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  1. Michael Edge
    I can't remember and I didn't often keep detailed notes but it was allocated to Bidston from 15/08/59 and returned to Kingmoor 02/07/60. 90763 was the only one ever allocated to an English shed, I do have a photo of it on Walton shed in Liverpool although I never saw it there. No I 'm not from the Wirral, i'm from Prescot originally but we roamed around a lot by bike.
  2. Michael Edge
    I didn't go looking for it, just chance but we used to visit Bidston quite often, it was a very friendly shed.
  3. Michael Edge
    The only WD 2-10-0 I ever saw wasn't far from you in Chester, 90763 was on loan to Bidston for a while on trial with the John Summers iron ore trains.
  4. Michael Edge
    In the Yorkshire coalfield we had a ton of coal at a time dumped on the pavement outside our gate, this had to be shovelled/barrowed round to our coal bunker - gave me something of an idea how hard a loco fireman had to work.
  5. Michael Edge
    Correct but it wasn't unknown. Most screens were worked by chains, rope or gravity.
  6. Michael Edge
    That's why we give you steel screws and brass nuts.
  7. Michael Edge
    There's even less room in the fuel tank end and more open space in the cab so I can't see what would be gained there.
  8. Michael Edge
    No, compensation/springing won't work with fixed rods but you can articulate them on the centre crankpin by cutting one layer behind the middle and the other layer in front of it. It's not mentioned in the instructions because this early kit was only designed to be built rigid. All our more recent ones are designed with compensation in mind. This is what it looks like from the top. More than one axle on a knife edge is unstable as you suspect.
  9. Michael Edge
    Both rack and adhesion, possibly like the Nilgiri one (see nicktoix on here) the upper rack drive runs in the opposite direction to the wheel drive.
  10. Michael Edge
    Can’t you swing the bottom part of the gearbox round so that it’s underneath the motor? Then turn it round so that the motor fits towards the radiator end. Alternatively drive on the centre axle and if the gearbox is too high it can hide under the control desk.
  11. Michael Edge
    I liked mine until it suddenly started to rust from the inside out - typical Longbridge product of the time when bodyshells were left out in a field before painting.
  12. Michael Edge
    The weather looks good but it was cold and windy, I’ve got another layer on under that red jersey.
  13. Michael Edge
    Triang axles are 9/64in
  14. Michael Edge
    Today in Jersey Not one but two almost identical Claud Butlers. My son found the red one on Ebay and restored it - both of these (and this rider!) well over 70 years old. Mid way round a very nice 25 mile ride, St Catherines breakwater in the background.
  15. Michael Edge
    I did this myself with a Kitmaster J94 and after some years it did an impression of a boiler explosion. More recently a loco I had built came back to me with its bunker sides and ends forced apart after being filled with lead shot an PVA, this after less than a year - was very difficult to get it out to tepair it as well. I don’t know exactly what happens but there’s definitely a chemical reaction of some sort.
  16. Michael Edge
    A razor saw will do it but maybe you haven't got one of those either. It saws a slot in the gearwheel as well but that doesn't matter.
  17. Michael Edge
    Thanks Dave, very useful.
  18. Michael Edge
    The way to deal with the stupidly long grubscrews is to tighten them, cut them off flush and saw a new slot in with a piercing saw. If the griubscrew was entirely in the hole as it should be it wouldn't shear off (as I'm sure you know).
  19. Michael Edge
    C6341 shows a Brush 200hp 0-4-0DE, possibly ex Parkgate judging by the shape of the back windows - do you have any more photos of this? I wasn't aware of one these working at Derwnthaugh.
  20. Michael Edge
    As he said, only with the gearbox - but they are then incredibly powerful.
  21. Michael Edge
    Never use PVA glue on lead, it will expand and can easily destroy a model. Sometimes they look as if they have exploded - which they have, albeit slowly!
  22. Michael Edge
    Hunslet were still experimenting with underfeed stokers as late as 1983 in Yorkshire collieries.
  23. Michael Edge
    It's a shame you're not taking Lime Street out anymore but just to dispel one very common myth about van hire, Enterprise have no age limit for drivers - and the service is excellent.
  24. Michael Edge
    Phosphoric acid for everything, throw the Carrs stuff out (they never tell you what it is)
  25. Michael Edge
    Yes, this is HE 2082, sent away 24/10/1940, although this is a much later photo. it was back at Jack Lane for fitting of blast furnace anti glare and a horn in 1953 so the photo might have been taken after that.
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