Bite Size Bits - Get unexcited!

[@warrenlehmkuhleii8472]

To paraphrase Syndrome from The Incredibles, “when every train is special, no one will be.”

[@yarslowmodelrailway1]

Indeed so!

[@martinhall60]

Hello from the East Riding of Yorkshire. I've just watched your video about different types of wagons, coaches etc. When I left school in 1970 I was 15 years old and got a job with British Rail as a Junior railman in a big goods yard were we had rows of sidings full of wagons similar to some of your models. My job was to take off the wagon labels and make a list of what was in each wagon and who the contents were for. We also got continental ferry vans coming from the continent with frozen goods. Containers on conflates, 16ton mineral wagons for scrap metal and so on, the list is endless. We had a class 08 as our yard pilot as it was called then. Happy days indeed. Your layout and rolling stock are first class, well done and thank you for showing your wonderful wagons. 👍🚂

[@yarslowmodelrailway1]

Hi Martin. Thank you for your kind comments. I'm sure that working on the railway wasn't all glamour and sunshine!!!

[@richardkammerer2814]

One of the best of the unexciting videos, but I might spoil the situation by rating it.

[@yarslowmodelrailway1]

Hahahaha!!!! Thanks Richard

[@robertbate5790]

Excellent advice. Thank you 👍👍

[@yarslowmodelrailway1]

Glad it was helpful!

[@jonathanstanley73]

Hi Barry, Another thought provoking video. I try to include no more than 1 in 10 exotics (not an open, mineral, van or conflat) in a mixed freight. The odd tank, bogie bolster or flat wagon adds interest and looks right while a train composed entirely of exotics looks completely wrong. Of course tanks and bogie bolsters often travelled as blocks either as an entire train or several wagons grouped together. Permanent way trains were often a glorious mix where virtually anything could turn up. I run two - a ballast train of hoppers and grampus wagons and a work train that can be anything from a single ballast open and a guards van to one with a light crane, rails on a bogie bolster tool and mess vans and a couple of opens and a ballast wagon or two. Given the state of my permanent way operating the work train on a Sunday is a very regular occurrence while I try to fix things. I think a short video on the operation of your PWay depot would be fascinating. Keep them coming Cheers Jon

[@yarslowmodelrailway1]

Hi Jon. I am putting a video together on operating part of the layout. Thanks for the idea of adding something about the PW train.

[@ewhurstgreen]

Thank you for sharing and I too would accept 'ordinary' as a huge compliment! 👍 Quite a lot of fuss is made of the railway's (sometimes even strange) rarities including many models of one-offs or low-number builds. 🤔 Yet as you indicate, the regular railway is about the almost monotonous regularity of ordinary trains simply carrying passengers and freight around the country.🙂 Notwithstanding, it is always a pleasure to see those 'rarities' hiding in plain sight - items rolling stock that few spot let alone realise as being different - especially including the (rarely modelled) engineering stock. 😀 As for parcels stock moving around the country, I've seen photographs of 6-wheeled Stoves at Tonbridge (Kent) and have recorded a Bulleid SK no.S64S operating in Scotland. If you watch the excellent John Schlesinger film 'Terminus' look out for the GWR Siphon against the stops at Waterloo! 🌞

[@yarslowmodelrailway1]

Thanks for your comments. Watched "Terminus" - a bit further from home but I run a Siphon on a parcels train. Probably wrong for 1960 but, hey, Rule 1 and all that!

[@ewhurstgreen]

@@yarslowmodelrailway1 Terminus was filmed in 1961 and some Siphons lasted into BR blue livery so who is to say it did not occur..... 🐱 PS - your cat is gorgeous!

[@1BCamden]

Great episode, Frank was right, dull it down until it’s nearly all greyscale, that’s how I remember his articles in MRJ, get well, best regards. The dynamometer car would have taken a good couple of days, very nice.

[@yarslowmodelrailway1]

That series of articles in MRJ (6 parts?) was brilliant. Him, David Jenkinson, Bob Essery - true legends when it came to operation.

[@Tauraco00]

Loving this❤

[@yarslowmodelrailway1]

Thanks!!

[@mynx_uk]

get well soon

[@yarslowmodelrailway1]

Thanks!! Luckily, over the worst.

[@mewsdo]

I like your thinking. Behind 'ordinary' train running there can be all kinds of interest. God's Wonderful Railway comes to mind, with runaway animals and the unexpected Royal Visit...

[@yarslowmodelrailway1]

I'm sure that even the mighty GWR were not immune to strange happenings and workings!

[@williamgunning4184]

As usual a great video, I like standardisation but include the odd, obscure and one off, so I built a Parkside kit of a "French" 16T diagram 1/112 however yours is not one of those repatriated wagons, it is a GWR designed N32 20T mineral wagon built in the 1930s by various contractors for lease to collieries and agents therefore painted in PO colour schemes. They were financed by government grants and not included in the GWR stock book so were numbered in the P series after nationalisation. Most of the colourful schemes offered by Airfix, Mainline, Hornby or Dapol are accurate but the grey GWR loco livery is wrong as the post war N34 loco coal variants lacked the end door and was like all GWR loco coal wagons painted black.

[@yarslowmodelrailway1]

Hi William. You notice mine is unpainted as yet. More research to do. I have a set of "Pxxx" PO numbers so could use those as you suggest.

[@GregPalmer1000]

The x LNER brake will look great with ex LNER plate bogies

[@yarslowmodelrailway1]

:-)