I seem to remember seeing a pic of a SR Queen Mary brakevan on a Pontsmill train Wayne. I'll see what I can find for next weekend! Any expos booked?
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Don't know that parcels units did, but I believe theres a picture of a single car unit with milk tanker (s) behind in a very early (maybe even the first) edition of 'Traction' magazine. I believe the location was in the Saltash area...
HTH
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Bit of a blatant plug but, like a lot of you, I am looking forward to seeing Portwey at its debut show on June 30th at WrecRail IV.......blatant plug over........
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Following on from all the comments elsewhere, this 'lovely layout' will be one of those appearing on June 30th! The operator may be too at some point, discuss!!
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Dont let the good Doctor get too near to anything Malc, he'll break something! And I'm not talking about your medical appointment either.........#oopsadaisy Andy!
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Correct Clive. In theory its running down to the grain dries to collect a wagon....but in reality its stuck on that bloody awkward dead spot on the crossing!
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Spot on Adrian.....remember Walbys Axiom
More than 2 points is an extravagance. ....
As for operating at exhibitions, I took Snape Maltings to Glasgow a few years back- all it was was a glorified tuning fork- and it kept me interested operations wise for 2 and a half days. Even then the boredom was due to shoving the same few wagons about. Build operational interest into a layout and you can't go wrong, especially if Walby Axiom is applied!
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Confession time Alex. The bodyshells both belong to Clive, the bloke with the tongue! We rigged an 0-6-0 chassis of unknown provenance under D2201 and a black beetle under D2212. If anybody asks, we tell them that both D2201 and D2202 are out of action and Wisbech have borrowed D2212 from Yarmouth depot to work the branch!
My version is still in the paint shop!
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This is my version of what you're doing Matt, only I used a Y point and an ordinary point. Looking forward to seeing this progress. Nice to see Walbys Axiom being obeyed too!
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This is a similar shot to the other one, without Clive flapping his proboscis at all and sundry
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ps hope thats ok for you Tony! And thanks for the vote at St Neots!
Flawlessly Nicholas! The bit Clive broke was the wire from the tortoise up to the tie bar on the point! The top of it was biffing the cowcatcher on the shunter. Clive cut it down too far, not an insurmountable problem.
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Thank you Andrew. You think I'm bad....that El Tel bloke is even worse! And I taught him everything he knows!
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ps anyone coming tomorrow can see me behind Friday Bridge for more than 60 seconds just like Andy! If they're lucky!