Nice photos....thanks for posting! Where was the second photo of E6103 taken? Looks like a single freight line with bull-head rail and some kind of small chemical plant in the background. The Poole-Wimborne-West Moors line perhaps....just North of Poole? That small Railfreight container on a four-wheeled wagon is a real bit of rail history.
That had crossed my mind, but apart from military traffic to and from Marchwood and petroleum products from Farley refinery, was there still any general freight traffic on that branch post-1967?
I don’t think the tanks are the right shape; and the line is on the level where Fawley branch line approached the refinery. I was down at the level crossing there about 4 summers ago.
6103 (74003) coasting down Parkstone bank into Poole in about 1973. It would be using its diesel power as no third rail into Poole then
I was interested in that too. Not sure I’ve seen a conflat and container in a photo with a blue loco before? I remember those containers and the smaller type on road trailers behind Scammel Scarabs and Highwaymen too.
74 007 still has her polished buffers from the final railtour visible.
Does this mean you're going to buy one of the Bachmann/EFE ones when they arrive? I'm looking forward to them.
Already pre ordered the era 7 weathered 74010!
Didn't know a weathered variant was on the cards? I find factory weathering is not always as one might remember locos - it can be a very personal perception/memory - take the recent 08923 release, BR faded green with TOPS number. I photo'd same on AN (Allerton) depot in January '78, and although grubby, there were/are no signs of the streaks of rust down the bodyside panel gaps that appear on the model.
Nice! I haven't preordered one yet but I'll get one once they appear. They're very region specific locos so shouldn't sell out too quickly. I'll go through my local model shop as we should all support them.
I completely endorse your latter point, and I am quite happy to spend time and bus fare to visit old school shops, but I would urge you to pre order (for delivery to your shop of choice if possible?), as I have been caught out several times now for what I had assumed were very niche interest models, only to find them sold out at source only days (hours in one case) after noticing them as 'in stock'.
Very fair point. I'll speak to my fellow Daventry MRC club members and see if they can order one in (They run Thunderbolt Models) Otherwise Tony's Trains definitely can.
I spoke to my local model shop and they wont be getting any in, very very Hornby centric
A former colleague of mine who now resides many miles from our old patch, has a local model shop who wouldn't normally stock R-T-R models relating to our old area (different region/traction etc), but he has been fortunate in that the shop owner has been able to get items for him on a one off sort of basis. Customer service as it should be.
Ah OK. Mine is Tony's Trains in Rugby. There are club members from Daventry MRC who run Thunderbolt Models not far out of Weedon. Either one if them could order one in. Another thing I'm going to go for is the Accurascale mk1 suburban as a 5 coach rake of those would be fantastic (but irrelevant to this topic)
Are there any recordings of a 74 on diesel still in existence? If not, then your best bet would be a Class 14 given both used the 6 cylinder Ventura engine. That won’t take account of differences due to locomotive body structures, silencing etc etc.
And transmission of course.
The diesel ran the booster which then drove the loco - so the transmission would be the same as the one from the 71 when that was on booster?
Which is of course very different from the hydraulic transmission of a Class 14.
The 71s were built at Doncaster and fitted with LNER brass chime whistles, identical to those fitted to the A4 Pacifics....but worked by compressed air instead of steam. The ten locos that were converted to 74s had their whistles replaced by standard Southern Region two-tone "raspberry" air horns and some - or all - of the twenty chime whistles ended up on the Isle of Wight, where they were fitted to the class 485 and 486 "Standard" tube stock.
