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Post by Colin Warner on Jul 1, 2007 20:46:24 GMT 1
Hi, I need some information on a particular locomotive. It was No 40 King George V. She was built at Dowlais in 1906 to a design by G. Robson. I need to know the colour of the engine?. Were all the Dowlais Ironworks all one colour. If so what was the colour and shade. Thank you in anticipation....
Colin.
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Post by Colin Warner on Jul 11, 2007 22:18:34 GMT 1
Please folks I need the colour of Dowlais Engines. To make a working model. Thank you.
Colin.
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Post by minstrel on Jul 12, 2007 19:31:51 GMT 1
Colin. You may be a seasoned Steam buff & already looked on the likes of Google etc. I put in " No 40 King George V. She was built at Dowlais in 1906 to a design by G. Robson"& it came up with the following: Picture Parade 25Dowlais Ironworks 40 KING GEORGE V, built at Dowlais in 1907, was designed by G. Robson who had main line connections, hence its general appearance and ... Perhaps the Industrial Rail Record will be able to help with colours as sadly the photo in the article is black & white. www.irsociety.co.uk/Archives/25/picture_parade_25.htm - 7k - Cached - Similar pages |
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Post by Lloyd on Jul 14, 2007 12:54:00 GMT 1
Hello Colin, We are planning a page on the Dowlais Locomotives and during our research we came across reference to the livery of the Dowlais Locomotives in the book 'The History of Dowlais Ironworks' By John Owen. To view the extract click here: www.alangeorge.co.uk/dowlais_works_locomotives.htmWe would love to include photographs of your model when completed. Kind Regards, Lloyd Old Merthyr Tydfil |
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Post by ian on Oct 2, 2007 20:38:37 GMT 1
Hello colin
really cool that your're making a working model. What scale and guage are you working to? Do you realise that there are some plans available.
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ian
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Post by Lloyd on Nov 16, 2007 16:50:59 GMT 1
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Post by Colin Warner on Nov 27, 2007 9:09:24 GMT 1
Hello colin really cool that your're making a working model. What scale and guage are you working to? Do you realise that there are some plans available. regatds ian Hi Ian, I was going to make No 40 'King George V'. But seeing as how the Hornby 0-4-0 industrial is just a stretched version of it. I decided I would prefer an 0-6-0, so I'm going to make No. 41 - 'Sandyford'. I have a suitable chassis, so I just need to fabricate the body. It's going to be OO guage to go onto my layout. In the near future I hope to make a 'G' guage model for the garden.... Regards. Colin. |
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Post by dairees on Apr 17, 2009 19:31:59 GMT 1
Hi Colin, My old man's got the Dowlais loco 'King George V' on his model railway. He tells me it's a Hornby model that's fairly realistic (except for the gearing and the colour :  but the same body has since been sold as various other engines. The colour of the Hornby model is red, quite a bright red at that! We seriously doubt that the actual loco was ever really red, more likely that's the colour of the plastic that happened to be in the injection moulding machine when Hornby's moulder ran of that batch of bodies ;D Cheers Dai |
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Post by taffy64 on Apr 16, 2013 17:33:05 GMT 1
Not sure if it helps or is even the same engine being refered to, but as a child living in the area i regularly saw an engine go past the undertakers in Dowlais (Caradoc Price), the Guest club and the junor school opposite. There was also a track running parallel with Muriel Tec. Along these two tracks i recall one engine being mainly Green, but this is a vague memory.
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but the same body has since been sold as various other engines. The colour of the Hornby model is red, quite a bright red at that! We seriously doubt that the actual loco was ever really red, more likely that's the colour of the plastic that happened to be in the injection moulding machine when Hornby's moulder ran of that batch of bodies ;D