An Amusing Postcard — An A4 at Barmouth!

[Dr_Paul]

I came across this postcard on a North Wales Nostalgia Facebook page, and I think we can be fairly sure that Barmouth was never visited by an A4.

 

[Lucan]

They get everywhere, even to Surbiton.

[Google Street View of The Surbiton Flyer pub, near Surbiton Station, with A4 on pub sign]

 

[Mcr Warrior]

It's a (steam) train, what more do you need? Anything else is mere detail.

 

[Dr_Paul]

They get everywhere, even to Surbiton.

[Google Street View of The Surbiton Flyer pub, near Surbiton Station, with A4 on pub sign]

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To be fair, an A4 did go through Surbiton a couple of times during the 1948 loco exchanges on a Waterloo > Exeter run.

 

[Gloster]

There were also a number of occasions in the mid-1960s when they worked specials out of Waterloo.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

An A4 once appeared on a Saudi Arabian postage stamp for some unknown reason.

It caused a degree of excitement at the time it came out from people who thought it meant some A4s had been quietly exported after BR had finished with them!

 

[sluf]

funny as I always get mildly irritated by the Wigan Central Real Ale Bar (underneath Wigan North Western Station) window graphics showing an A4!

I know A4s have been through Wigan since privatisation but surely it could have been a stanier loco.

 

[6Gman]

funny as I always get mildly irritated by the Wigan Central Real Ale Bar (underneath Wigan North Western Station) window graphics showing an A4!

I know A4s have been through Wigan since privatisation but surely it could have been a stanier loco.

Ah, but Wigan Central was a Great Central station so maybe a Pollitt or Robinson loco?

 

[70014IronDuke]

Extending this a bit (if I may) - not a pub (of course not, paradise forbid in this country) - but in Afghanistan, or possibly NW Frontier Province, where they used to paint their Bedford truck sides and cabs with large, colourful murals, I once spotted an unrebuilt Bulleid pacific gracing its way across barren landscape. Oliver himself would no doubt been tickled pink. It was green too.

 

[2192]

If an Aberdonian wanted a holiday in Barmouth, they could have started their journey behind an A4: Aberdeen - Edinburgh - Crewe - Shrewsbury - Barmouth.

 

[alistairlees]

There is, of course, the Mallard on Dingwall station... https://www.useyourlocal.com/pubs/mallard-dingwall-106822/

 

[Harvester]

There were also a number of occasions in the mid-1960s when they worked specials out of Waterloo.

I can recall these specials out of Waterloo. Mallard did a couple (February 1963 and March 1963) prior to it’s withdrawal from BR service. Kingfisher did one in March 1966 and Sir Nigel Gresley another in June 1967 just before the end of SR steam. By then 60007 was running in private ownership as 4498.

 

[DerekC]

I think an A4 over the Barmouth viaduct might have been considered unwise, even in those more relaxed days!

 

[Spartacus]

They get everywhere, even to Surbiton.

[Google Street View of The Surbiton Flyer pub, near Surbiton Station, with A4 on pub sign]

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In York, within sight of the ECML, there's a former pub still with a Duchess thundering past on it's sign. The pub's name: The Jubilee! (though named after the road it's on, Jubilee Terrace, rather than the Stanier 4-6-0, it did once have a Jubilee on the sign)

 

[70014IronDuke]

In York, within sight of the ECML, there's a former pub still with a Duchess thundering past on it's sign. The pub's name: The Jubilee! (though named after the road it's on, Jubilee Terrace, rather than the Stanier 4-6-0, it did once have a Jubilee on the sign)

That one has to be by a cheeky LMS man, surely?

Jubilees were regular visitors to York in steam days, of course - didn't the Bank Hall Jubs work Liverpool - Exchange - Newcastle services to York on a daily basis?

 

[Spartacus]

That one has to be by a cheeky LMS man, surely?

Jubilees were regular visitors to York in steam days, of course - didn't the Bank Hall Jubs work Liverpool - Exchange - Newcastle services to York on a daily basis?

For a time, yes, though I think in reality they could turn out anything. It used to be carriage sidings that side, practically up to the front door, though it would have probably been a surprise to see a Jubilee in them.

 

[Harvester]

Jubilees were regular visitors to York in steam days, of course - didn't the Bank Hall Jubs work Liverpool - Exchange - Newcastle services to York on a daily basis?

Yes they did! When a young lad back in 1959 I saw my first Jubilee (45698 Mars) on that train (10:30 am Liverpool Ex-Newcastle) at York. A York A2/2 or A2/3 Pacific was booked for the run forward to Newcastle via the Durham coast route, but more often than not a V2 was provided. After the Liverpool LS-Newcastle service was revamped for diesel haulage from 2nd January 1961 the 10:30 ex Liverpool Exchange was cut back to York.

 

[Taunton]

Jubilees were regular visitors to York in steam days, of course - didn't the Bank Hall Jubs work Liverpool - Exchange - Newcastle services to York on a daily basis?

I believe Derby etc ones also used to get there on Bristol to Newcastle services.

 

[Harvester]

I believe Derby etc ones also used to get there on Bristol to Newcastle services.

Bristol Barrow Road engines worked Bristol to York. Saw 45682 Trafalgar on a Bristol-Newcastle later in the day at York (post #17 above).