birdseyecircus Posted September 24, 2010 Share Posted September 24, 2010 latest issue is out featuring LMS 10000/01, 10100 - Fell, SR 10201-10203, 10800 Hawk, 18000 & 18100 -E1000 -E2001 18100 is on the cover and looks stunning. Paul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaGrange Posted September 25, 2010 Share Posted September 25, 2010 Another good read - The only magazine I now buy without having a flick of it first Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted September 25, 2010 Share Posted September 25, 2010 MODERN LOCOMOTIVES ILLUSTRATED - latest issue is out featuring LMS 10000/01, 10100 - Fell, SR 10201-10203, 10800 Hawk, 18000 & 18100 -E1000 -E2001...... Modern? Joking aside, are these a re-run of the old issues? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted September 25, 2010 Share Posted September 25, 2010 Modern? Joking aside, are these a re-run of the old issues? Larry, "Modern" as in non-steam I think. I feel this series of mags is worth getting; good quality illustrations and some interesting text. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave47549 Posted September 25, 2010 Share Posted September 25, 2010 . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pennine MC Posted September 25, 2010 Share Posted September 25, 2010 "Modern" as in non-steam I think. Oo, are we having another of those 'what does Modern Image mean' debates Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRman Posted September 26, 2010 Share Posted September 26, 2010 "Modern", in my experience, is usually a word added to the titles of 1940s and '50s technology and science book titles!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted September 26, 2010 Share Posted September 26, 2010 It was meant to be jovial, afterall 1948 when 10000 left works is a lifetime ago. I was in my late teens when someone coined the phrase 'Modern Image'. Image was all the rage especially with politicians so it makes me chuckle when steam and diesel locos were being built in parallel up until 1960 yet one is regarded as modern. Diesel and electrics are only modern in the sense that they enable reductions in workforce, which of course is the driving foce of modernisation, mechanisation, call it what you will. I've wondered off course so I'll go back to bed now.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butler Henderson Posted September 26, 2010 Share Posted September 26, 2010 IIRC only the Deltics featured in Locomotives Illustrated. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted September 26, 2010 Share Posted September 26, 2010 IIRC only the Deltics featured in Locomotives Illustrated. You're absolutely right; #17 - one of the early ones. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinkmouse Posted September 26, 2010 Share Posted September 26, 2010 What's the feature on the Fell like? I plan to build one one day, and if it's got some good info I'll make a trek into town to pick up a copy. Ta Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted September 26, 2010 Share Posted September 26, 2010 Eight pages on the "Fell", including some I'd never seen before. 4mm and 2mm scale drawings by Graham Fenn too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Dale Posted September 26, 2010 Share Posted September 26, 2010 Eight pages on the "Fell", including some I'd never seen before. 4mm and 2mm scale drawings by Graham Fenn too. If they're the same ones as in the OPC book they'll be about as much use as a chocolate thermometer then... Steph Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinkmouse Posted September 26, 2010 Share Posted September 26, 2010 Eight pages on the "Fell", including some I'd never seen before. 4mm and 2mm scale drawings by Graham Fenn too. Thanks Peter, I might well make a trip tomorrow then. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted September 26, 2010 Share Posted September 26, 2010 If they're the same ones as in the OPC book they'll be about as much use as a chocolate thermometer then... Steph Indeed; that's why I included the name of the draughtsman. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Dale Posted September 30, 2010 Share Posted September 30, 2010 I picked up a copy today. Very interesting edition and there certainly appears to be some previously unpublished photos in there. The 'scale' drawings are indeed the same as those in the OPC 'British Rail Main Line Diesel Locomotives' book and should therefore be treated with a little caution. The GA of the Metropolitan-Vickers Gas Turbine is a true work of art though...! Steph Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted September 30, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 30, 2010 nice pic of 10201/2 in multiple on the 'royal scot'. there was a thread on here a while back about the 'multiple-ness' of the protoypes - this pic shows these two with the gangways connected and the mu cable connected to a socket under a flap next to the gangway, stating the jumper cable was stored in the loco when not in use. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinkmouse Posted October 1, 2010 Share Posted October 1, 2010 Yup, I picked up an issue yesterday and it's a very good read, even for a confirmed kettle head like me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium cctransuk Posted October 1, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 1, 2010 Reading the section on 10800 in its later incarnation as 10800 RESEARCH LOCOMOTIVE (HAWK), the usual mention is made of test runs on the GC mainline and the Gotham branch. However, I can personally vouch for the fact that the loco ventured south down the Midland mainline, at least as far as Wigston Magna. One lunch break a very surprised group of school lads at Guthlaxton Grammar School, Wigston, found a strange light green loco sitting in the Up bay platform of Wigston Magna station on a test train; (immediately next to the school playing field). Several earnest-looking boffins were standing around on the platform. Whether it ventured further south or was turned on the Wigston triangle I cannot say, (the afternoon school bell rang), but it had gone by afternoon break. At that time few, if any of us, had heard of 10800, so it was all rather odd!! Later, reports emerged of tests of a new 'squirrel cage' rectifier, but that was way over our heads. Regards, John Isherwood. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJM Dave Posted October 1, 2010 Share Posted October 1, 2010 Hi guys, might be a wrong caption but in 'British Rail Mainline Diesel Locomotives' by Marsden and Fenn there is a picture on page 47 of this loco on a mixed freight train coming off the LMR line into Oxford of all places in 1958 however it also states in the editorial piece for this loco that it underwent testing in Scotland and London Area, plus was allocated to Plaistow shed for Southern work. Hope this helps. cheers Dave Dapol Ltd Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium cctransuk Posted October 1, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 1, 2010 Hi guys, might be a wrong caption but in 'British Rail Mainline Diesel Locomotives' by Marsden and Fenn there is a picture on page 47 of this loco on a mixed freight train coming off the LMR line into Oxford of all places in 1958 however it also states in the editorial piece for this loco that it underwent testing in Scotland and London Area, plus was allocated to Plaistow shed for Southern work. Hope this helps. cheers Dave Dapol Ltd Dave, Are you referring to 10800? My comments re testing relate to its later use as a test loco; surely yours refer to the loco in its original state? Regards, John Isherwood. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJM Dave Posted October 1, 2010 Share Posted October 1, 2010 Hi John, the book says pre-Maybach fitted, but the picture is captioned 1958. Goes on to say loco broken up at Brsuh in 72-73 sorry for the confusion. cheers Dave Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy_anorak59 Posted October 15, 2010 Share Posted October 15, 2010 Western Sunset, on 26 September 2010 - 19:49 , said: Eight pages on the "Fell", including some I'd never seen before. 4mm and 2mm scale drawings by Graham Fenn too. If they're the same ones as in the OPC book they'll be about as much use as a chocolate thermometer then... Speaking of which, can anyone tell me what lives on the top of the roof cut-out at cantrail level on both sides of the Fell? The drawings in this mag (and every other book/magazine I've seen) show just an empty 'shelf'. There is one that's tantilizingly close in the Modern Locos Illustrated magazine, but doesn't quite show it. I'm presuming that this was the location for the steam heat boiler fillers (the tanks seem to be directly below here) - but I can't find any diagram or photo that shows the detail. Anyone help? - I'm trying to complete my A1 kit you see... Cheers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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