Ruffnut Thorston

Though I haven’t read any of Christopher’s stories, I think that “Wilbert” is an Austerity Saddle Tank Loco on the Dean Forest Railway, that is named after his father, Rev. Wilbert Awdry.

South Welsh I believe.

Is the alarmed building possibly posted in the wrong thread? Or, is the building at Wookey Hole?

The 1964 catalogue is famous for featuring a whole load of items that were not actually made. A lot of Tri-ang Model Land buildings, including a Town Hall, and Coal Mine surface buildings, (featured in the cover picture) some vehicles to be part of the Tri-ang Model Land range, including an aircraft are pictured, but never released. The factory was actually produced, but sold as separate buildings. The pylons were made, and were one of the items sold in Hornby Railways packaging, along with the church, years later. https://www.brightontoymuseum.co.uk/index/Category:Model-Land Some fairground rides to be marketed as part of the Minic Motorways system, with M prefix catalogue numbers are also pictured, but never released. https://www.brightontoymuseum.co.uk/index/Category:Minic_Motorways_Fairground Thread drift!

The “Bantam” tug was a design from E.C. Jones of Brentford. Originally designed to be rigidly connected to the tow with winches, making it one unit, so it behaved just like a normally propelled vessel. British Waterways used narrow beam Bantam Tugs. It was found that it could be advantageous for manoeuvrability to not have the tug winched up rigidly, but able to pivot around the stem posts of tug and push tow. More like a giant outboard motor. The Bridgewater Department of the Manchester Ship Canal had some larger Bantam tugs, but these were almost universally used to pull barges. One traffic being grain for Kellogg’s, loaded in Manchester Docks and taken up the Hulme Locks branch to the Bridgwater Canal, and on to Trafford Park. The Aire and Calder Navigation used trains of compartment boats (known as “Tom Puddings” as they resembled an oven tin! ). These were originally meant to be pushed, with a separate pointy end, or bow, attached to the front. The whole being tensioned by cables from winches on the steam tugs. In practice, it was found better for the tugs to tow the trains, the bow section, or “Jebus” acting to spread the wash from the tug’s screw propeller sideways and under the loaded compartment boats. When pulling an empty train, the Jebus was usually pushed in front of the tug, the wash from the propeller going under the empty compartment boats. The compartment boats were lifted up, and tipped over in special hydraulically powered lifts, the coal being tipped into the holds of ships at Google for onward shipment. Later Ferrybridge Power Station was supplied with coal by larger “pans” which were pushed by specially constructed tugs. No Jebus was used. The pans were also emptied by tipping them out using a hoist. The Mississippi push tows can be a huge raft of barges, all lashed together, with the tug pushing. Push tows are also common on the waterways in Europe. Station Boats were originally the narrow boats run by Railway Companies, mainly on the Birmingham Canal Navigations (BCN). As industry was set up alongside the canals, it was easier to serve the industry by boat, transhipping to railway wagons at purpose built transshipment basins, where the wagons were alongside the canal arms. After the grouping in 1923, it was found that canals inherited by the LMS from the L&NWR (BCN, Shropshire Union, etc.) and the North Stafford Railway (Trent & Mersey, etc.) penetrated into GWR “territory”, including North Wales and Kidderminster, etc. Therefore boat traffic was run by the LMS Boatage department to take goods by canal. These LMS boats were still running under BR (LMR) after nationalisation. Liverpool Docks were connected to the Leeds &Liverpool Canal via the Stanley Docks branch and locks. The GWR had a goods depot near the Albert Dock, served by barges.

As said above, this was exactly as issued. It is from the old Hornby Dublo SD6 Gunpowder Van tool, without the roof, and with a coal load from the Coal Wagon included. The wagon body presumably being held on by the screw into the coal load, instead of the roof.

The Dock Authority Shunter actually used the Transcontinental (T.C.) Series EMB (Earlier pattern Motor Bogie) motor bogie as the chassis, so it is a motor bogie. The Tram Loco certainly has the larger wheels used on T.C EMB motor bogies. I think that the AL1 (?) electric loco motor bogie also used the larger wheels?

I thought that Railway closed a long time ago? like VENTNOR?

SHANKLIN?

Hi. I have read through that article, and cannot see any direct DCC compatibility. Yes, apparently ZTC DCC control systems have (or had, it’s an older article…) a setting to allow them to control Zero 1 decoder equipped locomotives. And ZTC did manufacture Zero 1 compatible decoders. I stand by my belief that basically, these early systems were not compatible with anything else, with the noted exceptions of the Hammant & Morgan APT, Advanced Power Transmitter, and H&M APT decoders, and some ZTC controllers and decoders, being compatible with the Hornby Zero 1 system. The Airfix MTC system was, apparently, not compatible with anything else. (That article also gets a bit confused with the Hornby name history….)

The “F” is drawn in such a way, without a well defined middle bar, that it looks a lot like a “J”….

So that’s what Shaun the sheep is doing these days, bar keeping!

The last photo seems to shew a current type 21 pin DCC decoder. This also seems to have wired interface, as well as the black socket? 21 pin DCC decoder… The other encapsulated units are Hornby Railways Zero 1 loco modules. R.955 Zero 1 Locomotive Module Like the Airfix MTC (Multiple Train Control) system, Zero 1 is a proprietary format, and not compatible with anything else.

Hi Bob. That was the supplier…and I have that tool too. The bogie riveting tool is in two pieces, which screw together, spreading the open end of the eyelet as the parts are brought together. A thin card spacer can be used to give a bit of slack in the joint, when it is removed. Best formed as a slot, around Tge eyelet/ rivet…

A “Way Out” Exit?

When I filmed the APT-P at Chester, the lights in the second carriage went off and on…probably dodgy pick ups there. (This can be seen in my video, linked to earlier…)

The linked nuts and bolts are new “reproduction” examples. It is good to have them available. The CKD nut was sized to wedge itself in the top recess of the bogie mounting on the chassis, so that it didn’t unscrew on its own… I have some tools from a supplier that was on eBay, to fit bogie eyelets, and the eyelet holding on the X.04 type motor brush holder diaphragm. They also supplied the eyelets, but I can’t seem to find them just lately.

I can’t find the supplier I used… There is always the CKD kit nut and bolt…designed for bogie fitting. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174760508333?hash=item28b089bbad:g:mwoAAOSwlx1giVFs

Personally, I look at every type of listing. I search for what I’m looking for, and usually set up the results in increasing price as I scroll down. There have been things I wanted that I have repeatedly been outbid, c’est la vie. One item came up, with something else, on a BIN, with offers. I risked an offer, which was accepted. That’s another item for the collection ticked off! The other part of the listing will find its way back on eBay at some point…

Thanks, I got it right then. The Dublo lines are also not super bright white, or at least aren’t nowadays. I think this is partially due to the line being painted over the cream colour. Yours certainly look right to my eyes.

Like (Sir) Cliff Richards Brum Burger, but a bit different… See the film “Take Me High” for details… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_Me_High

They look fine to me. I especially like the white platform edges. I think it was the earlier platforms that had the edging in white, later not painted in… I have a 50/50 chance of remembering it the right way around!

Nice…. The ‘2MT 46521 was used for filming “Oh Doctor Beeching” on the Severn Valley Railway. It gained nameplates for this role, “Blossom”. The B12, apart from the early crest, and more detailed lining, is like a scaled down OO gauge R.150 and tender…

I almost missed that one….