RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted April 6 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 6 On 05/04/2024 at 13:29, jwealleans said: You come across this young lady, Clive? I hadn't, until I heard an interview with her husband on the World Service the other night. It certainly takes all sorts..... You are only jealous. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 On 06/04/2024 at 18:31, Clive Mortimore said: You are only jealous. Well, you're not wrong. Can't get the Mrs to go for that blue rinse look. 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted April 10 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 10 I have been working on some locos. First up is a Hornby Railroad Black Five, 44744 It is still requiring stuff on the boiler and running plate. Next a Hornby Tender Drive Black Five 44687 It too needs bit added to the boiler and the valve gear made. Both are proving to be quite enjoyable to make. More work has been done on 62768 "The Morpeth" Not too bad for left over bits. The two Crap-potties together. 12 3 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted April 10 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 10 Clive, they are the most beautiful Engines I have ever see you produce. I lurrrrrve the one with Twin Pots. I could adopt that. beautifully ugly mate ... and that's the Engines by the way. LOL Philth 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard i Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 3 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said: Both are proving to be quite enjoyable to make That’s because they are steam engines. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted April 10 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 10 2 minutes ago, richard i said: That’s because they are steam engines. Point of order Sir. They are toy trains. 3 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 30368 Posted April 10 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 10 49 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said: They are toy trains. Indeed, as my wife and daughters keep telling me. Sometimes I'm not sure it is all worthwhile..... KInd regards, 30368 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted April 10 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 10 1 hour ago, 30368 said: Indeed, as my wife and daughters keep telling me. Sometimes I'm not sure it is all worthwhile..... KInd regards, 30368 It is worth while, if you are having fun, be it making a new N-gin, painting scenery, laying track or running trains around and around in a circle. It is your hobby and Bow Locks to anyone who says differently. 7 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Tomlinson Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 (edited) 7 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said: I have been working on some locos. First up is a Hornby Railroad Black Five, 44744 It is still requiring stuff on the boiler and running plate. Next a Hornby Tender Drive Black Five 44687 It too needs bit added to the boiler and the valve gear made. Both are proving to be quite enjoyable to make. More work has been done on 62768 "The Morpeth" Not too bad for left over bits. The two Crap-potties together. These two really look the part, and you should be well pleased with the outcome. They prompted me to dig out the old David and Charles book on the Stanier 4-6-0's, written back in the 70's, which despite being a slim single volume tells us much of what we need to know about these and the Jubilees, the kind of super-detail we now get in the Wild Swan and Irwell loco books being far into the future. I've always found the numbering of these rather confusing, a bit like the sub classes of 37's, as they start to go backwards in batches after the first big tranche, and had forgotten that 44687 was in fact the last one built, at Horwich, and into traffic in May 1951. My grandad who I never met worked there until his death in 1950, and I've always liked to think that he might have made bits for some of the others built there in the late 40's and numbered in the 44xxx series. If 44744 reminds us how economical in beauty this batch was, 44687 is quite the other way, with its high running plate that was carried on into the BR Standards. Thanks for posting these pictures of a very interesting time in British railway loco history. John. Edited April 10 by John Tomlinson clarity 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 30368 Posted April 10 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 10 56 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said: It is worth while, if you are having fun, be it making a new N-gin, painting scenery, laying track or running trains around and around in a circle. It is your hobby and Bow Locks to anyone who says differently. I have never doubted the fact that playing little trains is good for your wellbeing. The wonderfully balanced and sensible people that inhabit this website are the proof of this statement are they not? ............ Kind regards, 30368 5 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted Saturday at 22:05 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted Saturday at 22:05 Got a theme tune 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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