Three Cocks Junction

Hello 62613 or LNERGE Try this. I hope this is it. (48N/1968 SPK) SUNDAY 1 DECEMBER 1968 - MARCH EAST JUNCTION AND MARCH NORTH JUNCTION The bracket signal situated 108 yards from March East Junction signal box positioned between the Up Main and Up Goods lines carrying the following signals will be abolished:- March East Junction Down Main Home (worked also from March North Junction) March East Junction Down Main Calling-On to No. 6 Platform March East Junction Down Main Home to Down Through (worked also from March North Junction) March East Junction Down Main Warning to No. 2 Platform March North Junction Down Main Distant March North Junction Through Road Distant The above mentioned signals will be replaced by a Searchlight Type Signal at ground level situated between Down Main and Down Goods 113 yards from March East Junction signal box (5yards further) capable of displaying Red, Yellow or Green aspects, together with a two way Stencil Type Route indicator and White Position Light Signal with the following applications:- Yellow Aspect - T indication to Down Through Yellow or Green Aspect - M indication to Down Main Position Light - T indication Through Line Warning Signal Position Light - M indication Down Main Calling-On Signal (51/52)

Check out Fleetwood, Lancs: http://maps.nls.uk/view/126515585 for the 1930 edition. The station/quay/warehouse/travelling crane could well lend itself to "Minories" -type condensation, but the approach curve is the wrong way round for a corner of a room - perhaps it could be "mirrored". Round that corner, perhaps more dock/warehouse/fish shed at the front - with the fiddle yard lurking behind. There are superb photos in Foxline Scenes from the Past:26 Part 5 Blackpool North and Fleetwood. Hope that helps "float the boat"!

OK, sound thought! "at toy fairs and model railway shows". So keep an open eye on the toy fairs/swapmeets and exhibition traders if you still want to get a Peckett. Last Sunday I saw a total of four MSC/No. 11 and one H&P up for grabs at the Spalding J&J Webb fair. One trader had three of the MSC at a very reasonable price - about £73.50 or thereabouts. I didn't post about this find when I got back because no-one seemed still to be hunting from the posts to be seen here at the time.

City of Lancaster when it eventually came out was, at that time, pretty well No. 1 on my 00 shopping list. 1/. Not really the shade of red that was wanted. 2/. It chewed up one side of its valve gear. SELL!! I did!

A station already was was built along with the Midland Railway Here it is:- http://www.rcts.org.uk/features/mysteryphotos/show.htm?location=helpston&serial=2&img=Y-209-13A Closed 06/06/1966 along with all the remaining minor stations on the route. I doubt if anyone who lives in Helpston wants it back.

A great start to the froth. So yes, the maroon Hawksworths - bring them on! But the great omission in the Hawksworth range is the brake composite - essential for the BR/WR light branch/cross-country trains which were so often formed of Hawksworths. Or bring out the Collett non-corridor suburban/branch coaching stock. And for locos - shrink the BR 4MT 4-6-0 down from 00 to N! Would a "Dukedog" shrinkdown be feasible? Or a Dean Goods new tooling? Or put a BR Standard 2MT body on the Ivatt 2MT 2-6-0 chassis. Or just make and ship the BR Standard 3MT 2-6-2T in unlined green instead of just teasing us since the 2012 catalogue.

Here's a post about the model. I ran in my K2103 30182 last weekend no trouble at all! What a great model loco! I gave it an hour bunker first with my trio of Hornby crimson Maunsell conversions (Set 43 plus the loose 3rd) after running in, and there was no haulage or running problem there. The only thing resembling an issue in any shape or form was that it was necessary to cut the foam packing and the plastic "wheel seat" packing piece to enable this little marvel to go back to bed in its box with the couplings fitted. Having read up about 30182's real-life antics in "Push Pull at Yeovil Town" (Railway Bylines April 2016) I could quite probably find myself visiting Messrs. Kernows Limited Editions Web page to see about gathering in Push-Pull Gate Set No. 373 (BR Green). So a big THANK YOU to Kernow! No doubt I will be back for more in the future.

I have recently run my original 31-452A 41202 and it runs fine. It was easily one of the best (and last) of the pre-Blue Riband Bachmann locos, for which I paid something like £36 some years ago. So fine, I have an operational 2MT 2-6-2T but it isn't up to snuff with the rest of the Ivatt "hat trick" from Bachmann. For some years we have only had two of the Ivatt "hat trick" to modern standards - the 2MT and 4MT moguls are superb models. The tank as well would be brilliant. So I do concur with those who think the new release should have been a full re-tool. And the whole trio is vital in any representation of latter-day steam branch/light main line operations. Of course the Fairburn is a very good model at say £106 but it isn't in any way a throwback like the Ivatt at £110 or £131 DCC In that kind of price ballpark or just a tad higher I can get an exclusive limited edition Beattie Well Tank, Adams 02 or USA tank, considering what value I'd be getting for the money.

OK then, a quick browse of Hattons shows:- 39-460 Brake 3rd (I already have this as M26668M) But: 39-460A weathered is also numbered M26668M (so is it actually a respray of 39-460?) 39-465 Composite I already have. 39-465A is of course a repeat of 39-465 numbered M24659. 39-470 Brake 1st I have no use for. 39-470A touts itself as M5077M. 39-475 Open Vestibule 1st is probably duplicated by 39-475A M7481M There does seem to be a massive overload of firsts here. There is nothing listed that I can use to increase my Brake 3rd - 3rd - composite to any credible longer formation. So why not another brake 3rd and a couple of different-numbered 3rds? That would go down well, and so would some maroons without too many firsts!

It's ours and we wants it! BR Green will do very nicely, I am most definitely in the market for this type of BR/WR motive power in N and this one as specified ticks all my boxes. However I haven't bought what's been available up to now, because I don't want tender drive with a great driveshaft going through a very much open cab/footplate area! I saw this as very much a step backwards rather than forwards.

Hello nigelb If you browse the National Library of Scotland map collection at 25" to the mile you may find something. I know of no example myself but this could be your best bet. http://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/#zoom=5&lat=56.0000&lon=-4.0000&layers=7&b=1&point=0,0

Check this out, it'll show you full layout/signalling details:- http://oban-line.info/ob1/ob1.html ​ The train mentioned is actually on the Loco Release Line at that period so perhaps it's shut out of section there while another move takes place? I doubt a passenger move would be permitted over hand-lever points in either direction, unless they were clipped/padlocked. Over to the operation experts!

An LMS Stanier 2-6-0 now would do very nicely thank you. Along with 2P, which is probably the single major LMS type that remains unavailable to today's standards. I did look at the kit options for the 2-6-0 some years ago and they were not that attractive, although I think Alan Gibson introduced one since.

9A.21B is LLandilo, "Junction for the Carmarthen line", and the local on the left is the Carmarthen train. Its route will pass through LLandilo Bridge, Golden Grove, Drysllwyn, LLanarthney Halt, Nantgaredig and Abergwili. For anyone lucky enough to have "Steam in South Wales - Volume 2 North and West of Swansea" by Michael Hale, Plate 114 shows the Carmarthen local awaiting its connection in the bay at LLandilo on 29/08/1959. The makeup of the train is fascinating and I have attempted a re-creation using N gauge RTR, probably not the topic for this thread. Plates 108,109 and 110 show three of the stations on the former LNWR branch and Plate 115 shows the train from Shrewsbury arriving at LLandilo and about to make its connection with the branch train. As has already been said, this is indeed a marvellous collection, and thanks for sharing it.

Check out Stuart Taylor's superb "Journeys by Excursion Train" series of books published by Foxline. There are accounts of journeys over excursion routes illustrated with dozens of photos of excursion trains, station plans of seaside termini, and many pictures and reminiscences of the resorts and their entertainments. All in the north-west. The period is slightly later than you want but it's the tail end of the old era rather than the start of the new, so it would show you the kind of scenes you're looking for.

"Nottingham Midland LMS 3F 0-6-0T up goods c1949 JVol1347" looks suspiciously like the north end of Rugby Midland!