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Fleetfoot Mike

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  1. I have a query in with Search Engine at the NRM - overdue a visit
  2. Sadly, no: as I understand it 'early '30s', as that's what I was asking about.
  3. Just been furnished with a couple of example workings from the era. I think I need a bigger fiddle yard! 13.10 Crewe – Taunton Engine CK (GW) Liverpool – Bristol BTK(GW) Liverpool – Bristol BCK (GW) Shrewsbury (Birkenhead) – Taunton BTK (LMS) Liverpool – Taunton CK (LMS) Liverpool – Taunton RC (GW/LM alt) Liverpool – Taunton BTK (LMS) Liverpool – Taunton BCK (GW) Manchester – Taunton CK (GW) Manchester – P. Road (Pembrey) BTK (GW) Manchester – P. Road (Pembrey) BCK (GW) Birkenhead – P. Road (Pembrey) BC (GW) Bristol - Taunton T (GW) Bristol – Taunton 08.45 Plymouth – Crewe All GWR stock Engine BCK Pontypool Rd (Cardiff) – Shrewsbury (Birkenhead) BCK Plymouth – Shrewsbury (Birkenhead) RC Weston SM – Shrewsbury BCK Plymouth – Crewe (Glasgow) BTK Plymouth - Crewe (Liverpool) CK Plymouth - Crewe (Liverpool) BTK Plymouth - Crewe (Liverpool) BCK Newton A (Paignton) – Crewe (Manchester) BTK Newton A (Paignton) - Bristol (Bradford) CK Newton A (Paignton) - Bristol (Bradford) BTK Newton A (Paignton) - Bristol (Bradford)
  4. As I keep saying on Youtube, superbly evocative...
  5. Thanks for asking at least one of my followup questions I was about to wonder both about building style/colour, as well as who was responsible for the signalling (although my interest is 10 years post-Grouping).
  6. Chipping in here as a wargamer as well as railway modeller: the important thing from my point of view as a club chairman is to get people in the door of the hobby, and to do so while encouraging what passion they came in with, be it (as one of my favourite historical rule writers has it) 'space pixies' or whatever. The fact that they are interested in moving miniatures on a table/putting trains on a track is a far far bigger step than exactly what they model or play. If they get to do that in a supportive and friendly environment, who knows what will ensue - things rub off There are a number of members of our club who joined us to play Warhammer, Warmachine or other fantasy/SF quasi-wargames, and many of them are now deep into various historical era (to quote one of them: "You know, I can't remember the last time I painted a figure without going to check what colour trousers it should have worn for the period"). Heck, time was when I as a railway modeller would have been happy with anything RTR in GWR green or LMS black or crimson on my proposed layout - now I'm trying to track down exactly which loco I should be attempting to model and tracking down kits for stuff that is in period People evolve, and grow into different aspects of their hobby - if we feel that /our/ particular branch is the Grail, then we shouldn't belittle or criticise, but engage.
  7. Anything that might have run on your/my favourite line around ‘34, that hasn’t been converted [you do realise I blame you entirely for my current LNWR-locos-in-LMS-service obsession :) ]
  8. Wondering does anyone have a pointer to a list of if/when individual Cauliflowers received Belpaire firebox conversions, please? My Google-fu is weak today (and frustrating). Thanks in advance...
  9. The OR Dean Goods (subject of much controversy in this parish) appears to have a rather handily spaced wheelbase for certain 0-6-0's, which might be interesting. Re CADMRC, I just found you on FB the other day, and as I'm long overdue for a trip up the Mynd to blow the cobwebs away sometime next year, I'd love to take you up on that while I'm in the area
  10. I'm reminded of Longville on the Wenlock branch, which after it was shut for passenger traffic, also become the de facto terminus. In a reversal of the above, it was essentially a loop with headshunts top and tail, and the main line then continued to the now-disused single platform and stopped.
  11. Developing an unhealthy obsession with a 1936 WTT

  12. Developing an unhealthy obsession with a 1936 WTT

  13. As a slightly amused aside, despite being a GWR fan for the most part, I appear to be developing a considerable obsession for LNWR engines in LMS service. (Apart from anything else, they do seem to contribute a lot to the motive power of the lines through Craven Arms.) I foresee quite a bit of kit-building in my future, somehow.
  14. The wargamers' term for it is 'passes the two foot test'. Nice job, though: I am suitably inspired (*eyes ever-growing eBay saved search list*).
  15. Answering one of my initial questions, I find this photo in the LNWR society catalog: http://www.lnwrs.org.uk/Photographs/PhotoDetails.php?Cltn=ECL&Pnum=183 - a Prince Of Wales obviously pulling a joint train A Prince of Wales would be quite fun to have in 00 - methinks that's a kit job
  16. Still somewhat torn, I have to admit There's also the 8'x1'6" plan for Longville... Decision time by Christmas. In an ideal world I've always wanted to do Craven Arms, but that's a retirement project once I get the workshop tenant and a wall removed, neither of which I really want to do right now (the tenant's nice, and the wall's holding his shelving up!) Besides, I want to practice on something smaller first
  17. Looking at the old OS map I do indeed appear to have it about twice as long as it should be. It's probably enough to work one or two wagons into the kickback: one wonders if prototypically they'd have been hand/rope/horse shunted?
  18. Ah - I was hoping the Voice Of Signalling Wisdom would show up Many thanks for the insight - slowly getting my head around proper prototype practice.
  19. Giving it serious thought - the yard looks to be surprisingly interesting to work for only 5 points and a single slip (hurry up, Peco!), and the actual station at *almost* real length takes up under 12', which would leave some more space for open countryside. Also, the reason for the fictional name is that it's from Malcom Saville's "Lone Pine" books, and Onnybrook pretty much IS Marshbrook.
  20. Hrm - looking at https://www.s-r-s.org.uk/html/gwt/S2965.htm there's an up home short of the crossover... Guessing that means an up goods would stop there, uncouple and draw forward what was being dropped off, thereby clearing the section of mainline parallel to the up loop if it needed to run around wagons?
  21. Amusing notes from the 1933 Sectional Appendix: Marsh Brook Down Local Freight Trains [to Hereford, in other words] Guards of the down local freight trains must inform the signalman at Church Stretton whether they require to stop at Marsh Brook or not, and whether there are wagons to be detatched: the signalman will inform Marsh Brook accordingly. Up Local Freight Trains attaching Wagons Wagons to be attached at Marsh Brook to the up local freight trains, must be picked up rough, and taken to Church Stretton to be marshalled there. Shunting Trains No train must be shunted from one main line to the other at Marsh Brook for another train to pass, excepting in the case of a mishap. So this, according to R A Cooke, is Marsh Brook (consistency in spelling was not a thing!) at the time I'm aiming for.... Up (Church Stretton/Shrewsbury) is to the right. The kickback siding alongside the platform appears to have been for coal. Makes for interesting shunting! As far as I can see, for a down train, you'd stop short of the crossover, detach the appropriate wagons for the yard, draw forward, then cross over to the up loop and drop them off: wagons for the kickback could be picked up straightaway, wagons for the other siding you'd have to run around by leaving them in the up loop? For an up train, the sensible approach would seem to be to stop short of the up end of the loop: not quite sure how you'd handle shunting the yard....
  22. Indeed - I have a 1936 WTT (as mentioned above) which makes interesting reading. I'm still toying a bit between keeping the plan as is, therefore making it a somewhat bigger station than Marsh Brook, and thus getting more local goods trains to stop, as the likes of Church Stretton or Dorrington do, or cutting it down to being, essentially, Marsh Brook. Both are kind of tempting the latter means I get a railway that's a bit more 'set in the landscape' and not rammed with track, the former more operational fun.
  23. A bit of playing with RailModeller after a browse of Cooke section 63 in my lunch break... Extended the down refuge siding and the up loop, moved the goods shed a bit, got rid of that no-really-good-reason kickback siding, moved the signal box to by the level crossing (which I also just added). Essentially it's a simplified Church Stretton - two versions, the second having a slightly more sprawling goods yard. Up and down are currently changing at a whim I THINK London/Hereford is to the left at present. Comments welcome I think I prefer the second, as that allows for a cattle dock on the siding just below the goods shed, and (as seems to be relatively common) the iong lower siding to have a set of coal staithes along a good part of its length.
  24. Heh. Cool. I've gone for a slightly different approach in that my fiction has it that Much Wenlock branch trains (which at this point are still running ) will still terminate at the bigger Craven Arms and Stokesay (as apart from anything else it has a bay, a big goods yard and loco turning/watering facilities), so Onnybrook Junction is at least in part designed as a 'watch quite a lot of the trains go right on by' kind of affair. I'll start a thread once I have something physical to show .
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