BernardTPM

Here's a little 'big' engine I concocted a few years back - a Baltic tank version of the NBL Pacific for the Darjeeling Himalaya Railway in 'original' NBR livery for the Hebridian Light Railway: and how it might have appeared many years later in lined BR blue, like the Rheidol tanks:

I don't know if this will be of interest, but I visited this station in August 1979 and took some pictures of some old advertisements painted into the canopy roof supports: I suspect they date back to the 1950s or perhaps earlier. I have higher res. files of these two if of interest. I've just found there's a picture of the remains of one of these ads taken during the rebuilding here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/27677450@N05/3193635961/

Some interior shots further down this page, Simon. NSE refurbished quite a lot of Mk.2 coaches.

I think that was the journey where the lights didn't work properly in the back coach of the unit which meant we were able to see out more in the dark. I seem to recall the token mech. made some rather loud bangs! 2/3rds of a lifetime ago.... If units were transferred they would probably take the catcher off, but maybe leave the door with a recess in it.

The tenements in the background look rather like the old Bilteezi low relief buildings (ideal for a freelance interpretation).

Hello Brian! I've at last got myself a scanner that can deal with slides (& negs) so I've scanned the token gear that was on that DMU we rode back in '79, 1st August to be exact: The coach fitted with it was Sc51785, seen here at Aberdeen.

If I were you Simon, I'd just take off the seats the Farish interior and save them for another project; open type seats don't translate well to compartment stock. To be honest as long as the compartments have walls all you really need for the seats is a flat set at an appropriate height (perhaps a length of square/rectangular plastic tube?) against the wall. If you're fussy, some styrene set at an angle for the seat back (this might make painting easier as well). The guard's compartment and luggage area is the same - do they still etch the mesh like they did with the Mk.1s?

Having stood right beside those I know they are massive!

The 'Flying Crate' version used 'Transport' typeface. I suspect officially the 'Double Arrow' version should use 'Rail' alphabet, but clearly that wasn't always the case from photos, though this one http://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/brferryvan/h6FD82781#h1967460 does (no serif on the 'l').

At the back of 'Armstrong Whitworth A Pioneer of World Diesel Traction' by Brian Webb there is a list of some of the design proposals that were never built. Among these is LD556 2x 6BXD 0-4-0+0-4-0 DE locomotive for the Festiniog Railway dated 3rd Nov. 1932. No-one seems to have the drawing so I've created my own, using a combination of parts of locomotives and railcars they actually did build, fitted within the very restricted FR loading gauge (I'm assuming they wouldn't have built something that could only be used on part of the line): Basically the bonnet is from DT44, the frames and cab modified from DT61 (outside frames so as to accommodate the traction motor between them) and traction motor, drive and wheelbase as per DT34 (also same wheelbase as FR small 'England', 'James Spooner' & original 'Taliesin'). The 6BXD was rated at 140 hp, so potentially this could have been a 280 hp unit. I'd estimate the weight at around 30 tons, 7.5 tons per axle. The number 9 was vacant in the 1930s.

As built they had 'Through to the Continent by British Railways' + the Rail freight 'box' symbol in 'Transport' typeface. Later this was modified to 'Through the the Continent by British Rail' + double arrow.

For standard BR blue the roof was always blue on diesels.

There was concern that too steep an angle on the screen might cause distortion and awkward reflections. Similar with HST: by the time the production trains were designed it was realised they had been over cautious in this respect.

I am well aware that injection moulding tools are heavy great chunks of metal, but in a situation like that you really want a solution to the problem, not stone walling.

The hand wheel would be for the brakes, so if you have them on the bogies you don't need them on the chassis. I assume these are coil sprung bogies, like Y25 or Gloucester GPS, etc., can't recall any of the three-piece ones with brakes on the bogies.

Time to get a new H&S manager.

The Ashover did convert one of the ex-L&M transporters but found it to be unstable and out of gauge when loaded. I suspect to make it work on the narrower gauge track would need to be maintained to a high level and the infrastructure would also need the clearances for the wagon being carried.

Like the tanker Simon. No, it's not too dirty!

Looking at the trainshed in that last picture, I couldn't help thinking that it looked a bit like an airship under construction! Stunning work as ever, Ron.

And that's without the expensive East Ham Co-op building fiasco - now a car park around the Denmark Arms.

Strictly speaking for 1978 it should be a Marina 2 (Mk.3 came out late 1978) - larger front bumper, mesh in the centre part of the grille (some also incorporated spotlights), new dashboard inside, new, plainer lettering in the back. The Mk.1 ran to 1975.

Moore & Sons and Phillips were both still there in early 2013. F.R.Pratt's moved to a place in Barking (2011 or12).

Isn't that that ebay is for?

Given the lead time for magazines in those days, I think 1961 would be completely safe, though I suspect it may go back a few years more; say late 1950s. I would think the best people to ask would be the Industrial Railway Society.

Wasp stripes were used on industrial locos way back, steam and diesel.