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MR Chuffer

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  1. Evostick multi-purpose Impact - instant contact adhesive.
  2. Check out http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/l/longridge/, it's all in there, the Fleetwood, Preston and West Riding Railway Company
  3. Well, in the first instance, the line was planned to come off the Longridge branch at Grimsargh and head across to the south of Hurst Green where there is still the remains of a short cutting where the work was started and then quickly abandoned. I believe it then joined the Blackburn- Clitheroe just north of Whalley before branching off across country to West Yorkshire and joining the Skipton to Colne line near to Thornton in Craven and Elsack. I don't think Hellifield was part of the plan, but I'll get more details later today when I can access my books.
  4. Perhaps, but looking forward to tackling these although I have quite a few Geen kits, L&Y Diagram 3 and L&Y Diagram 1 , though I'm a bit concerned how I might weight the Dia. 1 2-part kit, unlike the whitemetal Geens...
  5. I think you're right, Ashlar to my mind is coarser stone setts either random, as in all over the place, or regular, laid like bricks within the limitation of rough hewn blocks. There are plenty of examples round here in the northwest with whole terraces of houses, factories and municipal buildings built with Ashlar. I have found example brick paper which I can dig out if you want more.
  6. You wouldn't want to go ours, major hospital, wait in A&E up to 12 hours, average currently 6 hours, then 24 hours wait for admission, every corridor is jam packed with poor souls on trolleys. It's appalling, why don't ministers visit to have a look, because they're scared of what they will find - disgraceful.
  7. Google "Allied Mills Ltd: S. Healing and Sons, flour millers, Tewkesbury: canal bargemen". Likely coal to fire the mill? Plenty of wagon images
  8. There wasn't an "offer" option, straightforward 6-day auction. The seller is very active on eBay with mostly mediocre and/or broken model railway products. The starting price was £9, he could have got north of £25 for this although I wasn't prepared to go that far. I suspect he was approached direct and then did a deal outside of eBay, thereby avoiding their charges, except on the £9. BTW I've had this happen before with another seller in the last year. And if he sold it outside of eBay, isn't there an option "withdrawn from sale" that I've seen before?
  9. I saw a mundane item I fancied the other day on a 6 day auction with a low starting price that I was prepared to pay twice as much for. I revisited the next day and it was SOLD at the low starting bid. How did that happen?
  10. I've had the Vector Zero Three Crawler http://morleycontrollers.com/shopexd.asp?id=46 for over a year now, no start/stopping issues whatsoever with up to date Bachmann and v.old Hornby and Tri-ang locos - unlike with my previous Gaugemaster Combi which I binned. Very smooth and controllable at all speeds. @Pierre Le Brun The business owner retired last year but they are still shipping. I remember talking to him about shipping times and recall him saying they batch orders up and send them all out at once, mine took 7 days to get to me. V helpful if you phone or email.
  11. Not read the rest of the thread (!), but these are rock solid DC with CDM built in and less than £100 squids http://morleycontrollers.com/. I junked my Gaugemasters.
  12. I'm at peak wagon, I've run out of siding space, both on the layout and in the fiddle yard. 160+ wagons, incl 10 brakes, 57 MR, 34 PO coal, 23 L&Y and 33 odds and sods (LNWR, FR, G&SWR, NB, CLC, GN, NE, GW etc.). I'm broke but happy, just need some Genesis carriages and we're done.... (perhaps?)
  13. With all this bandying around of statistics, I was reminded of this piece on The LMS Society website Goods Vehicles and Freight Marshalling (a .PDF link). Some of the statistical modelling seems a bit simplistic to me compared to previous workings upthread.
  14. Not sure this is mentioned upthread, but my terminus is split into 2 yards, a coal yard with capacity 25-30 wagons and a separate goods yard with a separate road entrance. If coal is inbound only, then I don't require a weighing station at its entrance, as the coal has already been weighed at its origin? The goods entrance has weighing facilities for booking goods outbound. Is that correct? (pre-WW1 MR - but probs applicable through the years).
  15. And put the 2 in the cabside number the right way up? Or is it a G&SWR form for 7. (Whoops - upthread it appears to be a 7)
  16. I've done this but Code 75 flatbottom to code 100 in fiddle yard/traverser, see https://peco-uk.com/products/transition-track, 4 in a pack. Can probably be bodged for bullhead.
  17. If you're not sure, then there can't be many others that are. So should anyone ever visit my layout, its unlikely they will have strong views on the placement of vacuum pipes when there are so many other flights of fancy lurking in there.
  18. Recommended reading The Rise and Fall of King Coal. A lot of railway pictures, both on and off colliery and the story right up to the Workington Mine proposals
  19. Thanks Stephen @Compound2632, that's pretty much what I've seen through countless photographs, though you rarely, if at all, see a photo of both ends of a vacuum piped wagon. So variations of practice are common across dates.
  20. Whilst we're on fitted and unfitted, is there any guidance as to which side of the coupling a vacuum pipe is fitted? On locos, it is invariably to the left of the coupling when looking at the buffer beam from the front, but on the tender or tank engine coal bunker? And for wagons, if the pipe is to the left of the coupling on one end, is it to the right on the other end, or diagonally to the left on the other end too? And would any guidance be railway company specific (pre-grouping), effected by the wagon builder (or retrofitter) or ad hoc. I read that the pipe would be on the same side at both ends as an off-centre vacuum cylinder. Given the foregoing posts, I'm looking at retrofitting through vacuum pipes on some key wagons.
  21. As was discussed upthread, Huskisson picking up at Aintree, Lostock and Blackburn for Hellifield and beyond was a Midland turn over L&Y metals, and the reverse.
  22. They did take over the LNWR at the end of the day, in the guise of the LMS, so no insecurity here. And then there is that other regional railway, the GWR, not without its fan bois on here...
  23. Oops, most of us then... But seriously though, what also comes out of the Marple piece, from the author(s), was the absolute lengths that the LNWR would go with skulduggery to suppress any and all competition.
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