4 Sub Association Group

[4SubAsociation]

hasn't shildon NRM done an EPB or HAP in BR Blue 1 side, NSE the other?

Yes that is correct. Although only one carriage has been done so far. They are repainting the Class 71 at the moment.

Yes there is also a carraige at the EARM that both sides are different. See below link to the RHRP survey

BR 3779 Mk 1 Tourist Second Open built 1953

 

[WesternLancer]

I think one of the things for a museum that may aim to a wider audience (or other family members who may visit with a person of keener interest) is to show exhibits that can strike a chord with a visitor - particularly when there is an element of social history about it. That can mean displaying things that are generally historically accurate, but also from different periods - so a family of different generations may have someone who was a child in the 50s and commuted to work in the 70s but whose daughter commuted in the 80s (say) and livery schemes they recall from those periods is a way to strike that chord - eg Green / Blue / Blue Grey / NSE etc in this case.
Being able to take a young child round and say 'nana went to work on a train like this every day for years and years' is a way to convey that history. So there can be an argument for mixing it up a bit.
Still, at the end of the day it's up to the people who put the sweat and cash into preserving things, and I guess the group will be thinking about all such issues now they have a nice dry place to keep this important assett!

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Yes there is also a carraige at the EARM that both sides are different. See below link to the RHRP survey

I've not been to the EARM, so I haven't seen it, but I wonder how many people have seen just one side of it and don't know that the other side is different?

 

[Journeyman]

The Museum of Scottish Railways at Bo'ness has an original Glasgow Subway car, which is painted differently on each side...but they always were, because one side was never seen by the public.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Museum of Scottish Railways at Bo'ness has an original Glasgow Subway car, which is painted differently on each side...but they always were, because one side was never seen by the public.

Yes, I think that I have seen that one!

 

[davetheguard]

I used to travel on the unit often. This was shorty after boarding at Ashtead one morning in early 1983.

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Thanks for the interior pic; something that I, for one, certainly didn't think of taking at the time. Lots of books available with exterior shots of green Southern units which are great & atmospheric to see, and some of classes I don't remember like the Nelsons, but they lack this sort of illustration that shows what it was like to be a passenger in one. Thanks, Deepgreen!

 

[4SubAsociation]

Hi all

So a bit of an update on the location of where the 4 Sub is located.

Planning permisson has been approved for the Onene Collection to be transformed into a railway musuem.

Train warehouse to be transformed into railway museum

Plans to transform a warehouse used to store historic trains into a locomotive museum have been approved.

www.kentonline.co.uk

 

[SeaKing]

Good news for the Railway Museum.

 

[Islineclear3_1]

Excellent news

 

[4-SUB 4732]

It is indeed a very interesting development.

The effective way this works is that the 4SA / HETT must prove it is proactively working on a vehicle at a time, and then it becomes a permanent exhibit. Taken from the most recent membership mag.