Can I run this on my layout? Of course you can.

[Madge Wildfire]

If you own a number of 31s in Dutch livery, but have only bought a very few wagons; this will see you right. Unfortunately, the MGR train will set you back a few hundred quid, but is not compulsory.


31551 & 31569 in charge of one wagon at Willington on December 20th 1994.

 

[xotGD]

Maximum load for a pair of Goyles!

 

[Cowley]

Maximum load for a pair of Goyles!

Harsh.

Sometimes we run a loco with a brake van on its own and that looks good. Two locos and one wagon would have spectators wondering if the rest of the train had been left behind in the fiddle yard though!

 

[Gloster]

Just put a tiny dab of medium green on the wagon label holder: you now have a wagon that was shunted aside with a defect and is now being collected for repairs. Being green carded it may still have restrictions and so has to be worked on its own.

 

[Cowley]

Ok I couldn’t help myself.
I’ve got a pair of 31s in the wrong livery with a single (but wrong) wagon:


Or I can offer you the wrong locos but in the correct livery with the wrong wagon:


You’ll have to decide which works better? I’ve done my best.

 

[xotGD]

Harsh.

Sometimes we run a loco with a brake van on its own and that looks good. Two locos and one wagon would have spectators wondering if the rest of the train had been left behind in the fiddle yard though!

A 37 with a brake van was a common site in the north east. Sometimes I would see the brake van being propelled rather than being hauled. Many hours spent looking out of the bedroom window!

 

[Cowley]

A 37 with a brake van was a common site in the north east. Sometimes I would see the brake van being propelled rather than being hauled. Many hours spent looking out of the bedroom window!

Lovely stuff. I’ve got a wee man in mine. He’s called Fred…

 

[hexagon789]

Lovely stuff. I’ve got a wee man in mine. He’s called Fred…

In a 37, a brake van or your bedroom window?

 

[Cowley]

In a 37, a brake van or your bedroom window?

In the brake van. He’s not allowed in the bedroom anymore.

 

[Madge Wildfire]

Ok I couldn’t help myself.
I’ve got a pair of 31s in the wrong livery with a single (but wrong) wagon:
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Or I can offer you the wrong locos but in the correct livery with the wrong wagon:
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You’ll have to decide which works better? I’ve done my best.

Excellent photos. I love the lineside vegetation. Those bushes near the road bridge look just like flowering hawthorn, or similar. I like the attention to detail with the fence posts at varying angles.

 

[RichJF]

Giving me the urge to acquire a 2nd loco to pose with my Lima Scottie class 26 & its single wagon now!

 

[Iskra]

Giving me the urge to acquire a 2nd loco to pose with my Lima Scottie class 26 & its single wagon now!

Any chance of a photo? My first ever loco was a Lima Scottie Class 26 in a Motorail Train set.

 

[RichJF]

Any chance of a photo? My first ever loco was a Lima Scottie Class 26 in a Motorail Train set.

Few extra details painted up to make it look a bit more realistic.

 

[Iskra]

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Few extra details painted up to make it look a bit more realistic.

That’s a nice looking machine, great livery too

 

[Cowley]

Excellent photos. I love the lineside vegetation. Those bushes near the road bridge look just like flowering hawthorn, or similar. I like the attention to detail with the fence posts at varying angles.

Thanks for that @Madge Wildfire. There’s a thread about the layout here if you’re interested in reading a bit more about it:

Lapford station in N gauge.

Part 1 @Ash Bridge, @Peter C and @Andy R. A. have all had a part in making me pluck up the courage to share what I’ve been tinkering about with recently. It all started with a few ideas and also this thread... https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/lapford-station-yard.178017/ My best friend...

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That’s a nice looking machine, great livery too

They just looked brilliant in that livery.

Talking about strange short trains, the remaining two coaches of the Exeter spare set in the early 1990s often threw up some strange scenes like this one:

North Devon Brush

On the 13th July 1990 Class 47/0 no.47241 backs onto the Exeter 'load two' at Barnstaple before forming the 1414 to Exeter St.Davids. This train was loco hauled due to a lack of operational DMUs.

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I also saw those two coaches behind a pair of 31s (one in banger blue and one in original Railfreight) on the way to Honiton from Exeter one evening (obviously a very hastily put together combination that one).

Again I couldn’t resist:


That’s a train that just looks completely wrong!

 

[Iskra]

Those odd workings are a modellers dream.

Liking the LL 31 there (and the whole formation really!).

 

[Madge Wildfire]

You may have bought a job lot of plastic kits cheap on Ebay, only to find they are all brake tenders. No worries, just get a 37 to pull them all....

 

[Iskra]

You may have bought a job lot of plastic kits cheap on Ebay, only to find they are all brake tenders. No worries, just get a 37 to pull them all....

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Excellent

 

[ungreat]

What can I put this on lol

 

[Madge Wildfire]

I'm not sure your question is clear. Do you mean which kinds of trains would this locomotive have pulled?

If that is the case, the answer is long trains of coal, or empty wagons. 47993 was an early withdrawal and spent most of the time allocated to Hasland, with about 18 months at Toton during 1953/4. They would be seen mainly on the Midland mainline hauling coal trains to London, although they occasionally appeared at Peterborough, and a few turned up at York from time to time.

I have even seen reports that they visited Jackson's sidings on the line east of Saxby, where ironstone trains came off the Market Overton branch, although I have no idea how regular this working became.

If you need a 1 wagon train, just add a brake van.

 

[Madge Wildfire]

For those with a spare BR blue class 20 and a Mk2 air-con coach, you will need to model York in the mid-80s. 20189 passes the station in 1985 with what looks like E5810 in tow.

 

[RichJF]

A modern take on the original post that popped up on my Instagram feed (not my pic)...

 

[43055]

The modern take on my layout.

 

[Madge Wildfire]

Excellent.