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Well, I had a rare Saturday to myself and had a bit of a go. Thanks to the kindness of another member who sent me a PDF of drawing for a standard LNER cocrete PWay hut, another small building has rolled off the laser cutter. Produced in MDF, and Ply designed on Autocad LT It still needs painting to be completed, it had a couple of coats of primer and a first coat of colour. As ever now days humbrol paint isn't what it says on the tin.... I know my painting is terrible but I am sure that humbrol has lost it's quality.

sorry for the delay but a drawing of a shunters pole and brake stick appear in Midland Record Vol 4 page 71. dimensions given are 5'9" long and 1 1/2 dia

There are some good (works or period) construction drawings for the Barnums in David Jacksons book J.G.Robinson a lifetimes work published by oakwood press. Could I ask where you found your drawing for the LNER platelayers hut I have been looking for one for a while and I am still looking for the LNWR Webb Huts drawings. Thanks Andy

I think that 'Midland Record' has a set of offical drawings for shunters/guards tools, I will have a look through my set tonight and see if I can find them. On the matter of brake sticks, most industrial sites would see the as a luxury with the shunters pole being used, and ending up banana shaped!

Hi I have now had a mooch through my stuff and I do indeed have some Planet SCW class works drawings, the one I think would have been most useful is as ever missing but as thats the pipework and wiring layout I guess thats the one we used when doing the restoration work, and is in one of my mates lockers in 'safe keeping' The drawings are noted as SCW Class 75Hp used on loco Serial No. 3686 onwards I can now though confirm that the Locos have: 5' 6" wheel base Wheels are 3' 1 1/2 on tyres Buffer beams 7'10" wide 3' 5" deep x 1 1/4" thick Frame channel sections 8" x 3 1/2" and are mounted 6' 3" apart rear face to face giving 6' 10" outside face to face Face to face of buffer beams 14' 10 1/2" 3' 11" rail head to footplating Engine Hood 3' 2 1/2" across 3' 11" hign above foot plate Radiator 3' 1" wide over side channels 8" deep and mounted 8 23/32" from rear face of bufferbeam to centreline As the Drawings are in 1 1/2" and 3" to the foot I can scale a lot of infomation off if someone wants something specific or even copy details such as axleboxes Hope this helps Andy

Well its been a busy day after all at the Midlands model engineering exhibition at the foss, I ended up shunting front of house with my radio contolled LNWR Super D. I though I would add a pic of the Gauge 3 Midland Railway Diagram 357 8 Ton covered wagon, I forgot to take a photo before I sent it to the show I was in such a rush, I guess it will be another manic week getting ready for the AGM.

Well I have now had my test etches back and after finishing the Gauge 3 (13.5mm/1ft scale) Midland Railway D357 in time to go on display at the Midlands Model engeneering exhibition this week. It's now time to get back to my 10mm scale gauge 1 models. I want to have a couple buit and finished ready for the Gauge 1 AGM next week, I still have to finish the brakegear off and I am not 100% happy with the rapid prototyped axle boxes as yet either. Once the brass detailing is checked and finished I think I will move on to working on the MR ventilated vans just to complete the set, one advantage of laser cutting the bodies is the flexability of production, when the tooling is just a CAD program. Off to steward the G1MRA railway at the foss tomrrow, think I will take my BR livery SuperD and BR eara P-Way balast train for a change to chasing a steamer around. Andy

The only issue would be having an approprate CAD drawing, as a one off laser cut job in 1/32 ply I would have thought it would come out between £10-15, our complete Midland signal box kits in 10mm scale start at only just over £100 Your quite right about mainstream etched brass, it would be killed on price by the cost of the photo tool, but there are other ways, a single sided etch produced using the laser to cut through a mask can produce a great scratch building aid (you would still need to cut the outline) or for a simple etch like the lower parts of the box home electronic type pcb etching methods can be used with great effect. Andy Mould Woodbury Models

An ideal job for a bit of laser cutting and engraving in 1/32 ply?

Hi Some years ago I owned a Planet SCW class shunter Ex Petrofina at Preson docks and restored it to working order transplanting the Dorman engine that had broken its crank with a nice Gardner 6LX. I did have some works drawings, but I am not 100% sure where they are now but I will look next time I pop into my dads where I think they still may be. I later sold this loco to the chap who owns Titley Junction, I was only down there last Saturday and took the loco down the line for a run, I am due back soon so if there is anything you would like detailed photos or dimensions for please let me know. http://www.uklocos.c...display&Id=3249 is a link to a photo. Andy

The Van from Granville Colliery is ex Cannock and Rugeley Colliery is and now at Telford Steam Railway, Chasewatwer also have a second much older Colliery Van thats located as a cripple out the end of the steam running shed, its known as the 'Slum' and was built by the Cannock Chase Colliery at the Plant approximatley on the site of Chasewater Heaths station. I understand that both CRC and CCC rules requied vans to be used on the internal main lines because of the gradients encountered on the chase.

Well the Woking AGM of the G1MRA is only a few weeks away and I still have not finished the development of the Midland Railway covered goods wagons, I have the 6 prototype bodys built but I am waiting for the test etches to come back for the strapping and the lasercut steel underframes have not seen the light of day yet either. On the positive side the rapid prototyped MR 10A grease axle boxes look great! Only other projects I need to finish are the new display stand and sign and the patterns for the for the 10mm scale guttering for my new Midland signalbox kit.

Hi I know that last posting on this thread was a while ago, but does anyone have any infomation on the D&L site (orignally B&V) I have had been told was known as Dock St foundry? It was right in the shadow of the transporter bridge and I understand it was the jobbing foundry of D&L producing castings for works but not for sale. Many Thanks