UK Screenshots for Pre BR Blue. High resolution warning.

[borderreiver]

Northeast England during the steam era

Early morning encounter on the East Coast Main Line near Croft Spa Station.

 

[napierdeltic]

So, this is a bit of an odd place to bring it up but I was wondering if anybody knows of a route that features London Waterloo station. I looked for one on the DLS but I can't seem to find any. Do any DLC-exclusive or third-party payware routes feature that station?

If so and anybody here owns a route with it please let me know! Maype post screenshots here? If you feel like it but just let me know if such a route exists because I find it weird there's no Waterloo station routes...

Look out on the DLS for - FMA London Battersea area for TS2012. Has no buildings but the trackwork is there for a few miles if you fancy building. There is also - Central London Line

 

[SRKing783]

That's typically the way to do it, as custom models are a lot more personable than the standard TVS Designs. It's always interesting to see what basis designs or alterations people end up making - DJ Dark's RWS interpretations are probably my favorite.

I actually have gone the inverse way myself; I grew up with TTTE and now my kids are growing up with it, but I have made the transition to prototypical UK Railways - so I've taken to writing RWS-Esque stories for my children based on real prototypes. Sort of like the British Railway Series by Simon Martin - but with actual RWS like faces. I'll show the models here one day, but they are definitely not ready yet.

Just popping in to throw my two cents - I really haven't been on the forums in...quite some time. It's great to still see the Southern Region progressing along, I'm really liking where you've taken things. I would quite like to see those models when the time comes.

Funny you mention that inverse way; for me personally, I've delved way too deep into the RWS lore, and that's essentially where a lot of my interests are now! Of course the Midlands are still where I look towards in real life, but there's nothing quite like the North Western Region to me...

It's great to see this thread still active and all the wonderful screenshots. And PLP, correct me if I'm wrong, but is that the Somerset & Dorset? I think you mentioned it a while ago, glad to see it came to fruition!

 

[PortLineParker]

It is indeed the S&D.

 

[PortLineParker]

4MT 76026 on a Bournemouth West-Bath service, seen here at various points between Broadstone and Blandford Forum.

Cheers,

PLP

 

[PortLineParker]

4MT 75072 on a Pines Express relief service, formed of 7 Mk1s and a van B. Weighing in at 330 tons, the train would have been double headed from Bath to Evercreech Junction but is capable of handling the train solo from there to Bournemouth West, as although the southern section did have some steep gradients, these were only short compare with the 7 miles of 1 in 50 on the northern half. 75072 is seen here passing through Spetisbury and heading towards Bailey Gate.

Spetisbury home plantation on the right as we approach Spetisbury village. I'm not entirely sure what a 'home plantation' is but it's still there today, along with the bridge.

Seen from the other side passing under the bridge:

Approaching Spetisbury halt. Closed in September 1956, the station nevertheless remained relatively intact until around 1959, although the signal box was demolished around the time the station closed.

A classic view of the station with the village in the background. Lurking in the background behind the line of trees is the River Stour - the Dorset one!

Slightly further down the line now, about a mile south of Spetisbury and we again glance the Stour through the trees.

Approaching Corfe Mullen junction - the building behind the train is the waterworks which were built to supply water to the munitions factory at Holton Heath on the south western mainline, incidentally modelled on my Swanage Railway route. The chimney would be demolished in 1960 but the building otherwise still stands today. This view demonstrates the flat nature of the southern half of the route compared to the northern half - scenically both were very pretty but operationally they were worlds apart.

Seen powering away to Corfe Mullen junction and the single line section to Broadstone, upon where we will regain double track. The crossing keeper's cottage in the distance remains to this day, along with a set of level crossing gates and even some of the track still buried in the tarmac.

Cheers,

PLP

 

[marmalade32]

Just popping in to throw my two cents - I really haven't been on the forums in...quite some time. It's great to still see the Southern Region progressing along, I'm really liking where you've taken things. I would quite like to see those models when the time comes.

Funny you mention that inverse way; for me personally, I've delved way too deep into the RWS lore, and that's essentially where a lot of my interests are now! Of course the Midlands are still where I look towards in real life, but there's nothing quite like the North Western Region to me...

It's great to see this thread still active and all the wonderful screenshots. And PLP, correct me if I'm wrong, but is that the Somerset & Dorset? I think you mentioned it a while ago, glad to see it came to fruition!

Welcome to the weird world of talking locomotives. No, nobody knows how they talk.

 

[KotangaGirl]

'Jubilee' heading for Moxbury on my Norfolk layout on a misty Spring morning.

 

[IrishTrainlad]

'Jubilee' heading for Moxbury on my Norfolk layout on a misty Spring morning.

the physical manfestation of the word "Goober"

 

[KotangaGirl]

the physical manfestation of the word "Goober"

Why am I considering putting you on my 'ignore' list?

 

[IrishTrainlad]

Why am I considering putting you on my 'ignore' list?

I was using the word goober to refer to the fact that the locomotive is small and looks a bit silly in a funny way hence the usage of the word?

Sorry if I accidentally caused any offense

 

[KotangaGirl]

I was using the word goober to refer to the fact that the locomotive is small and looks a bit silly in a funny way hence the usage of the word?

Sorry if I accidentally caused any offense

Apology accepted. I'm old and crotchety and I don't always get the meaning of modern slang. That Beyer-Peacock single driver loco was built back in the late 1850s so I guess it does look a bit odd to modern eyes. They lasted on some railways until just before WW1 so they didn't do too bad.

 

[borderreiver]

Northeast England during the pre-grouping steam era.

Shildon yard was a busy coal yard even before raven electified the lines east from there to Newport on the River Tees but coal and coke were not the only things handled there. The N.E.R. had a wagonworks at Shildon, which dated back to the earliest days of the Stockton & Darlington Railway.

While Worsdell C Class 0-6-0 1569 stands with her train in the yard prior to departure, a 290 Class 0-6-0T pulls a rake of newly painted 30 Ton Ironstone hoppers in to the yard, likely from the wagonworks following overhaul. Once back in traffic on the Cleveland - Workingon ore runs they will not stay clean for long.

The more normal state of the 30 Ton Ironstone wagons. These steel hoppers were well ahead of their time, when most of the N.E.R.'s wagon stock was wooden. The LNER's steel 20 Ton hoppers are thirty years in the future from this screenshot's setting. The wagons also have rolling gear, which was meant to reduce friction (the wheels at the wagon sides). Unfortunately, while it seemd a good idea in theory, also being tried with the P8 21 Ton Coal Hopper, the extra capital cost, coupled with the extra maintenance costs, plus clogging from coal and ore dust, did not realise its theoretical potential. The P8s all eventually became ordinary 20 Ton P7s when the gear was removed, while the Ironstone Hoppers did not change diagram number when they lost their gear.

Shildon Signal Box is in the distance. The overbridge remains in existence, but today there are just two main through tracks, the running lines of the Bishop Auckland branch. The line still snakes its way through where the yard used to be, somewhat the same as the line between Middlesbrough and Thornaby does, where Tees yard used to be. Quite why the railway has not done anything to straighten the routes through the acres of weeds and shorten the route a little is unknown to me. In the case of Shildon they've only had sixty years to think on it, while Tees yard is a rather shorter twenty years or so.

Today, where the wagons are standing is the site of the National Railway Museum's LOCOMOTION outpost.

 

[PortLineParker]

BR standard class 5 73050 heads a down train for Bournemouth West, seen here south of Blandford Forum passing through Charlton Marshall in the summer of 1956. The 5MT has gained the late crest and is in charge of a 4 coach train plus luggage van. The first coach appears to be of LNER origin. 73050 ran with a BR1G tender however we don't currently have one in game, so it is seen here paired with a BR1B tender instead - much of BR(S) batch of Std.5s ran with BR1Bs but S&D allocated 5s always ran with BR1Gs.

Charlton Marshall halt. Officially this closed in September 1956 but it remained in use for school trains at the beginning of each term.

Slightly further down the line, we see 73050 thundering through Spetisbury. This section of the line ran through deep cuttings and tall embankments and the main road hugged the railway for some distance. The river Stour lurks in the background behind the houses but can't be seen here. The driver will be slowing down slightly for the 60mph speed restriction just south of the station. Spetisbury, like Charlton Marshall, closed in 1956 so here only has a couple of months to go.

Jumping ahead again to Bailey Gate and 73050 erupts from under the road bridge, at this point touching the line speed of 70mph.

Storming past the dairy at Bailey Gate, 73050 looks to be pounding along - as a long, straight section it wasn't uncommon on this part of the line to see the 70mph speed limit observed rather loosely - there are reports of a Bulleid pacific touching 90mph!

Cheers,

PLP

 

[Tanker46]

BR(S) Southern Region Circa 1950s - Ex-SECR H Class leaving Groomsbridge on a Turnbridge Wells West to Three Bridges working

 

[2995Valliant]

BR(S) Southern Region Circa 1950s - Ex-SECR H Class leaving Groomsbridge on a Turnbridge Wells West to Three Bridges working

Is that my H Class reskin? Paul was going to upload it but I can't see it in the DLS although I can see the bogies.

 

[borderreiver]

Northeast England during the pre-grouping steam era.
A N.E.R. Fletcher 124 Class 0-6-0T brings a rake of wagons down the bank from Mason Arms Crossing in Shildon.

This section of track, now gone, is the original Stockton & Darlington Railway trackbed, though there is no shortage of locations and buildings here related to the dawn of the public railway.

 

[Tanker46]

Is that my H Class reskin? Paul was going to upload it but I can't see it in the DLS although I can see the bogies.

I had a feeling you were the one who made this. It's a stellar reskin Ant.

I saw it one day when I was browsing through the locomotive section of the DLS. It didn't appear in the content manager, so I pulled out my old "Internet Explorer" enabled laptop and downloaded the loco KUID the old-fashioned way.

Is it okay for me to be using it? Or should I delete it since it's not publicly available yet? I don't want to step on you or Paul's toes so to speak.

 

[2995Valliant]

I'm not Ant, to you or anyone else....

Those coaches were the reason I did that reskin and I'm glad to see it being used - that was the intention when Paul uploaded it. It's just a shame it seems to be hidden in CM!

 

[johnwhelan]

I'm not Ant, to you or anyone else....

Those coaches were the reason I did that reskin and I'm glad to see it being used - that was the intention when Paul uploaded it. It's just a shame it seems to be hidden in CM!

Perhaps he could reupload it? Does it have kuid?

Thanks John