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With some heavy showers today putting paid to cutting the grass etc. I took the opportunity to look through the photos from a year or two back and selected some workings around the layout with two photos for each train. Hopefully there will be some of interest.

 

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Very nicely evoked. I think that I can remember the last of the NBR 0-6-0s at the end of our street on the ESSR, but that might be sepia-toned memories. Like the Pacifics on the train to Hawick to visit my grandparents - is that a real childhood memory or has it been 'reconstructed'?

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Quite a few Waverley Route workings now and again on the layout with the Pacifics from Haymarket and Carlisle Canal. Always good to have the memories as we were lucky to see the real thing. Great railway days!

 

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9 hours ago, 60027Merlin said:

Quite a few Waverley Route workings now and again on the layout with the Pacifics from Haymarket and Carlisle Canal. Always good to have the memories as we were lucky to see the real thing. Great railway days!

 

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So far as this locomotive is concerned, some of us never did see the real thing.

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After running through some earlier photos which were lost on here at the system changeover, here is a selection from the December 2018 posting. Five years on, how time flies.

 

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Great photos as usual Eric.

 

After a few years break I am at last getting to grips with a number of long outstanding projects, a K4, appropriately MacLeod of Macleod and I also have a GEM Glen kit.  Can I ask what chassis you used on your locos?

 

Trust you are keeping well.

Kind regards

Malcolm

 

 

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Malcolm,

 

I am still bashing on and keeping well. Good to read that you are going to tackle some outstanding kits.

 

The K4 has the Dave Alexander chassis supplied with the kit. In these last photos, Glen Falloch is a GEM kit on a Triang L1 chassis with Romford wheels and gears. I built it when it was released in the early/mid 70s along with the other N. B. R. kits from GEM, even the Atlantic! Amazingly enough I only got round to finishing the Atlantic last month as the tender lining still had to be completed. Only about 48 years later!

 

Glen Arklet is a PDK kit built about 10 years ago. it comes with a set of frames etc.

 

Of course the main difference is in the chassis wheelbase as the correct 9 foot 6 inches wheelbase for the driving wheels is where the PDK kit scores. The Triang L1 chassis has a wheelbase of 10 feet.  If both locos stand side by side it can be noticeable, perhaps because we know the difference? However, the Glen and the Scott by GEM still look fine.

 

Hopefully one of the ready to run manufacturers will release them soon. It is certainly not for the want of bringing this omission to their notice, especially at the AMRSS Show in Glasgow over the last decade or more! 

 

Regards,

 

Eric

 

 

 

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Same name but two different locos. Of course, a few decades separate them unless there was a  time warp at Haymarket.

 

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The GEM North British Railway Atlantic purchased when released in the mid 70s and built then. The loco and tender were painted a year or so later then the loco was partially lined a few years after that.  The loco lining was then finished a couple of years ago and then the tender lining was finished last month.  Back then I had many other things to do and could not face the lining which would have taken quite a while (which it did) No doubt there are still odd bits missed out but that is it for now or perhaps ever!

 

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or it in black and white.

 

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