Andrew Young

Your Hunslet looks great! Just wish those kits were still available... The trick to succesful modelling is to make it believeable, and you do that in spades. Cheers, Andrew

Agreed, I've been captivated by the BT&S videos! I did follow the link to No 14 at Irchester, lovely photos, which subsequently led to me spending a happy hour or so looking at many other photos of the old Ironstone Quarry railways on flickr.... Cheers, Andrew

Mark, We are in agreement about 'The End of the Line', not seen it in the flesh yet, but will do when it comes to Burton in June for the 7mmNGA Convention. Well I do book the layouts so get to have some perks.... :-) That and Bury, Thorne & Sons which I was put on to a couple of months back, show what can be done in 7mm scale. I suspect that the great amount of information in the Tonks' books could well provide some suitable inspiration :-) Cheers, Andrew .

Thanks Mark, I've been lurking on RMWeb for a while, but my modelling having been 7mm narrow gauge I've been more active on the narrow gauge NGRM forum. Though purchase of an Ixion Hudswell Clarke has started to broaden my horizons a little! The original Tonks book has been considerably expanded into a nine part series! See http://booklaw.co.uk/eshop/index.php?cPath=21_286 Finding these at the sale price resulted in me picking up a couple, shortly followed by the rest and I'm now reading them through which is quite a marathon, but giving plenty of inspiration. Cheers, Andrew

Very atmospheric! Did you know that the tale is also told in 'The Ironstone Quarries of the Midlands Part 4' by Eric Tonks? Including a photo of the Jib on the wagons in the sidings at Wellingborough. Whilst Part 1 of the series includes a photo of 51235 and the train in the quarry. Part 4 also says that sister loco 51217 was hired by the quarry in the early fifties too when clearing the calcined ore after their own locos had been disposed off. So only one digit out number wise from your loco :-) Cheers, Andrew

Just stumbled across your layout and loco build threads, superb modelling (and great videos!). truly inspirational stuff. Cheers, Andrew