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  1. I have a Southeast Finecast model of the E1, completed in early BR livery as IoW W4 'Wroxall'. Wonderful engine, and one of my favourites. Never thought there would be a RTR version of it though!

     

    I will certainly be pre-ordering the IEG version of the Rapido model.

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  2. Brilliant - thank you.  That answers a whole raft of questions about details and colour schemes.

     

    Paul 

     

    Woolston Signal Box, shown in the picture, is Grade II listed and a nice example of the once common LSWR Type-4 signal box design. It is situated on the platform of Woolston station.

     

    https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1413387

     

    The frame is preserved as part of the reconstruction of Midford Signal Box by the Somerset & Dorset Railway Trust, at Washford Station on the West Somerset Railway.

     

    http://www.west-somerset-railway.co.uk/railway/stations/washford

    http://forum.signalbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=3120

  3. Hi Andrew, Yes the kit SR 55c is based on that signal box.

     

    I found some great pictures of Swanwick Signal Box (the prototype for kit SR55c) 2min and 30s into this video :  

     

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  4. LCUT make a platform mounted LSWR signal box in 4mm scale.

     

    http://lcut.co.uk/index.php?product=SR%2055c&title=SR%2055c

     

    Here is a ground mounted version to a similar design in Southampton :

     

    https://signalbox.org/gallery/s/chapelcrossing.php

     

    The former signal box at Swanwick (LSWR) on the Southampton to Fareham line looks identical to the LCUT kit.

     

    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Swanwick-Railway-Station-Photo-Fareham-Bursledon-Netley-Line-3/253267588069?hash=item3af7ecb3e5:g:ChIAAOSwvR5aEdiE

  5. ModelRail are doing a survey right now of 10 possible candidates to follow on from Toby.

     

    The terrier is one of the 10 possibilities. Along with the LBSCR E1.

     

    That is interesting. Are there any details online? I have not found anything, so maybe I have to wait until my copy of the magazine arrives!

     

    Could you list the other 10 locos?

  6. A Google search also finds an 1865 proposal by the LSWR to build a "Havant, Hambledon and Droxford Railway" which would include extending the Bishops Waltham branch to Petersfield.

     

    Pity I cannot find maps online to go with these Parliamentary reports.

     

    https://books.google.com/books?id=aLQDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA110&dq=havant+hambledon+droxford+railway&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjwgoT5_ZHZAhUHrVkKHdZWCWIQ6AEIUjAI#v=onepage&q=havant%20hambledon%20droxford%20railway&f=false

  7. Oooh...

     

    Interesting. In that case I can justify LSWR or GWR trains on the through line. Horndean would then be the terminus for LBSCR trains.

     

    There are a few details of the GWR's 1895 proposed "Portsmouth, Basingstoke and Godalming Railway" here : https://books.google.com/books?id=uusoL4jT2C0C&pg=PA671&dq=portsmouth+basingstoke+godalming+railway&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwju1KSWs5HZAhUiwFkKHcB7DGcQ6AEIODAD#v=onepage&q&f=false

  8. Being familiar with the original Awdry plan, I can feel an idea formulating in my mind... 

     

    Which to go for though:

     

    Slindon (Line up from Barnham Jct)

    Pagham Quay (Branch off from Bognor, nice Quayside scene possibilities.)

    Horndean (LSW/LBSC Joint, from Bedhampton via Waterlooville)

    Findon (Branch off from West Worthing, via my - Already Modelled - 'Salvington')

    Dunsfold (Branch off LBSC Guildford - Horsham Branch)

    Shere (SECR - Branch off North Downs Line)

    Shamley Green (LBSC - Branch off Guildford - Horsham line)

    Ashington

     

    I quite like the Horndean idea at the moment, as it provides reasonable LSWR opportunities. Any other thoughts?

     

    "I quite like the Horndean idea at the moment, as it provides reasonable LSWR opportunities. Any other thoughts?"

     

    In the early 1880s the LSWR sought to build the "Windsor, Aldershot & Portsmouth Railway" railway, partially along the route of what would become the Meon Valley line but veering east at the southern end. The proposed line would run from Farnham, westward to East Tisted, then down the Meon Valley to West Meon, where it would turn east over the South Downs through Hambledon before reaching the lines into Portsmouth at Cosham (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meon_Valley_Railway). A bit of historical revisionism and this line could pass through Horndean.

     

    I understand that the proposed GWR line from Basingstoke to Portsmouth that the Meon Valley line was built as a blocking line for would also have gone through this area before joining the LBSCR line to Portsmouth at Bedhampton.

  9. SR No. 735 (Ex LBSCR No. 46 Newington) makes for a nice variation.

     

    The engine was sold to the LSWR in March 1903 and is seen in the link below in SR days with (I believe) a Drummond pattern boiler with safety valves on the dome and stove pipe chimney.

     

    http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q0tHVOktkfo/WE3Xu8lmFiI/AAAAAAAAJeo/gsZxfSGZ-VYfLUDHlxhBOI7Ud50C8f0AgCK4B/s1600/Scan-3-1540.jpg

     

    Picture from the http://gosportrailwaysociety.org.uk/

  10. Pity there are not a few new versions of the O2, an IoW loco in SR livery or a loco in LSWR Sage Green livery for example.

     

    Are Kernow stuck with a stock of slowly moving locos whilst we are ready to spend money on more locos that cannot be produced until that stock has cleared?

     

    O2 #214 in LSWR green looks very smart.

     

    https://mikemorant.smugmug.com/keyword/486;lswr/i-8p7CKrk/A

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  11. Pity there are not a few new versions of the O2, an IoW loco in SR livery or a loco in LSWR Sage Green livery for example.

     

    Are Kernow stuck with a stock of slowly moving locos whilst we are ready to spend money on more locos that cannot be produced until that stock has cleared?

  12. For non-London add in Viaduct - Leeds Central, Portsmouth Harbour

     

    As today (not as pre-simplification) Flat. - Weymouth

     

    Portsmouth Harbour would make an interesting Minories-based layout as the Dockyard Railway at the northern side of the station allows for intensive freight workings into Portsmouth Dockyard. Extra freight movements created by the siding at the southern side of the station for tankers supplying fuel to the Isle of Wight ferries.

     

     

    0-0-a-rail-gazette-Portsmouth-Hbr.jpg

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  13. ?    :dontknow:

     

    I meant the Jersey Lilies. As far as I know there isn't any toys available.

     

     

    They were a failure and replaced on top link duties by a design much smaller, but more powerful in the Directors.

     

     

     

    Jason

     

    The Jersey Lilies were Edwardian locomotives built between 1903 and 1906. The Directors were a newer design, built after the First World War between 1919 and 1924.

  14. There is sufficient demand for Bachmann to release the D11/1 in the intricate regrouping GCR livery as Butler Henderson, Mons and now Zeebrugge, so why no new Wainwright 'C' in the full-fat Wainwright SECR livery?

     

    Especially with the current interest in birdcage coaches, Hornby's Wainwright 'H', Hatton's Wainwright 'P' and all things SECR.

  15.  Never spotted that. So If I took the entire cab, boiler and smokebox off a ROD which will receive an old B1 cab, boiler and smokebox to make an O4/8 (a plan of longstanding queued behind other projects); then if a cut down Gresley pacific chassis can be inserted into the Robinson body, we're more than halfway to a 'Franken Lily'...

    The Jersey Lily, often regarded as Robinson's finest looking locomotive, is deserving of at least a place on on the Rmweb wishlist survey. Hopefully there will be an RTR version some time in the future.

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