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marcusboon wrote:I would think pre-war 57' GWR ‘toplight’ stock would be a better choice for conversion into ambulance coaches (as quite a few corridor thirds and brake thirds were in reality) than post-war LMS coaches…

Marcus

Ah - I forgot that I had those! Oh well, I'll look at doing those then, or getting them done. ROD Slip Coach anyone? On a serious note, the toplights are the better choice.

Make sure it's the earlier panelled toplights. The plain steel sided ones were built after ww1 I think.

Those are the ones I have!

Hi
I have been looking at my grandfather Frederick William Huntsman he was in 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards,he was at Windsor Barracks at the time war broke,so would presume he would have en trained at Windsor Riverside or the GWR Windsor Station.

He was in Belgium at Mons in August 1914, he was awarded the Mons Star and Bar and two roses,I haven't a clue what the roses were for,also in the battalion records for 20th Dec 1916 it says whilst under gas attack 1 officer and 7 OR were killed,that was the day he was killed,he's buried at Combles Guards Cemetery.

Probably Riverside if he was headed for the continent - the LSWR station probably providing the quickest route... unless... via Slough and the DN&S...

Just a update the Mons Star and bar and roses were awarded to Officers Non Commissioned Officers and men who were under enemy fire or within artillery range during the Battle of Mons, and during the retreat from Mons between 5th August and the 22nd November 1914.

Always interesting to hear the stories...

In the meantime, I've set up a website for the project: http://sem34090.simplesite.com
All that's left to do is to get started on the actual route!!!

Today is a day of rememberance and commemoration. We remember and honour the dead, this year principally the dead of the First World War. It is this that the project aims to do - to honour the dead - alongside the honouring of those who simply served. It is perhaps worth noting that whilst it is right to honour those who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country, it is also right to honour and remember the ordinary - those who simply served. No heroics, no great stories of adventure and bravery, but those who just got on with it, and not just those who died. Many who fought in the First World War survived, many of those with life-changing injuries of both the physical and the mental variety. I also ask, today, that those of you who read this remember those who live today with the physical and mental scars that can result from active military service.

This post is also an update to note that, unfortunately, our first Railway Operating Division reskins have not been completed in time for upload today as had been hoped. As it stands, however, they should be done soo and our first ROD reskin will be for a set of fairly generic Ambulance Train coaches.

However, I just saw this!

A huge thank you to Mr Kris Wilson for adding this livery to the forthcoming LBSCR E4 pack - it looks truly stunning. Now all that's needed is for us to get started on the route!

Yes it is right to remember all soldiers killed or wounded from both the first and second world wars and and right through to today,but also the civilians as well, who have been killed,either through shelling by German Warships in WW1 at Hartlepool,and during air raids in both wars.

I,m remembering both my grandfathers one was 22 and the other 27,one by gas,and the other is not known,as hasn't got a grave,one of my grandmothers in 1919,got awarded 2s and 9d,pay owed to my grandfather up to the day before he was killed,he wasn't paid for that day.

My Dad served in Britain all through the 2nd world war,you might have thought he was safe,but he was wounded at Nottingham,after a gun in his AA Battery was hit by enemy air action,he was awarded a mention in dispatches,he died at the age of 62,mainly due to his injuries.

I am interested and keen to follow this thread and will do my bit if able. (born 1937 London)

Thanks to you both - your support is very much appreciated! I just hope we can do adequate justice...

I recall ROD on tenders of steam engines in the 1940's and I feel certain some Class WD's had numbers that were not traditional LNER signage nor were in the Ian Allan ABC's ?

I highly doubt that any locomotives were running in the 1940s with ROD lettering, other than (possibly, unlikely though it is) some already in military service before the war. There were definitely locos with WD markings on them, and of course Longmoor had it's locos. The WD 2-8-0's fell into the WD numbering system, so wouldn't have fallen into standard railway company numbering schemes. I believe the ROD had been disbanded by the early 1920s, but am happy to be proven wrong on all of this.

Hurrah! Thanks to the fine efforts of Street Level Models, the Ambulance Train reskin pack has just been released and is available for download!
It is available here:
http://sem34090.simplesite.com/441152272
And here:
http://www.railsim-fr.com/forum/index.p ... skin-pack/

I would be very grateful if someone would be able to upload the reskins to UKtrainsim, but I have had no joy in that regard myself. I only ask that, if the reskins are uploaded there, that they are credited properly as per the RailSimFR download and the readme.

Enjoy!