Tequila Sunrise

Excellent topic - just wondered if you have seen the photos on the RCTS mystery photos site.

Amongst other things it suggests much of the track thereabouts had been relaid with jointed FB rail on wooden sleepers some time before closure.

http://rcts.org.uk/features/mysteryphotos/index.htm?location=Millers+Dale&srch=&page=1 (2 pages)

The approach used for Finetrax in N might be a way forward - a half-way house between a kit and RTR

http://www.britishfinescale.com/

with a DCC soundchip!

and a smoke unit?..........

In the first colliery shot, you can clearly see the MR's Pinxton signal cabin on the far left. Your car is just about to pass over the road from Pinxton to Kirkby-in-Ashfield, just south of Junction 28 on the motorway.

The colliery is Brookhill Colliery.

Not sure of the collliery name, but you are looking at Pinxton, with Selston on top of the hill on the left.

...........in any case, you will need all the space under the bonnets for the two smoke units

To my mind, simplicity and reliability and price are far more important than an empty cab. Anyone who wants to add the detail afterwards could maybe build their own chassis and sell the original to someone who wants to power their dummy version.

Great photos as always - one query though is "Bottesford North Junction GNR and LNWR view towards Newark taken from Nottingham to Grantham train c1950 JVol4287" really the case? The camera seems very high above the rails to me. Was your dad standing on the roof?

This evenings batch now,most were taken at Loughborough in June 1955 - the wedding guests are part of a family wedding.

Let's hope he had enough film left for the wedding  

_{Thanks - and thece to Syston I presume, and then Leicester, Mkt Har?  Although I lived in Northampton for 10 years most of the lines in the area had long been taken up and with it a myriad cross country services}

No, they never ran on MR metals at all. They used the station on the LNWR/GE Joint Line at Melton (long disappeared), then down south to Welham Junction and onto LNWR metals through Market Harborough, where there were additional platforms on the west side of the station for LNWR trains, now also long gone. Then on LNWR metals more or less due south to Northampton.

They ran south out of Victoria and turned left at Weekday Cross onto the GNR line to Grantham, almost to Bingham, turned right through Bingham Road, then down the LNWR&GNR joint line through Melton Mowbray

It was originally a L&NWR service, running into Nottingham London Road

Do you really need all the capacity when you are playing at home, or just for exhibitions? If the latter, then space ought not to be such a huge constraint - just have everything on one level, but remove a portion when at home.

Glasgow St Enoch, must have been somewhat similar to this.

Glasgow St Enoch had 12 platforms, a triangular junction, various locomotive release roads, numerous single slips, 3-way points, scissors crossings, access to a loco shed, a turntable etc

I am afraid it was frighteningly complicated - sorry!

See http://www.wbsframe.mste.co.uk/public/Glasgow_PWI.html for a taster - this was a simplification of the earlier version, I believe.

Another Paris station that looks really modellable is Saint Germain en Laye - suburban rather than central Paris, but very atmospheric, especially before it was rebuilt during electrification.

Not sure about books, but there were some articles on a large scale version of the line in Model Railways magazine in the 1970s or thereabouts - the model included injection moulded plastic A frames for the track, if I remember correctly.

Also do search the Web - lots of photos, including HERE

This page, though a simulator, is also interesting

So, after 1,275 posts is it really the end for the Tugs? My betting is they may even outlast the Class 70s.......................

It is a really nice image, but I wonder if your camera is maybe sharpening things a little too much? That might increase the illusion that it is a model.

fell over backwards

 

I'm bored of this now so it will be my last comment on the subject but as I and others have noted and the photo clearly shows it is a GP tank, albeit an earlier and different incarnation than the one you showed.

 

Jerry

Nice project - sorry it's taken so long for me to read it through from the start.

Just one very minor point - the J69 style locos were called the "Holden Tank" for the GER/LNER version and "Standard Tank" for the LMS/SR version. I remember as I had several of them at one time. Just to confirm it, I have checked in a copy of a 1972 model railway magazine, where several stores advertise them as such.

Sorry to raise what seems to be a sore issue, but best to get it right!

Dereliction + neglect = atmosphere

Einstein's theory of model railways

Top of my list would be the editor of a well known model railway magazine who sat down next to me in the middle of a chat with someone doing a modelling demo at an exhibition and started talking to the demo man as if I was not there. Even the demo man looked very embarrassed by the interruption. Needless to say I shall not be buying that particular magazine again.

which they enjoyed

shoes and socks

The big problem I see with doing replacement wheelsets for recent DMUs - particularly Dapol - is that they seem so ephemeral. By the time you read a review in a magazine and decide to buy, many have already sold out - forever. I don't know if Dapol are using common components in N scale. My friends who buy Dapol 4mm products say they seem to invent new, non-standard solutions for each model they produce. This makes conversion to P4 particularly difficult (except for the Sentinel shunter, anyway). Sending the wheels off to be turned down to 2mm standards may be the only practical option in 2mm scale.

Anyways, all of this talk about modern DMUs is getting me drooling. Any chance someone could come up with a totally different question to be answered? Otherwise I might turn into a "Thoroughly Modern 2Millie" myself. (With apologies for the reference to the very cringeworthy, late 1960s Julie Andrews musical)

Now I come to think of it a little deeper, I think I am getting mixed up with the old 101s with 8-wheel drive.

I do seem to remember the springs on the transmission fracturing on 158s though.