Cotswold Venturer 26/09

The tickets arrived showing 7.03 dept Paddington with tangmere looks like 10 on so should mean no need for 47 on the back here's hoping!.

 

And it's on RTT, http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U50615/2015/09/26/advanced, unlike the SD trip to Worcester two days earlier. Nearly an hour at Hinksey, though.

 

Just looking at the fact 70000 shall be going to Southall will she be the motive power for this weekends run? TBA at the moment.

 

So the tickets confirmed Tangmere for Saturday ?

 

Yes with apologies for the king not being ready yet No real surprise its Tangmere just hope she behaves herself! AND hopefully no 47 on the back

 

Well there's a LE move from the departure platform to Southall a few minutes later so it looks hopeful:
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U50616/2015/09/26/advanced

Presume this is the return from Worcester:
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U50620/2015/09/26/advanced

 

What a week for Reading. If we include last Saturday, that's steam mainline trains on 19th, 22nd, 23rd, 24th and 26th. The station staff will think someone has turned back the clock to 1963!!

 

See BBC News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-34292550

It's not just station staff that seem to be turning back the clock, but FGW senior management too.

 

Yes, now I believe it is to be called Great Western Railway. It will be amazing if the colour is Brunswick Green in honour of the famous Castles and Kings. Now that would be something special.

 

Well now we really need some GWR Kings and Castles! I'm not holding my breath but November maybe.

 

I once saw a OO-gauge model HST with most of the power cars painted in green and the remainder in chocolate and cream' lined out in traditional GWR style. It looked far more attractive than any livery in which the full-scale HSTs have ever been painted. I also prefer the green power car to this fictitious livery:- http://www.fictitiousliveries.co.uk/photo.php?43227_gwb.jpg but that one is still an improvement on the current FGW colour scheme.

(Sorry, thread drift!)

 

Great Western locos were painted Middle Chrome Green, which BR used until 1957 when they started using a slightly darker shade called Deep Bronze green.

 

Where did Brunswick Green come from then. I could have sworn the this was the livery for the GWR passenger locomotives?

 

IIRC, "Brunswick Green" was the name of the nearest shade of Humbrol Enamel paint, and so generations of schoolboy modellers used the term, never knowing the correct names. A few of them never grew up, but became "journalists", writing for railway and model-making magazines, disseminating and confirming the "incorrect" shade name to the rest of us. Or something like that... ;-)

It's also the shade that Airfix recommended for their Le Mans Bentley model.

(Good grief! What is it about this forum? Now I'm contributing to the thread drift with irrelevant - and probably duff - information about paint!)

 

That is also my understanding. I believe a number of preserved locos have been painted Brunswick Green including Manston. There is a picture of Manston and Tangmere tender to tender at Corfe in 2009 and the difference was noticeable. Manston has since been repainted.

 

So possibly no diesel tomorrow, as the LE path in the above post indicates ! Fingers crossed for an incident free trip

 

The LE diesel has returned to Southall.
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U50616/2015/09/26/advanced

Tangmere reported RT passing Southall en route to Worcester. <BJ>

 

Waiting for some pics......should be a great 'Tangmere show' in this cool air !!!!!

 

Sorry, went all arty farty on this one, carried away by the stunning sunrise.

 

Well now...



Shall post a proper photo later. Still out and about at the moment.