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    Mikkel

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    Ha! Super story with a lovely twist, and the photos are fantastic.

     

    Over here on the Eastern, contemporary documents used the words wagon and truck concurrently to indicate whether they were loaded or empty. For example loaded wagons were forwarded to... and empty trucks returned ...etc. The caveat, and there's always one, was lettering on specialist wagons which always used the word truck, viz; loco sand truck, egg truck, etc.

     

    Godt nyt

    wenlock

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    Hi again Adrian, I looks like I need to read up about early 20th century gas delivery! I'm going to have to think of a suitable excuse to run the cordon on my branch!:-)

     

     

    I think you've already got the perfect excuse in your gas-lit branch set. Park it up by the stop blocks by the bridge for easy access to your carriages, and send it down the line every few days for topping up.

     

    There are a number of photos of DD5 No.7 at Lambourn, even in the late 50s to top up gas-lit horseboxes. See the Atkins bible and here: http://www.time-capsules.co.uk/picture/show/1302/Lambourn-Railway-Station

    wenlock

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    Yes, I concur with Northroader. Town gas was uncompressed - the Metropolitan made use of it initially, carrying it on big bellows-like bags on carriage roofs until the mid-1870s, but it was uneconomical and the bags needed replenishing every three hours or so. The Pintsch system worked at 140psi and a typical incandescent burner consumed 7cu ft p/h (Atkins et al), so cordons were parked wherever carriages could be conveniently recharged, and the tanks replenished every few days by a trip down to the nearest resupply point.

    wenlock

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    Ah! That sinking feeling when you think everything is going swimmingly, and then you realise you've really screwed up. I know it so well! Happily you saved the day.

     

    I do like these wagons - they fall into that nice gap between being unusual enough to add a bit of interest from the usual opens and minks, but not so outr

    Argos

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    I have this same conundrum. The real PITA of representing more than one company is that you're rarely going to get a complete historical record for a particular year which covers all the eventualities you need (or would like!) to model.

     

    Once I accepted that anachronisms are inevitable (and that was a bitter pill to swallow!) I decided that within a scene each train would be faithful to a year, even if something else it passed was a temporal anomaly. I think I once likened it to each train existing in it's own alternate reality - the setting being the unifying factor.

     

    Even so I've made a feather-edged split of two periods, c1890 - c1897 and c1898 - c1905-ish, so that the timey-wimey stuff isn't too wibbly-wobbly.

    wenlock

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    That's coming along splendidly Dave - Gordon's techniques provide excellent results.

     

    For anyone experiencing palpitations at the thought of the price of Gordon's book on Amazon, my chum Simon Castens is now the proprietor of Wild Swan books, and it can be bought directly from Simon's bookshop The Titfield Thunderbolt for the heart-safe sum of  twenty five quid.

     

    http://titfield.co.uk/WildSwan/WSM_TECH.htm

    wenlock

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    That's looking very good! Many cattle docks seem to have had hard standing with drainage in front of the dock to protect the track. ISTR reading that the docks were swept, washed and disinfected once the cattle had been removed, and the mix usually went straight over the side. Not sure if they were consistently there in Edwardian times - I'm still unpacking boxes and haven't yet found Edwardian Enterprise, my branch histories or GWRJ's to check.

     

    http://www.warwickshirerailways.com/gwr/gwrkd2801c.htm

     

    This one's dated 1932 and has a concrete apron, but I've seen (earlier?) aprons made from both timber and setts.

    Mikkel

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    It's a lovely little wagon, and that rich sou'western brown makes a nice change from the local reds and greys.

     

    However...in the shot from the goods shed, my eye was immediately drawn to those lovely wicker baskets as the colour and shading is absolutely spot-on. They really do look like they're made from wicker!

     

    Mikkel

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    Nice to see some bones on the concept.  Perhaps one way of checking the initial higher speed would be to have the biscuit siding fall away from the headshunt so that it ends up a little lower than the rest of the trackwork. In that way the incline along the whole layout would be less than 1:60 and the wagon speed more consistent along its length. If the track reverted to level as it entered the shed, your toothbrush bristle (shaving brush bristles may be softer?) retarders would prevent any accidents.

     

    Different levels of track add another visual dimension, even if they are only a scale foot or two apart.

     

    Hi Mikkel, I always applaude anyone for self betterment, but I think your command of the English language is seemingly better than some of the natives !

     

    I'd say, '...is definitely better than most of the natives'.  Seriously - I often forget that English isn't your first language.

    Mikkel

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    Catching up, catching up...

     

    A range of emotions about this one Mikkel, from delight to disappointment!

     

    Delight in the lovely model you've created - all those little niggles about chamfers and paint end up lost in the overall scene, and that last shot with the van waiting for attention is perfect.

     

    Disappointment? I thought converting one of my 7mm Midland kits was just going to be a case of building new doors. You know, one of those single evening jobs after the kids were safely shovelled into bed. Discovering that the Midland van sides aren't symmetrical (how did I ever miss that one?) has put the kibosh on that and has demoted the job into the less important pile for now. Bah!

    Ian Smith

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    Very nice Ian, no wonder you're delighted - so you should be!

     

    Bin that Humbrol varnish now - horrible stuff! Ronseal, as Dave says, is excellent, and I've also had brilliant results with Windsor & Newton Galeria acrylic varnishes (sprayed the matt is dead matt) over enamel. As long as it's given time to cure properly, enamel weathering over the top causes no problems either.

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