Which is odd (and true), given IIRC the Midland had been gateway to the UK for Pullman - concept and company.
It seems they concluded that they could produce better carriages themselves. I don't think the LNWR ever had any, though I rather think the LMS ended up owning some itself, and painted red, from one of the Scottish companies.
It does seem bonkers that a nationalised system should so compete within itself rather than co-ordinate its services for the Greater Good; and very wrong that Regions which "took over" services which hadn't historically been "theirs" then ran them down (not just the GC but also, for example, the Southern's "withered arm").
Gerry Fiennes was responsible for the running down of Waterloo services to the south west when he took it over as head of BR(WR).
His finest hour though was restoring the Western Region to profit by hiving off various lines to BR(LM) - who thought they were getting a really good deal until they looked at their own bottom line next time around...
However, there was some method in the madness - Fiennes fully agreed with the GC closure, despite being an ex-LNER man. It just wasn't profitable. His thinking on the Withered Arm was that without major surgery and hard decisions, they'd eventually lose both routes to the south west. He wasn't a GWR man (though he was running Western Region) but when you looked at Paddington-Plymouth and Waterloo Plymouth in terms of speeds and locations served en route that decision made itself unfortunately.
I think it was his efforts though that kept the Waterloo-Exeter line double track for as far as it was kept.
Ironically it's today's Great Western which is offering "Pullman Dining" these days! Sadly, Transport for Wales appear to have downgraded their "Premier Dining Service" although Proper Meals are now available on 3 return journeys between Cardiff and Holyhead each day, in first class only at the moment.
It was indeed bonkers, but old habits die hard, and the animosity between the Southern Railway and the Great Way Round God's Wonderful Railway lasted for years...
It was allegedly the animosity between the Southern (well, London & South Western) Railway and the no-longer Great Way Round that caused the Salisbury crash of 1906.
I once visited Essex, Montana, which mostly consists of a railroad switching yard and one hotel which was built to house the men building the railroad. Two of the other guests were men from Australia who went around with fancy cameras taking pictures of everything rail-related. One of them gave me to understand that in Australia, railroad buffs were not popular. (I think he said they were less popular there than serial killers.)
Which is odd (and true), given IIRC the Midland had been gateway to the UK for Pullman - concept and company.
It seems they concluded that they could produce better carriages themselves. I don't think the LNWR ever had any, though I rather think the LMS ended up owning some itself, and painted red, from one of the Scottish companies.
That sounds right to me. The restoration of Balmoral has shown that the underlying body structure is quite cheaply built, but with a finish designed to impress. Perhaps they were designed assuming a fairly short service life, rather like older American cars.
The Caledonian Railway operated some Pullman restaurant cars that became LMS stock, and are seen in photos of the Highland's Farther North line into the 1950s.
(The only Pullman car I've ever ridden in was the ex-Devon Belle observation car on the Kyle of Lochalsh line. It was a bit rough riding by then, but the view, with commentary by the local conductor, couldn't be beaten).
Just wanted to put a little word in for Miniature Iron Horses.
We are lucky enough to have two miniature railways in Southampton and I know (from Wiki: 'Ridable Miniature Railways')that there are many around the world.
But my childhood favourite is Thames Ditton Miniature Railway which has 3 gauges: 5 inch, 3 1/2 and 7 1/4. (run by malden-dsme.org). You get all the sounds and smells of real steam engines burning real coal.
We are lucky enough to have two miniature railways in Southampton and I know (from Wiki: 'Ridable Miniature Railways')that there are many around the world.
I used to live in Bitterne Park so know the one in the park there, but not the bigger one at Eastleigh as it hadn't been built. There's a good one in Cardiff (Heath Park). Is the Thames Ditton one the one you see from the train at Hamption Court Junction?
We are lucky enough to have two miniature railways in Southampton and I know (from Wiki: 'Ridable Miniature Railways')that there are many around the world.
I used to live in Bitterne Park so know the one in the park there, but not the bigger one at Eastleigh as it hadn't been built. There's a good one in Cardiff (Heath Park). Is the Thames Ditton one the one you see from the train at Hamption Court Junction?
I guess you could see it from the train on your right if you were going to Hampton Court (eg if you were doing a Mystery Worshipper there!) as it is right up against the fencing of the railway embankment. A lot of their track can be seen on Google maps satellite image although a lot is hidden by trees.
A wonderful place to visit and the field in the middle is nice for picnics though it is, I would imagine, a magnet for grandparents taking their little darlings for a Sunday outing.
Our little railway museum has a 7.25in gauge circuit for the entertainment of visitors. The 0-4-0 steam loco which was regular motive power is awaiting a new boiler, so currently a 4wDM is the operational power. We are awaiting the arrival of a Bo-Bo diesel modelled on a steelworks loco in the collection, but it's got to stop raining long enough for the loco to be painted and the paint to cure.
The sugarcane plantation railways of Cuba (or was it Indonesia?) ran on bagasse - the crushed waste stalks. Of course these were hardly long-distance expresses, and I recall seeing tenders piled high with the fuel. I have no idea what the combustion arrangements were in the firebox.
I wonder how easy it would be to convert locomotives to the Porta producer gas system? This would certainly improve combustion and reduce emissions. It might not work on low-speed heritage lines though, as the effort required isn't continuous enough.
As coal is the bad boy of energy I wonder if, in a 50 years time, miniature railways will be the only coal-fired steam engines in use?
funnily enough one of the railways I'm a member of has just finished trials with bio-coal - which is a mix of 60% coal and 40% olive stones otherwise destined for landfill. This reduces CO2 by 33% and smoke by 80%. Apparently it was quite successful - and this is obviously the first generation stuff. I would imagine it's only going to get better.
The same railway has also started laying recycled plastic sleepers, as the wooden ones come up for replacement, which last up to 50 years - rather than the 10-15 a wooden one will do.
The heritage steam movement is very much on the case on this one.
As coal is the bad boy of energy I wonder if, in a 50 years time, miniature railways will be the only coal-fired steam engines in use?
funnily enough one of the railways I'm a member of has just finished trials with bio-coal - which is a mix of 60% coal and 40% olive stones otherwise destined for landfill. This reduces CO2 by 33% and smoke by 80%. Apparently it was quite successful - and this is obviously the first generation stuff. I would imagine it's only going to get better.
The same railway has also started laying recycled plastic sleepers, as the wooden ones come up for replacement, which last up to 50 years - rather than the 10-15 a wooden one will do.
The heritage steam movement is very much on the case on this one.
A lot of the miniature live steamers use butane burners for their locomotives, so I wonder if we'll see greater use of that to replace coal? It doesn't smell right, though.
The use of recycled plastic sleepers is interesting, and has been around for longer than I thought (after checking with Auntie Google). I've used the material on some mundane projects, and quickly learned that the first thing to understand is the tendency to creep in hot conditions. I am not sure how this is accommodated on railways, but I assume careful ballasting is important to avoid gauge widening, especially on curves. Perhaps some types have steel reinforcement, like concrete sleepers. Track is an absorbing topic - I'll have to look into this. If you are troubled by insomnia, Andrew Dow's book on the subject (The Railway: British track since 1804) is good reading.
[...] funnily enough one of the railways I'm a member of has just finished trials with bio-coal - which is a mix of 60% coal and 40% olive stones otherwise destined for landfill. [...]
They can even use olive stones from meals in the buffet car. And there's this lovely smell of olives in the air!
We'll be talking about fishbelly rail on slate blocks on the Nantlle railway next if we're not careful There are some ancient tramway remains on the side of Snowdon which even Boyd isn't sure about, which have the same kind of 'sleepers' - stone blocks with holes in to take the chairs, which are not tied together at all - separate blocks for each rail.
We have a model steam railway near here in Urmston. Someone gave me a part-built 3.5" gauge 0-6-0 tank engine ages ago, and I started collecting bits from ebay from other people who also had not finished. The price of castings is pretty high for someone as tight as me, and I made the necessary to make my own (and have cast all sorts of odds and sods)...but I wonder if I'll ever make much progress on it. To get the boiler signed off I'd need to start again and let the inspector look at it as it came together, and I'm a bit hit-and-miss with hot work. Well, maybe one day. For now I seem to be working on other people's engines at a museum, and that's nice as somehow they're not my problem, which suits me for the time being.
Recycled plastic sleepers have been accredited for mainline use in the state of Victoria. They are fairly widely-used on Australian miniature railways.
I was intrigued by the plates in between the rails, but this second picture shows that they are the bases for a check rail arrangement. https://tinyurl.com/ydcfyu9t. Is this to prevent rail creep or to guard against catastrophic derailment on the viaduct?
I was intrigued by the plates in between the rails, but this second picture shows that they are the bases for a check rail arrangement. https://tinyurl.com/ydcfyu9t. Is this to prevent rail creep or to guard against catastrophic derailment on the viaduct?
Good pictures - thanks for posting the links. I that arrangement would usually be described as guard rails, as you say, for preventing a derailed train from leaving the track completely. A check rail would be much closer to the running rail and is intended to stop the outer wheel from climbing the rail on a curve with a cant deficiency, or from taking the wrong track at a turnout or crossing, by acting against the flange of the inner wheel. Usage of these terms can vary, so please don't take my contribution as definitive.
I hear that with the blacklisting (no pun internded) of Russia, heritage railways are likely to find difficulty in obtaining suitable coal. The Ffestiniog is experimenting with briquettes.
I am fascinated by the use of plastic sleepers on real railways. I know the Ffestiniog has been using them for a bit but it is pretty surreal that all these organisations are copying something model railways have used for years. Next thing they'll be drilling a hole every 20 ft. or so and inserting a giant track pin.
(Being awkward, I am increasingly making use of laser-cut wooden sleepers on my own model railway, but then it represents a time when 9-foot sleepers were the norm, not the more modern 8'6".)
I am fascinated by the use of plastic sleepers on real railways. I know the Ffestiniog has been using them for a bit but it is pretty surreal that all these organisations are copying something model railways have used for years. Next thing they'll be drilling a hole every 20 ft. or so and inserting a giant track pin.
(Being awkward, I am increasingly making use of laser-cut wooden sleepers on my own model railway, but then it represents a time when 9-foot sleepers were the norm, not the more modern 8'6".)
Sounds interesting. What scale are you working in? Indoors or outdoors? (I'm trying to get back to 4 mm scale after neglecting it for decades and building things in larger scales for other people).
Next thing they'll be drilling a hole every 20 ft. or so and inserting a giant track pin.
Brunel did that with his broad gauge track. But it made the track too rigid. See paragraph brginning "On the first section of the GWR" here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baulk_road
I am fascinated by the use of plastic sleepers on real railways. I know the Ffestiniog has been using them for a bit but it is pretty surreal that all these organisations are copying something model railways have used for years. Next thing they'll be drilling a hole every 20 ft. or so and inserting a giant track pin.
(Being awkward, I am increasingly making use of laser-cut wooden sleepers on my own model railway, but then it represents a time when 9-foot sleepers were the norm, not the more modern 8'6".)
Sounds interesting. What scale are you working in? Indoors or outdoors? (I'm trying to get back to 4 mm scale after neglecting it for decades and building things in larger scales for other people).
7mm scale, indoors, and consequently rather cramped. I would like an outdoor line but lack the energy - or alternatively, the finance.
I am fascinated by the use of plastic sleepers on real railways. I know the Ffestiniog has been using them for a bit but it is pretty surreal that all these organisations are copying something model railways have used for years. Next thing they'll be drilling a hole every 20 ft. or so and inserting a giant track pin.
(Being awkward, I am increasingly making use of laser-cut wooden sleepers on my own model railway, but then it represents a time when 9-foot sleepers were the norm, not the more modern 8'6".)
Sounds interesting. What scale are you working in? Indoors or outdoors? (I'm trying to get back to 4 mm scale after neglecting it for decades and building things in larger scales for other people).
7mm scale, indoors, and consequently rather cramped. I would like an outdoor line but lack the energy - or alternatively, the finance.
Model railway prices have gone through the roof. I'm lucky in some ways because I've had a fixed idea of what I wanted to do for the past 10 years but nowhere to do it until we moved house last year (essentially a Great Central London Extension station in Northants along one side of a roundy roundy - but to scale with an 8 foot platform - and then an MPD and fully scenic fiddle yard down the other; all set in about 1953).
Consequently I've been amassing all the bits and pieces here and there over a decade so while the value is probably now eyewatering, it doesn't feel like it has been, IYSWIM.
My most recent star purchase has been an unbuilt whitemetal DJH kit of a Raven B16 off Ebay. Just got to get back into practice with my soldering...
au contraire - there was a weekly parcels service that worked from York to Marylebone in the 50s, frequently behind a York B16 as far as Woodford Halse. The B16 then found employment Woodford-Banbury and Woodford-Aylesbury before taking the down parcels back to York.
Very handy having a nonagenarian Woodford footplate crewman to check these things with!
Current stud is:
2 x B17 (which are a bit wrong for the 50s specifically but very much there in the 40s so not that much licence
1 x K3
1 x B1
1 x B16
1 x A3
1 x V2
1 x L1
1x O1
1 x O4
1 x O7
1 x J11
1 x J39
1 x D11/1
1 x 43XX
1 x Hawksworth County
1 x Modified Hall
1 x Grange
1 x A5
The odd one out is a Clan, which I can find no GC precedent for whatsoever, but I love them.
it's utterly unprototypical basically having one of each, but I'm aiming to be able to run basically anything that you might have seen had you stood on the platform in about 1950-55(ish). Just a bit of fun really. Although I admit that the 'fun' does extend to having for each class an example named/numbered for one which actually was a GC allocation at the time...
Could you, at a push, manage to justify a C4 "Jersey Lily"?
the issue with that is that I'd need all the stock for it to pull, and then it would worry me that the woodwork on the station and signalboxes was painted the wrong colour... I would love one but you've got to stop somewhere. More tempting is to drift a couple of years later an have a STD 5MT, GT3, etc...
I *really* want an L3 but the (discontinued) kits of them are very rare.
With all respect - why people want DCC with sound effects is beyond me. The speakers are generally very small and sound terribly tinny. But that's my own personal take on it. I love listening to the noise, mechanical and electric, of the little engines and trains running on their real little tracks; I find that very soothing. Anything else, for me, would be overkill.
We don't run digital trains on our modular arrangements in the national N gauge club, but there are some members of course who do DCC at home. And we get along well with each other.
Am humbled, Betjemaniac! I'm trying to restart, yet again, my Highland Railway branch - more like a twig, really - that I began almost 60 years ago. The last straw came last week with Rapido's announcement of the Jones 'Big Goods'. How could they do that to me? I've been working sporadically converting an EM gauge HR collection that came at an extremely modest price from a late club member, and included a Caledonian 55 Class, one of which worked on the Highland for a few years. Same excuse applies to a delightful Adams Radial. I'll need a motive power depot as big as the rest of the railway for this, though some will need new homes, I think.
au contraire - there was a weekly parcels service that worked from York to Marylebone in the 50s, frequently behind a York B16 as far as Woodford Halse. The B16 then found employment Woodford-Banbury and Woodford-Aylesbury before taking the down parcels back to York.
Very handy having a nonagenarian Woodford footplate crewman to check these things with!
Current stud is:
2 x B17 (which are a bit wrong for the 50s specifically but very much there in the 40s so not that much licence
1 x K3
1 x B1
1 x B16
1 x A3
1 x V2
1 x L1
1x O1
1 x O4
1 x O7
1 x J11
1 x J39
1 x D11/1
1 x 43XX
1 x Hawksworth County
1 x Modified Hall
1 x Grange
1 x A5
The odd one out is a Clan, which I can find no GC precedent for whatsoever, but I love them.
Nice. I can confirm the B16 working. The only one I ever saw was from the main road about half a mile south of Loughborough. It was a Raven original, not a rebuilt one, and pulling a southbound parcels.
A GC station in Northamptonshire with a MPD sounds very, very like Woodford. Will it include an extra platform and a spur to the SMJ?
Not sure about your point on signal box colours. Some ex LNER ones were still showing green and yellow paint well on into the fifties, though that was especially in East Anglia. And if you're allowing yourself two B17s, that could almost justify a very grubby B7. They were replaced virtually on a one for one basis between 1948 and 1950 by B1s. Otherwise, although I see your point, for balance I'd say there could be more B1s and 07s than anything else.
Going a bit later, I agree about the Standard 5s, and eventually the GC had quite a lot of 9Fs which worked unfitted coal trains at disturbing speeds.
The 3.5" 0-6-0 tank loco I mentioned upthread is a Highland Railway type I think - called 'Rob Roy'.
I just did a quick search and it appears to be a bit closer to a Caledonian dock tank, though surely also a close relative of the Highland's 'Scrap Tanks' (built by Peter Drummond from bits left lying around the works yard in Inverness).
The 3.5" 0-6-0 tank loco I mentioned upthread is a Highland Railway type I think - called 'Rob Roy'.
I just did a quick search and it appears to be a bit closer to a Caledonian dock tank, though surely also a close relative of the Highland's 'Scrap Tanks' (built by Peter Drummond from bits left lying around the works yard in Inverness).
I had to google the latter out of curiosity and was well impressed by the enthusiast painstakingly constructing a model of one, not least because they seemed intent on procuring the right parts from the models of the donor engines!
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Gerry Fiennes was responsible for the running down of Waterloo services to the south west when he took it over as head of BR(WR).
His finest hour though was restoring the Western Region to profit by hiving off various lines to BR(LM) - who thought they were getting a really good deal until they looked at their own bottom line next time around...
However, there was some method in the madness - Fiennes fully agreed with the GC closure, despite being an ex-LNER man. It just wasn't profitable. His thinking on the Withered Arm was that without major surgery and hard decisions, they'd eventually lose both routes to the south west. He wasn't a GWR man (though he was running Western Region) but when you looked at Paddington-Plymouth and Waterloo Plymouth in terms of speeds and locations served en route that decision made itself unfortunately.
I think it was his efforts though that kept the Waterloo-Exeter line double track for as far as it was kept.
That sounds right to me. The restoration of Balmoral has shown that the underlying body structure is quite cheaply built, but with a finish designed to impress. Perhaps they were designed assuming a fairly short service life, rather like older American cars.
The Caledonian Railway operated some Pullman restaurant cars that became LMS stock, and are seen in photos of the Highland's Farther North line into the 1950s.
(The only Pullman car I've ever ridden in was the ex-Devon Belle observation car on the Kyle of Lochalsh line. It was a bit rough riding by then, but the view, with commentary by the local conductor, couldn't be beaten).
We are lucky enough to have two miniature railways in Southampton and I know (from Wiki: 'Ridable Miniature Railways')that there are many around the world.
But my childhood favourite is Thames Ditton Miniature Railway which has 3 gauges: 5 inch, 3 1/2 and 7 1/4. (run by malden-dsme.org). You get all the sounds and smells of real steam engines burning real coal.
Not to mention firing (and occasionally driving) on one of the Great Little Trains of Wales...
I guess you could see it from the train on your right if you were going to Hampton Court (eg if you were doing a Mystery Worshipper there!) as it is right up against the fencing of the railway embankment. A lot of their track can be seen on Google maps satellite image although a lot is hidden by trees.
A wonderful place to visit and the field in the middle is nice for picnics though it is, I would imagine, a magnet for grandparents taking their little darlings for a Sunday outing.
Bitterne Park! -it's a small world!
I don't know whether you can run steam engines on bio-char or whether the required volume is too great to be feasible.
I wonder how easy it would be to convert locomotives to the Porta producer gas system? This would certainly improve combustion and reduce emissions. It might not work on low-speed heritage lines though, as the effort required isn't continuous enough.
funnily enough one of the railways I'm a member of has just finished trials with bio-coal - which is a mix of 60% coal and 40% olive stones otherwise destined for landfill. This reduces CO2 by 33% and smoke by 80%. Apparently it was quite successful - and this is obviously the first generation stuff. I would imagine it's only going to get better.
The same railway has also started laying recycled plastic sleepers, as the wooden ones come up for replacement, which last up to 50 years - rather than the 10-15 a wooden one will do.
The heritage steam movement is very much on the case on this one.
A lot of the miniature live steamers use butane burners for their locomotives, so I wonder if we'll see greater use of that to replace coal? It doesn't smell right, though.
The use of recycled plastic sleepers is interesting, and has been around for longer than I thought (after checking with Auntie Google). I've used the material on some mundane projects, and quickly learned that the first thing to understand is the tendency to creep in hot conditions. I am not sure how this is accommodated on railways, but I assume careful ballasting is important to avoid gauge widening, especially on curves. Perhaps some types have steel reinforcement, like concrete sleepers. Track is an absorbing topic - I'll have to look into this. If you are troubled by insomnia, Andrew Dow's book on the subject (The Railway: British track since 1804) is good reading.
We have a model steam railway near here in Urmston. Someone gave me a part-built 3.5" gauge 0-6-0 tank engine ages ago, and I started collecting bits from ebay from other people who also had not finished. The price of castings is pretty high for someone as tight as me, and I made the necessary to make my own (and have cast all sorts of odds and sods)...but I wonder if I'll ever make much progress on it. To get the boiler signed off I'd need to start again and let the inspector look at it as it came together, and I'm a bit hit-and-miss with hot work. Well, maybe one day. For now I seem to be working on other people's engines at a museum, and that's nice as somehow they're not my problem, which suits me for the time being.
I was intrigued by the plates in between the rails, but this second picture shows that they are the bases for a check rail arrangement. https://tinyurl.com/ydcfyu9t. Is this to prevent rail creep or to guard against catastrophic derailment on the viaduct?
The latter, I'd have thought.
Good pictures - thanks for posting the links. I that arrangement would usually be described as guard rails, as you say, for preventing a derailed train from leaving the track completely. A check rail would be much closer to the running rail and is intended to stop the outer wheel from climbing the rail on a curve with a cant deficiency, or from taking the wrong track at a turnout or crossing, by acting against the flange of the inner wheel. Usage of these terms can vary, so please don't take my contribution as definitive.
(Being awkward, I am increasingly making use of laser-cut wooden sleepers on my own model railway, but then it represents a time when 9-foot sleepers were the norm, not the more modern 8'6".)
Sounds interesting. What scale are you working in? Indoors or outdoors? (I'm trying to get back to 4 mm scale after neglecting it for decades and building things in larger scales for other people).
7mm scale, indoors, and consequently rather cramped. I would like an outdoor line but lack the energy - or alternatively, the finance.
Model railway prices have gone through the roof. I'm lucky in some ways because I've had a fixed idea of what I wanted to do for the past 10 years but nowhere to do it until we moved house last year (essentially a Great Central London Extension station in Northants along one side of a roundy roundy - but to scale with an 8 foot platform - and then an MPD and fully scenic fiddle yard down the other; all set in about 1953).
Consequently I've been amassing all the bits and pieces here and there over a decade so while the value is probably now eyewatering, it doesn't feel like it has been, IYSWIM.
My most recent star purchase has been an unbuilt whitemetal DJH kit of a Raven B16 off Ebay. Just got to get back into practice with my soldering...
au contraire - there was a weekly parcels service that worked from York to Marylebone in the 50s, frequently behind a York B16 as far as Woodford Halse. The B16 then found employment Woodford-Banbury and Woodford-Aylesbury before taking the down parcels back to York.
Very handy having a nonagenarian Woodford footplate crewman to check these things with!
Current stud is:
2 x B17 (which are a bit wrong for the 50s specifically but very much there in the 40s so not that much licence
1 x K3
1 x B1
1 x B16
1 x A3
1 x V2
1 x L1
1x O1
1 x O4
1 x O7
1 x J11
1 x J39
1 x D11/1
1 x 43XX
1 x Hawksworth County
1 x Modified Hall
1 x Grange
1 x A5
The odd one out is a Clan, which I can find no GC precedent for whatsoever, but I love them.
it's utterly unprototypical basically having one of each, but I'm aiming to be able to run basically anything that you might have seen had you stood on the platform in about 1950-55(ish). Just a bit of fun really. Although I admit that the 'fun' does extend to having for each class an example named/numbered for one which actually was a GC allocation at the time...
the issue with that is that I'd need all the stock for it to pull, and then it would worry me that the woodwork on the station and signalboxes was painted the wrong colour... I would love one but you've got to stop somewhere. More tempting is to drift a couple of years later an have a STD 5MT, GT3, etc...
I *really* want an L3 but the (discontinued) kits of them are very rare.
We don't run digital trains on our modular arrangements in the national N gauge club, but there are some members of course who do DCC at home. And we get along well with each other.
A GC station in Northamptonshire with a MPD sounds very, very like Woodford. Will it include an extra platform and a spur to the SMJ?
Not sure about your point on signal box colours. Some ex LNER ones were still showing green and yellow paint well on into the fifties, though that was especially in East Anglia. And if you're allowing yourself two B17s, that could almost justify a very grubby B7. They were replaced virtually on a one for one basis between 1948 and 1950 by B1s. Otherwise, although I see your point, for balance I'd say there could be more B1s and 07s than anything else.
Going a bit later, I agree about the Standard 5s, and eventually the GC had quite a lot of 9Fs which worked unfitted coal trains at disturbing speeds.
I just did a quick search and it appears to be a bit closer to a Caledonian dock tank, though surely also a close relative of the Highland's 'Scrap Tanks' (built by Peter Drummond from bits left lying around the works yard in Inverness).
I can see where a foresail would have been rigged, but not much space for a mizzen.
I had to google the latter out of curiosity and was well impressed by the enthusiast painstakingly constructing a model of one, not least because they seemed intent on procuring the right parts from the models of the donor engines!