Ruffnut Thorston

Meanwhile...back at the Thread Drift...😉 Citroen 2CV.🇫🇷 Squeaking Suspension? 🤔 Carefully drill a hole in the top of the tube containing the suspension, exactly at the midpoint. Squirt in some lubricating oil. Seal the hole with a short Pan Head self tapping screw. (Stainless steel is good!)👍 This was told to me a while ago now. 🙂 ᚱᚢᚠᚠᚾᚢᛏ × ᛏᚼᚬᚱᛋᛏᚬᚾ 🐉🙋🏼‍♀️

Yep, Langstone Harbour Bridge, with the old opening span. Complete with Terrier hauled train. The Mallard is posed in a section from the Grand Victorian Suspension Bridge, minus the support cable mouldings. ᚱᚢᚠᚠᚾᚢᛏ × ᛏᚼᚬᚱᛋᛏᚬᚾ 🐉🙋🏼‍♀️ EDIT: I did originally think that the black girder section Mallard is on was the Elevated Sidewalls... Then I thought that they were too 'heavy' looking, and so thought of the Suspension Bridge... Nope, I was right about the first time. It IS the sidewalls! Ruff, look a bit closer next time! 🤷🏼‍♀️

We have found a few Tri-ang and Hornby Railways castings with the 'rot'. From memory... The most outstanding was a small Synchrosmoke unit that was fitted to one of the "Railway Children" set "Jinty" locomotives. It had expanded inside the body, causing the smokebox area to 'explode' in bits. ☹️ We replaced the SS unit, and repaired the body, but it's still not perfect. 🤷🏼‍♀️ There have been a few small SS unit castings, including a black painted one, from a black B12 loco. I can't think off hand what any other castings were. ᚱᚢᚠᚠᚾᚢᛏ × ᛏᚼᚬᚱᛋᛏᚬᚾ 🐉🙋🏼‍♀️

No, a third new sleeper base was made, in black plastic, matching the ROCO made track. We have examples of all three designs. ᚱᚢᚠᚠᚾᚢᛏ × ᛏᚼᚬᚱᛋᛏᚬᚾ 🐉🙋🏼‍♀️

To connect Super 4 track to code 100, Horrnby Dublo 2 rail, or System 6, there are the R.476 converter tracks. Originally released to connect S4 to HD two rail, after the 1965 "Amalgamation". Later, reissued to connect S4 to System 6. The plastic base being retooled to have the same half sleeper arrangement as System 6 at the code 100 end, and moulded in black, rather than brown, plastic. The code 100 fishplate also being changed to match the S6 track. A further modification to the plastic sleeper base was to make the code 100 end match the ROCO (Austrian made) System 6 track, with the whole end sleepers. The rails are castings, probably mazak? In effect, tapered rails. (The short rails on the R.407/R.408 Super 4 Turntables are also castings.) 🐉🙋🏼‍♀️

ERG... Ernest (Edward) Rankine Grey. 🙂 ᚱᚢᚠᚠᚾᚢᛏ × ᛏᚼᚬᚱᛋᛏᚬᚾ 🐉🙋🏼‍♀️ EDIT: Name corrected from information received in subsequent postings on this thread. 🙂

Very well put together. Have you thought about submitting an article or articles to The Train Collectors Society magazine? 🙂 https://traincollectors.co.uk/ 🐉🙋🏼‍♀️

Warehouse 13? 😉😀 🐉🙋🏼‍♀️

Ffordd is "Way" really... So, Way Out.🙂 Ffordd Allan, Bach! 😎👩‍🎤 😉😀 🐉🙋🏼‍♀️

Ffordd Wysiwyg, I would say 🙂 🐉🙋🏼‍♀️

A good name for a station...🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Narrow Gauge, or Standard. 🙂 🐉🙋🏼‍♀️

I think that you will find that the majority of "scrap" locomotives are indeed made from the Amercom Great British Locomotives Collection (GBL) models. That and the Kitmaster/ Airfix / Dapol / Dapol Kitmaster kits. Also seen are Diesel locomotives, with one bogie missing... maybe with something propping that end up. Also, no bogies at all. These are usually the Tri-ang Railways, etc. Models. The motorised bogie being sold off separately. Sometimes, it is a RTR locomotive, but with the motor removed, and sold off separately. 🐉🙋🏼‍♀️

"Cosmetic Condition: As manufactured." Meaningless....🤷🏼‍♀️ Manufactured broken? 🐉🙋🏼‍♀️

Yes, the model bridge is based on a section of the Great Central Railway viaduct. That's the viaduct that when erected, the LNWR had to duplicate a signal gantry at high level as the original signals were a bit lost against the girders... The model is made in short sections... Apparently, the model is strong, strong enough for the builder to stand on an upside down section, the base spreads the weight more easily that way up! 🙂 🐉🙋🏼‍♀️

That right hand side, just so happens to be on the bottom in the box...so more susceptible to damage. 🤷🏼‍♀️ 🐉🙋🏼‍♀️

Ah, but the smokebox door moulding looked a bit flat, so I WAS thinking GBL... We have one motorised using a China made chassis, and it looks very like that...🙂 But, it's probably not surprising some details may be a bit vague, if, as seems likely, it's the original tools from the 1960s. 🤷🏼‍♀️ 🐉🙋🏼‍♀️

That B12 looks suspiciously like the Great British Locomotive Collection version of the original Tri-ang Railways tooled version, mounted on a chassis from a China made, Hornby version of the original Tri-ang Railways version. 😉😀 🐉🙋🏼‍♀️

Fame at last! 😉😀 I'm back again today. A half day... And possibly tomorrow... It's the final day, Saturday 3rd September,2022. ☹️ 🐉🙋🏼‍♀️

Thanks @The Johnster.🙂 They were filled, but not enough! 🤷🏼‍♀️ The paint revealed that... It's on the jobs list, along with replacement lettering and numbers... Our BR stock grey turned out to be another of those multiple shades of grey, so the patch painting became a total repaint! 🤷🏼‍♀️ And there's another waiting for attention too. 🙂 (We've been busy playing trains with Peter Waterman lately.😉😀) 🐉🙋🏼‍♀️

The questionable end windows probably came about as the manufacturer measured up one on a heritage railway, that had been modified as a propelling observation and brake van. Using a Hornby example, we modified ours. There are extra lamp irons on the sides, which were removed early on...these should not be there...so we removed them... Also, the lower ends should be plated, like the sides, it seems... Not the best job, but plastic card plates were added... We should have used thinner plastic card 🤷🏼‍♀️ 🐉🙋🏼‍♀️

Hiya John. The MR Grounded Coach body kit does normally include the fencing. Also, all of the other sprues seem to be from this kit. The brown ones have chairs (like IKEA, some assembly required!) Tables, "planks" to board over windows, etc. The "Sleepers", to build a base from, have been removed... The creamy colour sprue had some roof parts as far as I can remember.🤔 The body mouldings themselves are from the Ratio MR Coach kit. (The smaller Grounded Coach Body also includes the chairs, etc. The body itself is from the GWR 4-Wheel coach kit.) Obviously, someone has made up the basic kit, and then shoved all the "spare" parts back in the box 🤷🏼‍♀️ 🐉🙋🏼‍♀️

I've had some experience of this, working on Steam Railways... "Mummy, what's that?" A small child in a family group seeing the coal fire in the booking hall... "What's that?" Older children on a school trip to the Railway, seeing us clearing up some spilled coal after a loco had had its bunker refilled... They thought that we were winding them up, about "rock that burns"! And these were from literally years ago now.🤷🏼‍♀️ 🐉🙋🏼‍♀️

At present, there is no longer a sliding scale of listing fees, dependant on the start price. It was this way some years ago though. 🙂 The minimum reserve price that can be set with the paid for reserve is, I believe, still £50.00. So, if you see a listing with a paid for reserve, the lowest price would be £50.00. Anything less, will be below the reserve...🤷🏼‍♀️ 🐉🙋🏼‍♀️

The X.05 number had already been taken, by the OO gauge version of the XT.60 motor, with the twin start brass worm, as used in the Lord Of The Isles, Caledonian Railway 123, and the R.408 Turntable (The best turntable that Rovex has made to date! IMHO). The motor lineage started with the Zenith motor, used in the original Rovex Plastics Princess locomotive, with an integral gear box, and a vertical, disk, commutator. The X.01 design is basically the same, but without the gearbox. The X.02 design has a horizontal, drum, commutator. The original X.03 preceded the X.04, and had a few versions, the main difference being in the bearings. This was the first motor to be removed from the chassis without dismantling, the previous designs being sandwiched by the plate frames. Some earlier X.03 versions have no oil pads, and the rear bearing is a raised part of the back plate. The front bearings have been seen to have the mounting bracket mounted 'vertically', rather than the usual horizontal mounting, which allows oil to be dropped into the bearing from above. The front bearings were the first to gain oil pads, so some X.03 motors only have the one front pad. The rear pads came a bit later... The X.04 Service Sheets... The X.04 had a few modifications, before becoming Officially the X.03 (New Type.) First, the armature shaft was reduced in length, to be the same length as the Scalextric motor of that time. This meant that the brass worm, which has a taper to the hole the armature shaft fits into, had to be mounted 'backwards'. That is, with the smaller hole at the motor end. The new armature shaft was too short to grip properly if the worm was put on the right way around! Then, the felt pads were deleted. I don't know if the material of the actual bearings was changed, (I suspect not...) but the bearings retained the groove to fit the oil pads... The fully fledged X.03 (New Type) is basically a late type X.04, but with the black nylon? (Delrin?) (plastic) single start worm. I think that some of the X.05 motors also gained the black plastic single start worm. I wonder if these would be "X.06"? The small motors, introduced with the 1980s Super Strong Pulling Power (SSPP) 0-6-0 chassis were, I believe, known as "Type 7". 🐉🙋🏼‍♀️

Ohhh...😉🙂 The third one down is also Graham Farish, the supplied bogies, but missing the cover plates. Compare with the second one down... The top one's bogies look to have either been "got at, or a different white metal bogie casting... The white metal ones, I know nothing about I'm afraid. 🤷🏼‍♀️ 🐉🤷🏼‍♀️