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Worsdell forever

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  1. A G5 for Greyscroft Mine... The passenger service through Greyscroft Mine would no doubt be hauled by a G5. 67240 was chosen as it was shedded at Whitby in 1955. It emerged from Darlington works as No 1096 in May 1894, the first of 110 members of one of the most sucsessfull small passenger tank classes ever built. It's first shed was Neville Hill. It was never sheded outside Yorkshire, moving to Ilkley in 1924 then Starbeck, back to Ilkley then Neville Hill again then to Whitby on 19-7-1953. It moved to Malton on 20-11-1955 from where it was withdrawn in April 1956 and cut up at Darlington. The Kit, built to EM gauge, is from Alexander Models with Gibson wheels, High Level gearbox and a Mashima 14/24 motor. The basic frames put together using Comet EM frame spacers. Tank sides bunker and cab attached to the footplate. Smokebox and boiler fitted to the footplate, Quite a lot of material had to be removed from the underside of the boiler where it sits on the ledge on the cab front but only after I removed about 4mm from the firebox end to make it the right length.
  2. Having seen this loco running on my layout at the weekend I think it's owner should be very pleased with it (even if it couldn't move 8 loaded ironstone wagons ). A superb job Paul.
  3. I'm back to work on Monday after a week off : (

  4. Status? as Ronnie Corbett said once 'I know my place'

  5. Yes, definitely needs something in there, stones and general detritus, a shopping trolley perhaps?
  6. To keep the current 'mostly on the NYMR' theme going that this thread has taken, here's a shot of 7F 53809 emerging from a cloud of it's own steam at Gromont on 12th July.
  7. LNER Reflections... I recently took a few photos of the interior of the LNER brake third on the NYMR and when I looked at them on the computer I discovered this...
  8. Really like the vac pipe probably an n'th of the cost of a cast one and about as good and fun to make.
  9. Hi Jonathan, Looks good, the pony does look slightly odd but as you say it could be a combination of the angle and the chassis. I've looked at a drawing in NE Record V3 and the rear driver/pony wheelbase should be 24.5mm.
  10. Nah! that's photos from the PECO packing department.
  11. Great Keep forgetting this is 2mm
  12. Trains4U = shop. Looking good Grimley, still acres of bare board to cover though
  13. until
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  14. Superb stonework and the harbour wall really looks the part, especially the rust stains around the ladder fixings.
  15. Looking good, although the track looks far too even and neat for a war zone!
  16. Love the tar wagon, you could almost peel the tar off.
  17. Thanks Craig, I had found the Cambrian one but my eyes were closing last night so never posted! I know my work is no where near yours, but it has made me (and no doubt others) up my game a bit with wagon building, although with these old kits I've pretty much built them as intended. The TIC wagon was built about 10 years ago and I now try to finish the interiors a little better! Iak, The ones in the box aren't to mysterious, I'm pretty sure they are BR 12/13t Vans, they are Parkside kits so should be easy to identify, but there's no pressing need for them at the moment. One thing I like about the 3H kits, especially the vans, is that the body sides are quite thick, which gives plenty of material for the solvent to get hold of.
  18. Here is a 3H LNER 6 plank in Tyne Improvement Commision livery for comparison with what is probably the LMS one. For some reason I didn't fit the door stops and didn't notice till now! I have a couple more kits without any information with them, they may stay in the kit box!
  19. Thanks Paul That could be what it is then, Doug has some LMS 5 planks in 5' gauge and these tend to reflect his old 4mm kits.
  20. I've studied this book again, the kit has 5 planks, one door stop/spring and outside V's. None of the wagons in the LNER wagons book exactly matches this description, so it could be either an LMS wagon (I'm not sure if Doug made many LMS wagons, I should ask him) or a 'standard' RCH one.
  21. Thought it was about time this workbench was updated. I was going to continue with the milk van but the chance purchace of an Ian Kirk NER Boplate (although one produced by Colin Ashby), a Four Most Models (ex MAJ Models) L&Y 12ft wheelbase van and 12ft wheelbase 1 plank open I thought I would have a go at these first. I built one of these Boplates about 10 years ago and this is the first kit for one that I have seen since that one. The basic kit has gone together well, I have added the inside end brackets and some correct underframe trusses. All that is needed now is to fit them, add the brake levers and build the bogies. The L&Y wagons have the same underframe and went together well for such old kits, the van has the option of fitting roof doors but I chose not to model these as you are left on your own with these and I don't have photos of them. I also had a rummage in my kits box and found an equally old 3H Models 5 plank open, I initially thought it was an LNER wagon (I just had the mouldings, no packaging, but deffinatley 3H) but I can't find photos of one in 'LNER wagons' so now I'm not quite sure what it is apart from being 1923 RCH. any suggestions would be welcome. There was no floor with the kit (probably lost due to it not being in a bag) so a floor of plasticard was cut and scribed with planks.
  22. Looking good James, stonework really looks the part.
  23. Even if the fence is barely visible it is one of those details that would be conspicuous by it's absence. Keep up the great work.
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