davidw Posted May 28, 2022 Share Posted May 28, 2022 11 minutes ago, great northern said: No, it is as per CWN. Part of the Bradford portion, and I do seem to remember reading somewhere that this did happen, and that there was a reason for the BG needing to be in the middle. Unfortunately I can now neither remember where I read it, or what the reason was. It may come back to me. Fascinating... Thanks. Accurate train formations bring models to life. I was just looking at Profiles of the A4s. If captions are correct, then there was much divergence in the cartridge workings to reality. The Hunt couplings look good. Have you got them to work on Hornby mk1s? Thanks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 29, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 29, 2022 One Copley Hill A1 heads for home. And soon afterwards, another comes south with the 7.30 Leeds-KX. Osprey is more typical of Copley Hill's normal lack of cleaning standards. 23 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
45568 Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 With the recent focus on your new V2s Gilbert, I hope you don't mind if I post images of the three I recently modelled, again based on the Rails of Sheffield BR green variant, to give the correct front end arrangement. First, 60964 as Rails intended.. Then modified to represent 60835... Finally completed today, 60809... I am aware of the small faults described, but other than replacing the trailing wheel with a flanged example, and using a little trick described in the V2 thread to prevent tender crabbing, they are standard, and a very high standard that is! The livery application is superb, if only the Hornby A2/3 had been finished to this level. The beautiful plates for '09 and '35 are from Fox, as is are the numbers. Very indulgent, but the performance and looks make it worthwhile. Cheers from Oz, Peter C. 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted May 29, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 29, 2022 13 hours ago, davidw said: A strengthener after the BG. That must be unusual? What is more unusual is a Fk and a CK either side of a kitchen car. Are the passengers supposed to eat their nosh off their laps? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 (edited) 14 hours ago, davidw said: A strengthener after the BG. That must be unusual? Unusual but not unheard of as Gilbert has commented. The Leeds train we run on Grantham has the same feature, which we represent. That BG also goes to Bradford. Did Bradfordians not travel light or was there a lot of PLA or sundries traffic through there? Edited May 29, 2022 by jwealleans Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 29, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 29, 2022 23 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said: What is more unusual is a Fk and a CK either side of a kitchen car. Are the passengers supposed to eat their nosh off their laps? No, they are supposed to be sitting in an FO, but someone picked up an FK by mistake. It would be that train which I then decided to feature, wouldn't it? 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 29, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 29, 2022 23 hours ago, davidw said: Fascinating... Thanks. Accurate train formations bring models to life. I was just looking at Profiles of the A4s. If captions are correct, then there was much divergence in the cartridge workings to reality. The Hunt couplings look good. Have you got them to work on Hornby mk1s? Thanks I have to say I'm always wary about captions, as I find a lot of them are far from accurate. No doubt there were changes to the booked formation, but , particularly with trains which allowed seat reservations, every effort must surely have been made to at the very least find a like for like replacement. One can always find the unusual, and I suspect that sometimes was what caught the photographer's attention, and that the everyday was ignored. No problems with Hunt couplings on Hornby MK1s. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 29, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 29, 2022 10 hours ago, jwealleans said: Unusual but not unheard of as Gilbert has commented. The Leeds train we run on Grantham has the same feature, which we represent. That BG also goes to Bradford. Did Bradfordians not travel light or was there a lot of PLA or sundries traffic through there? I've now looked at the notes to the CWN, which of course I could have done earlier. They state that " CK and BG to be worked empty from Bradford to Leeds for 5.35pm Leeds-KX same day". The TSO would have been at the front on arrival at Bradford after reversal at Leeds, so perhaps this was just a way to avoid some shunting? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 29, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 29, 2022 Another look at Osprey this evening. Much easier to photoshop those overlapping lattices now. Then we see KX A3 Sandwich arriving with the 6.40 KX- Grantham slow. I can't remember having got anything successful from this angle before. 30 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
drmditch Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 21 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said: What is more unusual is a Fk and a CK either side of a kitchen car. Are the passengers supposed to eat their nosh off their laps? Well, I could tell you the story of the (up) Flying Scotsman and the soup..... But I'm sure I have already done so - a long way up-thread! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 30, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 30, 2022 Still the Sandwich and Osprey show this morning.First a similar effort to the one I showed last night, but wider angle and closer up. Then the view from the opposite angle, this one also featuring Osprey, blocked out by the J6 in the view above. Another visit from Peter Leyland yesterday, when work continued on a project started in 2019. Photos to follow later, if all goes according to plan. 27 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted May 30, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 30, 2022 59 minutes ago, great northern said: Still the Sandwich and Osprey show this morning.First a similar effort to the one I showed last night, but wider angle and closer up. Are you allowed to eat osprey sandwiches? 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 30, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 30, 2022 4 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said: Are you allowed to eat osprey sandwiches? No, cos Ospreys are protected. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 30, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 30, 2022 Here is what went on yesterday when Peter came and waved his magic wand again. There is an addition at the North end, and I shall be interested to see if anyone spots it. As I've just messed up and lost a lot more which I laboriously typed, I can't face doing all that again yet, so I'll stop here for a while. 25 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 30, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 30, 2022 OK, so this bl**dy thing has a mind of its own, and decided to load the other images, even though I did't tell it to do so, which means I had better carry on. The next image is looking down Cowgate, to what by 1958 was a dead end with the ECML immediately beyond the fence. When the line first opened, there were level crossings over both the main line and the Midland, dangerous enough in 1850, but increasingly so as time went by. As usual, it took a fatality before anything got done, a poor lady being run down and killed during a shunting manouevre. She had become locked on the wrong side of a crossing gate. That resulted in the building of a subway, which lasted till Crescent Bridge opened in 1913, when Cowgate became a dead end. I'm pretty sure it was Cowgate all the way down, but I'm sure Lloyd will tell me if I'm wrong. The next one is of the loading dock, which Peter had about half surfaced when Covid intervened. I tried to finish it off, but wasn't happy with what I did, so Peter has now done the job properly. Then something has decided to post one of the images again. Now I do need a rest, so more later. 2 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 30, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 30, 2022 No-one has spotted what's new at the north end then? Shan't tell you yet. A black and white Osprey is first up tonight. After it had left, and presumably returned to the correct colour of plumage, a rather ancient looking little thing staggered in with a Leicester local. 27 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted May 30, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 30, 2022 Oh Gilbert, that view down Cowgate - just so railway backstreet, faaan tastic. 🤩 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 31A Posted May 30, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 30, 2022 1 hour ago, great northern said: No-one has spotted what's new at the north end then? Shan't tell you yet. Has the bridge gone further west? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold trw1089 Posted May 31, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 31, 2022 8 hours ago, 31A said: Has the bridge gone further west? Yes, the bridge definitely looks longer from my recollection. Time for a silhouette backdrop then? 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 31, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 31, 2022 10 hours ago, 31A said: Has the bridge gone further west? A gold star for that man. First to notice it, despite the fact that he must be suffering from the brain fog caused by undertaking the task of doing four conversions of Hornby all door seconds, all in one go. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 31, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 31, 2022 Sandwich's ten minute break is over, and it heads away on the last lap of its journey. 22 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 31, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 31, 2022 2 hours ago, trw1089 said: Yes, the bridge definitely looks longer from my recollection. Time for a silhouette backdrop then? I'd forgotten all about that Tony. Yes, perhaps time to revisit that idea. I'm thinking of some strip LEDs along that back wall to give me even more light there, so I'll widen my investigations. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarrMan Posted May 31, 2022 Share Posted May 31, 2022 18 hours ago, great northern said: That resulted in the building of a subway, which lasted till Crescent Bridge opened in 1913, when Cowgate became a dead end. I'm pretty sure it was Cowgate all the way down, but I'm sure Lloyd will tell me if I'm wrong. I have no idea. I never knew just what that section was called, but I have a feeling that you are right, as usual. I have never heard of the subway before the bridge was opened, but from the level of River Lane on the other side of the tracks, that sounds not improbable. Thanks for the information. Lloyd 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarrMan Posted May 31, 2022 Share Posted May 31, 2022 18 hours ago, great northern said: The next one is of the loading dock, which Peter had about half surfaced when Covid intervened. I tried to finish it off, but wasn't happy with what I did, so Peter has now done the job properly. Looks good and as I remember it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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