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2mmscale association do a range of wheels from 13mm down to 7mm, which includes 10mm, 9.5 and 9mm (depending how m,uch wear you want to depict on your rims. These for example would not be drasically out if you removed every second spoke and added in the balancing blank crankpin position, which should be fairly easy as the centers are brass. And with them being split axle you don't have to worry about pickups. Aklternatively there is bound to be something N guage with bigger flanges.

although where do you think the camera is mounted?

Sorry. got the order wrong. Should be Welsh Railways Union. a Watkin scheme that started in 1883 with the Welsh Through Traffic Act, and whose final link was the opening of the Wrexham - Ellesmere line. . the idea was that the Wirral, the Cheshire Lines, the WM&CQR, the Cambrian, The Neath and Brecon, the Brecon and Merthyr, the Taff Vale, the Barry and the Swansea Vale joint would combine to compete with thw GWR/LNWR joint route from South Wales to Liverpool and Manchester. Watkin had effective control of the Wirral, the WM&CQR and the Cheshire Lines, and became chairman of the Neath and Brecon.

I think you have provided, by having to do calculations to understand the sequencing, your own answer. When Wells wrote his audience would have understood perfectly well how the last years of the 19th century were followed by and related to the first years of the 20th. today most people would be confused. For most people, most of the time, historical time is viewed in discrete packets. Being told that things happened in the 19th century, and then showing something clearly 20th century would not match their understanding. We see the Victorians and the Edwardians as somehow different. On the ground there was no observable transition.

Nope it is Nuestra Señora de la Esperanza Macarena from Seville (the Virgin of Hope, or La Macarena), who is paraded through the Macarena district of the city by the Holy Week brotherhood on Good Friday, in what is probably the biggest Marian parade in Spain.. Macarena is now a popular girl's name, hence the dance...

You need the attempted Welsh Union connecting Swansea and Cardiff to Birkenhead. under the leadership of GCR from its Wrexham foothold. includes all the Welsh lines, connects with the L&NW, the GWR and the Midland, should be enough to be going on with.

Having spent some time recovering missing soldiers from WW1 battlefields I have encountered this a couple of times. It is actually either a manufactured amulet, or a bullet embedded in the ammunition held in the pouches on the front of a soldier. The amulet idea was derived from the fervently held belief that you would only die if you were hit by a bullet specifically meant for you. By wearing the bullets you hoped that you had short circuited the problem. The ones I have seen were worn by German soldiers and the two bullets were a French Lebel and a British 303 covering all eventualities. The Turks faced both French and British Empire troops at Gallipoli. The Allies faced Turks who were armed with Mausers in both 7.62 and 9.5mm calibre. The photograph shows a number of examples. The ones where the bullet pierces the cartridge are clearly from ammunition pouches, whilst for the ones where two bullets are paired you would need to measure the bullet to be sure what is going on, although they all look to me like bullets in pouches from the way they are distorted. In this picture it looks like at the top a 7.62 Mauser piercing a Lebel cartridge (the one with a rim), a .303 piercing a 9.5 Mauser cartridge (the one without a rim) but without measuring things I couldn't be sure.

As a pagan I have been following the discourse on Christianity with some amused interest. what knots people get tied up in. The christians destroyed our sacred sites, co-opted our gods and goddesses as saints when they couldn't get rid of them, promoted a purely male divine family (well two males and a gender neutral spirit) and in the end had to reinvent a mother goddess who is probably more revered than the chaps. If you have to have religion just embrace polytheism. You know that is where you get to in the end. And for railway relevance one of the senior engineers on the Queensland Railways was a Pagan (- (for those who never knew the world pre-emoji this is the keyboard symbol for "tongue in cheek")

The owning companies of the fish vans, from Aberdeen and Hull are not specified, whereas everything else is GW, NW or WCJS so we might perhaps be looking at GNoS or CR from Aberdeen, and NE or H&B from Hull, The train would look excellent, carriages being practically alternately LNW and GWR, and also practically alternately PBV and passenger carrying vehicles, and by 1912 the roof lines would potentially be half a dozen different varieties.

Well I think, all things considered for the 1905 end of things I will have to get the Finney kit of the 3232, and I think unless I find out otherwise that it might evenget the dome oin the front ring of an S2 boiler. So I'd better start saving the pennies. That still leaves me to find out what is likely for 1910

thanks for replies. I should have said GWR locos (though this is a GWR thread) as I have the LNWR stuff. The offer of 1912 details is very nice, but I suspect by then things had changed from the period shortly after 05. Looks like the 3226 series of the 111 class Armstrong 240s might be possibles. No chance of a kit of course so would have to be scratchbuilt. There is a drawing in Russel's GWR Engines.

After a long pause brought on by non-railway related issues construction of scenery is now moving forwards with the bridge abutments and embankment walls. Nothing simple as I didn't manage to do a full survey, just took some photos including a ranging rod, and the original girder bridge has now been replaced by concrete with the attendant destruction of the tops of the origional support pillars so I'm using the example of the neighbouring surviving girder bridge at Shotton for reference.

I know there are complete shed listings at Kew, but I can no longer get there, so does anyone have access to them , or other information , on what loco classes would be available to run passenger trains in and out of Birkenhead around 1905 and 1910? I have a dim recollection from looking at the shed listings some time back that there was quite a change in types of loco allocated in the North between these times, and I am aware that many of the 3571class was used on local traffic on the West Kirby line, but what was used for the main line services?

And here we are on the bridge outside the now non extant Marazion station looking across the RSPB Marazion Marsh nature reserve, courtesy of Googles all seeing spies.

you may think so, but you would be wrong. TheL&NWR and the MS&LR jopintly ran the Guide Bridge line from Oldham, through Ashton to Guide Bridge. In 1905 the joint committee became the L&NWR and GCR joint committee. Passenger services ceased in 1959, and goods in 1967.

Sorry if this is a bit late to the discussion, but my RM Web digest appears to be running very late. To get (relatively) finer lining than is available I have been using overlays of different colours of Fox lines. Only works for some combinations but here is a horribly enlarged bit. I started with orange, then overlayed with yellow, then overlayed with black on the blue loco. Just yellow overlayed with black on the indian red loco. (both 4mm scale)

I'm quite excited about this as it looks like it could save me a lot of work. Could you tell us the length of the footplate? Is it designed to sit on the Caley Pug Hornby chassis?

Don't know of it, but there is a suggestion that his research material for the volume might be in the National Archive

As has been stated, it depends how pernickety you are, but Branchlines do Midland BT, T, LugC and Lav C 33'6" six wheelers, plus a number of 45' and 48' carriages which have make use of Ratio components plus etches

looks like a GWR guilty secret to me.

Do you know what locos and stock were used on the derby to Llandiudno service (and what years it was in operation? (asking for a friend with a bit of the Chester to Holyhead)

The position of catholics during the republic is nowhere near as straightforward as people imagine, and the popular view is largely the product of clerical propaganda. Cromwell was against priests controlling people, but had no problem with people remaining catholic(a battle cry was "No Bishops" not "No Catholics"). Rebels were deprived of property, but non-rebelling catholics were generally not. Drogheda was an English Protestant town and the massacre there was largely in line with normal 17thC methods of controlling rebellion. And if you want to know more (of course you do) here is an interesting paper on the subject of Cromwell, Ireland, and the Catholics. Cromwell_and_Catholics_Reassessing_Lay_C.pdf

Nobody was experimenting with superheating in Britain before 1903, but the engineers were well aware of Dr Schmidts work on locos between 1898 and 1902. If Whale had been able to take over from Webb a few years earlier than 1903 he might not have had to spend his career converting the 0-8-0s from compounds and replacing short run compound classes (which, whatever their running efficiency, were not cost effective as they were mostly in small classes often as small as ten locos) and would have been able to start modernising the fleet earlier. When he resigned through ill health in 1909 his replacement Bowen Cooke was able to carry on the modernisation and was rapidly able to adopt superheating for all new locos, for the upgraded 0-8-0s, and for all Whale's Precursors

I would guess that the lack of superheating on the LNWR before 1903 was initially because Webb did not have a patent on it. Then Whale had to carry out a rapid modernisation of locomotives and really didn't have time for too much innovation, or the energy to convince the board. Bowen-Clarkes first design, the Queen Mary class, an update of Whale's Precursors were not superheated, but an experimental engine built at the same time, the George the Fifth, proved the cost effectiveness of superheating and having convinced the board the new George the Fifth class locos, and all subsequent locos, were supoerheated.