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A Dean goods would sound almost exactly like a 57xx, similar boiler, so similar firebox, tubes and smokebox, for the resonance, and similar cylinders & motion, so similar chuff.

 

And the same whistles of course.

 

And if you can tell the difference between the shovelling sounds, you’re a cleverer man than I am...

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A Dean goods would sound almost exactly like a 57xx, similar boiler, so similar firebox, tubes and smokebox, for the resonance, and similar cylinders & motion, so similar chuff.

And the same whistles of course.

And if you can tell the difference between the shovelling sounds, you’re a cleverer man than I am...

:)

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Simon

You might hear from the footplate of this Dean Goods some driver expletives as he stands astride the reversing lever on uneven track....

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A Dean goods would sound almost exactly like a 57xx

Ah, that's a pain. I had a digital sound set fitted in mine from a Collett Goods. Mind you it still sounds gorgeous.

 

My other one, an Oxford Rails model, came with factory fitted sound which still sounds lovely, though I have no idea where they sourced the sound files from.

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Ah, that's a pain. I had a digital sound set fitted in mine from a Collett Goods. Mind you it still sounds gorgeous.

My other one, an Oxford Rails model, came with factory fitted sound which still sounds lovely, though I have no idea where they sourced the sound files from.

the Collett goods was all but mechanically identical, so sound wise youre pretty safe
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Yes, I agree, if the mechanics are the same, they’ll sound similar. If the draughting through the boiler is the same, then they’ll sound even more similar.

 

The panniers, the Collet and the Dean are not going to sound very different. (The 15xx and the little 136x excepted of course, but even then...!)

 

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A couple of other thing to watch are the boiler pressure 180 vs 200psi and the Dean is saturated and the panniers (I've looked at the 57xx) and the Collett are superheated. So that could make quite a difference to the chuff. I'm thinking about sound for my NER 1001 class, the preserved 1275 probably last ran in 1925, there's film of it but what did it sound like? The nearest preserved loco statistically would be the J72 but who knows?

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Lurking in the undergrowth,

hiding behind trees,

ready to pounce on that unexpected picture.

 

No where is safe from the reach of the camera and the Unilock tripod......

 

 

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So far nothing has been broken...….but give it time before I forget to check around and under the camera!!!!

And yes the camera is upside down and hanging from the swivel mount......

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Lurking in the undergrowth,

hiding behind trees,

ready to pounce on that unexpected picture.

 

No where is safe from the reach of the camera and the Unilock tripod......

 

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So far nothing has been broken...….but give it time before I forget to check around and under the camera!!!!

And yes the camera is upside down and hanging from the swivel mount......

Hmm. Very Big Brother ! Still it hasn’t startled the Colonel but I thing the fish have been scared away.

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The Martians have landed!

 

Kevin - what do you use for reeds along the riverbank? They look especially effective.

 

They are from a company called TP - Tasma Products in their Railway Scenery range.

Came across them in Trinders toy shop in Banbury a while back.

Haven't seen them recently, could do with some more if I can find another stockist.

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They are from a company called TP - Tasma Products in their Railway Scenery range.

Came across them in Trinders toy shop in Banbury a while back.

Haven't seen them recently, could do with some more if I can find another stockist.

 

 

Slightly off topic, that takes me back, it was may "local" model shop when I lived in Oxfordshire and the chap who ran the modelling section ( I think his name was Dave ?) was a real gricer too.

 

If I needed any specialist items I would usually take a drive to Howes when they were in Broad Street or over to the OPC shop at Headington and at that time you were able to park outside both shops !

 

Thanks for the memory Kevin.

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Slightly off topic, that takes me back, it was may "local" model shop when I lived in Oxfordshire and the chap who ran the modelling section ( I think his name was Dave ?) was a real gricer too.

 

If I needed any specialist items I would usually take a drive to Howes when they were in Broad Street or over to the OPC shop at Headington and at that time you were able to park outside both shops !

 

Thanks for the memory Kevin.

 

Brings back memories to, especially the free parking outside them both.....!

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GWR branch lines are absolutely not my thing but, having gone through the entire thread over the last couple of days I have to say that the scenery modelling is among the best I've ever seen...

 

John

 

Just have in your mind a G5 with a couple of clerestory's and a J25 on the pick up goods meeting a D20 on the main line...

 

Works for me  :O

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Not a fishing expert, but I don't think a line would make much difference in water that muddy; fish need an ecosystem to feed off and there's no sunlight getting into that river!

 

Why not, Kevin.  Is it downstream of some sort of runoff, or has it been raining heavily recently...

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Silly question (as a non-GWR follower).

 

Should the signals be on the right side of the track in direction of travel because I understood GWR engines were generally right hand drive?

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Silly question (as a non-GWR follower).

 

Should the signals be on the right side of the track in direction of travel because I understood GWR engines were generally right hand drive?

 

Could be either it depends on their visibility to the crew.

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