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  1. JeffP
    How would I contact Pete? by letter? Ho Ho! a begging letter with a difference........ Did you get my PM Brian.......?
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    The only one I ever saw was being used as a re-railing excercise on Eastfield depot on my first ever visit, June 1974. I never saw another.......
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    PM'd you Brian on the "usual" subject. I hate to say it, but detailed, it looks quite ...........good. Still think it's a dog of a design, mind............
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    Mine too. I looked for the 44's, but now realise why they aren't there. Spent two years living in Nottingham, near Clifton, and only once in quite a few visits did I see all ten on TO at the same time. I used to spend summer evenings sitting beside the line near Ratcliffe on Soar power station, spotting class 45/0 and 45/1 peaks, class 25's, the occasional class 20 pair and sometimes a 44. Happy days with REAL trains!
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    Still looks like someone with eyesight problems designed it. Brian, how did you get the extended shots of it from the side/above? Just walked round after it? The camera was very still......and where is the test track? Here's some copper foil tape: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/COPPER-FOIL-TAPE-DOLLS-HOUSE-LIGHTING-6MM-WIDE-/360195355000?pt=UK_Dolls_House_Miniatures&hash=item53dd50f178 Loads more too.
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    But what if the New England shedmaster fails it? Oh...wait...that would be you, wouldn't it?
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    Hi, on your pic of 1071, what is/was the square on the front, just below the driver's window?
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    Camden Shed

    JeffP replied to 92220's topic in Layout topics

    Watching this with interest, I loved the bridge. But wasnt Camden a roundhouse?
  9. JeffP
    Were the 71's withdrawn by then? And where did you encounter the AC electrics?
  10. JeffP
    And the Lincoln alternative isn't popular in Lincoln, trust me.
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    Jazz: now we KNOW you are really an expert modeller. If I had a heart condition, I wouldn't dare model, I'd get too worked up at it when the model inevitably went wrong. Best regards for your health. Jeff.
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    Looking at that model, I CANNOT UNDERSTAND anyone having wanted to do one. And they COULD have done Falcon too: better looking, and would have worked out of the box. That thing looks like a horror and seems to build like one.
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    Ah, Chamossaire, loco of my boyhood dreams. Along with Woodcock, whose corridor tender we ventured through whilst it was on shed at Doncaster, and Hal O' the Wynd, sitting waiting entry to the works, but could be viewed nicely by running along "Dog **** alley" and viewing through the tiny gaps in the fence. Unfortunately, running along there whilst NOT looking where one was putting one's feet aptly revealed why spotters chose to call it that.
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    Right, I'll approach JLTRT this weekend and if they say so, will open up a thread on here and three other sites, asking people to do as suggested. I will also canvass people for other places I cvould ask on. Sorry for the hijack, Brian. Thanks for the idea, ngtrains. Edited to say: email sent, fingers crossed.
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    This REALLY is the most enjoyable thread: lovely images provoking memories galore. I reckon the weathering on Sir Walter is spot on, it's how I remember A1's looking, at least until the darker days I prefer to forget.
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    If I HAD £20k, I might think about that. Sadly, I don't have that sort of money.......
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    Well Brush came through for me! Rang up yesterday. A nice lady passed me on to the guy who put together all the drawings for Heljan when they did their "Falcon" in 4mm He's sending me a set by post in A3. IF this goes ahead, IF it looks viable, I'll start a separate thread. Still have to learn how to do CAD..........oh, and the small matter of obtaining the software, LOL.
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    I always thought "Ladas" was an unfortunate name...especially whem pronounced the southern way. The LNER pacifics tended to have some very atmospheric names, if you discount the birds, people and places. Think "Blink Bonny", "Sunstar", "Hal O' the Wynd".........among many others.
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    The full tender reminds me of a passage I've read somewhere attributed to former Top Shed shedmaster Peter Townend, describing how drivers would coal up, then try and sneak back for a topup just to be sure. I think it was in a series of colour photo books.
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    Hmmmmmm, might try Brush then, they built it, were they proud enough of it to help me? We shall see. Or maybe Laurie would let me have a copy of the ones you sourced for him?
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    The weathering is, as always, superb. Did you get any response from your friend about Falcon drawings, Brian?
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    So..........I need to contact Pete and start convincing him he not only wants, but NEEDS "Falcon".
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    I suppose they produce what Pete wants..........
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    I'm sending you a PM Brian, about Falcon. Thanks in advance if you can help.
  25. JeffP
    Price wars are OK up to a point, but manuafacturers end up going to the wall tyhrough them
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