RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted October 24, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted October 24, 2021 Arrival of the 4.19 slow from KX, frequently a job for an A2, though definitely not what Mr Thompson intended them to be doing. Thane of Fife today. 27 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manna Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 G'Day Folks As a Secondman at KX in 1971, a Sunday and a week of nights, was worth 26 pounds, you didn't need a wheelbarrow ! manna 4 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted October 25, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted October 25, 2021 It is quite a while since we had a look through the arch. 31 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted October 25, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted October 25, 2021 Back to the posh stuff. H A Ivatt with the Up Queen of Scots. 30 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted October 25, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted October 25, 2021 Some engines seemed to turn up at least once every time I visited the ECML, and this was one of them. 60123 would be in my top five most seen, and thus got booed regularly. I don't think I saw it at Peterborough, but then I only remember going there twice. 29 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted October 26, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted October 26, 2021 A treat for the eyes this morning, as lovingly kept B12 61558 arrives with the 5.21 from its home city. 31 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 Another raft of great images; thanks as always. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
2750Papyrus Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 13 hours ago, great northern said: Some engines seemed to turn up at least once every time I visited the ECML, and this was one of them. 60123 would be in my top five most seen, and thus got booed regularly. I don't think I saw it at Peterborough, but then I only remember going there twice. I like the detail around the water column. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted October 26, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted October 26, 2021 1 hour ago, 2750Papyrus said: I like the detail around the water column. That was one of the things that stood out in prototype pictures, so I wanted to get as near as possible. The trespass notice should really be a GNR one, but at the moment that is filed under "too difficult". I do like small detail, even if I can't see it very well nowadays. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted October 26, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted October 26, 2021 Our next Pullman appears, Walter K Whigham with the Yorkshire. 22 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted October 27, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted October 27, 2021 A long climb, with permit, of course, to the top of the Spital Bridge cenotaph. Worth it straight away though, as this view greets us. 28 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain_Mumbles Posted October 27, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 27, 2021 Always inspiring mate, cheers! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted October 27, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted October 27, 2021 Swivel round, and we can get a high level view of the Yorkshire Pullman too. 33 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted October 27, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted October 27, 2021 And then we can rely on the man on the bridge to give us the opposite view. Actually, he'd need his ladder for this one, as the parapet was too high for this angle really. 35 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted October 28, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted October 28, 2021 Moving our ladder along pretty smartly, we can get this view. This would be right into the setting sun at 7.00pm in August, so that bleached out signal is actually about right. Tim visiting today,so goodies later. 28 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted October 28, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted October 28, 2021 A slightly frustrating day, more than slightly in fact. Tim brought the V2 back, which I had anticipated eagerly, but alas, we ran into a problem when we tried to give the loco its new number, after which it refused to move. A decoder problem, and one which resulted in a call to Bachmann's service dept, who also struggled to find an immediate solution, so all is deferred at present. This took a while, by which time the light was going, so the photos I took don't do Tim's work justice really. I had also experienced frustration in trying to find a new identity for the loco, but in the end I found that Doncaster's 60881 emerged from Plant in early September 58 with separate cylinders, so that seemed to be the obvious choice. Tim then found a picture of it clearly taken very soon after it returned to its home shed, and I decided to have it in nearly ex works condition. And here it is. There are a couple more to be processed, but they will have to wait till tomorrow. Tim has some really good ones taken outside in full sun, which he will be posting, and which do proper justice to his work. 30 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted October 29, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted October 29, 2021 Last shot from the bridge, back to the lower section, so no ladder required. 30 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted October 29, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted October 29, 2021 Here are the other two pictures of the V2. The first shows how much it is improved when the smokebox door is fitted correctly. As usual, I will leave Tim to tell you how that was achieved. The next one is pretty horrid, but I'll post it anyway. 37 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidw Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 4 hours ago, great northern said: Here are the other two pictures of the V2. The first shows how much it is improved when the smokebox door is fitted correctly. As usual, I will leave Tim to tell you how that was achieved. The next one is pretty horrid, but I'll post it anyway. He's made a fantastic improvement. Sad it had to be done in the first place. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
landscapes Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 7 hours ago, great northern said: Here are the other two pictures of the V2. The first shows how much it is improved when the smokebox door is fitted correctly. As usual, I will leave Tim to tell you how that was achieved. The next one is pretty horrid, but I'll post it anyway. Hi Gilbert Great photo, Tim’s work just gets better and better, 60881 I believe was fitted with a double chimney, but I assume that was after the period you are modelling Regards David 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted October 29, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted October 29, 2021 1 hour ago, landscapes said: Hi Gilbert Great photo, Tim’s work just gets better and better, 60881 I believe was fitted with a double chimney, but I assume that was after the period you are modelling Regards David It emerged from Darlington with the double chimney in October 1960, and was withdrawn in June 1963. Hard to see the point of that. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Timara Posted October 29, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted October 29, 2021 As Gilbert mentioned above, here are three images taken in natural (late afternoon) sunlight the other day. As you can see, the smokebox door has been modified significantly, given this is the main failing (IMHO) of the model. I mean, the "face" has to look right, yes? The door, thankfully, pops off without much ado, making thinning down rather more straightforward. I use a Stanley knife for this job, since I can have greater control over the blade than I can with a scalpel, especially given I can "roll" the door along the knife blade in order to mark it out. I think I've taken about 0.6mm of the depth out of it, which I smoothed up with a decent file afterwards. The plug bit of the door is then too deep for the recess provided, so I took a "detail file" to the back of it until it sat happily in the hole. The original door dart was a casualty of this process, so that was just replaced with my usual pair of shoulderless handrail knobs soldered to a length of wire, trimming the handles to the desired length and blackening afterwards. That's more or less all there is to say about it, other than the model receiving my usual weathering methods, which I've described on many a time in this topic. Eagle-eyed readers will note the "incorrect" shape 6 on the smokebox numberplate, which I take from the HMRS pressfix sheet for LNER wagons. Matches the Modelmaster numbers near as dammit. I'll go into more detail of my views on the model over on the V2 thread (yes, the same pics may appear, "because".....) Cheers, Tim 16 1 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted October 29, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted October 29, 2021 Nothing moving at the moment, so the camera was turned to look at the Sentinel, just standing in its siding. 32 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted October 30, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted October 30, 2021 Then it is back to the platform end, to watch the A4 dwindle into the distance, while the sounds from the chimney do the opposite, as the regulator is opened. 30 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted October 30, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 30, 2021 6 minutes ago, great northern said: Then it is back to the platform end, to watch the A4 dwindle into the distance, while the sounds from the chimney do the opposite, as the regulator is opened. I don't know whether you did it deliberately, but the way the bridge ends just by the foreground signal fools the eye (mine anyway) into thinking that it carries on to the left. Very nice. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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