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  1. A little anecdote. I worked in freight for BR in the Sheffield Area in the early 80s. I was tasked to do TOPS integrity checks, and on one occasion I visited a scrap merchant in the Ecclesfield Area and found they had stacked four 16 ton Mineral wagons one inside the other. Now these were not scrappers, but good wagons we had shunted in earlier to load out with scrap! I was not best pleased and told the scrapmen as much. I told them they were not to load them but to put them one at a time on the rails and I would send a C&W examiner to check them over. Needless to say they were all 'red carded' and the scrap men had to wait until we could supply good wagons for them to send their scrap to Aldwarke! LC&DR
  2. I must say Locksley your CAD and 3D print looks extremely good. Well done! Steelworks were wonderful places to visit with so many different types of wagon to see. You may find this one of interest. These are a couple from other steelworks that I have drawn. LC&DR Stanton 13 ton box.pdf Visio-Lackenby HS Open.pdf
  3. Strange happenings, I have placed pre-orders with Hattons over the last three years (or so) and because Bachmann & others have been a trifle slow in coming up with the goods these have been outstanding all this time. Imagine therefore my shock and horror to discover purely by accident that almost all of these had been marked as Cancelled on my account without authority or advice! However after emailing Hattons they have quickly re-instated my orders and a number of these are now being prepared for delivery. Whew! Thank you Hattons,
  4. Has anyone got any good drawings /pictures of the Q1 tender, please, especially the front (inside the cab) showing coal space and tool boxes. All the drawings I have found ignore the tender apart from a side view. Also looking for cab fittings.
  5. I am fairly certain I have read in the Railway Observer many years ago that a 5Bel unit worked a charter to Dartford, but I cannot find it now, so it has to be a 'probable'.
  6. I am currently in model railway heaven. First an N, then a C and now a H, I am afraid to pinch myself in case I wake up and find it is all a bad dream. I hark back to the 1960s when Alan Williams described in Model Railway Constructor how he butchered a Hornby Dublo R1 and three Tri-ang GW clerestories to create the Westerham Push & Pull set. In those days we could only fantasize about detailed RTR locos and carriages for Southern enthusiasts. His other efforts included a 2Hap from a Tri-ang EMU, a 5Bel from Tri-ang short Pullmans. a 4Cep / 4Bep from Kitmaster Mark 1s and even a SR type carriage washing machine. All these have been recently, are now or very soon will be available to us ready made, except the CWM and the Bep buffet, but we still live in hope. In those days I had already created a West Country from a Tri-ang R50 Princess chassis and a Kitmaster 'Biggin Hill', shame the driving wheels were spoked and not Boxpoc. I butchered a Tri-ang 3F tender loco to make a 'C' modifying the firebox, cab and tender top with cardboard stuck on with Uhu. Pretty sad efforts by modern standards but it that age I was pleased with the result. I did manage to persuade father to buy me a L1 for Christmas, and saved my pocket money for a R1, which had an incompatible coupling. The R1 is the only one to survive. We Southern Region fans have to be very grateful that we now have a fair representation of our typical locomotives.
  7. With this announcement Hornby have made an old man very happy, and possibly somewhat financially poorer in 2017! I already have three 'H's , all in BR lined black (Two cut & shut from a HD R1 / Airfix 14xx,see attached and one SE Finecast) so I can certainly find room for one each in SE&CR green, SE&CR grey, SR early green, SR late green, and SR black with sunshine letters, plus a few more BR lined black early and late. A LSWR or SECR push pull set, or even an ex SEC Railmotor PP set to go with it , a-la Allhallows would be' loverly' LC&DR
  8. My ultimate 'wishlist' would include - Bulleid 4 car suburban electric (4Sub or 4EPB) SE&CR 'H' 0-4-4T SR D1/E1 4-4-0 SR U1 2-6-0 SR Merchant Navy 1949 -1952 air smoothed in BR blue SR Maunsell 'Thanet' coaches LC&DR
  9. The Freightliner and the Merry Go Round were the two important freight developments to come out of the Beeching Report. I accept that Company Block trains and Speedlink also took ascendancy but these were logical extensions of pre-Beeching developments whereas Liner Trains and MGR were singled out in the report as the future. They typified Train Load Freight throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. We are now promised finely detailed FFA / FGAs (hooray!) but can we now expect some re-tooled and correctly detailed HAAs from Hornby?
  10. Apart from 10 Parkside 'V' skips I do not have any OO9 stuff. With the introduction of this locomotive this WILL change. I am so glad they haven't gone down the dedicated locomotive type unique to a particular light railway, and with examples on the Welsh Highland, Ashover, Glyn Valley, as well as some industrial lines they couldn't have chosen a better prototype. I hope they prove popular so that the range can be expanded in the future. A Simplex and a Wren or a Tattoo for starters, with perhaps some little Rustons as well. Well done Bachmann.
  11. I am reasonably certain theMaunsell Q class were never officially allocated to the SED, but they did work occasional excursions from Victoria to Sheerness on Sea on Summer Saturdays. Q1s were however allocated to all divisions. The 'C' class were known to work to Eastleigh and Southampton occasionally, and have even been recorded on the GWR west of Reading. They were commonly used to Willesden, Cricklewood and possibly to Temple Mills, but I haven't proved this one yet, a well travelled class indeed.
  12. There was a rather useful staff canteen there. I remember using it in 1965.
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