Miss Prism

Are those sandboxes hanging off the outside frame?

Great. (I couldn't quite detect the detail in some of the pics.)

Nice job. The kit betrays its age, and the roof has a nasty contour.

Btw, the E116 had fishbelly bogies. (The K's kit, as supplied, does contain them.)

When were the windows modernised? 1936?

Webpage scraping is unfortunately rife, the main culprits being the large tech firms filling their boots to bolster their AI credentials.

Many web sites are now adding nofollow and noindex tags to prevent such theft.

https://www.lumar.io/blog/best-practice/noindex-disallow-nofollow/

(But I suspect you probably know about this anyway.)

These days various mortar colours are available. St Pancras will have had its share of London filth over the years, and has been cleaned/renovated at intervals, but I think the mortar adopted when built was a very light sandstone colour.

Thin lime mortar at St Pancras:

On 05/01/2024 at 08:05, Mikkel said:

 

Railway station brickwork tends to be of a high quality, with well-defined brick shapes and thin quality mortar which is hardly ever recessed from the brick face.

In 4mm scale, it is probably most easily reproduced by paper printing.

Kidderminser Town and Stourbridge Town.

The design was standardised to a high degree, and its use as far out as Ross shows it was not a 'local' design.

I think this is c 1933.  IIRC, the majority of the bricks were London yellows. The two shops are a coal merchant and a tobacconist.

I suppose the downside of 7mm scale is that interior detailing becomes compulsory... 😄

To be serious for a mo, that is excellent.

And thanks for the link to Giles' weathering thread - I hadn't seen that before (it's easy to miss good stuff on RMweb).

I did a Colin Waite outside-rodded gear on a V2 in 4mm. My eyes wouldn't be up to it now.

Fortunately, Danny Pinnock introduced some pragmatic touches on his version, but nothing that is obvious from a general view.

I like the droplight colour!

I'm also inclined to think green. 666 seems to have received a repaint (probably at Caerphilly) in the first months of 1948, when locos continued to be outshopped in 1946 livery, i.e. with green bodies.

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A poor picture, but shows 666 never got a Swindon chimney.

Not strictly in scope I know, being ex-M&SWJ locos, but apart from the tenders, which remained intact, these locos were very Swindonised, and I think were the last 2-4-0s working on the ex-GWR system. This is 1335, location unknown, but possibly on the M&SWJ line, although the coach formation (3rd, Brk compo, brake 3rd) is typical of the DN&S. The photographer has accentuated the superelevation!

RCTS doesn't mention the matter.

So presumably the story of loco sheds not liking the allegedly-fitted screw reverse and replacing it with a conventional lever is an old wives' tale.

Are you saying that 94xxs were never fitted with screw reverse?

Assuming the image date is known. (Or am I missing the point?)

Image date is important.

Barnum 3222 at Westbourne Park, probably c 1904, with a BR0 boiler and a Belpaire box. Looks like it is superheated. Early 3000g Dean tender.

This is before rebuilding with extended frames and Bulldog cylinders.

Stella 3503, probably not long after being converted to narrow gauge.  Not sure when the side clacks gave way to backfeed. The smokebox front plate still has flared sides.

One of the very dainty 3226 class. The shiny dome is nearly lost against the bright sky. (Oxford, 1904)

I was about to make a comment that I didn't think any of the 3232s ever carried tapered chimneys, but then I noticed Martin Finney had made one (3250, in 1926 condition) with such a chimney.