Traction-Talk - NTET Road Run - 27 September 2014

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Originally Posted by Tim Watson (Post 314092)

Did anyone get a picture or video of my engine crossing the ford at Sutton. It was great fun!

Tim

Tim

David Colledge got some engines there and I PMed him this morning, he had two of me crossing it. I asked him if he got you and said he would have a look through later in the day. Maybe he found something.

http://www.tractiontalkforum.com/pic...ictureid=20374

Brian I didn't get one of you at the water splash just out on the open road near Sandy

http://www.tractiontalkforum.com/pic...ictureid=20354

Next video:
Burrell Peter Pan & Gigantic arriving at Beds. Growers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s6ZOybTpdY

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Originally Posted by bjwlancashire (Post 314104)

I had a look and we couldn't find any. We left the ford after Renown went through so nothing after him.

David

Tim was probably 45 minutes before me so it depends when you got there, I saw a number of photographers and what looked like video equipment to so hopefully something will turn up but than you very much for min and for looking for Tim.

Brian (still grinning from ear to ear)

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Originally Posted by Bosiboz (Post 314110)

Brian I didn't get one of you at the water splash just out on the open road near Sandy

Thanks Dave, I remember seeing you quite early on, you were stood in the hedgerow before the roundabout at Upper Caldecote. Looked a little lonely there by yourself ;)

I found your photo album last night and saw the picture of Blackbeard, he really does look splendid now with his wagons, just need to get the sign writing of the engine, wagons and bowser to finish it off. Great photos as always Dave.

Brian

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Originally Posted by 00000 (Post 314095)

Some really nice loads behind a few engines too, Ex Mayor with the Yachts , & the two recently restored traction wagons behind the Burrell, & some others. Plus I think that brown Clayton is my new favouritist engine!

Did you get any pictures of the brown Clayton?

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Originally Posted by Comeonoldgirl (Post 314117)

Did you get any pictures of the brown Clayton?

Is it this one?

http://www.tractiontalkforum.com/pic...ictureid=20370

http://www.tractiontalkforum.com/pic...ictureid=20371

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Originally Posted by Bosiboz (Post 314097)

Desperate Dan 'Lancashire Lad' has a brown trouser moment as he suddenly realises the magnitude of the slopes he will have to negotiate on the road run

http://www.tractiontalkforum.com/pic...ictureid=20272

Dos'nt matter, he's had his Weetabix.

That's the Clayton, a classic TE & still on strakes with nicely weatherd paint, lovely. No wonder Hughes chose one for the chapter in his book 'A century of Traction Engines'.

[QUOTE=Bosiboz;314122]Is it this one?

Thanks for the pictures Bosiboz.
A Fletcher design clayton, built in 1899, no 32900 HK9836. Owned by Philp Family in Castle Hedingham Essex and restored / cared for by John Garwood. We had a fantastic day out with her. As always, she performed perfectly and was a pleasure to drive around. Its great to see some pictures from the other side of the hedge. Next time you see us out please come and say hello and have a look up on the footplate.

I have travelled many miles on the road on that engine and she is a real beauty.

As you say, strakes, lovely mellowed paintwork and a handsome engine too.

Without doubt she is a credit for those who care for her.

Jim

More photos anyone????????????????
We were a bit too busy with the Barford to take many .

Peter

You should like this one, its one of Grahams, not mine. The view behind us as we were leaving.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.n...f297d8b3311e29

Just thinking to myself how good it would have been to get all of the Wallis's involved together for a photograph, when I realised I didn't see any Advance rollers there. Were any involved, I couldn't see any in the programme? It's odd that with so many produced, and so many preserved there wasn't a representative of the type on show.

sometimes I think I am seeing double !

Mark.

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Originally Posted by mark vine (Post 314192)

sometimes I think I am seeing double !

Mark.

Have you been drinking Mr Vine?

It seems i got carried away at this great event, to many photos to upload to my website, so ive had to stick them on faceache.

Hope you all like them.

https://www.facebook.com/paul.fisher...1561510&type=3

p.s, there is also a video that is open to public viewing.....i know some will like it ;)

Too many photos to post...

Rather than spend a lifetime choosing the best photos and uploading them here, instead they are all on facebook so please feel free to browse them all at your leisure using the links below. Note there is no need to log in to facebook to see them!

https://www.facebook.com/steve.cockr...5498931&type=3

https://www.facebook.com/steve.cockr...5498931&type=3

If for any reason you can't see them, please shout and I'll try and fix it...

Mine too are on facebook along with some videos.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...1&l=56801286b9

Incidentally, can anyone tell me what that trailer was pulled behind the big Clayton? It looked like one of the old Maglev carriages.

It is or was an old Whipsnade Zoo land train carriage. Nothing to do with Maglev.

Jim

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Originally Posted by Paul-Fish-Photos (Post 314275)

For those without facebook. Ive put the best of photos on here....

http://www.fototime.com/users/paul.f...h%20Road%20Run

Thanks.

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Originally Posted by Paul-Fish-Photos (Post 314275)

Good photos, from the angle the afternoon ones were taken I assume you are the guy on the back of the Volvo. thumbsup

Thankyou for posting, lovely photographs, especially like the one of Pedler with my son driving.

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Originally Posted by Tufty (Post 314437)

Good photos, from the angle the afternoon ones were taken I assume you are the guy on the back of the Volvo. thumbsup

Yes, middle of a field in the morning and stood on the boot of car in afternoon, i find that most photos are always from people height looking up, i always like to try do something different,

I reckon the majority of the Fowler Tiger tractors in captivity were on the run.

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Originally Posted by Proff (Post 314465)

I reckon the majority of the Fowler Tiger tractors in captivity were on the run.

I saw 3, from Messrs Tyler, Cope, Marchington & Saunders.

Were there more?

And Foden D types.
Not many photos of MacLaren plougher Hero , I suspect we started too early ! The second engine to leave I think.

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Originally Posted by 00000 (Post 314470)

And Foden D types.
Not many photos of MacLaren plougher Hero , I suspect we started too early ! The second engine to leave I think.

Yes, I saw you stopped in the ford to pick up water, If we had done that there would have been a traffic jam!

P.S I saw 4 Tigers, not 3 DOH!

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Originally Posted by 00000 (Post 314470)

And Foden D types.
Not many photos of MacLaren plougher Hero , I suspect we started too early ! The second engine to leave I think.

Middle route ?

i passed a plougher heading between Langport and Henlow and said to me misses that i was surprised to see a plougher on the middle run, once i'd finally turned around and went back up the road i'd lost sight.

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Originally Posted by 00000 (Post 314470)

And Foden D types.
Not many photos of MacLaren plougher Hero , I suspect we started too early ! The second engine to leave I think.

I'll put some on as soon as I get chance. Saw you leaving site, steaming past the college building.

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Originally Posted by 8_10 Brass Cleaner (Post 314474)

Yes, I saw you stopped in the ford to pick up water...

I have been wondering if any engines stopped in the ford – and now I know at least one did – can I ask did anyone take photographs of the occurrence? I have considered for a long time it would be a really nice subject for a pencil drawing; I know of archive photos of engines taking water in fords and also of showmans engines where the trailers/ rides are being washed. A drawing would be set in the years when engines worked for a living and I would be careful not to make the scene “twee” – I try to tell it as it was which, as I see it, was extremely hard work using an engine commercially.

So... does anyone have photos of any engine standing in the ford, that I could use to form the basis of a future drawing? I do not simply copy a photograph; my drawings are often based on one particular image and then changes made to the foreground and background to create a strong composition. In this case, as water is difficult to depict, I would use the photograph to a greater degree than normal but still add other elements such as figures. The engine needs to be standing and not moving – the reflections in the water will look different, also still on strakes would be very useful. At the risk of repeating myself... my drawings are not created for profit; it is a form of therapy to help me deal with my illness. I always produce a small number of prints for people who have helped in the production of the artwork but I do not intend to market prints commercially – stress and hassle are extremely bad for my condition. I cannot imagine starting this picture for several months and then it will be quite some time before it is finished; I work on several drawings at one time and find I need to “live with” elements as the picture evolves.

If I get a chance later I will look for some archive photos and post them. I can be contacted by PM if anyone prefers this.

Thanks in anticipation,

Michael

Photographs of Hero

As promised, photos I took of Hero. By my reckoning you were the second engine to leave, the first being Mr. Tweedy.

http://www.steamscenes.org.uk/tti/14/278_0573.jpg

http://www.steamscenes.org.uk/tti/14/278_0574.jpg

http://www.steamscenes.org.uk/tti/14/278_0575.jpg

Not the best of photographs because you were up before the sun!
Care to own up as which one is you Jim?

"Steaming my way" aka Robin got some crackers at the ford.

Black Jim we saw you leaving as you trundled past the low loaders and didn't see you again!

Does any one have any video footage of ex mayor climbing the hill out of / after sandy after going over the railway bridge.
On the middle route.

Regards Rob