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Looks like 8269. It's a J19/2 rather than a J20 because of the gap between the smokebox bottom and the valve cover. See this Flickr image: Simon
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My current favourite in this regard is a June 1950 view of a South Manchester transfer freight with a 3F 0-6-0 pulling 3 LNER sleeper wagons, an LNER pipe wagon, 2 LMS 10ft wb vans, 2 SR 4 wheel PLVs/PMVs, an NER BZ, and a long string of opens/minerals bringing up the rear. Regards, Simon
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Volume 6 of this series is now being advertised on the Crecy site: https://www.crecy.co.uk/the-acquired-wagons-of-british-railways-volume-6 It is stated as covering an eclectic mix including pre-1923 minerals and some specialist wagons such as roadstone and glass wagons. Really looking forward to this one. Simon
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It won't be a surprise Richard that it's MSW, but this time steam/electric transition era. It was only boards plus track a few months ago, which is why it's unsurprising Bob wasn't aware of it. Simon
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As noted in my post, the flat topped scoop dome was original. The domed type a replacement. B16/1s started to acquire replacement diagram 49A boilers, hence the altered dome etc positions. Some B16/2s ran with the earlier Diagram 49 boiler as you note and Yeadon states that no B16/3s ran with a diagram 49 boiler. Simon
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The B16s were fitted with NER 4125 gallon tenders with water scoop. These have coalguards which slope down at both ends. The Q6s were fitted with various tenders including 4125 gallon tenders. Of those some were visually similar to those fitted to the B16s (normally and possibly exclusively without water scoop). One of the tenders Hornby have produced is this 4125 gallon tender. However, it represents a tender without scoop gear and thus lacking the dome behind the tank filler required for a B16. The Hornby Q6 4125 gallon tender I've described is as per this Charlie Verrall Flickr image: (note tender body is wider than the Q6 cab). The B16 tender is like this (Robert Gadsdon Flickr image): There are detail differences over time. For example, the filler dome shown here has rounded off top edges. The original lacked the rounding off. If you want chapter and verse on Q6 tender types then look at the Hornby Q6 thread: Regards, Simon
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This is looking excellent Dave. Just a small point to consider for your revised etch. I'm not quite sure what you mean when you say the valence needs to be flush with the footplate edges, but if you mean that the footplate edge shouldn't overlap the valance, then this isn't quite true. Most (all?) Stanier classes have the footplate slightly overlapping the valance. In this image from ebay (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334345541277): you can see the slight overlap clearly (it's normally very hard to see because of the lining). Sorry if I've misunderstood what you meant. Regards, Simon
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I saw this photo of a LMS Crab 2-6-0 on a 2 coach local: https://www.rail-online.co.uk/p265322570/hdc55881d and thought of you Tony. Why? The loco has no lamps! Regards, Simon
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I note that Jim Smith-Wright has built one of the less common 1838 LMS flats (note long brake lever) from a Parkside LMS chassis: https://p4newstreet.com/another-wagon-diverson/ Is there some issue with doing this? That's essentially what I did for my 2mm ones, crosskitting an LMS chassis with the more open framework of a tanker chassis. Most of the framework can't be seen anyway once you've plonked a container on it. Simon
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Sorry, I'd missed that you'd given the location. Yes, not a lot of help. The classic CRL Coles shot of 5458 there (used as the basis for the painting on the cover of Railways Illustrated 49) is an up train. Not that I can remember which was UP on the GW & GC Joint (presumably towards London). The photo is late March 1936 at the earliest. Having googled the image, the B7 has new cylinders. Also Paul Bartlett comes up trumps with a photo showing two AXs on the same conflat: https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/lnercontainer/hba811a0 Simon
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Is your first train going to or from Billingham? That's generally the easiest way of working out whether they are likely to be drikold ones or not. https://picturestocktonarchive.com/2004/08/10/ici-in-billingham-14/ Simon
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Interesting. No, a very quick glance suggests Sascha has done all but the GW BX, but I haven't checked diagrams. Sascha's are print your own and primarily for N anyway. Here's a link to Printables for some of his LMS ones: https://www.printables.com/model/407423-oit-lms-brbm-type-containers-1-148/files Decal file in there too. Someone else was looking into getting some transfers done for the refrigerated containers, but I've not heard anything on that front for a while. Simon
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Are the containers prints of Sascha Freudenberg's designs Jonathan? Simon
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Mostly just left by the looks of it. Some other changes made on some. Some views still available in this thread: especially the second page. Simon