Johns workbench

[Dog Star]

http://www.hondawanderer.com/47569_Wolvercote_Junction_1990.htm for example..

BG, BG, BG... you can just hear the Joanna singing as Mr. MMP nothces up another sale.

 

[Dog Star]

The photo in post no. #9 of this topic can be found on the net at:-

http://scalerail.phpbbhosts.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=118&t=1295

where there is a discussion about the development of this type starting with the LNER build.

 

[Dog Star]

This reference gives dates for the "last in service" of the SPVs... as 1981:-

http://www.mremag.com/news/article/br-chronology/12458

which is somewhat at odds with the following link to a dated photograph at Warrington:-

http://www.flickr.com/photos/andy_hoare/5288516503/

 

[Dog Star]

For those who might be challenged by navigating photo collections... here is the relevant start page for the Blue Spot vehicles within Paul Bartlett's collection.

http://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/brfish

Judging by the dates / locations... Aylesbury seems to have been a breeding ground for these vehicles with at least 5 present in January 1981 (and at least three there on one day in 1976).

In passing, whilst I have not found the TOPS code for the vehicles when in fish traffic, NRV is a suitable code for when the stragglers were re-designated as barrier wagons.

regards, Graham

 

[40126]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/andy_hoare/5288516503/

Nice find Doggers

Maybe we should have a thread for all SPV related topic

Steve

 

[Ressaldar]

In passing, whilst I have not found the TOPS code for the vehicles when in fish traffic, NRV is a suitable code for when the stragglers were redisgnated as barrier wagons.regards, Graham

In Parkin's Mk1 book, there is a photo (page 196) of - E87684 in overall blue - the caption reads "it entered the TOPS era as an NRV in May 1979" The words on page 197 state "These were internally refurbished, one trusts thoroughly, and painted in plain blue livery as parcels vans. In this guise, labelled SPV (latterly NRV) and often with Express Parcels branding they put in more years work than they had as fish vans. The last ones were used on paper traffic in the Aylesbury area until 1981.

Hope this helps the cause.

cheers

Mike

 

[Dog Star]

In Parkin's Mk1 book, there is a photo (page 196) of - E87684 in overall blue - the caption reads "it entered the TOPS era as an NRV in May 1979" The words on page 197 state "These were internally refurbished, one trusts thoroughly, and painted in plain blue livery as parcels vans. In this guise, labelled SPV (latterly NRV) and often with Express Parcels branding they put in more years work than they had as fish vans. The last ones were used on paper traffic in the Aylesbury area until 1981."

Thanks Mike, what you have written explains why Paul Bartlett's collection shows so many vans at Aylesbury .

I recall that there was a significant printing company in Aylesbury, a reputable company which dealt primarily with books, I suggest that the vans were there for distribution of printed matter - not newspapers. The company name was Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd., details of the company are here:-

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=008-dhwv&cid=0#0

note that there was a management buyout in 1981 - co-incidence that 1981 was the year that the SPVs were taken out of service?

 

[40126]

In Parkin's Mk1 book, there is a photo (page 196) of - E87684 in overall blue - the caption reads "it entered the TOPS era as an NRV in May 1979" The words on page 197 state "These were internally refurbished, one trusts thoroughly, and painted in plain blue livery as parcels vans. In this guise, labelled SPV (latterly NRV) and often with Express Parcels branding they put in more years work than they had as fish vans. The last ones were used on paper traffic in the Aylesbury area until 1981.

Hope this helps the cause.

cheers

Mike

Hi Mike

Is there any chance of a pic of the pic being put on here ?.

Steve

 

[Ressaldar]

Hi Mike

Is there any chance of a pic of the pic being put on here ?.

Steve

Hi Steve, don't think that it would be allowed, send me a PM with your email address and I'll zap it over to you, it's only a small picture.

cheers

Mike

 

[richard carr]

Just a photo of the floor suports before the partitions to suport the body are put in then painting
I've been looking at photos of the MMP BG coach on a site called O guage modelling on line which shows most of the builds of their kits being built and it looks superb but I'm not sure if I have the skills to make it so I might just go for the easy build coach although I might go for the bogies they really do look good
John

John

If you can build the bogies you can build the coach.

The bogies are joy to build, everything fits together beautifully, they just take a while to build, the pair I did took about 30 hours and even then I skimped on a few bits.

Richard

 

[Dog Star]

I was just going to read OH well

Can you put up a link to that thread?

 

[Steph Dale]

John,

What's the paint colour code to get it mixed up, please?

Steph

 

[john lewsey]

 

[john lewsey]

 

[john lewsey]

And these are moving forward as well more on these soon

 

[Dikitriki]

I do wish I could understand what I write...

Yep, that thought had crossed my mind too

 

[john lewsey]

 

[john lewsey]

Hope that helps

 

[Steph Dale]

Thanks John!

RAL 5020 eh? So that's actually German DB Ozeanblau rather than BR Rail Blue. Interesting...

I'd long suspected the colours were actually the same and have used Railmatch Rail Blue for the odd spraying job on DB stock when I had the odd bit of stock from that side of the Iron Curtain.

Steph

 

[john lewsey]