Adam. I can't pick up whether the Scammel has BR markings or not. Judging by the shade of grey it is, indeed, quite possibly in BR yellow. (For those in black and white the green ball is behind the yellow.) Good detail from the brake van too, and thank you for picking that up. Just a small correction - that freight is not from the Brentford branch. The ex-Brentford train is the photo below.
Thanks Adam, Dave and Larry for adding detail and concerns about the model I'd not noticed.
As far as the wagon and its load what a lot of wonderful stuff and a deal of research too. Forgive me if I don't list the contributors but this is possibly the best discussion stimulation we've seen so far. To say that Tim is amazed is a bit of an understatement. He becomes more convinced that our gentle ministrations to his collection provide more detail than he could have achieved anywhere else. I guess that this photo may actually be fairly important in terms of historical detail and how such wagons and loads were included in what appears to be a humdrum pick up goods. Thank you all.
Today's photos have proven to be a bit more difficult to organise, as they range across a number of film strips. Nevertheless they all come under the title "Southall 1963".
Very much still working is 2884 class 2-8-0 2899 with a large prairie and another loco behind. It belonged to Southall from mid December 1962 until withdrawn in March 1965. It then went to Buttigiegs at Newport and had gone during July of the same year.
I believe these two photos to be the same 61XX 2-6-2T photographed on the same day. I'm pretty confident this is 6159 which was a Didcot loco from 1960 and withdrawn in 1965. A visit to Southall is far from out of the question. It went to the Steele Supply Co, Jersey Marine where it was scrapped in January 1966. However as 6156 was at Oxford until July 1964 and an Old Oak engine from then until transferred to Southall in the August it's a possible alternative.
Brian
