MarcD

I've been waiting for an order since October. I have contacted them twice now and got the same answer on both occasions. Very sorry the delay it was caused by illness and we are trying to clear the backlog. Marc

On this coming weekend. I will be taking WC Boggs. Marc

I was at a show last year and someone actually pushed between my layout and the next one so he could get a photo. It was made worse as he was attach to a large rucksack. When I stated that the gap was not for the public I just got a look as if I was stuck to the bottom of his shoe. Marc

ECC, formed in 1919, has two different liveries for there wagons a grey for clay and a dark red oxide for coal. Clay wagons were not pooled but the coal ones were. Also there was a merger with another large firm in the early 30's. So this shot must date from about 1920 to 1931. My money would be on earlier than later looking at the weathering. The random shapes and sizes of the wagons is due to their origins. In 1919 Martin Bros, West of England china clay and North Cornwall China Clay merged. In addition to this between 1920 and 1929 ECC bought out another 12 smaller companies most of which would have had their own wagons. In 1931 there was another big merger to form English Clays Lovering Pochin. These wagons had ECLP on them. Marc

Boggs is off on its travels again this weekend coming this time to Carnforth Show. It is being held at the visitor centre on the railway station. Marc

It's very tempting. It's one of only 2 Pre-Grouping liveries I don't have. Marc

I ordered some transfers in October I'm still waiting for them. I have chased them a few times but still nothing. Marc

Fumble fingers

The name for those who are not ofay with the work of Dylan Thomas is the name of the town in his play for voices "Under Milk Wood" and the joke can be found by reading it backwards. The story so far. About 2 years ago I started building a 0-16.5 shunting puzzle layout based on Wharf station at Tywyn on the Talyllyn. I build all the wagons form my own kits. So far so good I hear people say. Base board built, the track went down, wagon turntables printed. All was going well until I turned to locos. This was when things started to unravel very quickly. I bought a peco Talyllyn and a Branch line chassis to go with it. I started to build it against a drawing as well as the instructions only to find that the loco was 16mm longer than it should have been and it had a footplate where there shouldn't have been. At that point the project was put on ice and stacked at the back of the workshop. Scroll forward 18 month and Bachmann announced they are going to produce NG7 quarry locos and they should be available by the end of this summer. So the project is back on.

All they would need to have done is to make provision to move to wheels in to 14mm from 16.5mm. Marc

I have a part built 0-16.5 layout so these are just what the doctor ordered. I would be nice if they could be converted to 0-14 in the longer term. Marc

Most don't have the buffer housings as part of the print this one was picked at random. Marc

First 2mm wagon test print. It's a NBR 3plk what do people think? The other wagon is a 4mm LBSCR 4ton ballast for scale

Everything that is available in 4mm is printed. Some should be ok to reduce in scale but others might end up a bit thin. I have scaled a NBR 3plk centre door. Marc

I will have a go at printing a NBR wagon this evening. You can only try and see what happens.