contrex
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I know that people who comment on period inaccuracies are generally regarded as bores, but I was intrigued to see that the latest episode of 'Masters of the Air' (Apple TV) includes a sequence where an East Anglia-based USAAF officer goes on a leave trip to Oxford in 1943. We see his train of blood and custard BR Mark 1 coaches rushing along a single track, hauled by a green Maunsell loco. To my untrained eye, it looks like an S15. On the tender, above, where you would expect to see 'SOUTHERN', it says 'GREAT WESTERN', and below, where you would expect the number (3 digits) it says 'GWR'. I don't know if one side of the tender was actually painted thus, or whether it was digital trickery. You do see a lot of B-17s flying in formation, disintegrating, etc, so I suppose doctoring a loco would be a minor thing
My pal sent me a still frame showing the loco; I don't know if it's allowed to post it here.
My pal sent me a still frame showing the loco; I don't know if it's allowed to post it here.
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