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GCR 'Barnum' Carriages

Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 3:32 pm
by 65447
Does anyone have any information, or know of any sources, that list the specific carriages that were transferred to the ex-GE section? One at least was included in a regular Waveney Valley line set in the 1950s, and another was in the Thetford area?

TIA

Re: GCR 'Barnum' Carriages

Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 9:51 pm
by PaulG
A similar discussion is ongoing on the GERS E-Group. If we come to any conclusions I'll post here.

Regards
Paul

Re: GCR 'Barnum' Carriages

Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 9:48 am
by 65447
PaulG wrote:A similar discussion is ongoing on the GERS E-Group. If we come to any conclusions I'll post here.

Regards
Paul
If you come to any conclusions on the GERS e-Group then I'll already know - it was because of the discussion on there (and your question of me) that I posted the above query here. :mrgreen:

Re: GCR 'Barnum' Carriages

Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 12:22 pm
by PaulG
.....................if I'd known 65447/TIA was you, I wouldn't have responded!! :lol:

Regards PaulG also PaulG (042) on the GERS E-Group!

Re: GCR 'Barnum' Carriages

Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 8:52 pm
by 60022Mallard
Hello. I have just purchased an album of photographs which includes what I believe to be three Barnums on GE territory. They are E5696E noted as a dining car (but looks more like a brake open to me) at Thetford on 09.05.53 and E5710E noted as being at Harlow 20.06.56.

Both these are H. C. Casserley views, 78755 & 89142 being noted respectively. 89143 is an interior view of E5710E

A third, unattributed, photograph said be be E5155E (number lined through with S underneath - scrapped?) is noted as being at Stratford 25.03.56. It is another brake open

Re: GCR 'Barnum' Carriages

Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 3:18 pm
by 65447
60022Mallard wrote:Hello. I have just purchased an album of photographs which includes what I believe to be three Barnums on GE territory.
Hi 60022Mallard,

Which album please? (There are a few!)

Re: GCR 'Barnum' Carriages

Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 7:02 pm
by 60022Mallard
Apologies 65447 for not making it clear. It was an old postcard album full of individual prints of LNER predecessors' carriage stock. It is not a publication.

Regards.

Re: GCR 'Barnum' Carriages

Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 10:27 pm
by 65447
60022Mallard wrote:Apologies 65447 for not making it clear. It was an old postcard album full of individual prints of LNER predecessors' carriage stock. It is not a publication.

Regards.
Hi again 60022Mallard,

Thanks for the explanation - the contents should prove to be rather interesting.