When it was based at the ELR?
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thenudehamster
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I suppose a lot would depend on whether you want to represent the SVR as it was as an operational line in either GWR or BR days, or as it is now as a preserved line.
In the old days it would have been pretty well exclusively GWR; in BR days you'd have seen the occasional Standard and maybe one or two strangers, as the BTC moved a lot of 'regional' types all over the country.
These days, with so much loaning and visiting of different locos and trains, almost anything goes as long as it once visited the railway.
Me, I'm grateful to anyone who models anything; as has been said in another thread, if you use the trains on another route, it's difficult to identify what's what at passing speeds of 90 or so...
In the old days it would have been pretty well exclusively GWR; in BR days you'd have seen the occasional Standard and maybe one or two strangers, as the BTC moved a lot of 'regional' types all over the country.
These days, with so much loaning and visiting of different locos and trains, almost anything goes as long as it once visited the railway.
Me, I'm grateful to anyone who models anything; as has been said in another thread, if you use the trains on another route, it's difficult to identify what's what at passing speeds of 90 or so...
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chrishal11 wrote:
Personally I prefer LNER engines in apple green, brunswick is so drab with no brasswork to set it off. But there we are, each to their own. I agree I would like to see the Great Marquess and the Stanier Mogul.I like LNER, although even better is ex LNER locos in brunswick green as thats the most common thing at preserved lines.
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arabiandisco wrote:I'll knock the GWR if I want to.salopiangrowler wrote:dont knock the GWR if it wasnt for them there would be no Paddington - Penzance
Pwlleli/Aberystwyth - Paddington
Birkenhead-Paddington.
And there certainly would be no SVR.
It was, after all, the branchline that joined the Southern at Reading
dont knock the GWR if it wasnt for them there would be no Paddington - Penzance
yeah ok but dont knock them to hard, the southern never had a platform on the main reading station they had a seperate station you can just see where the southern station used to be.