RMweb Premium great northern Posted September 25, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 25, 2019 2 minutes ago, Tony Wright said: Good to see you today, Gilbert, And many thanks for lunch and a good chat. I'm glad the new carriages ran well. They look entirely in-place! Remember our talk about observation. Regarding 61828 in the picture above, is it one of the few originals which later got left-hand drive? I know some did, but it was unusual. I assume it's a Bachmann RTR loco, with the later-style cab? If so, it's unlikely to be appropriate. I really must seem like a bl00dy nuisance whenever I call or make observations! I could, of course, be wrong. Regards, Tony. Good to see you also Tony, and thank you for the help and guidance. You have mentioned that K3 before, and I pleaded guilty. I wanted a Lincoln engine that I remembered, and allowed enthusiasm to override research, not for the first time. You certainly aren't a nuisance! I've given some thought to your suggestion about couplings, and now that I shall have some Hornby SK becoming redundant, I could at least have a go. Would you be prepared to e-mail me an idiot's guide on how to do it please? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Wright Posted September 25, 2019 Share Posted September 25, 2019 13 minutes ago, great northern said: Good to see you also Tony, and thank you for the help and guidance. You have mentioned that K3 before, and I pleaded guilty. I wanted a Lincoln engine that I remembered, and allowed enthusiasm to override research, not for the first time. You certainly aren't a nuisance! I've given some thought to your suggestion about couplings, and now that I shall have some Hornby SK becoming redundant, I could at least have a go. Would you be prepared to e-mail me an idiot's guide on how to do it please? I'd forgotten I'd mentioned the K3 before, Gilbert; crumbling memory? Rather than my try and email a set of couplings' instructions over, let's fix up a time here and I'll show you how it's done. Would you mind taking some pictures of the new cars in service, please? They looked good on LB, and I'm sure they'll look good on PN. As I mentioned (and I hope in fairness to John Houlden), they're not in the same 'professional' class as those latest Willetts/Studley ones you've just taken delivery of (though they do have the correct 'opaque' white windows as appropriate, and footboards on the bogies), but they're considerably cheaper. That said, they've seen plenty of service on Gamston and latterly on Retford, so they're well run-in! Regards, Tony. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Wright Posted September 25, 2019 Share Posted September 25, 2019 18 hours ago, great northern said: Trying to drill out tiny lamps. Not many done. Tonight's pictures again feature the A1 on the Newcastle. The next time you see Sir Walter Scott, he will, I promise, carry better lamps. Unless I forget, that is. 'The next time you see Sir Walter Scott, he will, I promise, carry better lamps.' And front footsteps and a front coupling, one hopes. They must be lying around somewhere. When I'm next over, we'll fit such things back on. And evict that spider making a lasso on the loco's LH front buffer! Regards, Tony. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted September 25, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted September 25, 2019 Whatever our man is using to get to this height, it has a fair turn of speed, as it got down here before the K3 did. Even after it has gone, the action is still on the Up. A Cravens DMU has arrived from Louth, and is now adding a different type of pollution to that which is already under the roof. 34 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted September 26, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted September 26, 2019 Light engines feature this morning. A B17 has appeared by the coaling stage. and 60088 has come down from New England and is waiting in the bay for its return trip to Tyneside. 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted September 26, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted September 26, 2019 Right, couldn't play golf as I seem to have done something to my heel, and it doesn't like being walked on. This has given me a chance though to photograph all of my latest acquisitions together, though I couldn't get all four in the same shot. Here are the two which Tony brought over yesterday. As Tony says, they are already well accustomed to the ECML, having run on both Gamston Bank and Retford. They will run normally as a set of four with the two Willets/Studley cars. This gets me half way to what I eventually need. A lot of the West Riding extras/reliefs/ Q trains were made up BSK(3) 4 SK(8) BSK(3) 4 SK(8) BSK(3). These four will, of course, make the remaining four 'orrible Hornby things look even worse, but it's a start. 19 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigwordsmith Posted September 26, 2019 Share Posted September 26, 2019 Hope you haven't torn an Achilles Gilbert - I did my right one ten weeks ago and its taking forever to heal! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted September 26, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 26, 2019 22 minutes ago, bigwordsmith said: Hope you haven't torn an Achilles Gilbert - I did my right one ten weeks ago and its taking forever to heal! I don't think so Peter. I did it years ago playing football,and it was agony, whereas this time I can't recall doing anything or feeling anything untoward. It is proboably back related as usual, and something trapped higher up is causing problems elsewhere. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted September 26, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted September 26, 2019 If there was such a thing as an Up Scotch goods, this, I think, would be it. Originating at Inverkiething, a local V2 has just taken over for the last leg to KX Goods. 25 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted September 27, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted September 27, 2019 The Heart of Midlothian is the morning's featured train, with Dominion of Canada at the head. The classic view coming through from Crescent Bridge first. followed by a rather distant look under the roof. 30 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted September 27, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted September 27, 2019 I'm getting a bit frustrated and restless, as I can't really do anything other than sit or lie down, so no energy gets burnt. I soon know about it if I try to put weight on the damn thing though, so I'll have to just hope it soon improves. Pictures are from four days ago, and show 60010 again, emerging from the gloom, and then at a stand while the fireman uncouples. 22 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold trw1089 Posted September 27, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 27, 2019 Hope the heel gets better soon Gilbert. I do like the under the roof shot of No.10, it must have been a smoky noisy place when trains were running through. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted September 28, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 28, 2019 9 hours ago, trw1089 said: Hope the heel gets better soon Gilbert. I do like the under the roof shot of No.10, it must have been a smoky noisy place when trains were running through. I reckon it would have been smoky most of the time, but then we were used to living in smoky atmosphere if we were town or city dwellers. Think of the reaction if something like that existed now! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted September 28, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted September 28, 2019 Off went 60010, 60088 backed on, and our men took up positions to record its departure. From ground level, and from above. I'm now looking at this picture and thinking that I need a smoke machine to obscure the background somewhat. 28 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted September 28, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted September 28, 2019 Shall we have another of those foreign visitors? This one is even more unlikely to have ever ventured within 200 miles of Peterborough. Any excuse for a pre grouping 4.4.0. though. Back to normal now, and another 9F brings empties along the Down slow. Sometimes I take a photo, and then wonder later why I did it. This is one of those. Some pipes, or are they tubes? 27 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted September 29, 2019 Share Posted September 29, 2019 This highly important question was discussed with Mick Moore at EM North only recently. We concluded that they're tubes if they're used inside a larger piece of machinery and pipes if they aren't. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted September 29, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 29, 2019 32 minutes ago, jwealleans said: This highly important question was discussed with Mick Moore at EM North only recently. We concluded that they're tubes if they're used inside a larger piece of machinery and pipes if they aren't. In submarines pipes can be any shape or size. Tubes, on the other hand have doors on them and normally have torpedoes in them.. although the whole submarine is a tube. It is closed at both ends. Baz 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted September 29, 2019 Share Posted September 29, 2019 But in that context they'd be classified and have sheets over them anyway. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted September 29, 2019 Share Posted September 29, 2019 Gilbert I'm glad you took the last photo, it reminds of times I've arrived on a platform or looked over the lineside fence to just miss the loco and see an interesting set of wagons trundling by. Quite evocative. To me railways are more than big express trains and named locos. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted September 29, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 29, 2019 As it happens, pipes and/or tubes are on my to do list at present. I've read a very helpful thread on here, and now have to work out what to do, although if they should be sheeted over, it doesn't really matter, does it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted September 29, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted September 29, 2019 I must go and sort out the fishes accomodation, which is generating too much algae. First though, pictures. We have the Cravens unit having a rest against the Arcade wall, while waiting its next duty, which will take it to Grimsby this time. The destination blind is unlikely to say so though. Meanwhile, Green Arrow has arrived with the 1230 FO from Doncaster. We shall have a look at the stock behind the tender later. 23 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted September 29, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 29, 2019 3 hours ago, Barry O said: It is closed at both ends. Just as well. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted September 29, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted September 29, 2019 Next question is "what colour should my pipes and tubes be?" While considering that, here are the photos of the formation of the 1230 Doncaster. This can now almost be correctly modelled. The only cheat is that I've had to substitute an all door SK for a Thompson CK. Coupling incompatibility again. 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted September 29, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 29, 2019 4 minutes ago, great northern said: Next question is "what colour should my pipes and tubes be?" While considering that, here are the photos of the formation of the 1230 Doncaster. This can now almost be correctly modelled. The only cheat is that I've had to substitute an all door SK for a Thompson CK. Coupling incompatibility again. Hi Gilbert What colour? It depends on the material they have been made from, if it is fresh from the factory/steel works or if it has been in storage and was it stored in or outdoors? So greys of 50 various hues, browns and rust or if concrete a concrete colour. Then some pipes were made from clay so a glazed earthen wear brown. Must not forget a splatering of white dots on the tops where the pigeons, seagulls and crows perched on them last night while in the yard at Thornaby. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted September 29, 2019 Share Posted September 29, 2019 16 hours ago, great northern said: Shall we have another of those foreign visitors? This one is even more unlikely to have ever ventured within 200 miles of Peterborough. Any excuse for a pre grouping 4.4.0. though. Back to normal now, and another 9F brings empties along the Down slow. Sometimes I take a photo, and then wonder later why I did it. This is one of those. Some pipes, or are they tubes? They can't be tubes - proper colour for those is red, though nowadays they only have red on each end! The rest is white and blue.... Stewart 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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