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6 Panniers - blimey I had better get a wiggle on :-)
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Today has seen another day of running the Manor 4-6-0. I had filmed a couple of sequences, but wasn't happy with how they came out. Sometimes my DSLR doesn't focus very well in video mode - it was ok on the back screen, but not when I brought hot up to the Mac to make into a video. More running-in ensued! I also started to glaze the C23 clerestory - to be continued. Over the last week or so, I have re-written my loco blog and moved it into the same section as my carriages. This area is now called "Kit-built stock for Henley-on-Thames" replacing my "bodgers guide to Comet carriages" My next blog page will probably be for the Worsley works 3rd C22 46ft Clerestory carriage (details here: https://gwrcoaches.org.uk/Clerestories.shtml) as I have just received the required Dart castings parts to complete the carriage: (8ft 6 Dean bogies; Dean vacuum cylinder; Dean buffers and for the first time, door hinges). Then it will be onto the H26 70ft Restaurant carriage and who knows which carriage, or maybe loco next!
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Thanks Nick. That roof shot of the canopy at Henley is interesting… it could do with a clean! Thanks again.
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OO Gauge GWR Toplight Mainline & City Coaches announced
Neal Ball replied to Free At Last's topic in Dapol
Highlevel - cant remember what gearing -
OO Gauge GWR Toplight Mainline & City Coaches announced
Neal Ball replied to Free At Last's topic in Dapol
Thanks Keith and Mike. Thanks Keith - so my little whitemetal metro tank won’t be hauling them I guess. It will be a shame if I have to split it into two rakes. I’ve got 6 on order Thanks Mike. I don’t have the Dapol 61xx, instead I went for two Hornby 61xx. These are carriages that were very much on my wish list when I set up the Toplights poll a few years ago. Maybe I need to reduce the order down to 4 carriages instead of the 6. -
OO Gauge GWR Toplight Mainline & City Coaches announced
Neal Ball replied to Free At Last's topic in Dapol
I think you have said this before Keith - I dont have any grades, but a min 3rd radius on the approach into the station - but am concerned if you are having issues, whether my locos will be able to pull them in. I wonder what the solution is... -
Yes! They were still in a box on the bench, together with the coal. Plus once I am happy that the loco will run for more than 2 sessions, I will change the speaker for something beefier! (Crew, like the lamps are Modelu - normal ones, not those pre-printed ones)
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Replacement Manor - its a long story and taken months to resolve - but finally, I have a working Anthony Manor on the railway, seen here with the 70ft carriages.
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Thanks Andy The railway colours are Railmatch acrylic. The non railway colours are Vallejo acrylic.
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They have both been sprayed with my Iwata airbrush.
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Both 70ft carriages now have glazing and door furniture down one side. I am very pleased with how these carriages have come along.
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I am still wading through 1935. When it was launch onto the GWS website, I think the idea is that it will remain free for a short while and then for a fee. But still free for GWR members.
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And there is an index for every year! - I haven't seen that before. I was looking through 1935 earlier and searching "Henley" or "Regatta" ..... there was an interesting article about the new Centenary carriages. interestingly, I found a photo of the new train with a fully streamlined Manorbier Castle at the helm.
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Today I have glazed the e112 Composite carriage. I have run out of time to add the door furniture today. Both 1st/3rd Composite carriages are seen together, although they are the wring way round - the 112 should be this side of the 111. (With a Restaurant carriage in between.)
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C69 and D120 Centenary carriages - the build
Neal Ball commented on Neal Ball's blog entry in Kit-built stock for Henley-on-Thames
There is also a danger of that... helped by the fact that my stock generally only gets seen from one side! -
Thanks for that Tony.
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Yes that’s the one.
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Having seen the little loco trundling across the viaduct at Pendon, I’ve been a fan! You are right though, they are not a London based loco in my time period.
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As we are talking about the Great Western railway magazine, my copies are from 1936/7/8 and I thought this might be of interest. At Rick’s @The Fatadder Inspired by Brent, we have been talking about a farm being transported. Plus recently there was a conversation with @Miss Prism about windows changing on Restaurant carriages. Ive not seen an article about farms, but I did find a piece about restaurant carriages being refurbished - 105 of them! Of course what caught my eye was one of the last Barnum locos.
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I seem to remember in the BTF films from a few years ago, there was a video about a farm moving. I nearly wrote “ staff”, maybe that’s the distinction - the labourers would stay behind, but the staff would travel.
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Plus of course a carriage for "the farm labourers". The Commander would have travelled 1st class from Plymouth.
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I find the old GWR magazines fascinating to read through. I have about 6 next to the model railway. Now that they are on-line, I can see many a happy hour flicking through the pages. Have fun reading and I look forward to seeing the 57 cattle being transported. Presumably there was machinery as well?
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That sounds about right Tony. I read a comment I think in the Dapol thread that the carriages are heavy. Do any of your kit-built locos struggle with the 3 of them? I am hoping for a set to make 6 carriages and hope that my new kits can cope! I don't really want to put a 61xx on the front. Thanks, Neal.
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Thanks as ever Mike. Have you seen that the GWR magazine is available on line? https://didcotrailwaycentre.cook.websds.net Fascinating to see it.