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  1. Barry Ten
    I'm grateful to C-Rail for the early containers and liveries they've now done. I wonder if any others are feasible - eg Containerway ones? I don't know if these could be done using the existing moulds but they would add some extra variety to be mixed in with early Freightliner containers. I've done some CTi ones using the C-Rail kits and decals.
  2. Barry Ten
    The ML one is the ribbed type, not the earlier style. Here are some I picked up at Warley:
  3. Barry Ten
    6990 Witherslack Hall pulls into King's Hintock.
  4. Barry Ten
    Not much happening in the yard as 7233 clanks through King's Hintock with a slow goods.
  5. Barry Ten
    It's a camping coach, yes.
  6. Barry Ten
    B17 with main coat of paint on. I spent as long preparing and masking it as I did all the work before.
  7. Barry Ten
    I did a painting based on the 1937 photo, which should give an idea of the setting:
  8. Barry Ten
    That double-page colour photo of the whole station is, in my view, one of the very best railway photographs ever taken.
  9. Barry Ten
    My wife and I used to have the same "there must be a piece missing" conversation so often that in the end we got a post-it and stuck "There are no pieces missing!" on the cupboard above the jigsaw table.
  10. Barry Ten
    Some overhead wiring has appeared at Aberdare over Christmas. They were certainly busy with machinery moving up and down the line on Christmas day.
  11. Barry Ten
    I've been working on a B17. The tender seemed to be missing from the kit.
  12. Barry Ten
    I've started a 1/72nd Academy B17G which has been in my stash for years. I tend to build in 1/48 or larger but I can see the benefits of 1/72nd here, it's much easier to work with on a small workbench and it won't take anywhere near as much room as the 1/48 Monogram B17 I built as a kid.
  13. Barry Ten
    It's the tall LSWR chimney as originally fitted to the Urie S15s. I had trouble figuring out the timeline for when alteration to the shorter chimney happened, but if I understood it properly, some locos could have run with the tall ones and smoke deflectors.
  14. Barry Ten
    A most enjoyable issue, some cracking and inspiring modelling and very nice "write-ups" using proper English and that. Particularly enjoyed seeing the snaps of Mr Williams' Hereford project, and look forward to more on that. I notice no facilities for turning locos so presumably engines will depart and arrive "light" from an off-scene MPD.
  15. Barry Ten
    Some of the pictures I took of mine under construction survived the RMweb image crash. This was from back in 2015 and was my first go at both soldering white metal (as well as brass to white metal) and valve gear. I got her out for a spin last week and was pleased that she ran well straight out of storage, although one of the front steps needed repair.
  16. Barry Ten
    A couple of quiet moments at King's Hintock as Mogul 5328 arrives with an early evening stopping train.
  17. Barry Ten
    That makes perfectly senselylode. Deep joy.
  18. Barry Ten
    I tend to be fairly relaxed about shifting English usage but one that does grate with me lately is "aircrafts". Has it now been decided that "aircraft" is singular only, or is it simply ignorance? I've seen it employed in both BBC news reports and in The Guardian.
  19. Barry Ten
    It might depend on whether it's a Urie or Maunsell variant but I found I needed to remove a great deal of brass from the frames to get the motion bracket to sit low enough (or as low as I could get it).
  20. Barry Ten
    Picking up on the earlier observation by Giles concerning improved running with graphite applied to the track, I also found that my Alice greatly benefited from this. It would run very smoothly (on DC) until asked to stop and change direction, at which point it was prone to sticking. The graphite more or less eliminated this at a stroke. It's become my go-to treatment for getting reliable running in N and 009. A single graphite stick will last a very long time as you only need tiny amounts to make a difference.
  21. Barry Ten
    Cardiff rates highly in Simon Jenkins' very nice book on railway architecture, at least. And now I know the origin of Culverhouse Cross (famous or infamous) roundabout/shopping development on the way out of Cardiff. I also lived in Truro, but never entered the railway station.
  22. Barry Ten
    Wonderful, inspiring work as ever, Mikkel. Makes my own paltry efforts this week (a Wills station kit) look rather underwhelming!
  23. Barry Ten
    I dug out a photo from when the 56XX came to the Pontypool & Blaenavon in 2008. The play of light on the hill is very reminiscent of your backscene. I think the gradient here gets up to 1 in 24 so the locos have to work hard, but in this case there was a diesel on the other end.
  24. Barry Ten
    Reminiscent of when a 56XX visited the Pontypool and Blaenavon a few years back.
  25. Barry Ten
    luxury.
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