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Neal Ball

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  1. 6 Panniers - blimey I had better get a wiggle on :-)
  2. 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!
  3. Thanks Nick. That roof shot of the canopy at Henley is interesting… it could do with a clean! Thanks again.
  4. 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.
  5. 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...
  6. 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)
  7. 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.
  8. Thanks Andy The railway colours are Railmatch acrylic. The non railway colours are Vallejo acrylic.
  9. They have both been sprayed with my Iwata airbrush.
  10. Both 70ft carriages now have glazing and door furniture down one side. I am very pleased with how these carriages have come along.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. Reported in the January 1935 GWR magazine!
  14. 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.)
  15. There is also a danger of that... helped by the fact that my stock generally only gets seen from one side!
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. Plus of course a carriage for "the farm labourers". The Commander would have travelled 1st class from Plymouth.
  20. 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?
  21. 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.
  22. Thanks as ever Mike. Have you seen that the GWR magazine is available on line? https://didcotrailwaycentre.cook.websds.net Fascinating to see it.
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