Roger.s

The Outer Circle ran from Broad Street to Mansion House not Victoria. On electrification the District Railway provided some electric locomotives to haul the LNWR trains over the electrified section the loco change taking place at Earls Court. Due to shortage of paths to Mansion House the service was cut back to Earls Court from the end of 1908. The locos were later used for the Ealing- Southend through trains and other shorter workings over the Whitechapel & Bow Rly and LT&SR (then owned by the Midland. The Middle Circle which started in1872 by the GWR was cut back to Earlscourt in 1900 and further back to Addison Road in 1905. The aformentioned Edgeware Rd/Addson Rd Shuttle was all that was left after further cutbackshad taker place. Regards Roger

Has anyone tried making 2mm finescale track using this method and if so was the result favourable? I would be most interested to receive your comments as I have a new la.yout to build. Regards Roger

Michael and Andy, Thank you for your replies. Now all I need to do is to sort out some new sholdered axles! Roger

The article onPontfadog in theDec/Jan 2mm Magazine mentions "American Full Throttle 4mm diameter wheels". Does anyone know where these can be obtained? Roger

Don't tell the little man with a stick (and a high vis jacket) at 1min 46 sec that he isn't there because he might disappear. Roger

London clay before it is exposed to the atmosphere is a blue-grey. It only becomes brownish when exposed to the air and the iron content is oxidized. Roger

Three of them will delay it until July comes Roger

The class F cars (Nos. 552 - 567) and class G cars (Nos. 568 - 601) were all "reconstructed" and became the last batch of class E/1 cars (Nos. 552 - 601). New double deck bodies provided by English Electric Co. Ltd. were put on the old bogies and the existing electrical equipment was reused. Regards Roger

Does anyone know if the LT&SR 4 wheel coaches were repainted in Midland Rly or LMS livery and if so when this was done. I am particularly interested in the 4 wheel stock which worked onto the District Railway and was hauled by the District electric locos. Roger

Hi Andy, For the 0-4-0 I I etched a "spider". I had turned the rimes myself as the association rims were not the available. I did not make a recess on the inside of the rim as my turning skills are not that good and I did not want the rim any thicker. For the 0-6-0 I used the association rims which have a rebate on the inside of the rim. I included enough rim on the etch to fill the rebate flush with the inside edge of the rim. My aim is to make the rim as thin as I can to balance the oversized flange. The outermost layer has just the balance weights and boss and no spokes and sits inside the rim flush with the outer face. I used 1mm rod for the axles for the 0-4-0 so the I could make the boss smaller than a 1.5mm axle would allow. Regards Roger

Here is are photos of them. The 4 coupled are 7mm dia. and the 6 coupled 8mm dia. I made a jig from a piece of Tufnol with a hole for the stub axle and a second the the crankpin. The axle rod is pushed up through the hole which needs to be a tight fit. The etched layers are tinned and then threaded onto the axle. The crank pin is used to align the spokes and the end of it fits into the other hole. The inside of the rim is also tinned, I used Carrs green label flux, and the rim put round the spokes. The wheel can now be sweated up with pressure applied to the rim to hold everything tight.# Regards Roger

I have done it twice! I assembled them with a crankpin in place which aligned the spokes. I needed to trim the centres slightly to fit the rims and I did this by hand with files. Regards Roger

I am going to try using 3D printed arches to support the trackbed and I think that I can easily make this strong enough. It looks as though I will have to have a mixture of occupied/unoccupied arches and I shall continue to look for period photos so I can get a reasonable mix. Many thanks to all who replied. Regards Roger

I'm with you at the top of the support but I am concerned that where the pillar joins to the ground level baseboard there is no spare space for fillets to go. I also have point motors and uncoupling magnets to hide, Regards Roger

I am thinking of GER arches similar to those at London Fields and these have pillars which are 3ft wide. Allowing 1.5mm for the 3D printed walls this leaves space for only 3mm ply which needs to be rigidly fixed on end. Regards Roger