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Topic: Day trip to Where? (Read 1430 times)
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Hhodgetts
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Well...... that engine is bugging me  It is a tank engine..... and.... looks to me very much like a Robinson C14 Great Central Railway Class 9L Atlantic Tank Engine. I might well be mistaken, but that unusually large dome is typical of the class.
Perhaps judge for yourselves here;
http://www.lner.info/locos/C/c14.shtml
I do believe the photo will have been taken at the beginning of the trip rather than the end, as I have a very similar picture of a group outing taken in 1921 just before the charabanc set off from Bradford to Bridlington for the day! Perhaps the charabanc has picked up the folk and taken them to the railway station for a trip to the coast.
Hope you don't mind but I reversed the train to give a better comparison with the Robinson loco on the above site.
Philip
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Northumberland; Johnson, Johnston, Dodds, Rutherford, Gray, Kennedy, Wilson, Sanderson, Davidson and other Border Marauders as they are discovered on this journey.
Berkshire; Knight, Bristor, Sharpe, Sharp, Ashley.
Suffolk / Essex; Perce, Pearce, Pearse, Pierce, Hayes.
Midlands; Hodgetts, Parker, Easthope.
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'Trish'
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Thats amazing, so now I have a day trip on a train, to somewhere on the Hay-Brecon Railway (probably). The train was probably a Robinson C14 Great Central Railway 9L Atlantic tank engine on the Midland Railway.
Great idea dealing with the picture by reversing. All I need now is to figure out the trip by looking at a map?
Regards Trish
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Fear, Puddy, Bunn, Hemsbury - Wedmore Somerset. Watts - Romsey Hants, Frome Somerset, Warminster Wilts & Wokingham Berkshire. Roberts - Newport, Stone Glos, Austin - Blaina Monmouth.
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Henry7
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The engine in the photo isn't a Great Central Railwal 4-4-2T as suggested. It has a 'splasher' at the front (the half- round thing down from the engine funnel) - a sort of mudguard over the wheel - which, from its size, is obviously over a driving wheel. Hence the engine doesn't have bogie wheels leading, but driving wheels.
I thought it was an 0-6-2T but (after a bit of reading) I'm sure now that it's a Midland Railway 0-4-4T. And my money's on the Neath & Brecon line.
Assuming the photo is of a party from South Wales, the nearest they'd have seen a Great Central Railway engine was at Wrexham.
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Ballingall, Donaldson, Fulton, Gillespie, Ramsay, Walker - in Fife.
Jack - in Glasgow.
Birmingham/Bermingham - in Ireland.
Eagle - in Norfolk, Midlothian & Glasgow.
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mazi
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is it me or are there more people on the photo than could fit on the coach
looks to me like a midland 0-6-0 but in 1924 the valleys were full of railways
and brynmawr was on the heads of the valley line,LNWR territory.
mazi's other half.
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xinia
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I just thought ..... (maybe  ) they could be off to the 'HIRING MARKET'..............
xin
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Hhodgetts
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There could possibly be other charabancs out of shot........ With the men dressed so smartly I think they will all be going to where-ever it is they are going. I Find the chap hanging onto the side of the vehicle with his hand on the shoulder of the man in front of him interesting. I wonder what their connection was. I also wonder if he is squeezing the lady's leg out of shot and that is why she doesn't look amused  Only kidding.
I think they have been taken to the railway station and that the train in the picture is chartered for their trip. No way of knowing for sure though.
Do you know what your families occupations were. Where I grew up in a mining town Miners Welfare had annual trips and social events on a regular basis with their own park and band stand.
It is interesting to speculate, but frustrating not to know for sure 
Philip
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Northumberland; Johnson, Johnston, Dodds, Rutherford, Gray, Kennedy, Wilson, Sanderson, Davidson and other Border Marauders as they are discovered on this journey.
Berkshire; Knight, Bristor, Sharpe, Sharp, Ashley.
Suffolk / Essex; Perce, Pearce, Pearse, Pierce, Hayes.
Midlands; Hodgetts, Parker, Easthope.
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unknown_loco.jpg
I accidentally removed one of the badges so I've put it back). Could it be some sort of union/society outing organised for mother's and children? 