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  1. And also the removal of your beloved baulk road, since I believe the Minehead extension from Watchet was standard gauge. Certainly the platform spacings at Blue Anchor aren't BG, whereas Watchet's platform and good shed is definitely BG. You could always just do the track of the WSMR alongside the GWR line as a semi-derelict track, and you could even replicate the Angus train control trials on it if you wanted.
  2. There is an occupation crossing between Watchet and Washford that has both gates and a cattle-creep through a substantial culvert beside it. I think it is where the Kentsford? crossing was on the WSMR which is immediately adjacent to the Minehead line and was the scene of the fatal head-on between the two Nielson box tanks. However, I don't know if occupation crossings fell into the same category as highways (or even if the gated crossing was there from the outset or added after BR closed the branch).
  3. I don't think they would have achieved that much effect, the idea was to use the expansive effect of steam to resist the motion of the piston instead of assist it. Going back to the Shipton on Cherwell disaster, the book "Wheels to Disaster" which whilst primarily about this accident also relates some of the french disasters of similar natures and touches on the subsequent reluctance to run certain types of tender engines tender-first.
  4. From the plaintive sounds of the whistle there can't have been much pressure left.
  5. The screw at the back of the motor secures it to the chassis at the back, then there are lugs at the front of the motor, wiggling it gently from side to side should get them free. ETA sorry, I just realised I'm referring to the Triang L1, my advice is unlikely to be relevant to what I suspect is a Northern beast
  6. It sounds like there's been mass slaughter of all the things I knew and loved. My attempts to repair the laptop on which I was slowly working away at the East Kent Railway have met yet another obstacle and so I'm slowly re-installing the backups on a tower on which I shall use TC3, but at the rate I'm going I shall have actual 00 models running well before any virtual ones run.
  7. Scratching away at an old memory here, have you looked at the invisible signals on the DLS? Assuming your apparently one-piece mixed gauge track is actually two distinct lines in close proximity, you might be able to have invisible signals on one of the gauges and then chat by scripts to the visible signals?
  8. I managed to get a small collet chuck to grip after rally tightening the thing up.
  9. I'm also seeing delays of several minutes when trying to navigate the sub-forums. Oddly, I was able to access this area very quickly, it's the other forums of my main interests I can't get to load.
  10. I've been looking for an opportunity to use the word "Behemoth" for some time, and today my ship came in.
  11. Yes, they're not ideal for everything. You can sometimes heat-treat them to remove a lot of the spring by quenching them in a saline solution. Like TomParryHarry I try to make a virtue of re-using as much as I can of what is usually regarded as mere packaging. I'm a vegetarian myself but since my partner isn't and does like corned beef I try to persuade her to live of it because the tin cans it comes in are nice and flat and solder easily.
  12. I've chopped up old umbrellas in the past for the metal sections, and you can often find useful bits in old car wiper-blades.
  13. Not for the first time, I have a wonderful broad gauge map, I can't remember if it's Restormel or Turk's Castle, but in one of the TS10 or TS12 SPs all the Brunel viaduct splines collapsed, leaving the track broken on the terrain. It took me some fixing and was one of the issues that has made me reluctant to go to TaNE or anything post-2012.
  14. On reflection I realised an O1 is not easy because the cab is the same width as the tender sides. That's a slightly more complicated hack. Looking more closely at your pictures I'm impressed with how little the motor body extends above the tender top, it's going to be quite easy to form a plastic coal mound around it without having the loco look like it's been prepped for a major cross-country run. ETA My purchased C-class just arrived and in browsing through the bitsa drawers I found an Airfix 4f loco chassis I'd totally forgotten I had. Sadly there's no tender drive, and the dean-goods tender drive unit has too great an axle spacing to fit the C tender body, so I'm going to try an old project, of converting the Airfix 4F loco chassis to direct drive.
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