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Brassey

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  1. I have used the Brassmasters chassis on GWR stock and there were probably pictures on my coaches thread that have likely been lost by the RMWeb crash. They are adaptable to fit a variety of wheelbases. They don't leave much room for cylinders etc. underneath but with a bit of jiggling you can get these to fit. For LNWR I use the London Road Models 6 wheel underframes both 30' and 32'. I am currently converting a 32' to fit a postal/parcel van with a slightly different wheelbase.
  2. Thanks for clarifying Martin. I didn’t mean you with my comment on the blank nose on V’s! My main source of info was the S4 Society Manual and Iain Rice’s book. If it was in there then I missed it. and it makes more sense to make knuckle bends with a round bar than with a sharp blow on a pointy screwdriver. I wish I’d known all this BEFORE I built my track.
  3. This NOT the way to create bends in the rail as it creates far too sharp a bend. How do I know... For the same reason the crossing V has a blunt rather than sharp end (a fact often unmentioned), you don't want a sharp point in the opposite rail either.
  4. Jol, Thanks for confirming that. I got my Whitworth when the 1224 was still available and I too have a RoadRunner compact ready for that. I've used the same configuration in my Special DX and Coal Engine having swapped out an LRM gearbox in the former. Both run very well. I also have an LRM Improved Precedent to build that has the same drive ready and waiting but having built the G Norton tender for the Whitworth, that is ahead of the queue. I really must build some carriages, but your build here is inspiring me to abandon that and get on with the Whitworth. Presumably yours has a fixed rear axle and compensation on the front driver and carrying axle? Peter
  5. Jol Your tenders look better than my efforts and this reminds me that I must get on with my own LRM Whitworth. Which gearbox are you using? Peter
  6. Great to see the progress Jol and glad you are back producing. Will both your and John's layouts be called "London Road"?
  7. Thanks and Yes. London Road chassis. Scratch built Brass footplate and valance. new tool boxes and backhead from LRM too. Added handrails to cab and front of tanks. And blower valve on the left hand side. Missing the front footsteps and whistle though…
  8. My K's LNWR Coal Tank. One day I'll finish the lining on the back of the bunker.
  9. Talking of old Wills kits, here's my Small Metro. Now on its third chassis.
  10. Thanks. I've wondered before where best to put those springs on LNWR kits. They're often included in LRM kits but IIRC never mentioned in the instructions. One of those things you find you've got left over at the end of a build!
  11. Jol Thanks and that’s my other option. I do have the flangeless wheels too. Cheers Peter
  12. I have an LNWR C class 0-8-0 to build. IIRC may plan is to have all axles moving: twin beams on the rear two driven axles with single beams either side of the gearbox and a sandwich central beam between the front two. That gives 3 point compensation. you have enough beams to do that too.
  13. The chassis etch is odd in that it only includes one side on each etch but everything else is duplicated. Hopefully the chassis sides were mirror images!
  14. Believe it or not, the carcass under these brass claddings is a K's GWR Dukedog! You can just see the whitemetal above the axles. I filed off all the rivet detail etc. and attached a set of outside frames for a Bulldog Bird class that came with a detailing kit for the Airfix City of Truro. The roof is also from the Dukedog. The rest is from a set of Falcon Brass etches for a Bulldog plus some scratchbuilt bits and other detailing from Branchlines for the Bird. Currently working on the tender using the chassis that came with the Branchlines COT motorising and detail kits. This has been sprung using High Level CSB components and will sit under the K's 3000 gal tender that came with the Dukedog:
  15. That tender footplate etch is Mallard too. On the etch with the numbers you have the belpaire firebox and smokebox so almost a complete Mallard Dean Goods. I’ve built 3 from such etches…
  16. As per my posts last year, I intend to extend the layout in the Southern direction. As a stickler for prototype fidelity, I now face a dilemma. Looking at the OS map and Google Earth there is a fairly substantial pond in the area I intend to model. Although less than an acre, it is bigger than the station complex and would take up a length of 575mm to model. I also don't know what it looked like in 1912 when it was bordered by an orchard. Do I include it or not?
  17. Peter K kits are notorious for having no instructions.
  18. I think you put the video on YouTube and paste a link on here. It will automatically embed it. Peter
  19. Heatwaves being topical, I noted that there was one in the Summer of 1906 when for four days the temperature was over 32 degrees. Not too comfortable for the steam engine crew! For my own time frame (1912) August 1912 was and still does hold the record for the wettest, coldest and darkest with rain I think on 27 days. Pity those poor holiday makers who travelled to the Devon and Cornwall resorts by train.
  20. And how does the signalman allow 2 trains in the section at the same time? Or maybe you employ shunting horses.
  21. Not a suggestion but an observation. How does a train on the outer line get its wagons into the goods shed without trapping the loco against the buffers?
  22. Yes I alluded to that in my somewhat cryptic previous post. And is there actually a station as we know it?
  23. They have a group on Facebook. Go on there with the same query and see if they respond.
  24. Conspicuous by it’s absence is said Station Building…
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