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  1. Tony, please keep me posted on Bluebird project. If you want any views within or without please email me. What material are you proposing for the model, please? I may well be a customer for you as £105 plus mech costs have put me off buying the TramAds version. Colin.
  2. Thanks, Tony. With the Felthams are you keeping to 2-rail for conduit only operation, please? I am currently converting my OOC LPTB 2104 to LTE 2104. I have new white LTE legal lettering in the post coming for approval to fit the valances on OOC Felthams which are shorter than those on the BEC Felthams. I am nearing completion of trolley ropes for it but have not yet started on the pigtails and cleats! Which fleet numbers and eras are you thinking of and I will gladly find the adverts carried most probably at the same time on both sides. Just email them to me and I will explore! Colin.
  3. Let me shatter the silence since April!!! Firstly, my Consultant does not want to see me until November so I continue to drain my hip infection at home with a weekly visit from the district nurse. There is progress as the amount is reducing. I can get now get into the driving seat and lift my left leg on to the pedal. I was given a mock driving test - hill starts and emergency braking - which I passed. After a lull, I have returned to overhauling my current fleet and now looking to construct further London classes. Now, Tony, Ray, Andy, Gary, Kevin, David, "Engineer" and "West Croydon" are you still modelling London's trams in 4mm. If you are please contact me on <feltham2099@hotmail.cio.uk> as I would like your feedback on forward planning to bring out the E3/Hr2 body for next July's 90th anniversary of the formation of London Transport. With the 60th anniversary of the closure in 1952 last July, several modellers have realised that the TramAds Leeds HR2 is dimensionally wrong in the upper deck and what something done about it!!! The questions for which I need views are related to a kit of a complete body or of each deck separately and whether white metal or 3D printing is preferred. I have started collecting views which will be studied by two manufacturers. So, I look forward to adding any feedback you wish to make to that already to hand. If I do not hear from anyone then I will assume that there is no interest in E3/HR2 or the off-shoots with 3rd series E1s, Alpax replacement upper deck for E/1s and HR1. Look forward to receiving your emails. All the best, Colin.
  4. Clearly, there is something wrong with the signage and I am surprised that there is no official monitoring of the situation to determine necessary modification.
  5. Yes, Ray, the first two Experimentals and the Production Felthams had 'maximum-traction' trucks with two motors each to a driving axle taking 70% of the car's weight, the two 'ponies' taking the rest. "Cissie" the third Experimental is 'equal-wheeled' each driving axle having a motor so making it in its original condition the most powerful London tram. Bec-Kits therefore had two conversion kits for motorising, one for the Productions and the other for "Cissie". All the best, Colin.
  6. Sorry Tony but the LCC PW engineers had a pride in laying their setts, which were uniform in size, at least out to the tramway margin. You sure you have the 88 in the correct position? Herewith a 22 close-up. Colin.
  7. This is very much the normal cobble sett pattern for British tramways.
  8. Tony, when you get round to revising your Feltham fleet numbers from 2104, let me know as I can provide the full advert details carried both sides at a single time for many of them. My 10 Felthams were treated this way. Colin.
  9. The RNR boards were balsa with a card covering on top of the balsa surface should I have to reuse the boards. Problem I have is space and my wife does not like the dining table in its extended form. I could have changed the boards round but it would have diminished RNR. Having to store it in a cold garage was its downfall. Finding I had a suitable sized single wooden board for a double track circular line there underwrote the change to an old concept "High Road" - Streatham, Greenwich. Colin.
  10. I attach views of my RNR in the construction stage reached before I reviewed my direction of travel with London's trams. The depot track branches off before the terminal stub (Canal Bridge end). There is only one operational road through the depot (Kingsway's Brixton Hill kit) leading to the back yard. The depot's parallel tracks are static display lines. Where the straight paved track ends at the Deptford end is the position of the SL bridge the curved paved track ending with OO track after the turn into the fiddle. On starting RNR I did a historical reasoning for post-WW1 restoration of the RNR line to provide a direct dock workers shuttle from Old Kent Road to the Surrey Commercial Docks at PLA request upon return of peacetime. The LCC responded favourably upon seeing its own post-war backlog of car maintenance plus new E/1s with the CRD site not being able to expand. It also allowed the cramped overhead electrified Evelyn Street depot to be closed as well as giving capacity to house Class N single deckers for the south side run out in respect of the proposed extension through the Blackwall Tunnel to Poplar (Poplar depot holding the north side run out) should the 1920 Tramways Bill be enacted fully. Finally Rotherhithe depot would be an overflow to New Cross depot. Also added are the original experimental board to test the use of ordinary OO track with pavements and roadway from Kingsway, Metcalfe and Street Level card. Colin.
  11. Adrian only produced one set of moulds for G F Train's tram and then produced it for LCC use to improve sales from the "Train" moulds. As an aside the design was also used on his line in the Potteries. Colin.
  12. Be one up on the working 4mm. horse tram exhibition layout and have the legs working to give traction!
  13. Correct Tony, the SL for which "Recreation21" on Shapeways does the 2-SL units! Somewhere I have the views of my RNR when construction started with the Recreation paved conduit track. If they surface then I will attach. By the way service 80 was Embankment to West Norwood until replaced by subway serivce 33 in 1931. The LCC horse service 88 joined the service 90 at RNR. Colin.
  14. Yes Tony, You have it right and do what I had started upon. RNR terminating at Old Canal Bridge without crossing to reach OKR, Stub terminal then turns left into depot which I was having as a working museum with extension out the back for the works cars. The as required museum service was numbered 90 and ran to Surrey Docks/Quays station. The break point in RNR was the bridge carrying the Southern lines out of London Bridge. All the best, Colin.
  15. I too just accepted David's research on these brake vans and went no further as it took a tremendous amount of time researching all the other WD/MoD vehicles in the country. However, as I found with tabulating all the wagons for china clay to the end of steam, NRM York provided me with electronic copy of all the sheets from the GWR Register of Freight Wagons. If, because of similarity of design, anyone wishes to confirm the two vans' histories then a request to NRM for the electronic copy of the Register in respect of the 61Barry brakes would be worthwhile. If sale to WD is not mentioned then one could accept David's Taff Vale or ask for the sheets on those. You may find more than you bargained for, as I did with the CC fleet!!! Colin.
  16. I agree with Chris, The trackwork on my Welney Depot boards uses Setrack 2nd radius points and curved pieces. Absolutely no problems with my three J70s but first radius even on the odd piece of Setrack would slow the operation of them. All the best for the New Year, Colin.
  17. Wishing you all the very best for Christmas and the New Year. Colin.
  18. Looks good, Tony. How about painting the sides black and then overlaying grey painted plastic strip to give the girder work effect. Colin.
  19. Tony, what was your dad's name. Dave I expect would recognise him as I believe he went on to be the Secretary and was with the club longer than I. I joined upon my return to Thornton Heath from Germany in 1960 moving to Thundersley, Essex in 1963 returning to Selsdon in 1967 and using the 234 bus to Wallington. When the club lost that lovely house there I left as by 1969 the PLA transferred me from my river trade development role to Tilbury for opening up the container terminals. Getting home via the single bore Dartford tunnel took much time out of my evenings. There are not many of us old members left, such as Peter Goddard and very occasionally I come into contact with Mike Skeggs. Colin.
  20. Great to hear from you, Dave. I continue to 'drain out' an infection in my upper left leg and within my replacement hip - fortunately at home now! I am under regular review and look forward to driving again soon. Now from what I can recall from many decades you too had principally LTE cars that were conduit fitted. Recently those cars still under construction I gave to the T&LRS Bridge Street layout which is under renovation including a Faller working roadway and appeared at the recent Sky Museum exhibition at Southampton. The Bridge Street boys are only too grateful for RTR or cars under construction that are not wanted. At least a couple of my unfinished BEC Felthams were run at Sky and my unfinished passenger and works cars are now spread around the 'gang'. So Terry would be pleased to find homes. The "West Croydon" layout is also being renovated at its new home in Ashford, Kent. John Clarke has hardly any first generation trams to run as he relied on my fleet but I do not know whether I will be able to drive again even to get to his new area for shows. If you would like me to enquire of both, please sent a list of cars and their condition to <feltham2099@hotmail.co.uk> and I will proceed from there for you. If you have any pictures please attach them. Trust you are keeping well? All the best, Colin.
  21. Tony, you will probably find a lot more traversers in the 1903 to 1933 period in most London tram books. I only do 1933 to 1952!!! Colin.
  22. Yes, Ray, those three formed the "Feltham Fund" in my days of being on the Tramways Sub-Committee of BTC Clapham Museum and they were only too pleased to have the power provided on Open Days to charge a tanner a time to drive "2099" as it will only be to me. Sometimes the air compressor was run so as to use the front-exit doors which my then 3 and 4 year daughter loved to open the moment I removed the interlock. I lost faith in LTM when English Heritage took over and my Director friend left in disgust at their plans. We both recognised 2099 as the link between both generations of tram in London. Colin.
  23. Tony, to us old locals it will always be Mayday. The first hospital I ever had to go to was Croydon General. The tram that took me stopped right outside the A&E door which was straight on to the street. My next A&E event took me to Mayday where I had to walk up Mayday Road from the bus. Today I have a direct bus from the end of my road to outside Croydon University Hospital. My wife would not use it with her free pass to see me when I was an inpatient recently. No not because of Covid but how dangerous that area, where she was brought up two roads away, has become. On one of her visits she passed the police dealing with a stabbing and today my transport had to divert into congested roads because of a fatal stabbing in London Road. I attach views of both types of LCC traverser - shallow for overhead and deep for conduit. The first is the shallow one at Norwood and the last the deep one at Camberwell. In both stands my learned guru of London trams. Richard Elliott was LT's last Technical Assistant (Trams) at Charlton CRD and is very greatly missed. Colin.
  24. Tony, when I get back from my today at Mayday hospital, I will look up to see if there are any clearer photos of standard LCC traversers. Colin.
  25. Sorry Tony, it is not in colour but attached is best close up I have of Telford Avenue's traverser. Colin.
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