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Early Morning Broad Gauge Cheer Up Photo: "Eupatoria" was one of the second round of renewals, outshopped in November 1878, and seen here in brand new condition. Take note of the Armstrong roll-top chimney - this was probably one of the last Rovers to be fitted with this chimney as William Dean had taken over as Chief Locomotive Engineer just a year earlier. The location is Westbourne Park. The building in the background is Westbourne School. Image courtesy of the Broad Gauge Society,
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I didn't mean to criticise your choice of engine specs Ed, - I was simply curious as to which engine spec you'd used. The test I ran on the S&C with a train of 6 wheelers typical of the late 1880s- early 1890s showed me that your choice of an engine spec was reasonably close in terms of performance. I do realise that engine specs for compound locomotives can only be at best an approximation even with 2995valliant's near magic skills. I'm look forward to giving the 3CC a run as i'm guessing it will be a real treat to drive. The only engine spec I've ever successfully managed to create from scratch was for a small single cylinder Foden tram engine and that just about did my head in with all the necessary calculations to figure out the boiler and firebox specs as well as the piston movement and valve timing. I would not know where to begin with a much larger steam engine. After a few experiments I found that the engine spec for a 14xx worked well enough with my Paulz Trainz mid-19th century 22.5 ton Beyer-Peacock single wheeler, but I do agree that finding a good match for some older or more unusual engines can be a challenge.
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I know finding suitable engine specs can be difficult where one might not exist, -so I was a little surprised to discover that Mr Worsdell's Von Borries Compound Class 'J' was running on an engine spec intended for a LBSCR H2 Class Atlantic (170lb). No.1619, - the Worsdell-Smith Compound 4-4-0 turned out to have an engine spec for a Midland Compound which I would suppose would be a closer match, - but that H2 engine spec was a definite surprise. 2995valliant, - who is the Uk engine spec expert for Trainz is presently working his way down a very long list of British engines, but there doesn't seem to be anything listed for the N.E.R. Compound engines.
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I also have N.E.R. No.1619, - the Worsdell-Smith Compound 4-4-0. This snap was taken at Appleby Junction on the Settle & Carlisle route that dates from Trainz Classics 3 which was released back in 2008, - though it's had some updating since then. Time period is the BR dismal transition error which can't be helped, but it's still a darn fine place to run steam engines around on.
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A little more pottering around my 'Cairnrigg to Balessie' layout. Took a snap of Ed Heaps's exquisite N.E.R. Worsdell Von Borries Compound Class 'J' at Balessie MPD. Not really the kind of engine that would have been seen in the district, but I couldn't turn down the opportunity to take a nice screenshot.
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Nice that my freelance No.5 sparked off some inspiration for your own interesting Broad Gauge freelance 4-2-4T engines Isambird. I originally assembled it from a collection of parts that weren't really meant to fit together to create a track testing locomotive for the Trainz simulator, but as it happen it turned out to be a reasonably useful engine to have on the roster.
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Carlisle Citadel in Late Victorian Times
Annie replied to Citadel's topic in Pre-Grouping - Modelling & Prototype
Similar to Brunel's attitude towards GWR engines carrying any identifying markings, - 'People know who we are'. -
Thank you very much James. It pleases me no end when people who have actually lived near a particular location tell me that the layout I've built up has a correct look to it. I was aiming for a bleak northern landscape under a gloomy sky and if I've managed to capture it makes me very happy. I'm fond of my two Bouch 4-4-0s so there was no way that I was going to leave them out. They were withdrawn in 1888, but I'm going to quietly ignore that. Yes the poor old Class '59'. Shunned by N.E.R. engine men and sent to the naughty chair of shame for not being as good as the engines they were supposed to replace. Being a mixed traffic type with the Westinghouse brake and steam heating they found a niche with being useful at working secondary passenger services and that is the role my Class '59' fits into on the layout. Thanks for the photo, - for all their faults they certainly were a handsome enough looking engine.
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That photo of Watchet I know because I have the book published by Lightmore Press. I don't know whether the logs were incoming or outgoing from Watchet, but every photo of the wharves certainly shows heaps of them. The Newton Abbot photo is a favourite with that 'Hawthorne' Class engine front and centre. But I still don't see how the OS maps for Kingswear show no railway at all until the 1904 OS maps were published.
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Oh dear it was an awful long time ago, but I'll see if I can find which one it was. I fitted it into a smallish possibly Saxby & Farmer GWR signal box that I'd scratchbuilt from card and as a method of signalling it was very effective and looked reasonably realistic in operation. As the article says the signalman was completely out of sight and invisible at the back of the signal box interior until he was moved into position. Only a fairly narrow slot was needed to be made in both the baseboard surface and the signal box floor. EDIT: The signal box was the ex-B&ER signal box from Hatch on the Chard Branch as featured during the three part series on the Chard Branch in RM in 1969. RM May 1970 Pg.143
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Looking over 19th century OS maps for small terminus stations bears this out. Signals tended to be laid down on the 'less is more' principle with any special movements handled by the bobby's flags or handlamp. Edit: Reminds me of a layout I built back in my twenties where following an article in RM I installed a mechanical push button that would make a signalman figure lean out of the window of his signal box with a green flag in his hand.