Sir Keith Park

34028 has run as 34100 Appledore see http://www.steamrailwayphotos.com/_photo_7330689.html
34028 has run as 34021 Dartmoor see http://www.steamrailwayphotos.com/_photo_5735538.html

 

so I am right in thinking so far.. making a rebuilt WC/BB appear as a backdated unrebuilt WC/BB hasn't yet been done then…?

 

Erm, they're both rebuilds so what's the point?

 

Imagining the fun that's going to ensue for our descendants when Neil Dimmer's grandson posts a selection of random early 21st century images, and the name and number carried by the locomotives won't be a reliable guide to identity?

 

WSR double headed 2 class 14 diesels both as D9526 (on one side at least), one should have been D9520 at a gala a few years ago.

 

Certainly 34105 "Swanage" ran for a short period as 34067 "Tangmere" on the Mid Hants. If I remember correctly "Tangmere" appeared oneApril 1st! I recall the surprise at seeing an unfamiliar blue nameplate through the trees at the bottom of my garden. Whilst "Swanage" will make a return to MHR service in a few years, in the light of more recent events,"Tangmere" is unlikely to be seen at Ropley anytime soon!!

 

Yes, as per my post #200.
A wintry day at Loughborough in 1996.

Spoof by KING COBRA 92, on Flickr

 

Taw Valley ran on the WSR with 34045 Ottery St Mary on one side and 34022 Exmoor on the other.

 

"Blackmore Vale" has run renamed as "OVS Bulleid", originally on the anniversary of his birthday in 2003, and then in subsequent years at the same time of year. Interestingly, that was not a first: the works' manager at Eastleigh added temporary wooden "OV Bulleid" nameplates to 34023 back in BR days, though I don't think she ever ran in that form.

Tom

 

So which one did it carry on the smoke box? as this would mean the loco is more of one identity that the other rather than a complete 50-50 split...

 

Tom,
The renaming at Eastleigh you refer to was organised by John Click, this was done without any permission and it was sheer chance that 34023 was the chosen locomotive!
34023 as she was then, never ran with these nameplates. When 21C123 returns to traffic the ritual will continue.
Roger Cruse.

 

It ran with the 340 from 22 and the 45 from 45. Fairest way to split it they reckoned.

 

Thanks Roger. Do any photos survive?

Tom

 

Yes, but I meant of the original renaming back in the 1960s.

Tom

 

Hello Tom,
Yes, I have seen a black and white print many years ago, I am not sure if there is one in the Bulleid Society archives, if not perhaps its with the John Click
collection at the NRM.
Roger.

 

The picture of 34023 with the wooden O.V. Bulleid plate is in 'The Power of the Bulleid Pacifics' (1983), plate 171. The plate 21C123 now carries has the extra initial 'S' – O.V.S Bulleid.

 

I once heard a rumour that when DB were first asked to operate Manston they wanted to change the name to Kent International Airport to appease certain senior persons. Dont mention th............

I'll get me coat

Dave