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Poor Old Bruce

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  1. Two taken 23 Nov 2019 en route to the NEC I may have the unit numbers somewhere in a 'safe' place.
  2. No, it was actually St. Andrews Goods Yard adjacent to the south end of Midland station as described by Bill Radford above.
  3. Sorry Mike, you're right. 5th and 6th Oct 2024 (just testing you 😐).
  4. Usually the first full weekend in October so it looks like the 6th and 7th next year. EDIT to say I misread my calendar. It's actually the 5th and 6th October next year (2024). See below.
  5. IIRC it was 'Clan Cameron' which took a special train for a gathering of said clan. It was even crewed by Camerons.
  6. Me too. They have no problem with 3ft curves or Streamline curved points.
  7. I've recently see some Mineral wagons on the decent chassis. Look for Mineral wagons with footboards and J-hanger suspension.
  8. There was a thread on here a (long?) while ago if you can find it. The first thing to do is find some of the yellow track cleaning coaches at swapmeets - you don't need the track cleaning gubbins - and swap the chassis as the track cleaner has scale height buffers (then flog off the unwanted bits at another swapmeet). The roof can also be lowered by taking off about 1mm at cantrail level (there's a ridge there to guide your craft knife), cut down the ends to a lower profile (I used an old 'Smash' mashed pototo tin for a guide and also to form a new plastic card roof. Add roof detail to taste. That gives the coach a whole new look. Block off some of the windows to make a brake compartment.
  9. Nice pics from days gone by but could you tell us where they all are please?
  10. There were also examples of plain green with right-facing late crest, IIRC 82006.
  11. We should always remember that other folks are entitled to their ridiculous opinions 😊
  12. The results of hand lining had been more than "good enough" for more than 100 years.
  13. County Record Offices and/or Local Studies Libraries usually have maps of their respective counties at 25 inches to the mile of various dates and from before flying was invented (except for birds of course). Some urban areas are even mapped at 125 inches to the mile.
  14. Be nice if it was a 4mm MR Kirtley goods 0-6-0 😀
  15. I once saw what I took to be an ECS working heading north on the WCML north of Preston, a Black 5 with 20 coaches.
  16. I would change "would" to "could". While a red engine with a black tender may have been a possibility I have not found any reference to such an occurrence, unless you know different of course.
  17. The information given is taken from Essery and Jenkinson's LMS Locomotives Volume Two. Yeadon states that Crewe only applied LMS red to these locos from Oct 1923 to Feb 1924 and that 5069 had the LMS number applied in Feb 1924 when the red was presumably applied. The implication being that 5069's tender escaped having the number applied at that point.
  18. It's probably been written somewhere on here already but there were four Precedents painted LMS red: 5012 John Ramsbottom 5036 Novelty 5050 Merrie Carlisle 5069 Penrith Beacon 5069 apparently didn't get the tender numbers and 5012 kept the red livery with post 1928 markings.
  19. I don't think a comparison with an old Tri-ang van is a good idea as the van in the picture seems to be on a the chassis for a 4-wheel coach which suggests it has been 'tweeked' to fit. Comparison with some of the HD wagons may be more appropriate. Could your van be a K's cast whitemetal kit? Your best plan might be to measure it and compare with published wagon diagrams.
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