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Cheers Allan!

Thanks Steve, Yes that does seem to be the main issue... A control system. At the moment I am looking at a lot of You Tube videos for clues!

Hi all, I have been looking into the idea of using miniature stepper motors rather than servos. Has anyone else tried this?

Thanks Steve! Lots of ideas bouncing around in my head from seeing your work so I'm just dipping my toe at the moment!

Inspired by this thread I thought I would 'Have-a-Go' too!

Hi All! An appeal for Help! I am modelling Walsall station 1923/1978 era's. I am looking for detailed photographs of the old gate house and weighbridge from the Bradford Place side of the goods yards. i have searched the internet and local history services to no avail! If any you have any pictures that you are willing to share that would be great, or even if there are other former LNWR yards with old buildings still in existence that I could visit, that would be of help! This is my attempt at modelling Walsall No2. Box which will be on the same layout. Many Thanks in advance!

Paint fading with age was mentioned earlier in the thread. This reminded me of some experiments I had done several years ago so I had a dig around... and Lo! Three examples of my work (which may or may not bear up to scrutiny) that I was quite happy with at the time.

Dumb Buffered Wagons! Yet another project I have in mind. This is truly the thread that keeps giving!

Hi Compound, Thank you for your comment. I actually have a complete BIWO kit for an 'A' Class but don't want to risk ruining it as it obviously has some collectors value. I trawled a well known online auction website and purchased a Bachmann Super D as a donor for the chassis to save a lot of work, but feel that a smaller motor will need fitting as the earlier boiler on the 'A' is, of course, a smaller diameter. As you say the C1 would be a good starting point...Although I was thinking 'Oh! That front end!' myself! As regards collieries I have done some limited research on the subject and I can recommend 'Walsall's Engine Shed' by Jack Haddock as it details colliery train workings from the Cannock pits in some detail. I believe Walsall Wood Colliery fed into Norton Junction and this was LNWR although Walsall Wood was a Midland station and had a connection to the Midlands Water Orton line at Aldridge. (If that sheds any light your way?)

I have Just discovered this thread and have realised that it parallels so much of what I am working on. Eventually I hope to build a LNWR 'A' Class to head a full length mineral train in '00' gauge, 1900's era... So when I found this it was 'sensory overload!' I have attached some examples of wagons I have built so far... Comments invited.

Ah! I didn't realise there was so much of a difference. For mass production it certainly wouldn't be worth Bachmanns while to develop them. A pity as they would make handsome looking models.

Hmmm.. OK. I concede that there isn't quite a dozen 'H spoke' variants. But if Bachmann COULD squeeze the motor into a round top boiler for the 0-8-0 chassis, wouldn't there be scope for 3 and 4 cylinder compound versions as well as the tank variants? Also regarding the 0-6-0 chassis... Yes a Crewe Special and Coal Engine. Well what about a Watford Tank and a Cauliflower? Same wheelbase are they not? Even if Bachmann don't do them I might! But I do certainly agree with you on the Coaches. If they ever did bother to tool up for them I recon they'd chicken out from LNWR livery. Maybe an early LMS would be as far as they would go?

Now Bachmann have tooled up for an 0-8-0 and an 0-6-0 LNWR chassis I hope they have given consideration to all the variants they could produce from them? There must be at least a dozen!

I cannibalised an old Filing cabinet for the runners with the intention of doing just as you have. Might be time for me to dig them out from wherever I've hidden them!

I have been a customer on e-Bay many times. Sometimes I've found items on there that I simply could not find anywhere else. By enlarge I use it for the convenience. I do check prices elsewhere (when possible) and I don't often pay over the odds like some bidders do. Having said that it is tempting to hit the 'bid now' button rather than drag ones carcass here and there to shop in the more traditional ways.

For many years now I have nurtured the germ of an idea about building a layout to commemorate my childhood reminiscences of Walsall Station. Now, after a strange turn of events, my ample sized loft conversion has become available! So all the research I have done has been re-examined and the necessary measurements taken to confirm the feasibility. Now time to think about base boards.....

At last! I think my project will have a proper 'home' in the loft!

I think you have rather neatly described the basic principles of Capitalism! lol! (QED)

No Doubt at all That Virgin is about PR! But wasn't that just what the railways needed? Investment and a bit of 'sexing' up? It got people to use the train more.... Hasn't WCML use has doubled during the franchise? My question is will the projected further increases in rail use materialize if First mess things up by trying to offer a 'cut price' service?

This to me seems like the end of an era. I think that Sir Richard and the Virgin brand were an inspiration to British Railways and may have been the last chance to achieve some kind of hope that there was a future for them. What do you all think? http://news.uk.msn.com/uk/articles.aspx?cp-documentid=250913736

Hi There! As I am contemplating the feasibility of a layout in the garden, I would like to know more about the impact of the weather. Track expansion and contraction, effects on plastic sleepers etc. Also how realistic would P4 be as an option? Bri.

Some great info on this thread! Especially references to 'dressing' the tips. (That is something I had not previously had knowledge of.) I have a box of LNWR coach kits which have become my guinea pigs. Every so often they come out and I do evil experiments on them with varying degrees of success! I can feel another session in the 'Lab' coming on after reading this!