MattR

Signal box sides have all now been glazed. Not fun, and they look like crud close up, but from normal viewing distance, they're ok. Meanwhile, I've worked up the 3D design for the Brooksbottoms tunnel portal.

LBSCR bogie coaches in lined Marsh umber would be a dream come true. I'd even settle for the older umber and white livery, despite it being much shorter-lived.

According to the Internet: "In October 1986, Hornby Group plc was floated on the Unlisted Securities Market and became a public company."

I've looked several times, but nothing on the U.S. site matches the Jinty motor.

Well the separate window frames certainly look better, but were a real pain to get to fit in the signal box sides. Possibly the filler primer used on the side made the clearance much tighter, so lots of sanding and test-fitting over the course of 3 hours or so and they’re all in. Glazing is done on one side at this point.

Looks like I'm going to need to swap out the Bolster As for the more-common Bolster C. Thanks for all your help, gentlemen!

Very interesting, thank you!

Thank you! That makes sense. I did look at Paul's site last night and had noticed that most of the ones hauling rail were the Bolster Cs and that the As appear mostly as match trucks.

I've bought two of Hornby's Bogie Bolster A (R6123E) in BR livery for my small engineers train. My other two vehicles in the train have TOPS codes/fishkind names (Sea Lion and a Shark). I'd like to rename/renumber the Bogie Bolster As to match, but I can't find what TOPS codes these were given -- only from Bolster Bs onward. Did these never get TOPS codes then? Or when in departmental use, did they ever receive a fishkind name? Mine would be used for hauling rail and not as match trucks for a crane.

Thanks! I'll check it out!

I'll have to keep an eye out for one. Things like that rarely appear on eBay here in the U.S. I was reading a website yesterday where a guy discovered that the chassis from a Bachmann pannier tank has the correct wheelbase and wheel size for the Class 23. http://www.hall-royd-junction.co.uk/Hall_Royd_Model/layout_71.html

Very interesting! Is that London Road kit or a different one? Thanks for the tip on Three Peaks too! I hadn't heard of them before. Their L&Y single plank, box van and now the brake van are something I need to look into getting.

Not likely, as I am not a kit-builder unless it's made of plastic. I do have some of the Hatton's generic 4- and 6-wheelers in L&YR livery on preorder, so that should give the L&YR liveried 2-4-2 something to pull. Based on photos, books and other research I've done, the two L&YR locomotives I'd need the most would be for freight work -- the Class 23 (locomotive 11338 was at Bury for at least 11 years) and the Class 27 (locomotive 12165 was also at Bury for at least 11 years). OO Works have previously made the Class 23 and are doing the Class 27 this year, but both are very expensive (and not produced in L&YR livery.) I have thought about trying to work up a 3D version of the L&YR "Tin Tabernacle" brake van, but I've got nothing to haul it with.

10813 now suitably worn after years of work running suburban trains up and down this line. By the late ‘40s, most of the ex-L&YR 2-4-2s were replaced at Bury by the Stanier tanks. A few were kept on for pull-push work until those too were replaced by the DMUs starting in 1956.

Ok, here’s the link to the files. Remember I’m no professional at this, so take this project with a grain of salt! Summerseat L&YR signal box I’m currently in the process of painting this version 2.0. Here is what it looks like so far.