RMweb Premium Chas Levin Posted December 31, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 31, 2021 Beautiful looking loco! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Pulham Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 1 hour ago, Chas Levin said: Beautiful looking loco! Wot Chaz said!!! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Worsdell forever Posted January 1, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted January 1, 2022 Think it's finished now, got the buffer heads fitted, looks like the crew have got them nicely burnished! A lamp for an 'Ordinary Freight train stopping at intermediate stations, class D (Speed per hour, 20 miles)'. Some fire irons and glazing. I've also fitted magnets under the cab roof and short lengths of panel pin inside the cab to hold the roof on. They're 2mm diameter and 1mm thick and hold it quite well. 20 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Metropolitan H Posted January 1, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 1, 2022 (edited) Where is the front coupling hook and shackle? - Otherwise that is rather superb and suggesting I have a lot to learn! Regards Chris H Edited January 1, 2022 by Metropolitan H Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted January 1, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 1, 2022 38 minutes ago, Metropolitan H said: Where is the front coupling hook and shackle? - Otherwise that is rather superb and suggesting I have a lot to learn! Regards Chris H It ain't ever getting one, it's now got a pair of DG couplings. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted January 2, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 2, 2022 On 29/12/2021 at 11:11, Worsdell forever said: Had a good go at getting the class B nearer completion over the last few days, buffer heads to fit, glazing, a bit of coal and a few tools and it should be right. Also think the compensation beam needs adjusting a bit, think the front is a touch high. Nice finish on the black Mr Gummage. 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted January 3, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 3, 2022 On 01/01/2022 at 18:50, Worsdell forever said: It ain't ever getting one, it's now got a pair of DG couplings. So when I reguage my Dad's A Class it could try to visit your layout young man. Axles and frame spacers available so its just a case of getting myself speeded up to do it. Baz Ps hope you and your good lady have a great 2022 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted January 5, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 5, 2022 The class B has entered traffic, seen here shunting. 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted January 5, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 5, 2022 Does the arrow tell the driver which way to go? 2 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted January 5, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 5, 2022 6 minutes ago, 2ManySpams said: Does the arrow tell the driver which way to go? Yes. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mikkel Posted January 6, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 6, 2022 (edited) Indeed. Paul, I was watching some of your other videos and saw the Chapman & Sons furniture van. A search of your thread does not seem to bring it up. Edit, found it in your other thread, but still: Can I ask what the source is - a scratchbuild or kit? Edited January 6, 2022 by Mikkel Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted January 6, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 6, 2022 28 minutes ago, Mikkel said: Indeed. Paul, I was watching some of your other videos and saw the Chapman & Sons furniture van. A search of your thread does not seem to bring it up. Edit, found it in your other thread, but still: Can I ask what the source is - a scratchbuild or kit? Hi Mikkel, It's a kit, a Shire Scenes Pantechnicon, not a bad kit but could do with some chunkier wheels, it's where the Dart and Shire Scenes range could help each other with cast wheels. https://www.dartcastings.co.uk/shire/S56.php 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted January 6, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 6, 2022 2 hours ago, Mikkel said: Indeed. Paul, I was watching some of your other videos and saw the Chapman & Sons furniture van. A search of your thread does not seem to bring it up. Edit, found it in your other thread, but still: Can I ask what the source is - a scratchbuild or kit? 1 hour ago, Worsdell forever said: Hi Mikkel, It's a kit, a Shire Scenes Pantechnicon, not a bad kit but could do with some chunkier wheels, it's where the Dart and Shire Scenes range could help each other with cast wheels. https://www.dartcastings.co.uk/shire/S56.php Here it is, being shunted. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mikkel Posted January 6, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 6, 2022 Many thanks. I hadn't noticed that in the Shirescenes range. Lots of scope for some fun liveries, yours is excellent. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Worsdell forever Posted January 7, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted January 7, 2022 20 hours ago, Mikkel said: Many thanks. I hadn't noticed that in the Shirescenes range. Lots of scope for some fun liveries, yours is excellent. Here's a few photos of the van, realised there's nothing of it at all on here. As we know, it's a Shire Scenes kit, I built it a few years ago but never got round to painting it till recently, the livery and company name is completely fictitious, I don't even think there is or was a Langbaurgh street in Middlesbrough, it's a small village near Great Ayton a few miles to the south. There is a shaft for two horses which fits in a slot and I might attach it between some horses so it can be loaded on a wagon or being drawn by them. 15 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
micknich2003 Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Paul, have you hand lettered your furniture wagon? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted January 7, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 7, 2022 1 minute ago, micknich2003 said: Paul, have you hand lettered your furniture wagon? Don't be daft, made some transfers. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted January 16, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 16, 2022 What? Butchering another Mainline J72? What's it gonna be this time? 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted January 16, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 16, 2022 An E1 perhaps? But there's a lot of platform out the back - which strongly suggests a toolbox. My money's on a Brighton loco of some sort... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted January 16, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 16, 2022 6 minutes ago, Compound2632 said: An E1 perhaps? But there's a lot of platform out the back - which strongly suggests a toolbox. My money's on a Brighton loco of some sort... What?! No, definitely a North Eastern loco. Originally built by Stephenson & Co in September 1873 as No 864 and looked nothing like it will end up, it was rebuilt in 1892 as No 979 of class 964A and withdrawn in 1914. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted January 16, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 16, 2022 5 minutes ago, Worsdell forever said: What?! No, definitely a North Eastern loco. Originally built by Stephenson & Co in September 1873 as No 864 and looked nothing like it will end up, it was rebuilt in 1892 as No 979 of class 964A and withdrawn in 1914. Aha! K. Hoole, An Illustrated History of NER Locomotives (OPC, 1988) p. 23. I suppose that long rear platform is a consequence of the original frames being used, despite the rear axle being moved back 2 ft when the original long boiler was replaced by the Class E/E1 boiler. It looks to me as if the Class E splashers were used despite the rather smaller wheels. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted January 16, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 16, 2022 25 minutes ago, Compound2632 said: Aha! K. Hoole, An Illustrated History of NER Locomotives (OPC, 1988) p. 23. I suppose that long rear platform is a consequence of the original frames being used, despite the rear axle being moved back 2 ft when the original long boiler was replaced by the Class E/E1 boiler. It looks to me as if the Class E splashers were used despite the rather smaller wheels. That's the one, I think the reason for the large splashers, and the overall look, is they were busy building Class E at the same time. By the time they rebuilt Class 44 they were building E1s which had smaller splashers and were used on the rebuilds even though the wheels on the 44 were much larger. Class 964 as built (ish). 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Lawson Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 I love the "kinky" brake pull in the picture above. Particularly the way it wraps round the front sand pipe. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted January 18, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 18, 2022 15 minutes ago, Nick Lawson said: I love the "kinky" brake pull in the picture above. Particularly the way it wraps round the front sand pipe. Looks like it's main purpose is to avoid the crankpins, you wonder why it couldn't be slightly lower over it's full length? At the rear it drops down again. It always gets tight around brakes and sandpipes though. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted January 18, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 18, 2022 I'm sure you're onto all this but for my own satisfaction I had another look in Hoole's book. The photo of unrebuilt No. 1753, taken before 1894, shows straight brake hangers with skinny brake blocks and pull rods behind the wheels. The photo of rebuilt No. 979 (in Wilson Worsdell's version of the green livery, so at latest not too far into the 20the century) has what appear to be the same hangers and blocks but outside pull rods. The pull rods are straight in both cases. Classes E and E1 had the pull rods behind the wheels whereas the Ls and the 0-6-2Ts have them outside. So there seems to be no rhyme or reason! I suppose Mars had its brake rigging renewed at some point after it was sold out of NER service. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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