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On https://colourrail.co.uk/ there is a photograph of engine 78000 with a passenger train on the Mid Wales Line at Newbridge on Wye, 18-07-1959. Jelle Jan
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I was able to find a Noble Collection Hogwarts Castle / Hall in a Dutch webshop yesterday, it arrived today, so here it is. After measuring the total length and height, I discovered that it's actually quit near 7mm scale, aka 1:43.5, it's even one or two centimeters too long. So it's not in the 1:50 scale mentioned on the box. The gauge of the wheels however is a little to narrow, so one side of the engine easily drops between the rails. The front coupling is very coarse, but that can be modified easily, I think. The wheels are not quartered at all, so the connection rods are in the same position on both sides, so rolling the engine is impossible with its hinged connection rods. With new couplings, blackened tyres and buffers and some weathering the model would be quite nice, I think.
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There is a photo of the green 03 128 on the internet: https://topticl.zenfolio.com/p240553310/hC1F333D8#hc1f333d8 Jelle Jan
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That looks great Alan, now your 3716 only needs a couple of Berry Wiggins tankers, like mine... Jelle Jan
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My second link tells it was done by and ancient version of PaintShop Pro, called Tipp-Ex.
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Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/davethomas1970/7160423502/ See also: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ell-r-brown/8842420001
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A few days ago a bunch of iron minks arrived in the Netherlands, I'm very pleased with them. Jelle Jan
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That photo features another handrail on the other side of the smoke box, also visible on this photo: https://thetransportlibrary.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=38509 Can it still be added to your great model? Kind regards, Jelle Jan
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Thanks for the information, Brian, everything clear now. Jelle Jan
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I noticed that both Lionheart and Dapol made the wagons without top flap only in a post steam era lettering. However, railway photographs incidently show wagons without top flap between 1960 and 1965. Are these early ones different in details? Otherwise it would be nice to have one or two in my mineral rake... Jelle Jan
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I bought myself the Dapol Lightmoor open wagon, it's a great model, high quality in my opinion. Here are some photographs, on one of them the wagon is coupled to the longer Lionheart Cannop open wagon. I'm looking forward to other Forest of Dean versions. Jelle Jan
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You could try this web site: https://artcice.wixsite.com/cice Jelle Jan
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Could that be this one? https://bestieboy.smugmug.com/Trains/Miscellaneous-Wagons/i-mdjG95p
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I like the NLS website for this kind of research, containing historical 6 inch Ordnance Survey maps of the whole country, projected on Bing Maps. So I took a look (is that correct english?). Is this the footbridge? http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=18&lat=51.6926&lon=-2.3560&layers=171 Playing with the transparancy, Bing Maps shows the current satelite photo, then looking for the same spot on Google Maps gives a June 2009 Streetview, with a nice footbridge on it: https://www.google.nl/maps/place/Dursley,+Gloucestershire+GL11,+Verenigd+Koninkrijk/@51.6925086,-2.3560698,3a,75y,117.73h,77.76t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sGpb66cAtb_qzNIOs4aLY9Q!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo3.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DGpb66cAtb_qzNIOs4aLY9Q%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D100%26h%3D80%26yaw%3D133.43102%26pitch%3D0!7i13312!8i6656!4m2!3m1!1s0x48710a63f1f3824f:0x20fb40ce3d0ef022!6m1!1e1 But, of course, thats is 6 years ago... Kind regards from the Netherlands, Jelle Jan