O4 63601

Brown Jack · Post by **Brown Jack** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 9:16 pm

Hi,

I would like to congratulate everybody concerned over the years with getting this engine to its centenary year.

It was local around where I live for a number of years, I saw it for the first time in the fifties and it is good to still see it today. This photo was taken recently on 28th/29th Jan 2012.

http://trev11.zenfolio.com/p483855348/h ... #h3c1d550c

Trev

60800 · Post by **60800** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 9:23 pm

I've unfortunately never seen her, but I'm running my Bachmann 63601 in celebration

Rlangham · Post by **Rlangham** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 11:03 pm

Good stuff. Would be nice if they repainted it into 1912 colours to celebrate but I won't get my hopes up though!

Brown Jack · Post by **Brown Jack** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 11:13 pm

Rlangham wrote:Good stuff. Would be nice if they repainted it into 1912 colours to celebrate but I won't get my hopes up though!

I think there was some talk about it, but I don't think anything came of it. It is due to be going in for a major overhaul soon I believe, so maybe when it comes back, who knows.

Trev

Rlangham · Post by **Rlangham** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 11:17 pm

Thanks Trev, I'd be very surprised to see it in anything other than it's current guise with the GVR's penchant for " i see a loco and i want to paint it (BR) black" to quote the Rolling Stones!

Brown Jack · Post by **Brown Jack** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 8:44 pm

Hi Rlangham,
Just visited the GCR website, they are advertising that at the end of March, this will be one of its last running days in BR livery, the O4 63601. So we could get it in Its original colour yet.

Trev

60800 · Post by **60800** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 9:10 pm

I'd like to see her in LNER black, personally

mick b · Post by **mick b** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 9:13 pm

ROD livery for the 100th anniversary of the start of the Great War in 2014.

52D · Post by **52D** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:38 pm

mick b you get a like from me for your comment above

Rlangham · Post by **Rlangham** » Wed Feb 15, 2012 5:33 pm

Seconded!

Rlangham · Post by **Rlangham** » Wed Feb 15, 2012 7:15 pm

Aside from the repaint, what would be required to make 63601 for 1912 GCR or WW1 ROD condition?

Rlangham · Post by **Rlangham** » Mon Feb 20, 2012 9:17 pm

According to a post on another forum, it will be GCR livery for 63601

Blink Bonny · Post by **Blink Bonny** » Tue Feb 21, 2012 2:36 pm

Ay up!

To put 63601 into true GC condition, she'd need Ramsbottom safety valves and a dummy superheater header damper cylinder fitted basically.

Meself, I'm banking on just a coat of paint!

Rlangham · Post by **Rlangham** » Tue Feb 21, 2012 11:02 pm

Yes, i'll still be happy with just a change of paint - i'll definitely make the visit to see 63601 in 1912 markings, despite my interest in all pre-grouping loco's, especially an Edwardian one, in 1950s/60s colours it doesn't fire the imagination quite as much

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