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Post by mowat on Mar 23, 2006 13:23:17 GMT
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Post by Phil on Mar 23, 2006 13:54:43 GMT
Great link - good stuff!
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Post by Colin D on Mar 23, 2006 16:00:54 GMT
Great photos, nothing like looking back at history
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2006 17:59:15 GMT
Anyone spotted the caption gaff on the pic of the two R stock trains at Upminster?
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Post by mowat on Mar 24, 2006 12:31:57 GMT
Yes it says R stock and O stock, plus the photo of the South Acton shuttle says Q23 when it should be G23
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Post by mowat on Mar 24, 2006 17:03:43 GMT
Met Cammel is wrong. The stock designation for the South Acton shuttle pic is correct. 'G' was only used prior to 1934 and 'Q23' from then 'G' was the District railway class letter. Even if he were right it would not be 'G23' just plain 'G' In Steam to Silver it says that the main fleet of 50 ex District Railway G class cars only became Q23 when they were formed in to the Q stock around the late 1930s but two cars were converted to work the South Acton shuttle, these two cars were designated G23 as thay could no longer work with the rest of the Q stock fleet so the letter G was kept and the 23 added to show what year they were built and to tell them apart from the Q23 cars. |
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Post by Phil on Mar 24, 2006 19:33:48 GMT
Strange one this. I too have Steam to Silver (1970 edition) and though I have found references to "1923 G stock", I can find no reference to G23 as a classification, just that the South Acton branch used 2 specially converted (double cabbed) G stock motors.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2006 19:43:06 GMT
Strange one this. I too have Steam to Silver (1970 edition) and though I have found references to "1923 G stock", I can find no reference to G23 as a classification, just that the South Acton branch used 2 specially converted (double cabbed) G stock motors. I also have Steam to Silver (1970 edition) and would concur with Phil. |
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Post by mowat on Mar 27, 2006 11:27:14 GMT
Strange one this. I too have Steam to Silver (1970 edition) and though I have found references to "1923 G stock", I can find no reference to G23 as a classification, just that the South Acton branch used 2 specially converted (double cabbed) G stock motors. After checking Steam to Silver (1983 edition) and like Phil not being able to find any reference to G23   I checked my District line Double Album DVD which has "Q Stock Remembered" on it (the other is "All Change at Earl's Court") and it said that the two double ended cars for the South Acton shuttle were designated G23 Stock.   |
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Post by mowat on Mar 27, 2006 11:37:05 GMT
If any one is intrested Radley Models who do the ex Harrow Model Shop range have just released a kit of the two double ended G23 Stock South Acton shuttle cars.
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Post by mandgc on Apr 6, 2006 0:45:27 GMT
G 23 -
The 1957 WTT showed the South Acton Shuttle as-
" Trains: 1 X 1G ,(No of) Cars: 1 G " and "Train No: G 99"
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Post by mowat on Apr 7, 2006 10:59:18 GMT
G 23 - The 1957 WTT showed the South Acton Shuttle as- " Trains: 1 X 1G ,(No of) Cars: 1 G " and "Train No: G 99" This was the two cars train No, one car was 99 and the other 100 |
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I checked my District line Double Album DVD which has "Q Stock Remembered" on it (the other is "All Change at Earl's Court") and it said that the two double ended cars for the South Acton shuttle were designated G23 Stock. 
