David Bigcheeseplant

How do I go about looking for details on the 1861 census, I would like to find out who was the station master and other railway workers at High Wycombe in 1861 and where they lived. When I put it into Google is send me to various commercial web sites like ancestry, as I don't know names yet I want to search on addresses can this be done? David

A view of the old station as it looked a few weeks ago and a similar angle of my render how it looked in the 1850s The last view is of the other end with a bogie class HOMER waiting to depart on a train and Sun class LANCE sitting on the engine shed road.

Looking at the underframe I don't see how the brakes will work with this linkage rod, I am sure its not there on the prototype, as each vacuum cylinder and lever only works on one bogie linking them with this rod would cause one lot of brakes to go on and the other end to come off.

As others have pointed out the smokebox door looks too thick, also some parts look too chunky like the thickness of the cab sides and boiler bands.

I decided to pop the design in to the 3D printer and this what came out plus a coat of red primer. I will design a simple brass fold up chassis plus bits to add on for the polished brass bits. David

I found an old issue of Great Western Way with the lettering, So took a photo imported it to Fusion where I drew each letter I needed before putting them on the loco. I have noticed on some of the Fire fly class when they altered the spring hangers they drilled straight through the letters to fit it!

A bit more work on the model it has now a name LANCE which was at Wycombe in July 1862

I have the latest edition and it was not in there, I am sure I have an earlier edition somewhere, just a case of finding it now.

I am looking for the font for GWR locomotive lettering, I am sure I have seen it in a book but cant find it which one. Can someone point me in the right direction or post an image. David

Have worked up the bogie class, I have moved on to the Sun class as converted to a saddle tank. Info on these is scare and so are photos so I have created the model using the known dimensions. I still need to add more details whistles and more cab detail.

I don't I would imagine there would be some kind of class shown on the doors, maybe company insignia, nothing seems too obvious on the photos I have seen.

A bit more work adding in the signals, point levers and cattle dock. I can change the disc and crossbar signal which revolves on a vertical bar.

including a virtual model - a first for MRJ? I have done a bit more work on the model since I submitted to MRJ such as adding loco, coaches and signals. I can export any part of what you see in the image and either 3D print or laser cut. When I spoke to Paul Karau he did say that the layout can be seen in its finished state before I have constructed it.

I quite like this image, The coaches of the period were interesting as the bodies were constructed from wood and paper Mache.

I have dawn up the composite which I may try and print later and see what comes out. Do you know how the brake gear gear was arranged.

I have now added the train in to the image it has the correct 1850s coaches

Having drawn up my Gooch 4-4-0 bogie class I thought I would draw up the coaches to go with it, I know Mike Oxon has been doing similar things. I drew up the first coach using parametric dimensions so my just clicking and changing the info in a table I could adjust the length height wheelbase and compartments, rather than redrawing each coach from scratch. The coaches are a 1851 standard composite at 26 foot length, a first, second and third from revised standard design 1854. The second and third have a length of 27'9" while the first has a length of 24'5" I would be interested if I have missed anything.

I have probably got as far as I need to on the 1854 first class coach it now has the steps and other details. at this period I don't think there were brakes.

You were lucky to find an older post that still has its illustrations. I also made some divided 1st class compartments with central partitions. I got the info from your Broadsheet article on coaches, I noticed in the photos that the 1st and second class compartments had different sizes of quarterlights and improvement on third class that had none! I can do the different sizes in my option menu. One thing I am trying to figure out is the number of compartments on each type of coach, the third, second and composite were all the same length, the first being shorter with just four compartments. Another thing that is different to later coaches is that the doors can have hinges on the right or left.

I have been using Fusion to design broad gauge coaches too, although I have drawn one coach and have a table of options which will change length, wheelbase, number of compartments etc, with just two clicks of the mouse. I still need to add more detail but will 3D print them once most of it has been done.

I used RGB 1, 46, 3 as quoted on GWR modellers webpage, the colour is changed by where the light falls on the model I have moved the sun around on these two images and the green gets darker, also the pea green lining also changes the apparent colour. The colour quoted on broad gauge engines was dark or holly green, so doubt there was much difference from the later green.

I have adjusted the angle to match more Sean painting, also polished up the smokebox door.

Hi Gerry I love Sean Bolan's paintings and used them as a guide for my model, Here is the loco in my model of Wycombe, Hesiod was also allocated to Wycombe in July 1859. Differences I have done over Sean's engine is that he has painted toolbox and sandbox in brown while I have gone for green, although I can simply change it, what do you think is correct? David

I have added some lining now, the colour can be specified in Fusion 360 and I just added the RGB numbers from a GWR web page using pre 1928 green.

I have drawn up in Fusion too one of the early batch, I got a bit carried away and added the inside slide bars and connecting rods which all move like they should.