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Some ex Great Central locos

Barry O

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I always have work to do - a lot of my own stock has never been completely weathered so I am showing some"before" shots here of partly weathered locos built by my late Father - all of these have appeared on Herculaneum Dock on occasion..First up an N5.

 

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I intend to re-weather this as its not been finished.

 

Then Earl Roberts of Kandahar. also due for some attention to the running gear weathering

 

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and finally

 

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again some work required on running gear etc

 

They are all representative of post 1945 locos in and around the CLC

 

 

please enjoy!

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Weaselfish

That's impressive, even before you do the extra work. Not many people seem to model the post-war period. Are the locomotives kits and what are the prototype classes? (Sorry, I don't know much about LNER constituent locos).

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Barry O
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Many thanks,

 

These are all scratch built - the B5 elsewhere is a Millhome Kit - I do have a Judith Edge N5 kit to build but it has lots and lots of rivets...

 

The top loco is an N5

 

The middle one - Earl Roberts of Kandahar is a B8

 

The bottom one is a B9

 

In addition I have yet to photo a scratchbuilt  Q1 0-8-0T and a Zeppelin - a GC L1 2-6-4T which for some reason my father built. He did have plans for a Lord Faringdon ( another ex GC 4-6-0) and I have some parts for that.

 

I also have a Bachmann 04 and D11 

 

Some of the ex GC engines gravitated to the Cheshire Lines Committee so some of these get a run out on Herculaneum Dock since Mike Edge "backdated" it to have the Liverpool Overhead Railway on it.

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Weaselfish

Thanks for the information. They're very impressive models. Is Herculaneum Dock at any exhibitions this year?

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Barry O
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I think its at Ally Pally next year - may be two others but none this year..

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James Harrison

More nice work to enjoy!  Making me want a B8 now too- something about those long splashers that just works, aesthetically. 

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Barry O
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All of the ex GC 4-6-0s are nicely designed - one day I will build a B2 as that is like an elongated D11...

 

I will dig out the other ex GC locos and photo them - then weather them...

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