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  1. Paul Cram
    Same for me
  2. Paul Cram
    My first loco kit was a perseverance chassis for the Mainline J72. I used the perseverance jigs and it works well enough with a portescap motor. Only other tools were files and a soldering iron which I already had for building other kits.
  3. Paul Cram
    K&L was Kay and Len Newman. When they divorced it became C&L and was subsequently sold to John Pottinger who sold it to Brian Lewis. Exactoscale was producing wagon and locomotive parts and then Len started producing track parts for Bernard Weller under the Exactoscale brand. The P4 track company was an arrangement between Andrew Jukes and Len Newman. When Bernard Weller passed away Len aquired the Exactoscale range of parts and redeveloped the wagon underframes. The exactoscale parts were separate to C&L and were only licensed to C&L.
  4. Paul Cram
    C&L, Exactoscale track and the P4 track company all had one thing in common, Len Newman. It was Len that introduced plastic chirs made from ABS platic. Mek Pak won't stick ABS very well which was why Butananoe was recommended and Len used to sell it with the chairs. We did try Plastic Weld but found this too aggressive and it deformed the chairs if overdone.
  5. Paul Cram
    The first one I bought is Kean Portescap from Kean components Heathfield in Sussex
  6. Paul Cram
    I remeber seeing them at Scalefour North at the Norfolk Gardens Hotel in Bradford in 1977/78
  7. Paul Cram
    I am not sure the J21 is Bradwell. To my knowledge the only brass J21 is the London Road ex Geerge Norton ex O7 models kit.
  8. Paul Cram
    I model the NER/LNER and the J27 looks very good, howver it is the wrong gauge and period for me and like Craig would need to put a new chassis under it.
  9. Paul Cram
    According to Yeadon both 1683 and 1138 were allocated when new to Bowes bridge 11/02 and 10/02 respectively
  10. Paul Cram
    From1903 to 1917 all goods locos were black lined red with the number on a large cast plate. After 1917 they were unlined black and numbers painted on tenders or tank sides. Prior to 1903 they were lined green.
  11. Paul Cram
    Darrowby in the books was an amalgamation of Thirsk, Leyburn and Richmond, all LNER territory.
  12. Paul Cram
    There you go
  13. Paul Cram
    We diid use tham on one occaision when there were problems at the other end and we could't run trains through.
  14. Paul Cram
    Hi Jol Looking at the left hand side it seems that trains can only arrive on platform 1 and 2. That wold mean that if trains from there terminate and need to be stored in the carraige sidiings it is a convoluted move to get there.
  15. Paul Cram
    Just recieved a nice little package today. 3 london road loco kits J21, J25 and G5 all with sharman wheels and replacement brass domes and chimneys. Dave Bradwell tender, Poertescap mator and micor dive motor and hearbox with some other goodies. Less than half price.
  16. Paul Cram
    Ok I misunderstood.
  17. Paul Cram
    I would be interested to know what the issues were. i bought a J65 kit off the second hand stall at S4um that has been started. It has double thickness coupling rods and the footplate doesn't appear to have tabs other than the front lamp irons.
  18. Paul Cram
    The instructions for the coaches date to the mid 80s and include drawings.
  19. Paul Cram
    I can't answer that. My copies of the bulletin range from 115 to 151. There is a review in one of them of Blacksmiths coaches which references Gordon Weddels drawings and various photographs in earlier copies of the bulletin. There is also a note in another that says to conmtact S Ehrlicher for a copy of the information he holds on the carriages and NPCS.
  20. Paul Cram
    The information was collated by S Ehrlicher who was (is?) the S&DRT Coaching Steward. George Dow isn't definitive on the 1912 date assuming it was the same as the Midland. Some of the sources quoted are the S&D Trsut bulletins. I will need to find the ones I have to check if there is further information in there.
  21. Paul Cram
    It would be after either 1912 or 1917 depending on who is right. The instructions have a full list of resources and contacts although the contacts are probably now out of date. Prior to this it says blue with gold lining.
  22. Paul Cram
    From the blacksmiths instructions it seems the livery was chanhed in 1917 to black and chrome yellow
  23. Paul Cram
    They were purchased when we were building a model of Cole. 2 have been built but not finished. One method of doing the lining was to scrape the paint off the panel edge to reveal the brass. From the photos none of them seemed to have black on the raised moulding apart from 1 that looks like an official photo.
  24. Paul Cram
    Blacksmith produced 6 wheel coaches and also some bogie vehicles. I have some in my stash.
  25. Paul Cram
    You could run a .75mm drill through the .7mm tube. You may only need to do a small amount to get the wire started.
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