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Penrhos1920

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  1. Unfortunately there’s no photos showing what the coupling looks like or how it works on that pages
  2. Alternately you could keep the power unit bogie and put the rest on eBay. I’m sure somebody would like to buy the body and convert it into an auto coach.
  3. Where the city trains hauled by Metropolitan electrics after the metropolitan was electrified around 1908?
  4. Didn’t they have the buffers packed out a couple of inches because the screw couplings are longer? Other wagons that were fitted with screw couplings during the first world war for working in France definitely did.
  5. This North’s Navigation has been modelled with the number in the centre at the top, whereas the photos have it on the bottom right plank. Also remember that some wagons have Cardiff rather than Bridgend.
  6. In in the 1920s what traffic flowed eastbound through the Rhondda tunnel? Was it just empty wagons or was there any anthracite? Was there an RCH book that gave approved routes for mineral and goods?
  7. KT7/157 there’s no photographs. It is about the 20 ton wagons hired from the GWR. KT6/115 Gloucester wagons all red, white letters with black shading 184 Bridgend 6 planks 1647, 1931, 2197 Bridgend 7 planks 1055, 1145 Cardiff 7 planks. all of these are from orders where the other numbers weren’t recorded. In 1922 numbers 3300 to 3399 bought from Cambrian wagon works. Numbers 3000 to 3599 also came from Cambrian in 1924.
  8. KT12/3 is a copy of a postcard of the colliery. Although wagons are visible no numbers are visible.
  9. The frame was built on a Friday afternoon?
  10. My father has recalled a time when he was young in a signal box. 2 panniers arrived at the home signal outside the box, uncoupled and running separately. After the signalman set the road, Dad was told to pull off the signal, once the first pannier has moved off he returned the signal lever and a minute or so later he was told to pull it off again and once the 2nd pannier had left return the lever and then give 2-1 to the box down the line.
  11. I wonder if Rapido will start selling them unpainted? At a good discount. They would be great for applying my own liveries.
  12. I’ve had a look at the previous archived topic of this title and online. Was there a specific bell code for 2 or more light engines not coupled together?
  13. My son has done 2 test prints of the end of one of the viaduct piers. The blue one is with a 0.2mm nozzle, the other is 0.4mm. The 0.2 looks better but I’m reserving final judgment until I’ve painted them. Yesterday I had a day out at the NRM archives. I had reserved several rolls of drawings from Swindon C&W. I had a successful day looking at drawings of GWR Crocodiles loaded with buoys from the factory at Pontypridd that would have travelled via Penrhos, drawings of the wagons themselves and drawings of the coaches built by the GWR specifically for the Cardiff valleys. Whilst having lunch I saw this signal post. The somersault arms could easily have been from the valleys. Does the finial tell someone what line this was from? I’m puzzled by the arrangement of the counterweights. Why are there 3?
  14. Do I need to ask my host company (namesco) to tell me how to redirect the www subdomain to the TLD? Or is it really easy?
  15. Is the smokebox door a separate piece or is it integral with the boiler moulding? I have a BR version that I want to backdate to GWR.
  16. Well my railmotor has finally arrived. It runs flawlessly backwards, forwards, with sound, up and down the hills and around the curves. its brilliant. Except there’s a rattle. Clearly, somewhere inside, there is a piece that is moving around and I damned if I can find it. So what do I do? Send it back or keep it? It probably doesn’t matter what I do with it because it’s scheduled to become Barry Railway steam rail motor number one. And that requires cutting 10 foot out of the middle of it, changing one of the bogies and changing the roof. Not a small job but then again not a big job either. The question is will I be the first to do a cut and shut on this lovely thing.?
  17. I think I bought my most recent window grills from RailTec. But I can’t find them on their website.
  18. Definitely. That will be the other scenic break. My son is currently printing the first of the viaduct piers.
  19. Yeah the kits for the 2 scenic boards have arrived and this is a dry run of building the first board
  20. Are Lokcommander decoders any good? I can’t find much about them.
  21. they are custom transfers that they sell for brakevan allocations. They also suit coach allocations for the ends to replace the Birmingham division 43. You can even make up your own like Tondu No.2 but don’t tell @The Johnster
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