Swanage Railway General Discussion

It’s the other way round too

Apparently it’s going to be staying with us for a week or two. The other two visitors were on the RRI this afternoon.

 

Yep turntable is in light use, the bucket was perfectly balanced upon it and could have been kept 'spinning all night'' according to a source close to the bothy.

 

Obviously the Dukedog repaint debate on the Bluebell thread caused this to pass under the radar.
Taken from the railways Facebook page.

 

Despite my general disdain for BR Black, I have to admit that looks rather good.

 

What could have been fun was to suggest that the cab would be boxed in with plywood to resemble an Adams radial

 

I think that a stylish machine line the T3 would look good in any livery - within reason!

 

Shades of City of Truro! At least that was really painted.

 

The purists will be complaining about the LSWR headcode with a BR livery

Tom

 

Furthermore, had the T3 remained in service into BR days, it would have been carrying a Drummond-style lipped chimney rather than the Adams stovepipe.

All the same, a pretty convincing spoof!

 

Any planned running days for Rennes before it goes back to Dean Forest?

 

....to say nothing of the austere Adams stovepipe chimney which it lost in favour of the more elegant standard Drummond chimney in the early part of the last century.

Peter
EDIT Just realised that I wrote this this morning but forgot to press the send button. Clearly @John Petley and I are on the same wavelenght

 

Surely only the opposite of this Tom Another one for the purists.

 

Eddystone and both support coaches are due to leave for Southall on Wednesday 8th.

https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U81452/2026-04-08/detailed