Dalesmatt

Hiya - for my own interest do you happen to know their order date, versus delivery. I was just curious since the build numbers are not consecutive, and what their lead time might have been since presumably if ordered during wartime they would have had to justify the need via "red tape" of the period. My Ruston PB stationary engine was a grey colour I was told because it was built during the war (1944 iirc) cheers Matt

I seem to recall reading somewhere else that Ruston's stated they had a maximum haulage capacity of 240 tons on the level? https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/111245-correct-sr-livery-for-ds1169-the-ruston-hornsby-48ds/?p=2309082 Perhaps it would be possible to utilize a smaller wagon with pickups? (See pic in link to Ruston at Yeovil)

Luke, https://www.roco.cc/en/product/243573-0-0_1000_0-1-0-0-0-002-1/products.html The Roco website suggests a 218mm minimum radius for this shunter.So it should be ok on Peco 009 set track 9in rad curves.

Good idea for a model... hemce the Nocton Estates wagons from Bachmann I guess! The Lincolnshire Potato Railways book was reissued by Oakwood Press a few years back, I got one fir an interesting browse. My colleagues voted it dullest book title.

The engine is very reminiscent of the 160hp Daimler Mercedes range which started out as a 150hp design circa 1914, and 215hp by the end of the war. Its not easy to see on my old mobile phone scrern, the early ones had 3 pairs of cast cylinders, later these were all individual for economies of repair (1916). Clearly these german / Austro-Hungarian fliers and mechanics are a risk loving bunch !