Flying Scotsman

They used to have a lovely 15" gauge version of it, since moved on.

 

It is , sort of........
Taken last June.

I agree that it is not authentic but it is not an unattractive colour scheme and it is how the owner likes it. I'm just pleased to see it running again.

Peter

 

After 36 years, my memory is getting a little vague but I seem to recall there was then a loco depot near the station at which we serviced 4472.
I was on top of the tender when coaling was underway, to ensure the lumps were safely stowed, and an electrical storm decided to start.
It was the first time I had seen sheet lightning - and it was getting closer quite quickly.
I was the highest point in the area - second only to the various depot lighting towers.
Possibly I made a personal best in getting down to ground level to a position of safety!
Oh the memories of being a support crew member.

 

The 15" version at Bressingham in 1980............

 

Your memory is pretty good! The depot was just to the south of the station which has a junction. I think after the freight in the area dried up, the depot morphed into a works facility. It could also have been the servicing point for standard gauge locos.

Brisbane certainly can provide some cracking storms. I got soaked to the skin many a time on the way home from school back in those days - welcome relief from the stinking humidity!

 

When you've poured tens of thousands of pounds of your own money into a project, you can paint it what colour you like - the late Gerald Boden told me that years ago about Mayflower. Personally, I prefer crimson lake to green

 

That does look fab… I wonder where it is now?

 

Superb picture John.

 

@Johnb - your photo of Scotsman has me wondering; Kodachrome slide? They have a certain quality nothing modern can ever hope to replicate.

 

Bressingham is definitely where I first saw 6100 and 70013.

 

I wish it was, I used Agfa CT18 back then. It did take a bit of work in PS to rescue it. K2 was the best but at only 25ISO it didn’t cope well with low light. The disadvantage with all slide film was the very narrow dynamic range, the problem with digital images is some people over process them until they look like an oil painting. The high contrast HDR images just look awful

 

France! Station Road Steam were offering it for sale about 10 years ago, and it seems it moved abroad in 2017. What state it's in now is anyone's guess, as the photos show it as a large collection of parts.

 

Thanks for that, John. I read a book recently where all the images were in colour and also included both what film was used and with what camera; and it has to be said the differences between the film stocks were quite remarkable. With regard to your latter point, regretfully I saw an image posted here very recently that looked awful because of the over-processing and HDR.

 

Built by Bill Stewart at the Washington Iron Works and completed in 1976 and built to scale, shall we say 3" to the foot rather than the usual 4. Sold by Station Road Steam in August 2016 as a major overhaul project to be completed.

 

I did have some luck as I started with slide film in 1965 using Ferrania Colour but switched to Agfa after they lost two 36 exp films all taken around Birkenhead and Liverpool. Most of the earlier Ferrania slides have faded beyond redemption, at least the Agfa ones can be rescued and the Fuji slides seem to have similar longevity to Kodak. I switched to Fujichrome in 1983 going digital in 2007.

 

Interesting.

3" to the foot on 15" gauge track means running on the standard gauge equivalent of 5'0", or about 6% over gauge.

4" to the foot on 15" gauge track means running on the standard gauge equivalent of 3'9", or 21% under gauge.

So it is a rather truer scale / gauge ratio, if I have done my maths right. If the RHDR is OO, then that loco is - if not P4, then at least somewhat closer!

Tom

 

You may or may not be surprised to learn this, but I have never shot a single slide, ever. I feel I've missed out in a way.

 

I started off using Agfa but then switched to High Speed Ectachrome which gave me a chance to use higher shutter speeds for railway photography.

 

I started using CT21, and have regretted it ever since!. Lousy grain, and now the colour saturation is either fading, or gaining a brown hue. Also the emulsion isn't as resistant to mould as Kodachrome, Ektachrome, or any of the Fujichrome films.

 

Just an aside: the '18' and '21' of the Agfa films - does that correspond to the DIN speed rating of the film?