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About this blog

This blog is a sub blog to the Mile End Park Project solely dedicated for the locomotives. 

 

With ready to run locomotive now being produced, there are always going to be little mistakes which need a modeler to improve, this series of little blogs are about the locomotives which are designed for my layout of Norton Wood, all of which are LNER Locomotives from the Great Eastern Railway. This is not serious modelling nor is it sophisticated but it is modelling and modifying locomotives to suit are therefore better.

 

The aim's of this blog will be to describe how I carry out my modifications on locomotives - 

 

In the Workshop 
 

Hornby - R3414 - LNER J15 5444 - Altered to carry a GER Stove Pipe Chimney and Renumbered to 7554

Oxford Rail - OR76N7002 - LNER N7 8011 - Altered to have various paint applications applied - Renumbered to 7993

Hornby - R3230 - LNER J15 7524 - Already Altered to 7564 - This will be re-altered to carry a GER Set of Safety Valves and renumbered to 7847


 

 

 

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LNER J15 Upgrade

Hi all,   So as many people have posted on RM web or other blogging sites, about there upgrading of the Hornby J15. Now I'm not upgrading the handrails or cab in any way, following in the footsteps of 'The British Railway Series' Blog. I have put on my man trousers and begun and finished changing the J15's as modeled LNER (NER) Teapot chimney to the GER Stovepipe Chimney, this will then be painted, weathered & renumbered.   Anyway, down to business.   To start o

Norton Wood

Norton Wood

Oxford Rail N7 Modifications

With Oxford Rail having announced they would produce 3 N7 variants I was like many very happy, as the N7 filled another hole in the GE/LNER modellers world. As these engines would be responsible for suburban services in and around London they also ventured around the former GE Suburban workings replacing many older suburban locomotive types the F5's spring to mind and later on they also were tasked with working some Kings Cross Suburban workings.    So with the LNER N7 finally in my po

Norton Wood

Norton Wood

Streamlined P2/2 Modification

Since, finishing the body on my LNER P2 2003, the locomotive was left to look like this:      A nice enough looking model, I am sure you will agree, however the one thing that disappointed me with my model was the wheels. I had hated the "HALO" wheels which my good friend Dan had called them. I must admit I was in the same boat as him. In addition to this the P2 was fitted with a former LNER A3 Tender, which had the lining on the frames. To add to this the P2 Chassis did not

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Streamline P2/2 Modification Part 2

The following day I posted the upgrade to my LNER P2, I found that the 1.5mm square brass had arrived.    So following this, I decided to put my hands to building the Walschaerts valve gear for my P2/2. ( Or is it a P2/3??)    Sitting down to do this required a lot of concentration, however I was able to steadily develop the valve gear. It's easier if the photo's do the talking... Which show each stage of the build. The hardest part was drilling and fitting the pin into the p

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