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4 hours ago, Compound2632 said:
Try googling GSWR looking for images of Scottish railway engines. To say nothing of the multiplicity of GNRs. One has to be careful to avoid ambiguity when referring to the Great Northern and the Midland in the same sentence.
If all that wasn't bad enough, one has to tread carefully not to confuse the Caledonian and Cumbrian Railway
Omitting the ampersand is a sloppy modern trait which neither the G&SWR nor the GS&WR did.
Googling gswr gets you to the Gloucester Warwickshire Railway!
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My first scratchbuilt loco was also from a W Hardin Osborne drawing which appeared in the Modeller. When I eventually obtained a copy of the GA drawing of the engine in question I was really disappointed at the number of errors on the published plans. A lesson learned and I don’t trust a drawing without a lot of checking.
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I have scratch or kitbuilt 300+ locos in 4 and 7mm scale and have built them all to run on an H&M Flyer which I bought in the 70s.
The output voltage is just about 10v and it can barely gjve 1/2 an amp.
However if I can get a model, mostly 7mm scale now, to run well on my test rack with the Flyer then I know it will perform perfectly with a better controller.
If you build your models to run well on poor fuel just think how good they will be on top quality stuff!!
Ian
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1 hour ago, TheQ said:
The current government up there is lowering speed limits everywhere,. They are trying to push everyone on to non existent public transport. I use the cross country routes from central Scotland to England, if like me you have to use a car driving south, they are pushing you onto the A1 and M74.
They are not funding road repairs adequately either which means potholes are becoming reverse sleeping policemen. Drive fast at your peril and risk damaged tyres and suspension or worse!Ian.
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The loudest ‘experts’ are those who never build anything of substance.
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I have used Invertrain for buffers, some of the range are the old Northamptonshire products.
Ian.
https://invertrain.com/product-category/buffers/wagon-buffers/page/4/
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1 hour ago, polybear said:
A quick squint at the delights of a Pizza Hut Menu 🤣 suggests that it'd be pretty easy to blow £45 - £50 notes for the same in the UK now, so not so far off (unless prices have jumped significantly since your last visit).
I make my own in the oven with a ceramic pizza stone. 3 × 12" at a time with top quality toppings, no plastic cheese, for around a fiver and about 1/2 hour of my time. Alternatively we can get one delivered for £20!
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The late Richard Chown built his metre gauge Norwegian railway to 43.5 scale and used S7 track standards on his hand built track. I built a Beyer Peacock 2-4-0T for him and used Slaters IOM wheels. However I cannot recall just what gauge we used but I do remember extending the 21mm gauge axles!
After his passing the layout and stock went to the railway museum in Hamer in Norway.
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10 hours ago, AndyID said:
The only one I have is the Caledonian 0-4-4T. It was given to me by a colleague around 1973 because he couldn't figure it out. The castings just do not fit together (not even close) The wheels do not run anywhere close to true and the N/S tire fell off one. The brass LH and RH chassis pieces are different lengths and the motor fell to pieces. Apart from that it's great 😀
I might eventually sort it but if I do not much of it will be from the original kit.
The Caley pug was the first loco kit, other than Kitmasters. which I bought. It was sometime in the 60's when I was a student and from Glassfords model shop in the Cowcaddens are of Glasgow, long gone now! It went together well enough and ran OK as an 0-4-0 with the bogie just along for the ride.
I parted with it when I changed over to P4 in 72 and saw the late Mike Gilgannons version of the same kit. Chalk and cheese!
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The G&SWR engines did spend most of their time on lightly laid and curvy colliery lines but to access these branches they had to use main lines too. There are signalbox registers for Kilwinning junction which records rather a lot of movements and that is on the busy line between Ayr, Largs and Glasgow.
They were also used extensively on shunting duties at Princes Pier and Ardrossan where the tender capacity helped keep them working longer without topping up unlike pugs with relatively small tanks and coal space.
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Four wheeled engines are relatively simple to build from scratch so why not have a go!
I described my 7mm one here https://westernthunder.co.uk/threads/simple-loco-to-fill-a-space.5028/
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19 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:
I spent some time in Stavanger on a ship that was laid up, and thus met many Norwegians. They explained that most of their TV was in English with Norsk subtitles, therefore they learned English without really trying! To a person, they were polite, helpful and just nice folk. There was an English bar on the quayside, where we were made very welcome as we added to the atmosphere! Lord (pick your own) it was expensive though.
Wandering through the town I found the railway station ('train station' if you are under 30) and was mighty surprised to find a Beyer, Peacock 2-4-0T there, as in Manx stylee. Turns out ours were after theirs, but to an almost identical design.
Happy memories of a friendly country. And the women....ooohhrrrrr
One if these perhaps?
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16 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:I can sniff a complaint to the banking ombudsman looming.
Dave
Go for it Dave. Our little railway society has has made a few complaints about banking problems/incompetance with the result that our income from compensation far outweighs the interest we get from our savings!
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1 hour ago, SM42 said:Glad to hear things are looking good on Sherry's recovery.
At times when someone loses their life in front of a train, I often find myself taking a few moments to think about the family left behind. Accidents are worse as there was no intent, but somewhere you know there will be a police officer having to knock on a door with the worst type of news to deliver.
As far as the coroner is concerned, it will be for the police to gather such information as to cause to satisfy the coroner.
Hopefully you should be on your way again soon. The police aim to get things going again within 90 minutes, but a lot depends on circumstances.
Andy
Remember the driver who probably had a first class view of the incident and could do nothing to prevent it. He or she has to deal with that trauma which will be with them always especially when/if they return to the cab.
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Philip,
I got a couple, attached. A real blast from the past. I remember Ross Pochin's articles in MRN which inspired me to model something different from the mainstream. It was very good to see that they still stand up to scrutiny today.
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6 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:
There is a little old chap who lives locally who repairs and restores accordians as a hobby.
I am his go to when he requires little bits made up in brass.
I've made up quite a few brass keeper plates which have needed a pair of 10BA threaded holes.
It's a bit like reverting to 4mm scale modelling!
Nyda is out this afternoon and it is my intention to do some 7mm stuff. It may just be rubbing down nand painting some of the cassette tables, or I might push out the boat and mix up some epoxy and start gluing a bridge together.
I use a lot of 10BA screws on my S7 locos.
Ian.
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11 hours ago, airnimal said:
We all had yellow capes when I was growing up. The whole family went on holiday on bikes for all my childhood. When I tell people I have been cycling for 70 years it's because I have the photograph to prove it. My old man never owned a car. Yes that small child on the back seat is me, shame about the haircut.
It would be nice to have some hair!
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We hope to meet up with other followers of the true gauge How about the S7 stand at 12.00 noon?
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5 hours ago, Compound2632 said:
Just needs some suitable carriages:
This is No. 189, which I think must be of an earlier, smaller boilered, Manson class than your No. 241. The stock is the original corridor stock of 1899 with the M&SWJS diners of 1892/3, so this this the 1:30pm from St Pancras or St Enoch (depending which way it's facing) by the 1902 timetable. All the other photos I have of Scotch expresses on the South Western show 4-6-0s, but are of later date - probably mostly after the Great War.
189 is one of James Manson's 8 class while 241, 240 class, is basically the same engine with a larger boiler and cab to suit. There were only two 8 wheeled tenders which were moved around.
Yes I have had a rake of M&GSW coaches on the stocks for years but coach building is soul destroying! I can just manage 1 coach for every 4 locos I build.
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13 hours ago, Dave Hunt said:
See you there Ian. Are you taking any of your models?
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It will be good to catch up Dave.
I'm not bringing anything this time. I have however been busy and just in the process of completing another for my collection. This one with the bogie tender for the 'diner' off the Midland, non stop from Carlisle to Kilmarnock!
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15 hours ago, airnimal said:
John, I'm embarrassed to say that I have 2 full brakes built by John Petcher. When I first encounter them at the Gauge O guild show in Manchester over 35 years ago I never imagined that I would be able to own any models built by John. At the time I was on temporary contracts and with young children and money was very tight. But the quality was inspiring and I have tried to reach the same standard with everything I do. It's not up to me to say if I have obtained that objective but I try my best.
Dave, I am looking forward to the Gauge O guild show next Saturday at Stafford. I have a small shopping list of bits and pieces to buy but I am sure there will be new books to temp me to part with some money.
Ken & I are going to the Gog show on Saturday too but still staying in Bridgnorth so we can spend Friday on the Severn valley. Hopefully we can catch up at the show.
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I'm sure you are underestimating you'r ability big time! Having seen your work on here and in the flesh you need have no fears of rewheeling your coaches.
Ian.
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16 hours ago, magmouse said:
Looking good! I generally use plumber’s hemp for straw - it’s a bit finer than string, typically, and (surprisingly) still available on line.do you have a link or reference for the photo you are working from? I’d be interested to see it.
Nick.
A late modelling friend used hair clippings from his dear wife to represent straw! She was a natural blond lady who wore her hair quite long but when she decided to cut it short in later life he gathered up her locks. I remember him modelling some very realistic corn sheaves for his lineside fields.
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23 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:
a wee dram with ice???
with ICE…!!! 😬 🤯
and you were doing so well!
(I was taught how to drink whiskey by a very large Scotsman in whose beard you could probably lose the entire cast of Macbeth. He made it very, very clear that the only way to drink whisky was with a finger of of water – preferably from a Highland source. As he could break a caber into two without working up a sweat, I was not going to argue with him….)
If it was 'Whiskey' you were drinking then it wasn't Scotch! Irish or American possibly but not Scotch whisky.
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More Pre-Grouping Wagons in 4mm - the D299 appreciation thread.
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I’m just catching up after a weekend away.
Definitely a G&SW 10 ton mineral. Here is a scan from a view of Ardrossan harbour in much earlier times with an almost new example amongst the older dumb buffered wagons. Only a single shoe brake, probably one either side in the Curzon St view but not definite. Note that the 6ton wagon has no brake on this side.
I wonder what traffic the wagon carried to Birmingham, probably not coal. The G&SW had loads of mineral wagons so perhaps pushed into service instead of an open merchandise wagon.