RSS Fetcher Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 Introduction... I suppose this saga really had its beginnings in 1963. I was browsing through a box of Skinley blueprints in Frank Roscoe's Model/Handymans shop situated on the corner of Huddersfield Road in Oldham, when I came across a scale drawing of an LNWR Oerlikon electric coach. Frank and I agreed it looked very similar to one of the coaches that ran on the 'Delph Donkey and so armed with drawing and several sheets of Plastikard I returned home and built said coach. With no information on the Driving Trailers to hand, that was that at the time. Jim Davenport kept the flame alive over the years with his photos of the Oldham-Delph trains until another valued friend, David Jenkinson, published 'An Illustrated History of LNWR Coaches' in 1978. By matching Jim's photos with diagrams in the LNWR book i was able to identify the various push pull saloons, and with David's assistance I embarked on preparing scale drawings. When Adrian Rowland at Northstar Design offered to prepare the necessary artwork on CAD for presentation to the etcher, I couldn't believe my luck. So my aim of building a representative 'Delph Donkey' train was finally completed some 40 years after the project started! View the full article Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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