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The NCB trains on the Lambton system in county Durham worked about five miles along the british Railways main line from Penshaw to Sunderland to access the staithes so the coal could be loaded into ships. This was allowed because of running rights.

Dear Mike Thanks for that it will be very helpful. kind regards David

Dear Mike Any chance of a picture which shows how the pipe work and sand box rods are arranged on top of the tanks. I can not find a picture which shows this clearly, and it is preventing me from finishing my A class kit. kind regards David

The eight wheeled passenger loco has ten wheels?

If you want to make small rings, you will need to wind some wire around something of the required diameter. So, you end up with the wire spiralling around your core, much like a spring. Cut a single turn of the end and then solder the ends together to make a ring. It is really quite simple but rather difficult to describe with out diagrams.

I built a couple of chilton iron works locos. They were very good and i wish they were still available today. I posted in the topic below on page 4 a long time ago but there is a picture of my kitisons lambton tank from a chilton iron works kit at the bottom of my post. David

It used to be removed as soon as it grew as it was poison to horses. When we were in the scouts we would pay for our weeks camping at a farm by removing it from a field and then chucking it in a river as they did not want it in any of the fields.

please put me down for one in em, thanks.

Came across this picture on Heritage rail. https://www.heritagerailway.co.uk/1436/railway-history-and-site-of-an-lner-terminus-and-mpd/ Same loco and LMS wagon. Must be as it heads back to the incline. kind regards David

In the book Sentinel Locomotives and Sentinel-Cammell Railcars by the industrial railway society there are some pictures of partially dismantled sentinel locos and the coal bunker is lined with wooden planks. not a huge leap to think they might also have covered the top of the water tank next to the bunker in wooden planks as well. David

Dear Mike you need to put an addvert blocker on to your browser. If you are using chrome you can use Ad blocker. see link below. It will remove most adds from most wed sites. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/ad blocker plus it goes on as an extensions which you can find in more tools, found from the three dots in the right hand corner. hope that helps. It can't be that hard as I managed to install it. kind regards David

Could I ask do you need to drill a larger hole in the Gibson wheel to fit the markits crank pin, or even cut a thread as well or can you just screw the crank pin in as you would the gibson one? Thanks. regards David

Dear Adam Thanks for the reply. I will try soldering it. I had assumed wrongly that it would not solder. David

Dear Mike I am building one of your North British 0-4-0 kits at present and am enjoying it, it is a nice kit to build but I am a bit stumped with one point. Please could you tell me how I attach firmly the brass fly cranks to the stainless steel stepped axle? If it is a push fit there would appear to be a fine line too tight and too loose. Or should I use some thing like Loctite to stick them together? thanks. David

i have some models with a styrene chassis which are twenty years old and they are still as strong as when I made them. My models are not run regularly, some times not at all from year end to year end. so, i can not comment on how well they will perform if regularly used but I have no reason to assume they will not perform acceptably. In fact a lot of three-d printed locos use a plastic chassis. As long as they are well braced with plenty of cross bracing and are built totally square they should be fine. If it turns out that it does not work you will not have spent very much on the styrene so it will not be too much you are throwing away. you will be able to use the bearings and motor in a metal chassis if you have to go that way due to the styrene not working. The same rules apply to using a metal chassis in that the wheel centers must match exactly the coupling rods and it needs to be all square. Good luck with your own build.