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My contribution for this week's theme «infrastructure»; for the Swedish photo group Fotosondag.
Mitt bidrag till Fotosöndag och sommarens tema «infrastruktur».
Scanned from an original photo - A returning empty stock special for the 1965 Grand National at the first bridge south of Town Green Station. It's D210 'Empress of Britain' with the stock of 1X66, a Birmingham excursion, returning to Aintree from servicing at Lostock Hall shed. The buffer stops were the end of the siding that ran behind Town Green signal box, and the signal is Town Green outer home. And here's the story of how this photo was identified with a little help from my friends - tonyrobertson.mycouncillor.org.uk/2020/12/04/aughton-a-ra...
Barclay 0-6-0T no 1245 runs around at Lakeside.
Taken with a Rolleicord III (model K3B, 1950 - 1953) twin lens reflex medium format camera. Schneider Xenar 75mm lens, Compur Rapid shutter, yellow filter, Illford XP2 mono film.
This particular buffer fitted HST power car has had a long line of paint schemes over its career starting with the original blue/yellow colours followed by this Inter-City Swallow livery. It has since been repainted in Virgin Trains red and black, Grand Central colours and now carries a revised East Midlands Trains scheme as 43480.
Speeding towards Droitwich Station is 3813. The locomotive is fresh from overhaul and would have made a splendid sight in gleaming black with bright red buffer beams. The loco has a freight train which has a number of Jeeps on the first few wagons, perhaps it would call at Ashchurch, I hope the erected canvas roofs on the Jeeps did not get too many cinder burn holes in them! The yard at Droitwich is busy with vans in the goods shed and coal wagons on the raised sidings for unloading.
3813 was a Churchward 28xx she was put into traffic 29/09/1939 as 3813, it was converted to oil burning 31/07/1947 becoming 4855, it returned to coal firing and its original number 08/06/1949. The loco was withdrawn 07/1965 and cut 12/1965, at the time of Peter's picture it was an Oxley 84B based loco.
Peter Shoesmith 26/05/1956.
Copyright Geoff Dowling & John Whitehouse; all rights reserved
Typical Danish plain buffer stop made of steel and cement.
Buffer Stop: 28 parts
Very high setting render from Stud.io.
We all have times when we hit the buffers, when we reach that point, we can delight in the knowledge that we have reached the most difficult part of the challenge we are facing at the time and from that point on, it will only get better.
At the peak of vibrant fall colours, an eastbound VIA train scoots along the wrong main to get around a slower freight train ahead. While VIA now requires buffer cars for its HEP fleet - parts of which date back to 1947, I was lucky this one had matching HEP cars acting as buffers on either end.
DRS Class 37/0 37069 leads the Pathfinders Tours' "Buffer Puffer 15.0" railtour through Earley station at speed.
66103 Sporting Silver Buffers for reasons unknown on 6E26 Knowsley Freight Terminal - Wilton EFW Terminal at Heaton Norris 18/07/2022
Had my inspiration hit the buffers after watching more steam hauled trains pass per hour than you would see Meridians pass in an hour over on the Midland Main Line
777 Sir Lamiel climbs up from Rothley at the Great Central Railway Winter Gala
Typical Danish buffer stop made of steel and cement.
Left: 38 parts
Right: 37 parts
The model probably can't withstand anything other than very slow-moving trains.
Very high setting render from Stud.io.
With loonies and twonies ($1 and $2 coins), the change you end up with if you use cash can end up being a deceptively large amount of money. It's a nice little buffer to have - I don't spend my change, and then when I find myself without cash on hand, I just dump out my change purse and voila! Enough for my Tim Horton's run!
Submitted for Our Daily Challenge for August 5 - Look What I Found and Scavenge Challenge #14 The Colour of Money and #21 Shift Your Subject to One Side