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On 01/03/2023 at 10:14, SteamingWales said:
Hmm
Just looking at the models and thinking about renumbering and how easy it will be to remove the coal hopper?
Ideally after a model with Westinghouse pump and cage bunker but this isn't a combination which is offered ☹️
I have the same "problem" (although I'm sure it's not difficult to get round one way or the other). I'm also guessing that you want a BR early crest version. The options are to buy one without hopper or Westinghouse and add a Westinghouse somehow or other (I'm aware a few different ones may be available, but then there's all the fiddly connections etc to sort out), OR, buy one with Westinghouse and hopper and take the hopper off. I spoke to the TMC guys at Doncaster the other week. He didn't want to take one out of the display case, but was "pretty sure" that the hopper is a separate moulding (makes sense) and therefore "should" come off fairly easily. So, I'm going to get the Westinghouse/hopper version and see what happens.
You may also want to note that the two options mentioned have different buffers (one LNER, one NER) so you may want/need to take that into account as well.
Cheers.
Tim
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Modellers in, or visitors to, Sweden, may be heartened to know that MRJ is available in the newsagent at Lund railway station, along with a good selection of other modelling and railway magazines:
However, any purchasers may be less heartened by the price:
239 SEK is round about £19! Still..... worth every penny/krone.
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10 hours ago, corneliuslundie said:
The one which really caught my eye was the shunting signal. Who is going to be the first to make a model?
Tony Geary's already done it - see page 7 of his Basford North thread.
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Sorry to see you go Adam, I've enjoyed seeing your excellent wagons on here over the years - definitely a cut above most efforts. Good luck with the layout and future wagon-building!
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Happy to be of service!
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Looks like the number begins E196xxx which makes it one of the 10' wheelbase ones (diagram 122 from memory?). Highly unlikely that any of the LNER 9' ones would have survived this late.
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Oh, a J21 - didn't see that one coming (although I suppose it shouldn't be a big surprise as Arthur already does a J24 and J25 and there must be lots of commonality). I already have a Nucast one that I built ages ago, and an LRM one unstarted in the drawer, but I can see me getting one of Arthur's as well as I suspect it will be superior to both.
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Layout looks to be developing nicely,. What have you used for ballast?
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Apologies for the delay in posting this.
My friend Alan has asked me to thank all of you who kindly contributed to this thread. He still hasn't managed to find exactly what he was looking for, but has a few new leads to follow up.
Thanks again.
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36 minutes ago, MR Chuffer said:
The majority, from the photos I see in Essery - pre-WW1, I stress - don't seem to have, though I quite agree, they would reduce the snatching tendency, as would marshalling immediately behind the engine.
You may well be right - I'm away from my reference books/photos at the moment, but my recollection was of seeing a fair few photos of screw couplings on unfitted wagons. My period of interest is later on (40s/50s) though, and it is of course possible that they could have been retro-fitted.
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1 hour ago, MR Chuffer said:
In latter days yes, but pre-WW1, the vast majority of the 3,500 cattle wagons the Midland built were unfitted and not much evidence of through pipes either (Midland Wagons Vol.2 - Essery), and this is likely to have been the case for other railways too. So transitioning to fitted, a much later development? Which still begs the question, would an unfitted cattle wagon do a short journey tacked on to a passenger train, pre-WW1?
I believe that many (all?) unfitted cattle wagons had screw couplings, presumably to avoid the "snatching" of 3-links. Still wouldn't be allowed to be coupled to a passenger train though.
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A belated very happy birthday Arthur!
Some great reminiscences there - you've actually seen what most of us only wish we'd seen! As you probably know, the Sentinel railcar "Royal Charlotte" worked the Kelso branch for several years before moving away from Tweedmouth in (I think) the early 40s.
Unlike Riverside's post above, I'm just getting ready to start one of my D20s (only been in the cupboard about 5 years), but I'm also looking forward to the Q7 and the C6!
Happy Birthday again.
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Thanks to all those who replied. Apologies for the delay in responding - I've been distracted by other things (including going on holiday!).
I'll pass the information on to Alan (my friend), hopefully it will be useful for him.
Thanks again.
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Bit of a long shot, but who knows........
A friend of mine is very interested in the Boer War and has researched various aspects of it over the years. He is currently trying to find railway timetables from just before the outbreak of the war (11 October 1899 apparently). He believes that the railways essentially "stopped" at the outbreak of war (presumably he means as a public service, as I would imagine that they were put to military use during the war?), but that mail trains may have got through to Cape Town and Pretoria for another couple of days. He has tried Googling but without success (I don't have the details, but he says that several of the websites listed were now inactive) and has tried a couple of contacts in South Africa, but with no joy there either. I have tried a quick Google myself: I managed to find a timetable from 1882, but nothing else, but I don't really know where I should be looking.
Does anyone on here have any information on this, or could suggest websites or other potential sources of information?
Like I say, it's a bit of a long shot, but I never cease to be amazed by the collective knowledge on RMWeb!
Hopefully I'll hear back from someone!
Cheers for now.
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On 18/06/2021 at 23:06, it's-er said:
Like south_tyne above, I have just discovered this thread ..... though over 2 years later! I've never heard of anyone modelling Coldstream before, so I shall follow this with interest.
i only know Coldstream from photos - was so disappointed to go to the site and discover there's nothing left of the station. Photos show a rather delightful station and all the appurtences - footbridge, substantial signal box and even ex-LNER G5 locomotive 67303 0-4-4T of Tweedmouth Shed. I'm awaiting TMC's forthcoming G5 with much anticipation!
All the best!
John S
Thanks John. I first got interested in Coldstream from the pictures of the station building in the book "Border Country Branch Line Album", and I too was very disappointed to find that the main building had been demolished. All that's left now are the two blocks of station cottages and one of the bridge abutments. Until fairly recently, the octagonal auction mart was still there, but was also demolished (in the early 2010s I think) - I was surprised at this as I thought it was a listed building.
I will probably get one of the TMC/Bachmann G5s when they come out, as they were quite common on the Tweed Valley line, but I need to finish my London Road Models one first (see workbench thread). This will eventually be finished as E7304, and if I get another it will either be 67303 or 67248.
Cheers for now.
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I decided to pass on this as I found it difficult to justify one at Coldstream in 1949, but it does look like a lovely model of a very interesting prototype.
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Does anyone know when these began to appear on the Eastern/Scottish Regions? The only photo I recall seeing is the one reproduced above which is at Millerhill in 1963.
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On 22/01/2021 at 16:08, The Great Huszar said:
Upcoming Standard Gauge re-issues from the Chivers Finelines Range Due in 2021…
2mm Scale:
RC962 GWR Open C,
RC963 LMS Long Low wagon,
RC964 LMS (BR) Bolster wagon,
RC965 LMS Tube wagon,
RC966 Blue spot fish van.
4mm Scale:
RC201 LBSCER D3 0-4-4t - Whitemetal & Etch kit
RC202 SECR Wainwright J Class 0-6-4t - Whitemetal & Etch kit
RC117 NER 42ft CCT - Etch brass Kit,
RC121 LNER 42ft CCT - Etch brass kit,
RC127 LNER 52ft CCT - Etch brass kit.
RC436 LMS 6 wheel Fish Van,
RC43x 6 wheel Underframe kit,
RC44x 12ft Underframe kit.
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Ooh - some nice etched NPCCS to look forward to. I've got one in the drawer (can't remember which one off the top of my head) from years ago, but it would be rude not to have at least one more.
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Dangerously close to "one year since last post" time, so here's a bit of an update...
I haven't actually done any modelling for several months now - we're having some work done to the house and all the railway stuff is packed away. However, before packing stuff away, I did make some progress on the station cottages.
For reference, here's what the real cottages look like (pictures taken in 1990):
Some of the windows and doors are modern, and not appropriate to my period of interest, and the small windows show "new" internal bathrooms, again not relevant to my time period. The windows of the middle cottage are however, the same as in the 1950s as far as I can tell, though the door is slightly different.
Here are all the pieces shown in the post above put together in the appropriate way, mainly embossed plasticard laminated with double sided tape onto plain 40 thou:
After a coat of primer, this shows the row of transverse bricks (hand scribed 60 x 125 thou) on top of the rear yard walls:
This shows the cottages in situ on the layout following a coat of brick red and a dilute mortar course (but not yet any further weathering). There is another chimney stack to go on yet. The other block of 4 cottages is just a card mock-up at present. There are several detail differences between the two blocks (they were built at different times) - windows, lintels, outhouses, chimney pots etc.
Of course, there are no commercially available windows of the correct size, so I've been experimenting with scratchbuilding window frames and doors from various thicknesses of microstrip and plasticard, and after several goes have finally arrived at something I'm happy with (with temporary glazing and not fixed in yet):
So, that's as far as I got before packing it away. Hopefully will get back to it soon. Quite enjoying this building lark (though not as much fun as making wagons!).
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Thanks all for the replies about the D67 horseboxes. All my railway stuff is packed away at the moment, but I was intrigued by UpDistant's comments so dug out the Tatlow NPCS drawings book. The sample list referred to (of D67s that "survived" into LNER days) actually totals around 120 vehicles, including a contiguous block of around 50, which I would guess are the later (1911 or so) builds. (Incidentally, length-wise, the D67s and later D196s were the same, but the LNER builds were longer). Many types of horseboxes were quite long lived, so I wouldn't bet against some D67s making it to Nationalisation, but it would be nice to have definitive proof. I know that quite a number of D196s did - UpDistant has listed a few, I have pictures of 179 and 227 plus some unidentifiable ones, and I think there are several more in one of David Larkin's books (which again isn't to hand at the moment). Any further thoughts or info on the D67s would be welcomed.
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8 hours ago, Kier Hardy said:
Hello readers, I hope you're all keeping safe and warm. It's been a while since I last posted here, so thought the thread needed a bit of an update.
November, December and January were spent mostly on the new station extension baseboard, further details of which can be found on the emgauge70s website monthly updates. Here's a pic of progress so far.
The canopies have just been completed, so now I can turn my attention to lamp posts, 3rd rail, litter and passengers.
With the lack of social interaction of late, I've spent a bit of time putting together some videos on YouTube. The first two are of a recent running session (already posted in the Media section of RMweb) and the latest one this week is a virtual tour of the railway room. I hope you enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7Yjcv20Zqs&t=434s
Stay safe.... all the best, Kier
Wow, Kier, you've been busy! I really like the station extension idea - will give some good opportunities for stopping passenger trains. Will you have working tube trains as well once it's finished? Hopefully get to see it sometime later this year, pandemic permitting!
Cheers.
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On 31/01/2021 at 19:05, jwealleans said:
Some more items cleared off the bench this evening.
The first D210 twin is now complete and ready to be run in. There's a wheel dragging somewhere but I can't pin it down - twenty minutes round a layout should leave enough of a mark to find it. The second one is awaiting bogie footsteps which I have to order from Dart.
This has been hanging around for a while. Another job lot buy, not what I bought the job lot for as I recall but a bonus win, a D & S NE D67 horsebox. It was incomplete and came with no bits, so I've had to find or make the missing brake gear, one lot of door dampers and other bits and bobs. The buffers and axleboxes were all present and correct, that's usually the trickiest bit. The Powsides lettering I was using up made a bid for freedom as well, but that'll tidy up and weather over.
All tonight's wagons were from the Christmas ebay job lot and I remembered that I'd downloaded the photos to make sure of what was included. So here are some before and after shots. Firstly, the last of the PO minerals, now with MJT W iron and a brass brake lever after I broke that as well. It's been relocated much further north.
North British van - I thought this was Kirk, but it must be NuCast or Cotswold as it has whitemetal solebars and headstocks.
Lastly a 3H open. I knew this was a bit rough, but wasn't too bothered either way. The corners never tidied up enough to be satisfactory, so a tarp was the obvious answer.
I like the D67 horsebox. I have one in the drawer to build sometime, along with a couple of the other NER design that D&S did (the one with the funny roof (as seen on the left in Daddyman's picture above) was it D196? - all my railway stuff is inaccessible at the moment due to some building work going on at the house). However, do you know how long the D67s lasted? I seem to remember that the D&S instructions aren't conclusive about dates. I know the D196s lasted well into BR (my period of interest is just after Nationalisation), but I don't recall ever seeing a photo of a D67 at work. Frustratingly, the recent Hugh Longworth book doesn't include ex-NER horseboxes (whilst it does include horseboxes from some of the other constituent companies). So, I'd be interested on any information/photos showing D67s if any one can help.
Thanks.
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Happily, Dave Bradwell is alive and well (and does design excellent kits). I suspect you may be thinking of Dave Alexander, who passed away last year sometime.
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I'm a big fan of this method of drive. I've made a couple of locos like this (J25 and J39), though my efforts are very poorly engineered somewhat Heath Robinson like bodges compared to Frank's superbly constructed examples- but they work, both locos run very nicely!
TMC announce NER G5 0-4-4T
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Thanks for clarifying that. Even if I end breaking the hopper on removal that's OK (just need to be careful with the cage).