John-Miles

I have an ex-David Jenkinson 4-2-2 made from a K's kit and it has a tender drive. It will happily pull 6 bogies.

The Swansea Vale Railway used baulk PWay. The Midland relaid it with sleepered track when they took over.

The GW Roller bars are very useful items. e.g van roofs from nickel silver, much better than plasticard and when you start a thread on loco building, boilers and cab roofs.

They look too clean to be leaving work.

Can anybody provide any further information about this image please. Also another wagon number for Stephen.

Sorry for being slow to pick up on this. My recollection is that Derbyshire Carriage and Wagon was on the Sheepbridge branch. This crossed over the road from Eckington to Chesterfield at the bottom of Whittington Hill, there was a level crossing with a low level Midland Signal box, and the wagon works was on the north side of the crossing.

I don't think this can be true. For instance near where I live there is the delightfully named Dingle Road which is on a 1 in 40 and even if the gradient diagram is slightly out you can see it is well over 1 in 270. There are plenty of other examples in South Wales of stations on steep gradiemts and of course there is Five Ways which IIRC is on a 1 in 80.

It is reported that Stamp was a big fan of Hitler and the Nazis so it ironic he was killed by one of their bombs.

It's bleak on Kinder at the best of times, in the rain it must be awful.

Around 15 years ago I managed to arrange a meeting with someone who had been a signalman at Brynamman (correctly spelt with one "m"). He said the lack of a run round loop wasn't a problem. With goods trains, the loco ran into the passenger platform while the guard held the train back and then the train was run into the goods yard by gravity. When he was there all the passenger trains were P-P. The only challenge arose in very cold weather when the wagons could "stick"

As a retired academic and the author of many fully referenced works and a former editor of several academic journals, I fully concur with what Dave Hunt as written above. A fully referenced and annotated article would make for very boring reading for the vast majority of railway fans. The audiences for railway books and academic journals are very different.

One wheeze to make the Furness lubricators is to get an O gauge handrail knob, cut the stem off and the insert a piece of wire through the knob and with a bit of solder make it into the right shape. Then bend the wire to 90 degrees and you have your lubricator. I used this method before I acquired a lathe.

IIRC Roy Burrows did an article in the MRSoc journal about MR fencing and the diagonal version was relatively late. I have been to The Wenvoe Arms tonight so I should really be breathalised before posting an answer.

In the 1950s, which I am old enough to remember, you could see loaded coal trains heading in both directions through Chesterfield - on the Midland of course. The GCR loop was very quiet and the LD&EC was barely clinging on by then.

The choice of glue IMHO depends on what you are trying to do. For instance Plastic Weld dissolves most plastics which in some circumstances can be useful - for example if you are joining Wills Coarse Stone sheets you can just do a butt join, roughly lining up the mortar joints and then use Plastic Weld to reform the "stones" to hide the join. It's much easier than trying to match up courses and stone sizes. On the other, Limonene is great where you want to adjust things as you make the join, for instance lining up bricks because it doesn't melt the plastic. So my idea is match the glue / solvent to what you want to achieve.