millerhillboy Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 Needing to renumber a couple of N gauge steam locos running in mid-1960s guise. Fox, my preferred supplier for decals, doesn't do ready made numbers or anything close for the numbers I'm needing so I've got to buy individual digit sheets and form the numbers myself. Fair enough, can probably deal with that. However the Fox website is offering me single digit sheets for 2mm in 8", 9" and 10" in either Cream or White(straw). I believe that certain works occasionally used larger numbers, was it Cowlairs that would use larger digits but typically what is the correct size and colour to be using. Out of interest the classes are a 4MT 2-6-0 and a B1, both as I say in early mid 1960s guise. I didn't think it would be this complex!!! Thanks to anyone who can clarify. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Lewis Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 I believe that Cowlairs usually (or possibly always) used 12" numbers. I don't know for sure, but I think most works used either 8" or 10". Not sure about cream/white, but I think that black locos used white? Maybe have a look in the relevant Yeadon's for the B1? You'd be better off with a more definitive answer Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
millerhillboy Posted January 11, 2011 Author Share Posted January 11, 2011 Thanks for your reply Tim, I've just found the following from here Yahoo 7mm forum post Perhaps more usefully, Talbot says [in his review of BR standard locos] that << Most works used 8in. high numerals for cab-side numbers but there were some variations. Swindon used 9in. and Darlington and Cowlairs 10 in., while Doncaster appears to have used 8in No word on the colour, I'm sure I've heard 'straw' discussed before in this context but what would be the difference between straw and cream. Couldn't be much really. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 St. Rollox was well known for using larger than standard cabside numbers on ex-LMS engines. I don't know if Cowlairs did the same thing on ex-LNER ones. I had a look through the relevant volume of Yeadon's (as Tim Lewis suggested above) and also the RCTS 'green book' on LNER 4-6-0s (this is a good excuse to look at them again ). There is quite detailed discussion in both books about different letter size in 'BRITISH RAILWAYS' on tenders, different sizes and designs of BR totems, different fonts in cabside and smokebox numbers and even a variation in lining peculiar to Cowlairs. It was only a pretty quick scan, but I didn't see anything about different sizes of cabside numbers, or of the actual colour used for them - sorry. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Max Stafford Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 Both the big Glasgow works used 10" numbers in the 1960s as did Inverurie. Cowlairs, as an ex-LNER works did it pretty much from the outset in BR days and I believe the practice was adopted by St Rollox during the 1950s. There's no doubt the style looks so much better than the 8" numbers favoured by Crewe and Derby. Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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