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  1. Thanks! Those who are responsible can take the credit. The canopy shot is aided by the fact that track height is 1300mm above the floor. It's great seeing it all come together, and one of the best ways to appreciate it is to drive a train service through it... several scale kilometers of travel.
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  2. It was held in a school hall in Sussex. The majority of the UK FREMO group are local, for historical reasons. I brought my stuff from London, and that's the way these meetings are normally done. In normal times it's common for people to cross borders to attend a meeting -- it's a social event as well, and a chance to swap knowledge and techniques. As with a joint layout project, by coming along individuals get inspiration and encouragement for their modelling. I did much more to my modules and stock in the week leading up to the meeting than I thought possible, for example ;-)
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  3. The brass gears would date the loco to 70's or very early 80's.
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  4. Thank you BW. It's a shame that it is so blurred, but we must be thankful for any record of it. And these ghostly images of buildings speaking to us from the past can be quite fascinating. You will probably know that there is a drawing for this in "Great Western Horse Power" by J. Russel (p 199). One of the larger single-storey examples on the system, with 2 x 10 stalls + an annex with a "Loose Box", a provender store and a harness room. I also happen to be interested in the Cattle Market shown in your map, as I am thinking of featuring such a facility on my next layout. It will depend a bit on whether I can accommodate public access to it within the design. Your map illustrates how it could be done, thanks!
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  5. Hi Mikkel, Bill (Longchap) just directed me to this work of yours. I'm interested in Weston-super-Mare as it's my hometown I was delighted to learn about the former Stables and a quick search of Britain by Air turned up a great photo from 1920s showing the stables face on at the back of the Goods Precinct bordering onto Locking Rd. An archive link confirmed this was it's location. Here: https://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EPW001031 It sits directly opposite the end of George street running back from the Yards with label LB above it. 'Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland' https://maps.nls.uk/index.html
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  6. Thanks Martin and Porcy, I thought the Bachmann injectors looked a bit shrivelled. I have some Comet lost wax castings that I was saving for my Model Loco kit, but maybe I should just use them on 92061 rather than hoarding them :-). The plastic pipework is very fragile, and I have already broken part of it so it probably makes sense to replace evrything -- at least if I replace it with wire it will be round ... I hadn't realised Lanarkshire models did a slightly better air pump, so very grateful for the heads-up -- I might pick up a pair at Scalefour North on Saturday. Richard --
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  7. Hi Richard, Pete will confirm, but I'm sure that Alan Gibson does wheelsets on axles to fit Bachmann frames (metric rather than Imperial) - no need to drill out but too late now. There are some faults with the Bachmann that I think need attention, not all on every version. All 9Fs had exhaust stem injectors, despite what some books say. When the locos were scrapped, the first items removed were brass fittings and the largest of these was the exhaust steam injector. It was a very large and complicated device originally installed to enable economical use of steam and coal on long sustained runs. Where Bachmann seem to have gone wrong is to measure up a preserved loco and none of these that came from a scrapyard have exhaust injectors. They would be extremely expensive to have made and would be of no use on locos running on preserved railways at low speeds and over short distances. So two live steam injectors were fitted and Bachmann seem to have assumed that this was the norm. There are two preserved locos that didn't survive via a scrap yard, 92220 Evening Star in the National Collection and 92203 which David Shepherd bought direct fro BR. Both of these have exhaust steam injectors with their large diameter copper pipe bringing the exhaust steam to the injector. I've been on 92214 when it was at the NYMR and whilst it doesn't have an exhaust injector, the water valve handle for the live steam injector that replaced it is of the type used on the exhaust injector. Another mistake. The loco I purchased recently, 92113, has, on the RHS of the firebox a fine model of a carriage heating steam valve. None of the class were so fitted in BR days, not even Evening Star. Again it looks as though Bachmann have faithfully copied a preserved loco which has had one of these valves fitted for obvious reasons. The third thing to watch out for and it is trivial and would have been fitted to 9Fs running on the Western region, is the ATC equipment in the cab adjacent to the drivers seat. All other regions either had nothing or late on, AWS much less obtrusive. Oh, and the Dave Alexander Westinghouse pumps are a shade oversize. Not very noticeable on the 9F but very difficult to accommodate on a Tyne Dock O1. The Lanarkshire Models air pumps are better. Martin.
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