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    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.

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    As you've probably found out , there is a dearth of kits available; a nice set of etching for the 51 class but no castings from Kemilway, and three kits for the Park 0-6-0T. The Andrews kit has recently gone out of production, but he was also behind the Gladiator (nee Javelin) kit which has recently been upgraded. I'd greatly favour that over the Ace kit which can be very hit & miss in quality.

     
    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
     
    NLR_4-4-0T_rev_02-photos-page-001.jpg
     

    However, the NLR was the White Van Man of the 1890s and 1900s; having accrued running rights over various other companies lines, it shuttled goods on their behalf in their wagons all across London, so NLR locos could be seen rubbing shoulders with the GER, GNR, GWR, LNWR, and Midland - especially in the Docks. A bit of modeller's licence and you could have an NLR Park 0-6-0T shunting alongside a GER 0-6-0T, a GNR 0-6-0ST, a GWR 0-6-0ST, an LNWR 0-6-0T and a Midland 0-4-4T. The only bit of scratchbuilding you'd need to do initially is an NLR brake van.

     

    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

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