The Bristol Railway Archive

Sorry its not a steam railtour but its something different from Sprinters and HST's
Details of a railtour passing through Bristol on Saturday and Sunday 15th and 16th May 2010 are on the East Lancs Railway/Class 40 Preservation Society Website http://east-lancs-rly.co.uk/pdf/eastlancschampion.pdf

1Z40 Saturday 15th May 2010 D1015 Western Champion (should be on the front )
CHIPPENHAM PASS 12:23 BATH SPA PASS 12:39 NSOMERSTJ PASS 12:49 BRISTOLEJ PASS 12:50 BRISTOLTM A 12:52 D 13:05 BTLWESTJN PASS 13:06 WORLE JN PASS 13:22 UPHILL JN PASS 13:24 BRIDGWATR PASS 13:38

Sunday 16th May 1Z52 40145 East Lancashire Railway double heading with D1015 Western Champion.
BRIDGWATR PASS 16:52 UPHILL JN PASS 17:01 WORLE JN PASS 17:08 PARSON ST PASS 17:20 BTLWESTJN PASS 17:22 BRISTOLTM a 17:24 d 17:34 BRISTOLEJ PASS 17:35 DR DAYSJN PASS 17:36 NARRWAYHJ PASS 17:38 FILTON AW PASS 17:41 BRISPKWAY PASS 17:44 WESTRLGHJ PASS 17:49 HULAVINTN PASS 18:01 WOOTTONBJ PASS 18:09

Saturday,near mid-day...cloud covered the sun as it came through!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/byjr/4608331093/

Its great to see the older locos like 40145 back out again but why the hell did they paint it in a fictional livery it never carried, would be great to see it boring blue or green livery, with small panels. Just my opinion.........never paid anything toward the resto' so i dont really have a voice but all the same.

tonyperks wrote:Its great to see the older locos like 40145 back out again but why the hell did they paint it in a fictional livery it never carried, would be great to see it boring blue or green livery, with small panels. Just my opinion.........never paid anything toward the resto' so i dont really have a voice but all the same.

I agree..whilst I loved LLB on 47's and 50's this was one of the reasons why I didnt really bother to go out for pictures of it.

Its much the same for the 50 in Load Haul and lined LMS red... granted it adds something a bit different, but smacks of we've got money to spend, so lets "just spend it for the sake of it"...

I know I'm being a bit pretencious but its my camera...

tonyperks wrote:Its great to see the older locos like 40145 back out again but why the hell did they paint it in a fictional livery it never carried, would be great to see it boring blue or green livery, with small panels. Just my opinion.........never paid anything toward the resto' so i dont really have a voice but all the same.

Of course there have been similar arguments in steam preservation, especially when a locomotive has been around long enough to be justifiably painted in a number of different liveries.

At the end of the day, a locomotive's owners can paint it in whatever colours they like!

Don't I remember seeing a "Hall" somewhere in an odd shade of maroon?

Robin Summerhill wrote: At the end of the day, a locomotive's owners can paint it in whatever colours they like!

Don't I remember seeing a "Hall" somewhere in an odd shade of maroon?

Very true, but you do have to question why... which is something we can never answer.

At the back of my mind I often wonder if they are aiming to recreate the Hornby Trains catalouge and the many ficticious liveries that were once applied to those models aim at the younger generation... just wondering how long it will be before we see a Polo tank wagon crawling out of Westerleigh?

Rich_Eason wrote:At the back of my mind I often wonder if they are aiming to recreate the Hornby Trains catalouge and the many ficticious liveries that were once applied to those models aim at the younger generation... just wondering how long it will be before we see a Polo tank wagon crawling out of Westerleigh?

Or a Weetabix box van

..or a giraffe car with a giraffe that ducks when it approaches a bridge, or a Battle Space helicopter launcher.

I seem to have started a whole new topic but if you want to see the extreme in ficticious liveries have a look at http://fictitiousliveries.fotopic.net/
A Prairie tank in FGW livery, I ask you? but Tornado in Intercity Swallow livery looks quite pleasant.