UK Screenshots for Pre BR Blue. High resolution warning.

Post #8074 by meadowbeck.

I very much like your pics of the Furness peninsular, Barrow in Furness and Barrow Island, they're very reminiscent of the time I lived in Barrow when employed by VSEL in the shipyard there in the mid 1980's through to the late 1990's. Great looking route, I do hope you make it available someday.

Rob.
Thank you! I hope so too, though I will be busy with uni soon so might not have as much time to work on it. It's going very slowly already :)
 
You're doing an excellent job with it so far! I must admit I don't know too much about the Furness beyond the Pre-Grouping locomotive classes, but I am familiar with the shed allocations during the 1950s. There were Johnson 2Fs, Fowler 4Fs, Ivatt Class 2 and 4s and a LOT of Jintys!


Our resident modeler Jupiter made a nice selection of lesser-known BR/LMS Locos allocated at 11B a shot while ago. They should be perfect for your Furness Route! GP Locomotives also did really good renditions of both the Stanier 4P Tank and the Stanier Black Five - two extremely numerous classes at Furness.
 
The spec by 2995 works wonders. 60mph in both cab and dcc. Soon i'll get her a new whistle and get her working like an actual tender loco (the loco oddly has coal and water with it for loads, and feeds off of that, not the tender).
Speaking of whistle, you can use my whistle for them if you're genuinely interested
 
You're doing an excellent job with it so far! I must admit I don't know too much about the Furness beyond the Pre-Grouping locomotive classes, but I am familiar with the shed allocations during the 1950s. There were Johnson 2Fs, Fowler 4Fs, Ivatt Class 2 and 4s and a LOT of Jintys!


Our resident modeler Jupiter made a nice selection of lesser-known BR/LMS Locos allocated at 11B a shot while ago. They should be perfect for your Furness Route! GP Locomotives also did really good renditions of both the Stanier 4P Tank and the Stanier Black Five - two extremely numerous classes at Furness.
Thank you very much, that's certainly useful information to know! Jupiter's models are very nice indeed.
 
I can picture the driver shooing away thomas fans. Something along the lines of "No, this isn't bound for that region, go catch the fast train if you want to go see the blue thing so bad!"
And here is the fast train: the 14:00-ish London St Pancras to "the Place Which Must Not Be Named" - or rather the ocean floor, as the track we see it on in the last image ended on a jetty in the Walney channel in real life. Starring edh6's fantastic A3 in the role of that other A3 from those books.

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(Apologies for this, but I couldn't resist. Will go hide in the back of the shed now.)
 
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M7 30107 on a pull-push working from Brockenhurst destined for Bournemouth West in the summer of 1957.

Pausing briefly at Creekmoor Halt:
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Awaiting departure from Poole:
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Powering away from Poole, the crew prepare to tackle the 1:60 Parkstone bank. While not an issue for the plucky M7 with its light load, this could be a fearsome challenge for crews of longer trains as they only had a short run up from Poole station, due in part to the very sharp curve, hence the 20mph speed limit.
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Jumping ahead to arrival at Bournemouth West; the M7 is crossing over Surrey Road bridge and past the allotments tended by the railway staff, part of which can be seen in the foreground:
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Cheers,

PLP
 
And here is the fast train: the 14:00-ish London St Pancras to "the Place Which Must Not Be Named" - or rather the ocean floor, as the track we see it on in the last image ended on a jetty in the Walney channel in real life. Starring edh6's fantastic A3 in the role of that other A3 from those books.

uIAIBB6.png

pL4uy7r.png

rbyLG8o.png

FGd7dJY.png

BKU1IEU.png


(Apologies for this, but I couldn't resist. Will go hide in the back of the shed now.)
who can't? thomas tank got me into trains (and trainz as a whole!) aah to be on the mobile android version again, wondering how to port content in :LOL:
Wonder how the A3 got to pass barrow, overturned steamer, possibly?
 
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