EdwardNo2

I joined the North London Railway Historical Society recently (www.nlrhs.org.uk). For those who are not members you may be interested to know they have a fantastic index of hard to find drawings, books, buildings, rolling stock, books, magazines, etc, which is available to members. It is known as 'the source book' , and is clearly the result of hundreds of hours of painstaking research. Unfortunately I was unable to attend the meeting/lecture last week as it was during the daytime, but hope to attend in September.

Thanks for the tip about the Park 0-6-0, I'd missed that, very helpful! I'd found the Kemilway Class 51 from Peter K. Of course, the iconic engine is the Class 1 (of which fantastic works photos in the North London Railway: A Pictorial Record). So far I have found a 4mm 3D printed set of parts printed by Impossible Creations - see below. I am investigating to see if this could be blown up to 7mm Very interested in being able to run any ancient Victorian engines alongside these, I don't suppose there's any precedent (!) for Jumbo's on the NLR? Mike

Finally making a start in O gauge modelling! So far I've done plenty of armchair research, joined the O gauge guild, bought a couple of rolling stock kits, and started building them, and thought about what period to model, and which company. Have sounded out a few members at the MRC who are interested in O gauge, but haven't found any who are interested in the late Victorian /Edwardian period, so it look like it will be a personal layout. As I live in Islington, and am a member of the MRC, I feel it should be a London layout. After some research on the Internet, I have settled on the North London Railway (NLR) in the period 1890-1914. I travel to work on the London Overground passing along the route of the old NLR line so this seems right. First step is the research. I've applied to be a member of the North London Railway Group, and started surfing the net for background information, commercial offerings and other layouts and models. I'll post up a list of my findings here in the next couple of weeks.