanny State and get a rake of Gresley Teaks running on the main line or perhaps a rake of LMS Stanier coaches, the enthusiasm, particlarly for main line-regstered locos, running in pre-nationalisation colours would increase immensely. It saddens me that Bittern, which in and of itself, looks superb in garter blue, always looks rather odd at the head of Mk I stock. The Duchess (when repainted as 6233) or Lizzie don't look so bad as at least they are painted the right colour (if not a matching livery) to go with the coaches they usually haul, ditto Rood Ashton Hall with the Tyseley set.

    Just my opinion - we can debate this subject endlessly (and indeed we have done so ad nauseam on this forum!)
     
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    I want Mallard in Crimson Lake then ;) .
     
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    Quick, start a Facebook page. :)
     
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    Look forward to seeing Hartland out and about. One of the first locos I got to go on the footplate of when I was younger- I even have a picture!

    Chris
     
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    For those people wanting a bit of Bulleid action, even if of the de-tuned variety, down here at Swanage we plan to make as much use of 34028 as possible before its 'ticket' expires on 17 August. It is planned to be out of traffic for washout the week beginning 14 July, but otherwise we have every plan for it to be the mainstay of the steam service over the next month and a half.

    Any changes to that plan I will of course post them.
     
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    Interesting reply but I recall the 70s and 80s when an awful lot of main line registered locos were in Big 4 colours. LNER provided 19, 246, 673, 1306, 4472, 4468, 4498 and 4771, SR 777, 828 and 850, LMS 1000, 4767, 5000, 5305, 5407 and 5690, GWR - mostly lots of 4-6-0s - and all pulling mostly blue and grey stock. Nobody seemed to mind back then as it was steam on the main line, something we all thought we'd lost for ever in August 1968 and with the departure of 4472 to the US a year later.
     
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    Looks quite good will have to check it out next time I am in WHSmiths


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