Wright writes.....

[Tony Wright]

Jesse arrived safely yesterday, and already we've done some modelling!

 

I'll post shots as we go...............................................

[Jesse Sim]

 Here’s one of the videos taken on my iPhone of the B16, I’ll process the rest, as promised when I’m back home. 

[D.Platt]

Hi Tony, 

The balance weights for the B16 Markits sell them with their wheel sets .

 

Dennis 

[Tony Wright]

23 minutes ago, Jesse Sim said:

 Here’s one of the videos taken on my iPhone of the B16, I’ll process the rest, as promised when I’m back home. 

Thanks for that Jesse,

 

Very effective.

 

Thanks also for bringing some of your models with you.....................

 

 

A first attempt at scratch-building? Very creditable.

 

 

And a first attempt at a loco kit. Fantastic stuff!

 

For those interested, more shots tomorrow..............................

 

 

 

 

[jrg1]

On 20/11/2019 at 02:02, Clem said:

Hi Dave, although completely out of my modelling scope, I always had a soft spot for Caley and NB locomotives with the 812 and J36s my favourites. The one in lined Caledonian Blue looks an absolute treat!

 

Another beauty, Tony!

The preserved Scottish locomotives all look impressive in their various liveries.  I particularly like Gordon Highlander, but the Caledonian blue must have been a sight for sore eyes in pre-Grouping days.

[davidw]

On 18/07/2017 at 21:00, Tony Wright said:

Thanks David,

 

You might well be right. 

 

 

Here's the southbound service on the same day. All we need now is for someone to tell us whether the 28th of August 1960 was a Saturday or not. 

 

Note the Thompson car towards the rear of the train still in carmine and cream. 

Hi Tony, the 28th August 1960 was a Sunday. I'm rereading Wright writes whilst layoutless. Hope this information helps. I know you asked the question ages ago.

Edited November 20, 2019 by davidw
Ammendment

[richard i]

As a thread for builders. Having scanned the list of traders at Warley none jumped out as a supplier of romford wheels. Does anyone know one which might supply them there. I am looking to wheel my B3 kit.

many thanks

richard.

[Barry Ten]

35 minutes ago, richard i said:

As a thread for builders. Having scanned the list of traders at Warley none jumped out as a supplier of romford wheels. Does anyone know one which might supply them there. I am looking to wheel my B3 kit.

many thanks

richard.

 

Branchlines, possibly?

[Clem]

10 hours ago, jrg1 said:

The preserved Scottish locomotives all look impressive in their various liveries.  I particularly like Gordon Highlander, but the Caledonian blue must have been a sight for sore eyes in pre-Grouping days.

Yep, I totally agree.Here are a couple of photos of Gordon Highlander in 1964 in steam on Perth shed I took one and a mate took the other with me standing in the cab ( I was just 13 at the time). She (he?) looked absolutely beautiful. This was the first time I came across 49 and I was totally in awe.  I saw her a few times on a couple of  further visits to Scotland in my spotting days and it was always a joy.

 

Edited November 21, 2019 by Clem

[Mike 84C]

Gordon Highlander still looks very good in the museum at Bowness, my wife and I both thought how stunning it would look in steam, maybe on the Far North line.

 Bowness is well worth a visit lots of interesting 'stuff' there.

[davefrk]

1 hour ago, Mike 84C said:

Gordon Highlander still looks very good in the museum at Bowness, my wife and I both thought how stunning it would look in steam, maybe on the Far North line.

 Bowness is well worth a visit lots of interesting 'stuff' there.

 

Better clarify the 'Bowness' as one's satnav might take you to Cumbria. 'Bo-ness' is short for Borrowstounness on the banks of the Firth O' Forth.

 

Hope that helps,

 

Dave.

[Mike 84C]

Thanks davefrk I had totally forgotten Bowness in Cumbria.

[Tony Wright]

5 hours ago, Clem said:

Yep, I totally agree.Here are a couple of photos of Gordon Highlander in 1964 in steam on Perth shed I took one and a mate took the other with me standing in the cab ( I was just 13 at the time). She (he?) looked absolutely beautiful. This was the first time I came across 49 and I was totally in awe.  I saw her a few times on a couple of  further visits to Scotland in my spotting days and it was always a joy.

 

One for the next RTR OO wishlist, Clem?

 

Especially as we now have the equally-beautiful Wainwright D announced. 

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

[BMacdermott]

32 minutes ago, Tony Wright said:

One for the next RTR OO wishlist, Clem?

 

Especially as we now have the equally-beautiful Wainwright D announced. 

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

 

Hello Tony

 

We listed GNSR D40/D41 4-4-0 combined in The 00 Wishlist Poll 2019 and gave reasons within the accompanying Guide (where we refer to Gordon Highlander).

 

The locos came in around the middle of the Middle Polling segment...that is up from having been in Low Polling in previous years.

 

Brian (on behalf of The 00 Poll Team)

 

 

[grahame]

Here's a little progress update on my generic N/2mm coaches project (should anyone be interested). I've selected the four I'll be working on, have repaired a broken body corner (with filler), cut off the end handrails (ready to add wire ones) and smoothed off the five bumps on the roof (ready to add oil/gas lamps and vents). I also had to try and remove a thick and rough layer of gloss varnish that someone had painted on the sides. I've given them a coat of primer as it helps to see any further deficiencies.

 

[richbrummitt]

On 05/11/2019 at 17:20, Headstock said:

 

In defence of the Parkside (ex Parkside?) GWR Horsebox kit. I painted a train of Hornby and Parkside GWR Horseboxes a year or two ago. The two boxes are similar but slightly different diagrams. The level of detail on the Parkside horsebox was much finer than that on the Hornby ones. The grab handles, for example, are well overscale on the latter. I think that Hornby have also got the vac cylinder and also the gas cylinder (?) wrong way about.

 

I'm several pages behind (still am) and read on to see if anyone else replied but I didn't spot anything, so apologies for any duplication. 

 

Something I didn't spot until I designed an etched chassis for some GWR horseboxes is that the vacuum cylinder and lighting reservoir swapped sides from the earlier diagrams with the same wheelbase for the N16 diagram that the Hornby model represents. In the beginning I'd wrongly assumed that the difference was the length over headstocks due to the change from ends with a turn under to straight ends, which could have easily been accounted for by chopping a bit off / different overlays, and I could use most of the same parts for many diagrams but alas I could not.

 

The brake cylinder on the Hornby model in the photo looks to be the correct way around.

Edited November 21, 2019 by richbrummitt

[St Enodoc]

8 hours ago, davefrk said:

 

Better clarify the 'Bowness' as one's satnav might take you to Cumbria. 'Bo-ness' is short for Borrowstounness on the banks of the Firth O' Forth.

 

Hope that helps,

 

Dave.

...which reminds me of the apocryphal football result:

 

Forfar 5, East Fife 4.

[Buhar]

39 minutes ago, St Enodoc said:

...which reminds me of the apocryphal football result:

 

Forfar 5, East Fife 4.

Not apocryphal (although long after Eric's death) -

22nd July 2018

East Fife 4, Forfar 5

(Cup match - after penalties)

You were close, Sunshine!

 

Alan

[Anglian]

Seeing Tony's newly built B16 and its train has prompted a question:

I'm too young to remember main line steam but I seem to recall reading in a David Jenkinson piece that special loads would usually be placed behind the tender or in front of the brake van so they could be monitored. So in this instance should the sheeted load on the flat wagon be at one or other end of the train? What rules tended to apply to this type of situation?

[richard i]

7 hours ago, Anglian said:

Seeing Tony's newly built B16 and its train has prompted a question:

I'm too young to remember main line steam but I seem to recall reading in a David Jenkinson piece that special loads would usually be placed behind the tender or in front of the brake van so they could be monitored. So in this instance should the sheeted load on the flat wagon be at one or other end of the train? What rules tended to apply to this type of situation?

Yes......but.....

it depends on what is under the sheet. Is it special? Lots of things were sheeted but only some were considered special because they were dangerous, expensive, did not want them to shift en route. I am sure someone with more knowledge than me can be more precise and correct inaccuracies in this advice.

richard

[Compound2632]

As the wagon with the sheeted load is not marshalled under the watchful eye of a guard in an adjacent brake van, we can assume it's not a special load of the type that would require such precautions. 

 

Back in the 19th century, when most ordinary merchandise traffic was carried in open wagons and covered vans were few in number, sheeting was the norm. As the proportion of vans began to rise through the first half of the 20th century, sheeting of opens began to decline as they carried a smaller proportion of merchandise that required protection from the elements. Nevertheless BR built fitted wagons with sheet rails, so there must have been the expectation that there would be traffic conveyed in them by express goods trains* that would require the protection of a sheet. But I'm sure that Tony Wright's trains are correctly observed and that express goods trains on the ECML at his date were almost entirely composed of vans.

 

We only get a fleeting glimpse of that open wagon. It seems to be a low-sided or flat wagon with a load wrapped in a sheet, rather than the wagon itself being sheeted. See the instructions (cty Barrowmore Model Railway Group).

 

*Pardon my 19th century terminology.

[Clem]

18 hours ago, Tony Wright said:

One for the next RTR OO wishlist, Clem?

 

Especially as we now have the equally-beautiful Wainwright D announced. 

 

Hi Tony. I'm surprised to hear you say that, when there's a Nucast kit to be revived by SEF? :-) ... . No, I'm just joshing you. (I assume the verb 'to josh' is not intransitive).   Of course, it would be perfect example for the RTR guys to choose and if fact I'm surprised they haven't done it already. BTW, I'm hoping to be at Warley tomorrow so I'll pop by and say 'hello'. However, there'll be little left in terms of traders that is of real interest to me. Just Alan Gibson, Branchlines, Dart Castings, Eileen's and perhaps a couple more, but it's a nice day out and a chance to chew the cud with a few people and see some interesting modelling.

[Tony Wright]

3 hours ago, Clem said:

 

Hi Tony. I'm surprised to hear you say that, when there's a Nucast kit to be revived by SEF? :-) ... . No, I'm just joshing you. (I assume the verb 'to josh' is not intransitive).   Of course, it would be perfect example for the RTR guys to choose and if fact I'm surprised they haven't done it already. BTW, I'm hoping to be at Warley tomorrow so I'll pop by and say 'hello'. However, there'll be little left in terms of traders that is of real interest to me. Just Alan Gibson, Branchlines, Dart Castings, Eileen's and perhaps a couple more, but it's a nice day out and a chance to chew the cud with a few people and see some interesting modelling.

Josh away, Clem,

 

It does seem a logical choice - Pre-Grouping, Big-Four, BR, preserved example, but who knows? 

 

I long ago ceased to even guess what the RTR boys might be considering, and, as time goes on, what they produce interests me less and less - other than from the journalistic point of view, where it makes good stories. 

 

There are RTR equivalents for the following, but (in my case) so what? 

 

 

 

Another SEF A3 built by me and painted by Geoff Haynes. One could argue that the Hornby one is 'crisper', but all that's needed to acquire that is money. 

 

 

 

And another DJH A1 for LB (as is the A3). Do I need another A1, or A3? Of course not, but this is what I do. In the case of this one, I didn't build it all. I acquired it earlier this year at a very good price, mainly-made (builder unknown, but deceased). It didn't run very well, though - why is poor-running a feature of so many kit-built locos? So, a mechanical strip-down, finish off the bodywork and ask Geoff Haynes to paint it. Uniquely, 60119 was the only A1 which never received the correct style of '6' and '9' on its front numberplate. It's a bit 'wobbly' in places, but it doesn't half go now! 

 

 

 

The same builder of the A1 also started this Hornby Ivatt 2MT conversion. It was in bits, in an ex- margarine tub, so I took pity on it, built the chassis (Comet) and finished it off. Geoff painted it. I think it needs front footsteps - a future job. 

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

[Tony Wright]

Young Jesse and I have been busy-bees.

 

Yesterday, I took him to see Buckingham, now in the care of Tony Gee, and one of the most important layouts in the whole history of railway modelling. 

 

 

In 'stern' mode, Tony explains some operational point to the lad.

 

 

Who is an extremely quick learner.....................

 

 

Sending and receiving trains to/from Alan Rollins, who was operating Grandborough Junction. Alan is a regular operator of this classic layout.

 

 

Unlike me! I did manage to successfully uncouple a loco from its train in the terminus, jumping as the flash went off - I'm usually behind the camera! 

 

One thing which has delighted me about Jesse is how his modelling has come on since I first met him - not because of me, but because of his thirst for knowledge and the development of his skills. 

 

 

 

He's made this LNER engineers' train, from scratch and from kits. He wasn't happy with the original painting, so between us we've repainted the three vans.

 

 

Just the application of transfers needed, then some weathering. 

 

Great stuff, my young, antipodean friend! 

[Jesse Sim]

5 minutes ago, Tony Wright said:

Young Jesse and I have been busy-bees.

 

Yesterday, I took him to see Buckingham, now in the care of Tony Gee, and one of the most important layouts in the whole history of railway modelling. 

 

 

In 'stern' mode, Tony explains some operational point to the lad.

 

 

Who is an extremely quick learner.....................

 

 

Sending and receiving trains to/from Alan Rollins, who was operating Grandborough Junction. Alan is a regular operator of this classic layout.

 

 

Unlike me! I did manage to successfully uncouple a loco from its train in the terminus, jumping as the flash went off - I'm usually behind the camera! 

 

One thing which has delighted me about Jesse is how his modelling has come on since I first met him - not because of me, but because of his thirst for knowledge and the development of his skills. 

 

 

 

He's made this LNER engineers' train, from scratch and from kits. He wasn't happy with the original painting, so between us we've repainted the three vans.

 

 

Just the application of transfers needed, then some weathering. 

 

Great stuff, my young, antipodean friend! 

It was an amazing evening yesterday, thank you Tony and thanks to Tony Gee and Alan, a really lovely couple of hours. 
 

I am pretty pleased with myself, regarding the Department train, has to be one of my favourite trains on my layout because I’ve built it. Thanks again for the help with the repaint, that blue does look much better!