Tim Dubya

"LSWR Carriages in the 20th Century" is a case in point, it was £999:00 on eBay from a couple of vendors. I then found out that some of the content I wanted had been published in either The Constructor or RM in the early '70s, which I fortunately tracked down on The Magazine Exchange for a couple of quid each (two mag articles). Sometime later I found a copy for £35 in Oxfam Books in Bath, so had it away.

Na! These, one lasted 'til 1962: I'd have a pair for starters.

G6 then 😕

Just spotted this , if anyone's interested? Cheers PS: Excellent seller, I've bought loads off her over the years without issue 👍

I have only one question... where's The Duke of Cumberland in the plan? Looking good, as @Captain Kernow mentioned earlier, that HMRS book is a must!. ISTR that it may even have track layouts underground at Norton Hill pit? Essential publication for the S&D fan 👍

I always wondered about the "genesis" coaches from Hattons and Hornby. Obviously they sold well as there's still a second (?) run. I would have thought that it made more sense to tool up accurate 4 and 6 wheelers, say of GWR prototypes, then release those in all prototypical GWR liveries (including those that made it to departmental use). Then release those same coaches in fictitious liveries of the other railways? Was it too difficult/expensive for the target market with the research and tooling costs? So near, yet so far 🤔

I will only buy prototypical models from now on. I don't see the point in spending money on something that isn't real, it's just too expensive.

Dapol have it as such - "4P-020-521 Dapol GWR Toplight BR Maroon Composite 7911".

The more I read the less I know... I was happy when they all looked the same 🤔🤣

I don't know, in fact, but I have a feeling in my waters that we will see some LSWR Corridor's coming from EFE or Kernow in the next year or so. The only person who really knows either way probably isn't going to let on even if they knew or didn't know... @Graham_Muz 🤔😉 I'm just trying to stall myself from building all those Roxey kits I have, that I will most probably murder during the process.

Good question and one I don't really know the answer to. I did notice the lack of class designations and assumed that these were declassified by the 1950's. Anyway I need to start saving for the corridor LSWR coaches coming from ??? and for a couple of toplight corridors. 😁

Well it does have too many 1st class compartments...

Whoops... Well the BT was looking all lonely 😭

Well..... a bit like Panniers, the correct number to have is always one more than you've got 😜 This one has wiggly coupling thingies too 🤭... I actually bothered to look this time 🤔

Can't you just paint the seating or does the moulding give it away, even with it full of dirty Welsher's on their way home?

Should have gone to Specsavers 😳🤣

Are there any shorter versions? I don't do curves (of any significance) so will most likely use the supplied bar type coupling, but I can see that this would annoy the pants off of me if I did 😬

That bodes well, I've bought two of the M&C toplights and I had absolutely no intention of doing so until the Sunday before last, looking through the thread it appears I am not alone in that respect. I will most likely get a pair of the corridor versions. That should be enough for this Southern modeller...

I was going to say that the price they fetch on eBay is comparable to the new city toplights, if not more. I thought I saw a comment from Dapol somewhere in the parish saying they are being produced... of course I can't find it now / may have been hallucinating 🤷🤔

They love stuff like that in Japan. I worked for a restoration company who had won the contract to build a fully working traditional windmill at either a visitor attraction or a public park in Japan. I think they had previously made a water mill for a similar location. Bonkers, but all fully functional (I suspect there were some hefty motors about for still days).

That's what I use for wagons, they come self adhesive and already painted black from eBay 👍 I was thinking that the thin lead strip could be stuck on the inside of tanks/boilers etc where space was limited and anywhere else that you couldn't get the fick stuff in.