kudu wrote:None was ever owned by the LNER, but North London Rly locos and stock ran over GN metals in the London area and I'm pretty sure Devons Road Jinties would have hauled these trains between the wars...
Indeedy. Some fine pictures in Dennis Lovett's 'The North London Railway' (yes, the same Dennis Lovett employed by Bachmann) chapter seven of which covers the NLR then LMS worked services from Broad Street out onto the GN/LNER lines for inner suburban destinations. As late as 1930 the NLR's design of 4-4-0T were still on these workings, though they were being steadily superseded by the 3FT 'Jinty'. In 1938 the Stanier 2-6-2T type was tried (and I suspect found to be wanting) and these services essentially ended with the outbreak of WWII; post war a limited revival of the service was wholly operated by LNER/ER.
The stock used was the NLR's close coupled four wheelers in very lengthy trains, latterly replaced by six LMS bogie non-corridors.
Somebody might want the loco numbers I suppose, from the photos in the book: 7491, 16581, 16566, 7482, 7517, 16599.
Years ago when i was a kid in the 1960s i seem to remember that i had a metal OO guage all over painted RED Jinty which actually didn't look to bad come to think of it.
Manxman1831 wrote:I seem to recall a Jinty painted in apple green for a 1950's film. Can't remember the film and don't have the book I saw the piece in, oh well.
Ay up!
The film was "The Wrong Box" and "starred" Bath Green Park's "Jinty" 47276, repainted green on the right hand side only and renumbered 727 for the film with a couple of BPGV coaches with their curious low roofs. The filming on the S & D section at least was done in September 1965.
For those interested a piccie of "727" appears in "The Somerset and Dorset in the Sixties Part 4" by Ivo Peters, plate No 152.
I seem to remember Michael Caine, Peter Sellers and Tony Hancock being in it as well.....
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Manxman1831 wrote:I seem to recall a Jinty painted in apple green for a 1950's film. Can't remember the film and don't have the book I saw the piece in, oh well.
Film makers usually seem to get the wrong loco for there film.
The classic is The Railway children which is a great film but i wonder if they tried to get that ex-G.N.R. N2 that was around in 1969/70 that would have been better suited for the location of the film setting in Yorkshire rather then the ex-G.W.R. pannier tank that they re-livered and used in the film.
The N2 DOES appear in the Jenny Agutter 1970 version. Also, the railway is rather fictional - I think it was called the Great Northern & Southern or something like that?
richard wrote:The N2 DOES appear in the Jenny Agutter 1970 version. Also, the railway is rather fictional - I think it was called the Great Northern & Southern or something like that?
I must have missed it Richard?. You mean the film that features the ex-G.W.R. pannier tank as the 'star' loco?.
Yes the LT livery Pannier occurs the most often, nearly knocks Ms Agutter over, and appears on the poster; but the N2 does make at least one appearance.
richard wrote:Yes the LT livery Pannier occurs the most often, nearly knocks Ms Agutter over, and appears on the poster; but the N2 does make at least one appearance.
I've missed that N2 in the past if i ever get around to re-watching the film i'll keep an eye out for it.
It's a pity that the N2 didn't become the 'star loco' instead of the pannier it would have been a bit more believable from a railway point of view.
Wasn't it the N2 that heads the train that Bernard Cribbins calls the Flying Scotsman, and when asked why it's going so slow, tells the young lad that it's uphill to Scotland?
Brian
Anything weird or unusual will catch my interest, be it an express or locomotive
I'm also drawn to the commemorative, let's hope Bachmann will produce 6165 Valour.
The chap at the end who says "Lets have a look at this earthquake" or similar is, in fact, my brother and the driver introduced me to the concept of Footplate Cuisine.
Some day, I will cook Jacket Spuds under a coal fire for meself. Sadly, I don't have a Black 5 available!
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