Great War truck Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 (edited) OK, this photo is quite interesting as it covers a multitude of topics. It is relevant to WW1 but what is it and as it would also make an ideal candidate for a caption contest you could have a go at that as well if you like. Tim (too) Edited November 3, 2008 by Great War truck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.O.S. Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 Well, for starters they look like models of War Dept bogies. But then I'm stuck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick W Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 Its the Swan Vesta tobogganing team in training. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Degsy Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 Miniature railway based on the Military narrow gauge railways used on the Western Front? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest catweazle (Banned Member) Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 Who knows what islands of the welsh coast had narrow gauge track for shifting supplies,and where did we get them from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War truck Posted November 3, 2008 Author Share Posted November 3, 2008 Miniature railway based on the Military narrow gauge railways used on the Western Front? Yes you and NOS just about have it. Father and Steve are both members of the seven and a quarter inch society. Now before you ask that is the guage of the model railway and nothing else that you might have been thinking of. There has been a rise in interest in models of military narrow gauge locos and rolling stock. These two bogie wagons are models of WW1 German narrow gauge bogies for carrying trees. The owner brought them over to a show in the UK from Germany and then sourced some local logs to put on them. I dont think anybody anticipated him and his wife laying on them. I did like the idea about the Swan Vestas though. Tim (too) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest catweazle (Banned Member) Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 Well whot do you know,the railway at fort nelson is captured german ww1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War truck Posted November 5, 2008 Author Share Posted November 5, 2008 While i am on the subject, Steve provided me with these two photos of 7 1/4 models. The first is a Kerr-Stuart 'Joffre' class built for the French Army and shown in their colours. The other is a US Army Baldwin petrol tractor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.O.S. Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 That French livery would have stood out a bit in the green and brown landscape of the battlefield and behind :shocked: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyFowler Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 cute though ! :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War truck Posted April 2, 2009 Author Share Posted April 2, 2009 This 1917 dated ex Imperial German Army Henschel arrived in the UK fairly recently. it is in good hands and will in time receive a full restoration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War truck Posted October 11, 2009 Author Share Posted October 11, 2009 Ok experts. Which engine is this and why is it relevant to this forum: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grasshopper Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 It was the one used in France during WW2? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiomike7 Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 Looks very GWR. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Farrant Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 Looks like 5322, went to France in 1917. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiomike7 Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 Looks like 5322, went to France in 1917. That's the one, painted to represent the livery during WW1 and resident at Didcot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War truck Posted October 11, 2009 Author Share Posted October 11, 2009 Well done chaps. Quite right. here are some more photos of it: Nice to see a loco restored to its war time livery. They had done a really nice job on it. A pity it was not in steam on the day of my visit though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 Trains are 'vehicles' and considering the place they played, and still play in Military Logistics, I say there very relevant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grasshopper Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 I have trouble (being a Southern man) telling the GWR types apart. Thry adopted standardisation very early on so many of them appear outwardly very similarwhich is why i thought it had been used in WW2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bystander Posted October 13, 2009 Share Posted October 13, 2009 Unfortunately I managed to lose the digital camera with photos that I had of it in steam on the demonstation line at Didcot in the summer. But how many surviving standard gauge engines served in France in WW1, I can think of the E4 and two of the P class locos on the Bluebell, did the NRM's Dean Goods serve in France? Any others? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiomike7 Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 I have trouble (being a Southern man) telling the GWR types apart. QUOTE] You mean you can tell the Southern Bulleid Battle of Britain, West Country and Merchant Navy types apart from a distance:confused: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grasshopper Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 Not a clue. More of a current Southern Railway employee with a fondess for Strodley Terriers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommanderChuff Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 (edited) The Baldwin 778 4-6-0 narrow gauge is a WW1 survivor and was steamed in 2007 at the Leigthon Buzzard Railway, Northants. From the railway website >> http://www.buzzrail.co.uk/ 778 Type: 4-6-0T (side tank) Date: 1917 Builder: Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, USA (Works No. 44656) One of 495 locomotives built by Baldwin, for the War Department Light Railways. They operated on the thousands of miles of narrow-gauge tracks that supplied the front line trenches in the First World War. It then worked in India until the 1980s, finishing at the Upper India Sugar Mills in Uttar Pradesh. The first of its type to steam in Britain since the 1940s, it entered service in 2007, following a major overhaul. The number of men who fought in the First World War, and survived, is now down to just a handful. As the last living links with that momentous era finally vanish, the restoration to working order of some of the equipment they used becomes even more important, to allow future generations to understand what went on. Central to the war in the trenches was the massive network of narrow-gauge railways, which was built to supply the front lines on both sides. Among the companies providing equipment to the War Department Light Railways were the Baldwin Locomotive Works, of Philadelphia, USA, and the Motor Rail & Tramcar Company of Bedford, England. A working First World War Baldwin steam engine was last seen in Britain in the 1940s. Now War Department Light Railways No 778 is back in working order, and was launched into public service on 19th August 2007--almost 60 years to the day since the last time an engine of this type hauled passengers in Britain. Now attention switches to WDLR No 2182, the only known survivor of the small number of Motor Rail 40hp “Simplex” petrol locomotives built with full armour plating, and in original mechanical condition. It has so far received cosmetic restoration, and an appeal to return it to full working order will be launched later in 2009. Edited October 14, 2009 by CommanderChuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grasshopper Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 The difference is one type is bigger (Battle of Britain) and the other 2 classes are smaller (but the same size).... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiomike7 Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 The difference is one type is bigger (Battle of Britain) and the other 2 classes are smaller (but the same size).... Very close, but wrong:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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