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Ladmanlow Sidings and other C&HPR locations


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19 minutes ago, westerhamstation said:

Hi Al, all you need is a Flux Capacitor. All the best Adrian.

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You're just being silly now..............

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

........how on earth is he going to generate the 1.21 gigawatts required?

 

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3 hours ago, westerhamstation said:

Hi Al, all you need is a Flux Capacitor. All the best Adrian.

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3 hours ago, chuffinghell said:

 

You're just being silly now..............

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

........how on earth is he going to generate the 1.21 gigawatts required?

 

 

3 hours ago, Alister_G said:

 

Using my fusion reactor of course - haven't we all got one lying about?

 

Al.

 

All the motor bikes reach at least 88 mph at weekends on the local roads, so just harness one of those!

 

Mike.

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52 minutes ago, Enterprisingwestern said:

 

 

 

All the motor bikes reach at least 88 mph at weekends on the local roads, so just harness one of those!

 

Mike.

 

I have no idea what you mean....:angel:

 

Besides, my bike's dynamo's only produce about 7.5 volts, unless the regulator is acting up. The magneto ignition puts out around 18-20,000v @ 0.5A, which I suspect would do something quite rude to a DCC controller.

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4 hours ago, AdeMoore said:

Excellent article in the virtual exhibition Al as Rob and co have already said well written, top

 top photos outstanding really. Great work of that there is no doubt.

Cheers

Ade

 

30 minutes ago, sb67 said:

Great to see the Ladmanlow in the virtual show Al, very very inspiring :good_mini:

 

Thanks guys, that means a lot.

 

Al.

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1 hour ago, teaky said:

Is that half a shed door on the loco?  Is the driver a southerner?

 

It's a modification you see quite regularly on C&HPR locos, the weather could be quite fierce up on the tops of the Derbyshire moorland where the railway ran, and so they built these extra doors out of wooden pallets and sacking to try and keep the wind, rain and snow out of the cab.

 

Al.

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2 hours ago, Alister_G said:

 

It's a modification you see quite regularly on C&HPR locos, the weather could be quite fierce up on the tops of the Derbyshire moorland where the railway ran, and so they built these extra doors out of wooden pallets and sacking to try and keep the wind, rain and snow out of the cab.

 

Al.

Locos on the Wissington railway in Norfolk had similar modifications because of the way the east wind blows across the Fens.

 

Great modellling Al

 

Martyn

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When you take the middle axle plus axlebox out you’re left with a large rectangular gap, rather than a axle sized round hole, with a tiebar across the bottom. I fancy the spring and hangers would go as well, leaving lugs riveted to the frames.

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5 minutes ago, Northroader said:

When you take the middle axle plus axlebox out you’re left with a large rectangular gap, rather than a axle sized round hole, with a tiebar across the bottom.

 

http://www.sutherland.davenportstation.org.uk/aaprint/chp/chp-67-02.jpg

 

 

Yep, a bit of filing filage might be indicated. Thanks.

 

Al.

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Thank you, it's a pleasure to be inspiring in some way.

I would imagine that the middle axle was taken out if either:

The tank was being used somewhere with stupidly tight curves.

So you win there.

The tender wheels and axleboxes were well worn and the cheapest solution on a minor line was to cobble up a tank wagon that had a minimum of wearing surfaces out of the least worn parts. The middle axle would be more prone to wear anyway.

So you win there.

I didn't pull the middle axle out of mine, never crossed my mind, but it makes more sense. 

All I did was paint as you had and then had the word WATER in off white 6" high sans serif each side.

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Al,

 

In general the later Midland tenders were left as 6-wheelers, I think because they were introduced in the 60s, after Middleton Incline was closed and water traffic came in from Buxton. The former LNWR tenders always did have the centre axle removed, and could therefore be used for the remaining water traffic up Sheep Pasture Incline.

 

Regards,

 

Geraint

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On 11/11/2020 at 22:00, Alister_G said:

I've realised there's no train related photos on this page.

 

So now there is:

 

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Al.

 

Have you thought of standing off in the distance when your brother takes a photo so that you can be in a photo of your own layout?

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