borderreiver
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Excursion times at Reedsmouth
Northeast England during the steam era. Here on my Reedsmouth layout is depicted a late 1920s excursion train from Tyneside to the Scottish borders leaving Reedsmouth on a northbound service. Maybe it is a church outing to Melrose to see the Abbey. Two former TW Worsdell NER C Class 0-6-0s, classed as J21 by the LNER are hauling a rake of 52 ft ex-NER ordinary clerestory roof coaches built around 1900. The presence of a Lavatory Van Composite with two First Class compartments would have been an unexpected spot of luxury. Both J21s, No 1075 and 147 are superheated with the longer smokebox and have Westinghouse brake for passenger and fitted goods work. No. 1075 has the new economy-measure unlined black livery with cabside number while sister No. 147 still retains both the lined red black livery and the numbered tender originally applied post-grouping.
July 2017 - photobucket link switched to Imgur.
Northeast England during the steam era. Here on my Reedsmouth layout is depicted a late 1920s excursion train from Tyneside to the Scottish borders leaving Reedsmouth on a northbound service. Maybe it is a church outing to Melrose to see the Abbey. Two former TW Worsdell NER C Class 0-6-0s, classed as J21 by the LNER are hauling a rake of 52 ft ex-NER ordinary clerestory roof coaches built around 1900. The presence of a Lavatory Van Composite with two First Class compartments would have been an unexpected spot of luxury. Both J21s, No 1075 and 147 are superheated with the longer smokebox and have Westinghouse brake for passenger and fitted goods work. No. 1075 has the new economy-measure unlined black livery with cabside number while sister No. 147 still retains both the lined red black livery and the numbered tender originally applied post-grouping.
July 2017 - photobucket link switched to Imgur.
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