Cyril Fry

[brianmcs]

Hello all , does anyone have any photos of Cyril Fry's blue and white MGWR coaches ? The museum is closed for the moment .  

[jhb171achill]

41 minutes ago, brianmcs said:

Hello all, does anyone have any photos of Cyril Fry's blue and white MGWR coaches ? The museum is closed for the moment.

I'll take them tomorrow and post them. I'll be working in there at some stage during the day probably. He has one of the same set also in GSR maroon.

For some reason, none of his MGWR models are in the standard MGWR coach brown. The blue and white looks a lot better of course, but it never reached the vast majority of the fleet at all, and was very short-lived on those which were painted thus. The MGWR maroon livery, used 1918-25, was a very dark shade, much darker than GSR.

[Galteemore]

Here’s one from the Alphagraphix catalogue for now....

[jhb171achill]

If it's liveries we want, beware of Alphagrafix. Many of their colour schemes look very well and are absolutely accurate, but others are either wrong (white lining on green CIE coaches, for example), and one with some sort of yellow line along the waist, whilea few are 100% fictitious!

That blue Midland one, to be fair, is close enough.

[jhb171achill]

On 6/8/2020 at 5:47 PM, brianmcs said:

Hello all , does anyone have any photos of Cyril Fry's blue and white MGWR coaches ? The museum is closed for the moment .  

See below:

 

That’s the first lot.

What follows is one more model in the same livery, but the blue he used isn’t quite right - it’s a shade on the light side.

Also, an MGWR coach in CIE 1955 green, and one of Fry’s two MGWR coaches which he painted in their 1928-25 lined maroon.

 

[hexagon789]

1 hour ago, jhb171achill said:

See below:

 

That’s the first lot.

What follows is one more model in the same livery, but the blue he used isn’t quite right - it’s a shade on the light side.

Also, an MGWR coach in CIE 1955 green, and one of Fry’s two MGWR coaches which he painted in their 1928-25 lined maroon.

 

Out of curiosity, for the dining saloon, are the two sets of white/blank windows flanking centre doors lavatories or some form of kitchen/galley facility?

[Noel]

And not one single photo was upside down  Thanks Jonathan for really well taken pics.

[jhb171achill]

50 minutes ago, hexagon789 said:

Out of curiosity, for the dining saloon, are the two sets of white/blank windows flanking centre doors lavatories or some form of kitchen/galley facility?

I don’t know, Hexagon - I suspect it’s to do with the kitchen. I think I’ve a floor plan at home.

[hexagon789]

6 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

I don’t know, Hexagon - I suspect it’s to do with the kitchen. I think I’ve a floor plan at home.

Thanks anyway jhb, it just struck me as seemingly overkill with what would appear to be 4 lavatories(!), or a rather peculiar kitchen arrangement with a cross-vestibule through the middle.

[brianmcs]

super photos . thanks JHB.

Hopefully the museum will re open soon.

[jhb171achill]

1 hour ago, brianmcs said:

super photos . thanks JHB.

Hopefully the museum will re open soon.

Probably 29th June.