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Jol, It happened; Penmaenmawr photo - the camera never lies. No date but must be the same. In the initial image the tide is out hence people on beach:

Progress on GWR 517 1425 has been slow but I have made the bunker and cab rear. Needs beading doing and lamp irons before final fitting:

835 GWR 517 class is out of the paintshop. A bit of touching up to do, numbers to be added and varnishing/weathering Edit: PS also whistles to be added which I got at ScalefourNorth last weekend

Hi Steve What's behind my question is that, on the small station I am building, the relatively large loading dock had no pens at all. I have assumed that it was built exclusively for loading of horses and carriages for the local estate. A recent discussion on the S4Society forum did not come up with any conclusion but I am glad you have helped with the answer. Maybe no cattle on a regular basis at my station. Thanks Peter

Was it common to have an unpenned area for loading horses?

Can I ask what’s the sound file for the Dean Goods. I have one on the go too.

I don't think think every single colour is available as gloss just the mainstream ones, for example GWR coach crimson lake is not. I recently ordered some GWR 1906-1948 green in dull and the tin arrived labelled 'satin'. Never seen that before from PPP

Probably not available in Denmark

Through carriages tended to be break composites; very few earlier ones are available from the trade but Worsley Works have some. iKB produced a 6 wheel clerestorey, U28 I think, which is now available from the Broad Gauge Society.

Excuse my ignorance but why is the capacitor needed?

He's working on the Virgin remodelling of Lime Street; still not finished. And note also the GWR Clerestorey deep in LNWR territory (and of course the lamps!)

Can't remember if they had dining cars in 1895 now! I 'think' GWR carriage diagrams are at Kew though I don't know which years they might have in the archive. Mine came via a member of the GW Study Group along with other stuff from Kew so I assume that is where he got them but it might have been from his personal collection. These are even rarer than Working Timetables. I only have GWR through carriage workings for 1912 because that is the year of my interest. The LNWR Society has a lot of information including carriage diagrams and WTT's in their Study Centre which is also open to the public. It does include stuff that ran on joint lines. A search on their website will reveal what is in the archive. If I have a moment, I'll have a look. Edit: search show nothing prior to 1906

You would need to refer to the carriage diagrams for 1895 which I do not have. The earliest corridor trains on the GWR ran to Birkenhead from 1890 so don't know if the Chester service had these by 1895 but the marshalling diagram would show if corridor or not. Eitherway the coaches would have been Dean clerestories so from a modelling perspective, apart from the corridor issue, would look similar. Does Bradshaw say whether there was a dining service on either? In 1912 the 9:10 and 9:50 to Birkenhead were both Corridor. The Barmouth through coach was in the 9:50 train. However, this was transferred at Birmingham to the 11:05 Birkenhead which also had the Pwllheli carriages in the formation. All three had dining cars but the 9:10 and 11:05 had "70'" stock which would have been newer at the time so the 9.50 did have relatively older stock. Barmouth through coach returned the next day on the 10:10. The Barmouth through coach is not shown as corridor though the Pwllheli are. (Interestingly the 9:50 also had a corridor through coach Paddington to Hereford)

We moved into a brand new council property in the late 60's that was still coal heated. The central heating ran off the one fire place in the building. They even provided a coal cupboard at ground level though the clean air act put paid to the coal man coming round as you couldn't burn coal only coke.

On the left is the vacuum pipe and on the right is the steam heating pipe on a Dean Goods. The steam heating connections were often removed in the summer.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/model-railway-Ratio-753-LNWR-TRAFFIC-LOCO-COAL-Parts-as-shown/152965351159?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT The Traffic Coal wagon is sill available from Peco/Ratio as are the under frames, so £44.10 for 2 sides and 2 ends of a loco coal wagon!

Well it might be camera distortion but that back wheel looks seriously bent Jazz

Mikkel I have had a lot of trouble painting my GWR 517 with wet-on-wet which I thought was an acceptable technique with thinned paint. Apparently not as I seem to have got a kind of a watermark in the finish. Today, I just happen to have come across a very old Precision Paints leaflet which states about paint thinned with white spirit: "extra care will be required when spraying to avoid 'tear drops' forming. Tear drops are caused by excess paint being applied, or not allowing the first coat to dry sufficiently before a second coat is applied." I'd never read this elsewhere. So you are safest with your current technique of a few coats and I will try to stop cutting corners and getting it all done in one. Peter

Thanks for the tutorials Coach. The line was built by Thomas Brassey as was the line my layout is on (Shrewsbury to Hereford) and the Severn Valley Railway (Highley). There are great similarities to all the buildings obviously built to a common design formula. Should be a great help when a finally get round to building mine!

There's a Grade II listed Midland Railway Goods Warehouse in Liverpool City Centre. Don't know if it ever had any rail connections! https://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101062567-midland-railway-goods-offices-central-ward

Thanks Coach After decades of playing guitar, the tips of my left fingers are pretty solid too. Hopefully they won't complain with the soldering. Cheers Peter

Hi Coach I may have missed this elsewhere but do you have any particular tips for fixing droplights please? Sorry if this has been covered before. Peter

Very sad...

...and outside frame Toads...

I don't recall but the decals may well have come with the kit as it looks like one complete decal. I would never have got individual numbers that straight! They could have been from another kit, possibly coopercraft. Back then in the pre-internet days research was a lot harder so it is highly unlikely that it was an informed decision. This is the only shot I have of one of these (at Craven Arms) and the number is nothing like: