Weekday Cross

 

Could easily provide components for a copy. £1.7k for components, £1.5k for design, £0.5 for production of instructions!

Instructions? What? You won't assemble them for me too?

After living in a cave for several weeks, I've a bit of catching up to do, so to save me trawling back several pages, is that the Peco station roof in the above photo?

 

Keep up the good work chaps!!

 

Jonte

Whatever its origins, I could do with a few for the garden over the winter....

Seriously, that is a fantastic model - well done!

 

Weekday Cross - perhaps you need to look a little closer at the Dapol loco as I can assure you the bogies, cabside windows, bogie steps, radiator grille are all as per the Dapol model. The loco has been resprayed and weathered by Mercig (see earlier posts in this thread) with speedo cable added, oval buffers, air lines to air brake tank frame and bufffer beam pipes/ detail. For further info please see http://www.mercigstudios.com/

 

No offence taken - it is the Dapol class 26, I have the receipt to prove it!

Sorry - it really did look different to me to the one on the Hattons site - Mercig have obviously done a really good job and brought out the detail, I guess! You are very lucky to have such a well finished model!

Sincere apologies!

A few pics of the BR Blue class 26. One of the best running locos I have, not to mention its outstanding looks:

 

Patiently waiting for the release of bogie frame/ boiler water tank spares to do more variants of this crazy class of loco

 

Cheers

Lee

Ok Lee, is this really the Dapol model? Comparing your model with the pics on the Hattons website, there seem to me to be quite a few detail differences. Apart from the loco number, the bogies, cabside windows, bogie steps, radiator grille and a number of other details don't look the same. No offence - I may be wrong. If it is the Dapol loco, please tell us how you made all the changes.

Hattons have them listed at £36, though not yet in stock

The perennial problem with LNER livery stock is identifying wooden panelled bodies as opposed to flush steel bodies, with lining to imitate the wooden panelling - much clearer to see in BR livery.

So who is going to keep it all clean and dusted when its finished?

Magnificent modelling, all the same

General PS

I know nothing about diesels so I will end with a question to any thread readers: which diesels would have been around in 1955 (+/- 3 years) at Liverpool Street? I will do my own research but a leg up would be appreciated

The first Brush Type 2s (skinhead version) were certainly used on passenger trains to and from Liverpool Street in their early days - there is a shot of D5516 arriving with a train from Ely in 1958 in "The Early Years of London Diesels". EE Type 4s were certainly there by early 1959. NBL Type 2s were allocated to Stratford by mid-1959 and NBL Type 1s in 1958 (presumably for freight?). The BTH Type 1s appeared in November 1957.

Excellent photos of a superb layout!

Unfortunately, it is not always fun. Some apparently genuine callers are really after your personal information.

One idea is to try to "sell" you something to get your credit card information. Offering a free mobile phone is one idea.

Another trick is to pretend they have found out through a contact of yours that you probably have a dangerous trojan on your computer and they want to send you some software to repair it. This turns out to be a fishing program that finds out all your passwords etc. and sends them back to base.

Another trick is to pretend to be doing some kind of consumer survey. They soften you up with innocent questions and then throw in occasional questions about your personal information - the kind of things you would use to access your bank account, like your mother's maiden name, your last school or your memorable date. This information can be sold on to people who will use it to access your bank account.

Hopefully no one on this forum has been caught - but it pays to be very cautious and suspicious of any cold call, no matter what it might sound like.

If the brakes failed with a long heavy mineral train in tow, they could have ended up anywhere - including places that had no railway at all

How typical were the LMS locos though? - I always thought the coupled wheelbase, valve gear etc. were specific to the LMS. Wouldn't the ones BP designed themselves without the interference of the railway be very different?

The work you are doing on Liverpool Lime Street - along with Ron Heggs and a few others is really taking railway modelling to a new level altogether.

Brilliant!

see post 383

That's not a sound decoder - just a Lenz Silver

Does anyone do sound for a Sentinel?

Thanks for the update - the room looks fantastic, never mind the layout

Congratulations on getting the layout up and running - now all we need are lots of photos

Thanks for the helpful comments. I don't think there's much hopes of getting a 10x8mm motor in the little tank loco as the saddle tank is wrapped around a piece of 8mm dia tube, so the NIgel Lawton ones look like the best option. It looks like I will need a good reduction on the gears, I don't want the little engine to look like it's jet propelled.

Whilst "Jet Propelled" would be a little fast, you would be surprised just how fast locos were operated on the real thing whilst shunting. The slow, almost imperceptible crawl seen on many exhibition layouts is hardly prototypical

Is anyone thinking of converting their Sentinel shunter into a railcar? I gather the early railcars were based on the shunter chassis.

Coaches to form these trains are well advanced although my worries over how I'm going to do the lining stubornly refuse to subside!

 

Jerry

 

Superb locos! Any chance of a view of the chassis without the bodies on?

As for lining the coaches, my limited experience with Midland/LMS coaches was to paint the yellow as a broad band and then use a black rotring-style pen to draw lines down the middle. You can get these in various thicknesses and from several manufacturers. Pentel ones are available in WHS, for example.

The bus depot was at Aldenham, near Watford - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldenham_Works

13 is on the far right of the plan, just under "LMS"

I wonder if Bob Jones still does the Fencehouses point chairplate etches? I have used those in the past to good effect. The Easiline etches were more or less the same width as the sleepers, which did not look quite right somehow.

Will these be sold through Slimrails too?