New (to me) in today, a couple more coaches - mk1 Second Open and so-called Mini Buffet - towards eventually building a 12-car rake. This will ideally comprise a mix of Bulleid and BR Mk 1 in BR(S) Green:



The Bulleids have so far eluded me, they seem rather scarce compared to the mk1s, which in turn seem uncommon in green compared with other liveries.

One here..........

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/235994312220

Quote from: Newportnobby on May 27, 2025, 11:15:08 PMOne here..........

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/235994312220

Why is it hiding under tissue?

 

Dunno, but it states condition as 'as new'.
It's been many a year since Farish used tissue inside the tray. I still have a lot of 'em

Quote from: GlenEglise on May 27, 2025, 11:28:45 PM

Quote from: Newportnobby on May 27, 2025, 11:15:08 PMOne here..........

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/235994312220

Why is it hiding under tissue?

 

That would suggest that the owner has not used it much. I have a lot of Farish coaches that I bought new which came wrapped in tissue paper. I have tried to keep this with them to protect them whilst not in use.

Thanks again......and missed in my excitement that my purchase included two rna runner wagons, and since I have a class 31 just needs a brake wagon.

Three new arrivals today - distinctly miscellaneous, with Rule No.1 formeost behind the choices. 

The Queen Mary brake is a Southern thing and of the right era, merely uncommon, so earns its pass. 

The horse box, well, again right region and era, but I've yet to see a single pic of one being used by an actual - you know - horse! Still, my plans are to model a layout of a station right on the edge of the New Forest in an area absolutely thick with Jocastas and Jemimahs when I lived there, so again, it gets its pass. 

And the milk tank?  100% Rule no.1 - there will have been milk traffic out of Dorset (my great-grandad was a dairy farmer near Wimborne), but little of it would ever have been routed thru Christchurch, and almost certainly none at-all by the latter half of the 1960s, much-less in a tanker with such a vivid livery... But just LOOK at it!    Had to be done     

Quote from: earlofsodbury on June 03, 2025, 02:36:03 PMThe horse box, well, again right region and era, but I've yet to see a single pic of one being used by an actual - you know - horse!

Horse boxes were typically used for racehorse traffic, but also for transportation of circus animals. Billy Smart's Circus travelled the UK in the 1950/60s using BR - several former SR vans were reinforced for the carriage of elephants
Some 1970s images of horse boxes in trains:
https://flic.kr/p/FQ5wf3
https://flic.kr/p/J91TCo (green at Kensington)
https://flic.kr/p/W27czg (maroon, also at Kensington, probably the same train).

Also, this may be of interest:



Ascot station, date unknown, but my guess would be between the wars sometime.

Cheers,

Chris

I think that you will find Chris @Papyrus that is actually Ascot West station, which served the racecourse. It was built by the L&SWR in 1922 and was closed in 1965 by British Rail. Ascot station itself is of course still in use today and I used to commute daily from it to Vauxhall! Until today I was unaware of Ascot West station - great photo.

Tim

I didn't know there was an Ascot West either! It's just a photo I found in some remote recess of t'web, captioned 'Ascot train station'. (Yes, yes, I know, 'train station' grates with me too, but I guess we will have to live with it as even the BBC calls it that now.    ).

Cheers,

Chris

Terrific set of pics folks - thank-you 

Had no idea the horseboxes were quite so widespread, nor so well-used: I'd read they were somewhat underutilised!   

The more I learn, the more I deplore how much has been taken off the rails and shoved onto the roads!

PS: They say Aintree's fences are dangerous, but they're as-nothing to 1930s Ascot's palisade of sharpened spikes!!! 

Honestly - who thought those were a good thing to have around horses?  Someone had to hammer them into the ground and then deliberately and systematically whittle the tops to a murderous spike!

Is that what they do with the losers before the last trip to the dogfood factory, pour encourager les autres? 

Quote from: Papyrus on June 03, 2025, 03:53:42 PMAlso, this may be of interest:



Ascot station, date unknown, but my guess would be between the wars sometime.

Cheers,

Chris

Also used, at least occasionally, for fox hunt horses, though I think this more or less ceased after WW2. But one recorded occasion post WW2 was, I think, during petrol rationing during the Suez crisis for an East Anglian hunt.

Martyn

Quote from: Papyrus on June 03, 2025, 05:10:13 PMI didn't know there was an Ascot West either! It's just a photo I found in some remote recess of t'web, captioned 'Ascot train station'. (Yes, yes, I know, 'train station' grates with me too, but I guess we will have to live with it as even the BBC calls it that now.    ).

Cheers,

Chris

No! We must resist. The BBC isn't always correct.

I believe 'station' is correct but can just about live with 'railway station'. Obviously, any pre-Grouping adjective to qualify 'station' is most acceptable.

An exception is 'the Waverley' which does not require 'station'. The definite article shows if you are local or not.

With all good wishes.

John