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    Lacathedrale

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    And one more vote for the 'simple' version, William. I would think that the loco spur needs to be longer and will also require  a trap point.

     

    I would go for EM as somewhat better looking in track terms than 00 and a little more 'forgiving' than P4. I suppose that I shouldn't say that being both a 2FS modeller and a member of the Scalefour Society!

     

    No more prevarication William. Seize the moment!

     

    David

    PaternosterRow

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    Hi Mike. Good to have you back, it's been too long! Back to Perry Barr form. For some reason High Trees just didn't quite do it for me. It seems that your more constrained projects are a more natural fit for your style of modelling. I don't mean to push you into a particular box but you do seem to have a particular talent for tightly defined scenes. Look forward to more pics of the latest opus.

     

    David

     

    PS I would expect a blanking plug to solve your problem with the Q1. DCC chips can be very variable in performance when asked to process DC.

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    46444

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    38 minutes ago, 46444 said:

     

    Thanks Rich. Glad someone also remembered those articles. I wonder who the author was and which copy they were published in. Very inspirational for the time. 

     

    Kind of brings back happy memories of a more inoccent time. 

     

     

     

    The gentleman was called Keith Allen and the articles were published in Railway Modeller at intervals between November 1980 and January 1983.

     

    David

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    46444

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    Hi Mark,

     

    Attached are some photos that I took at the Ribble Steam Railway in 2013. They are of B575554 which was built with Morton unfitted brake gear by Pressed Steel in 1956. Its condition at Preston shows it to have been rebodied at some point and also given four shoe fitted brake gear with two brake cylinders. These were, I believe, to be of slightly different diameters but under a 4mm wagon I wouldn't worry too much about that! The more puzzling aspect for me about such an arrangement is that, unlike their 21T counterparts with two cylinders there is no changeover lever for loaded/unloaded conditions nor a self-adjusting brake to achieve the same result. Perhaps Paul could come up with an answer.

    It had obviously spent its final years carrying spent ballast for the civils as it has the twin cuts in the sides to prevent overloading. It also has a distinctly non-standard end-door stripe! As Paul has mentioned it shows the curved bottom edge to the side which was a feature of many rebodies. The end-door is at the 'wrong' end compared to when it was built where on the clutch side of the brake gear the door would be to the left. Also note that the tie-bar between the axleguards is made of angle and not flat strip and the hand levers also have reinforcement for part of their length.

    Coincidentally there is a photo of B569425 from the same Pressed Steel lot in BR Wagons Volume 1. It is in traffic use in 1978 and shows all the features of B575554 apart, obviously, from the cut-outs and that odd white stripe.

    Hope this helps.

     

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    David

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    Maurice Hopper

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    Maurice,

     

    And an excellent newspaper on which to work if I may say so. Although its current contents are more likely to depress than inspire.

     

    I admire your ability to work in multiple scales. Every time I've worked in something larger than 2FS I feel as though I need my eyes recalibrated or a new set of eyes and larger tools to go with them!

     

    Any chance that you will be at Wells next month?

     

    David

    PaternosterRow

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    Lovely piece of work, Mike, and very atmospheric pictures. I love the concept of Cape Killarney but not much possiblity of rocket launches last time I was there, it was blowing a gale and the rain was horizontal!

    The moon landing brings back some nice memories for me. I was staying with an aunt and uncle, both now long gone, in Bristol. We watched the landing on television, all in black and white of course, we had a day at the cricket watching Gloucestershire v Lancashire and the rest of the time I had the delights of a South West Rover. All those hydraulics!! :D

     

    David

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    PaternosterRow

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    Mike,

     

    The problem with signalling is that the type used very much defines the area of the country in which the layout is set. If on the lines of the GWR then it will be lower quadrant signals with square wooden posts giving way to steel tubular posts over the years. On ex-LMS and LNER lines upper quadrant signals with steel posts became the standard from at least the 1930s. In some cases older signals merely had the arms replaced by the upper quadrant variety while retaining all other original fittings. I would suggest that you have a look here:

    https://www.track-shack.com/cgi-bin/ss000001.pl?page=search&SS=ratio+signals&ACTION=Go!&PR=-1&TB=A

    (other suppliers are available!) and decide which items would suit you best.

     

    David

    PaternosterRow

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    Hi Mike,

     

    Photo 1 (HST) All arms should point away from the track to which they are adjacent i.e. towards the trees!

    Photo 4 (DMU) Arm is pointing the correct way but rear of arms are white with black stripe for home signal and white with black chevron for distant signal.

    Photo 5 (HST) Both arms should point away from the adjacent track as bracket by DMU.

    In all cases the lamps will have to be moved to align with the spectacles on the moved arms.

     

    Hope this helps.

     

    David

     

    Edit: the signals have an LNWR look about them. This would be unusual in the HST era as they would most likely have been replaced by standard LMS or BR upper-quadrant signals.

    Yan

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    You'll have no trouble with the electromagnets being 5mm below the surface. Unless my eyes deceive me they are the PK type from MSE. They are seriously strong. I've been using them for years as they originated with Phil Kerr from The 2mm Scale Association and I think were designed to work with DG couplings which I use on all my stock.

     

    I'm with Pete on the track; that is some excellent work. The whole layout is quite delightful.

     

    David

    PaternosterRow

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    Excellent work, Mike and especially the choice of subject. The complete antidote to all those chocolate-box depictions that get churned out. I love suburban stations and they are the part of the railway that the majority of passengers have experienced since the early days of the railway in travelling to and from their places of work.

    I also like the fact that you have modelled a station on a railway with overhead electrification which is still a bit of a minority interest in modelling circles. I grew up with a suburban railway at the end of our garden in Southport which had both steam and 3rd rail electric services but I was also captivated by the developing 25kv system just along from us in Liverpool.

    By the way, back in the late 1990s I developed a real liking for Steve Jones' excellent photos, especially the wagons. I used to stay behind after work on a Friday and wait until the office was empty. I could then print his wagon photos in full A4 and colour on the office laser printer. I still have them to use as a reference for modelling.

    Looking forward to more posts from Perry Barr!

     

    David

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