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M.I.B

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  1. Tre Pol and Pen would therefore be suitable for the final three types of "branding": GREAT WESTERN then "Shirtbutton" then G W R Just one question- with the interest in Tre Pol and Pen, which kept its name until the bitter end - any chance of someone filling the gap in the nameplate market - with of course the different number options for TP&P. C.G.W and Modelmaster Jackson Evans are both offering 4mm Tre Pol and Pens - Modelmaster even has both number options....
  2. 1936 is covered by what is termed as "diesel punk" Does that mean that diesel punks all look the same, are known by numbers, and occaisionally get named for short periods of time, which can often change...........
  3. Sorry, but what would you expect? As stated elsewhere on this post, an original "date" has passed. I have asked a very similar question about a forthcoming product on the Hornby page and have the required answers, without sarcasm, shirtiness or presumption. That's what I expected I think. As for Buffalo's post - agreed that a 1946 renumber would only give it max 3 years in a post shirt button livery, but there was a green livery around for 30 years before shirt button as well. Hence my question. Fair enough?
  4. That's no real help ( thanks anyway) It just confirms there's a black one and a dirty one and a green one.
  5. This follows on from a discussion on the Hornby subforum of this site. Any news on the Dukedog? Release Date? Exact Liveries - shirtbutton (yuk) or early or Late GW as well as BR? Running number/s? Thanks
  6. Love this layout. Thanks for all of the recent photos, especially the ones showing "arrival, bit of shunting, departure".
  7. Funnily enough I was thinking the same as I washed up tonite. Hope all is well.
  8. I am learning that my once "set" opinions and perspectives are not as solid as I believed, thanks to the power of the interweb and the ability to share information. See my post on UK prototype about A4s hauling freight. Some nice photos on there courtesy of another RM webber. Pleas keep up the good work - this layout is truly inspirational.
  9. Nice to see this progressing well. I had a thought about Calne Station. The large house on top of the rise behind the printing works ( look at earlier posts) is now the Con Club. This is the house where Stannier lived while he was Ch Eng. He would have walked 2 minutes round the corner from his house and onto an early train for Chippenham, and change for the Works at "Piggy Hill". Just imagine how "on the ball" the Station Master would have had to have been with the Ch Eng using the Station twice a day! Keep up the good work.
  10. Goods into the yard would be bigger than goods out A timber yard would not have turned logs into planks - that's the job of a mill. The would not have fabricated anything - that's the job of the chippies and joiners. So bulk or long timber in, and cut to size timber out. No problems with it being rail served. Not so many trucks about in the steam era, and long distance haulage was almost unheard of, so to get some 4x2 to build a shed for the motorbike and side car (the family hack of the 40s and 50s) you would have had to pop down to a place like this.
  11. 2 beautiful photos. Thank you. I will have a go at the "folded over" version like Dukedog's photo. Funnily enough it is for a Grange model.
  12. Thank you all. Lots of good points as usual. I was aware that they would be difficult to model whilst deployed for the reason stated. I was going to model one rolled up, probably using cigarette paper. I am "post-war" GWR so no need for the full blackout kit. I guess that the Station pilot would do a lot of sitting around, hence he need for some crew protection. The remainder - aerodynamics and speed would blow water over and past the cab top, and it was hot, so there was hardly any need. I will have a go at one rolled up under the cab roof edge. If it looks any good I will post.
  13. I can remember seeing photos of engines with sheets from the rear edge of the cab roof, down to the tender top. Was this random sheet used by crews? Was it a set item cut and formed and stowed somewhere ( where?) when not required? If they were in common use, why have I never seen anyone model them? (model railways only ever run in the sunshine.......) That brings me onto another thought regarding modelling and weather - but perhaps for another part of RM web.
  14. If you are modelling GWR, don't forget that this type of coaling is totally alien. GW built something similar to the Hornby coaling stage - a long ramp to the height of an engine on to which coal wagons were shunted. They then decanted into little wooden trucks inside a shed, which in turn ran on rails perpendicular to the tracks and tipped directly onto/into the tender.
  15. Thanks for posting upmore inspiration. 99% of layouts on here are better than I can currently achieve, so therfore get my respect. Very very few really blow my socks off. This one does already.
  16. I would agree with Gordon, and add that they seem to work well in static applications, but develop faults in moving applications like caravans and cars. If you have the right guage wire and they are well applied, then you should have no issues.
  17. Excellent use for a corner - I am planning a furniture warehouse and was wondering how to road serve it as well. That looks like an excellent wat to fill the corner and physically join the upper and lower levels in terms of functionality. Where you have put your box I will add a second short siding for holding container stock. Truly inspirational. Many thanks.
  18. I am loving the Neate's wagon - does anyone do it RTR, or a kit for it, or even just the decals in 00? I agree with the Harris vans, but it'll be a pleasant reminder of Calne rolling along amongst the rest of my stock. There's a fair bit of modeller's licence issued to my collection - it's all GWR, mostly post war, but there's room for a Dean Goods and rakes of clerestories of different sizes. My 9707 is going to be a little further West than would be expected, but each to their own.
  19. Welcome back, and welcome back to your mojo. Have you seen the Harris vans that Burnham & Distric MRC have had made - luckily for me they are in OO.
  20. Now that's what I call a layout. Lots of room in the fiddle yard, and some nice long sections for 28XXs with 100 wagon coal trains coming up from the Valleys......... Keep up the excellent and inspirational work. Note to self - remember to consider a large layout room when searching for new house in Spring:D
  21. I have just been discussing this post with M.I.B Snr, who cut his trainspotting teeth watching Castles and Kings, and later on hearing a thunder like no other coming towards Paddington at Langley. It turned out to be Duke of Gloucester. Sorry, I digress, but I am lucky to have him to reminisce "at me". He remembers the gate - it was in a hedgerow in the position I stated above. He also remembers a wander around the old sheds (or what was left of them in the early 80s). One had a cobbled floor with rails set into it. Where the rails were exposed you could clearly see that they were old broad guage bridging rails. He tells me that we walked from the Station to Black Dog Halt a couple of times, althjough I can't remember. I still think that is the best station name I have ever seen or read about.
  22. Steve, Calne show on the saturday or the sunday? I'm considering the slog over from Stansted on the saturday. May even stay the night - have a wander around the old ville and a pint or two in a local hostelry.
  23. Wenhill Lane runs along the side of the low school building ( HE classrooms) (Left to right behind the bank in the photo) The trees are on the Nth edge of Wenhill Lane. That gate is definitely in the old cattle yard. I think it is where the "140" is. Where the words "cattle market" are was the ATC hut and to the Nth of it is a track that runs NE and seems to peter out. It continued as a well trodden path by cadets heading off from the hut towards the proper path to Station Road. ( I was one of them) Where the gate stands was a hedge line and I don't rmember the gate - perhaps it was over grown in the early 80s and all looked like a hedge. The area was partially cleared in about 84/85 when the cadet hut was pulled down and rubble mounds on the site were levelled ready for "boxes".
  24. The gate can't be in Station Road. Station Road is a long way behind the photographer and down the slope. There is a big drop in level between Wenhill Lane and Station Road.
  25. AAAAAAArgh - flashback to French in the tall building, penultimate floor left hand window as we look at it!!!!!!!!!!! Get me my restraints.......... Wenhill Lane was called that in the 80s - I guess it has a sign now. Wenhill Farm at the end - yes. Wenhill Lane ran alongside the school not where that gate is. I left in about 83 and there was no road needing a kerb as seen in the foreground. Tha waste ground was outside the cadet hut on the site of the old cattle market. You view arrow needs to point more to the SE. The U shaped school buildings on the map are single story - you see the roof and a chimney (above where I did chemistry......much happier times than French) of the Northern side (running EW) in the photo - above the "modern wavy roofed" building. The gate is to the right of "140" on that map. Not a clue what the kerb is for. It was definitely all waste ground in 83. The building with the chinmey and roof in view between the 2 tall trees (behind the caretaker's house) is the building at ".307" I think the car is 20/30 meters further North up Station Road and your location for the Printers needs a shift to the Nth. Sorry to those who are lost in this, but it makes it much easier for anyone needing to "walk the course". (if it isn't covered in little "boxes" now too.) The footpath had 2 gradients - first was 1 in 20 ish, and halfway it got steeper. Too steep for a 5 gear pushbike in them days............. I used to wait at the gate (small fir tree half obscured by cookery block) for Mandy XXXXXX on a wednesday in the hope that there was a freshly baked scone up for grabs:P . If not "Big Mark"'s Mum always came up with a bag of still warm pie crusts out of the back of the factory - damaged stock just out of the oven. I'd just bought my Stannier 4P in LMS lake and my 2251 Collett 060 round about then. Collett has just been dusted off and the 4p went for a handsome price on Ebay in Jan - it was barely run in and mint boxed.
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