Moxy

It's Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns 7765, since preserved. https://preservedbritishsteamlocomotives.com/robert-stephenson-hawthorn-works-no-7765-no-40-0-6-0t/

Don't know if this is what you are looking for, but the Hollar labels range is on the Gauge O Guild website. https://www.gaugeoguild.com/general/hollar.aspx The 4mm versions are on the Scalefour Society website I believe.

Hi Sam & Richard I like it, always up for a good industrial loco, especially on that Jouef/Electrotren chassis. I wasn't familiar with the prototype, but I presume it is based on YEC 2151, seen here https://www.rocks-by-rail.org/exhibit/yec-2521/ You've asked for suggestions, and you may have already have these on your list of tweaks, but here are mine. The chimney is a bit too big, it needs to be a bit slimmer, and possibly about a 1mm less tall. Also it needs flaring into the smokebox Cab windows need to be a bit bigger, and linked to that, the taper in the cabside should start a bit lower down. If I have interpreted the above photo correctly, it looks like the taper should start level with the top of the bunker and slightly below the level of the tank handrail. Other than those suggested changes, I think you've made a good start, and I look forward to it becoming available. Moxy

Light Railway Stores do custom etching, they might have something suitable. No connection, just a satisfied customer.

I don't think British Leyland made a 1725cc engine, wasn't the 1725cc a Hillman/Rootes Group engine? EDIT : British Leyland made a 1748cc engine, used in the Maxi, is that the one you were thinking of? I think the original plan when it was on the drawing board was to use that 1748cc engine in the Marina, but it ended up with 1275cc & 1798cc engines instead. No, it was bit less, 1698cc.

The benefit to the Midland Railway would be a big factor. Through their lines in West Yorkshire there were a number of proposals to find routes west of the Pennines into towns already served by the L&Y/LNWR. You have mentioned Skipton to Colne, which was an end on junction with the L&Y. (Despite being in the heart of east Lancashire, Colne was actually a Midland station, not that you would know in its current state at the end of a long siding with a bus shelter on its one platform.) There was also the Preston and Longridge Railway, dating from 1846, which had plans to build a line from Grimsargh via Ribchester and Clitheroe to Skipton. That line wasn't built, but when the proposal was revived in 1866 to complete the branch line from Longridge through to Skipton, it was supported by the Midland, as it would have given them a route into Preston. In order to stop that, the L&Y/LNWR purchased the line and it ended its days as just another L&Y branch line. Your proposed line through Hebden Bridge would give the Midland access to Manchester Victoria, via Todmorden and Rochdale. I know the Midland already had a station at Manchester Central, via its interests in the Cheshire Lines Committee, but that was the other side of the city and until recently there wasn't a convenient link between the lines to the north and south of Manchester city centre. Plus the goods traffic at Manchester Central was controlled by the Great Northern. Gaining access to the northern side of Manchester would give the Midland access to the Lancashire coalfield, and to the possibility of running holiday traffic from West Yorkshire to Blackpool in the days when everybody went to the seaside for their two weeks holiday. As you can probably tell, I like the 'just supposing' idea as well, and I think constructing a plausible back story is half the fun of modelling. Cheers

Don't know for certain, but could it be an X2? Peckett 1567

The Kerr Stuart Victory is on its way. I'm sure somebody has recently done a 3D print or a resin cab for a Lambton tank, but I can't find a link to it at the momentt.

HI Tom SECR 353. I haven't been able to locate anything definite about this loco, but I have found this PICTURE (about half way down the page.). This shows a Manning Wardle 'Q' Class as W1 'Medina.' I don't know if that's the same loco that ended up as the Ashford Works shunter, but it shows what it was like in IOW days. SECR 752/ MW 725. That was a 'K' Class built 1879 as a contractors loco. Moved to SECR, sold by SR in 1925 to Northfleet Deep Water Wharf Ltd, where it lasted until 1945. Info from Manning Wardle Works Lists ISBN 0906829089. Link HERE to 'Portishead' and 'Ringing Rock' on the Colonel Stephens railways, both of which are 'K' Class locos. Hope this helps

I think that might be the Bolton Model Railway Club layout that I was thinking of.

Morning James. That's fair enough, I know what you mean about misremembering things, I clearly remember things that I think as happening about 5 years ago, when I actually find the article or book on the subject, turns out to be about 15 years!

I don't know if this is what you remember, but Bolton Model Railway Club built a Liverpool & Manchester themed layout, but it's more like 40 years ago than 20 years. I think it was around about the time of the 150th anniversary of the Rainhill trials in 1980. I joined the club around 1988 & and the layout had been dismantled by then.

I don't recognise it either, but the BJ registration is Ipswich, so perhaps it's one of their garages around that area?

I have similar memories of the Irwell from a school trip to Manchester in 1976. We parked the school minibus somewhere near Salford station (now Salford Central), overlooking the Irwell. The first thing that hit us when we got out of the minibus was the stench from the river! I seem to remember the Irwell was a sort of oily dark grey sludge rather than a river.

They were Leyland Leopards, according to this side on shot https://www.flickriver.com/photos/carhaul/5493880353/

Narrow Planet have recently started taking orders again. (They have also changed their trading name). https://www.lightrailwaystores.co.uk/collections/custom-etched-products hope this helps

There isn't an e-mail address, it's a contact form on the website. I'm not familiar with either Safari or iPads, but I've managed to view the site in both Firefox & Microsoft Edge on my Windows 10 PC, so the website is working. Have you perhaps tried a different browser? Might be an issue with Safari. Moxy

Fascinating to see there is still track in Trafford Park, it's over 30 years ago since I was last there, and I think the railway was disused when I was saw it in 1988.

I hope you don't mind the slight hijack, but this is my take on a cut down Airfix signal box It won't be going any further than that because I've managed to get the far vertical, well slightly less than vertical, but it gives the idea of what I intended. The replacement roof is Wills ends (SSMP220 T&G boarding, I think), card roof with a downloaded texture for the slates. The matchsticks under the end are to support bargeboards.

Redpath Brown was at the junction of Westinghouse Road & Praed Road. If this link to NLS Maps works HERE it should show 1937 map & modern map side by side. It was on the site where the Amazon warehouse now is.

Rainford Junction is the start of the single line section to Kirkby, and one of the few places left on the network that still has a token and block instrument. More details here.

Finally found it. It was 1697, ex Lancashire United. It was a Leyland Fleetline, not an Atlantean Links here (not my photos) Front and back I don't think having the white roof did it any favours livery wise. It was an ugly thing wasn't it?

I can't find a picture of it at the moment, but Greater Manchester Buses used to have one operating out of their Bury depot. I believe it was one they rebuilt themselves after accident damage. (It had an argument with a bridge. The bridge won). It looked a bit like the Glasgow one, but with a higher roof line. The strangest thing about it was the seating arrangements. Instead of the 2+2 seating you would expect, the front half of the bus was bench seats all down both sides and loads of standing room in the middle. I only saw it the once on a Bolton to Bury service, and then it was either withdrawn or transferred somewhere else.

The reason I couldn't find them in that album I linked to earlier is because it's the wrong album! That is the Great Southern/CIE album. If this link works, https://transportsofdelight.smugmug.com/RAILWAYS/IRISH-RAILWAYS/ULSTER-TRANSPORT-AUTHORITY-1/i-R6WNMCS it should take you straight to a GNR(I) Beyer Peacock SG class.

Yes, they did. The GNR(I) had a lot of Beyer Peacock 0-6-0s of SG/SG2/SG3 type (SG being Superheater Goods). On reflection, I think you're right, they probably are GNR(I) Beyer Peacocks.