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G'Day Gents This is a follow up on the J15 conversion thread, as I said in that thread I've a few more conversion's, most of which are from Hornby 'stock' but with a few others thrown in for good measure. Right, the next loco, is one I've always wanted, but couldn't afford, an LNER D2, she's not quite finished, but will pull 5 coaches, without to much trouble. I started with a cheap Tri-Ang L1 chassis that I bought off of E-Bay for 99p, this is the one with the brass frames and mazack spacers, You'll find that the XO4 motor sits far to high for a D2, so like the G5 I've had to lower the motor to fit, again I've fitted one of those cheap little Hornby motors, I dug out nearly the Mazack under the old motor, so that the new motor would fit 'between the brass frames (see pics) Now as usual the wheelbase is a bit 'out' 4mm or 1ft.....but I can live with that, and when one of the major RTR boys bring out a fully detailed D2, I'll retire it, but in the meantime So after getting that far I thought I'd start on the body, the plans came out of an old Railway Modeller, December 1972, after 40 years of sitting on the shelf, I was actually going to use it, and guess what, it was the wrong plans, I wanted the straight running plate not the curved, ah well, I still used the plans but penciled in the straight running plate (same length ) running plate is plastic card, the boiler is a length of conduit, plus a few more bits of plastic and I had a very basic D2, using the chassis as a guide I cut out the splashers, the the coupling rod spashers, by this time I'd also added the buffer beam and buffers and a few other bits, that helped to glue it together, (the chimney and dome are temp) manna http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/74823-mannas-workbench-d2-sentinel-q1-n1-d3-a-pair-of-j3s-c2-j6-others/

G'Day Gents Been a bit of a lurker on here for a while, so I joined, as far as 'Baby Deltics' they have been known to reach Skegness, with Quad Arts (even seen a picture) weather it got back is another thing, but can you imagine spending, upwards of 3 hours trapped on a Quad Art,, screaming kids, luggage, and no loo, shudder. manna

G'Day Gents Having a great time watching Grantham take shape (worked a few trains through there in my time, diesel days thought) manna

G'Day Gents Good luck with your Finsbury Park TMD, I was a secondman at Kings Cross during the 1970's, and travelled out to Finsbury Park on many occastions to drop off or collect locos, in those days we never called Finsbury Park TMD, Finsbury Park, to footplate crews it was always...Clarence Yard, if we were told to go to Finsbury Park, they would have found us waiting on the platform, or in the small mess room on platform one !! I have also been on 'Engine Movements' at Clarence yard, not a bad job, but it did involve an lot of walking, to move a loco from the fuel point to the shed, would take at least 15 minutes, the loco crew would use the shunters mess room, by the main fuel tanks (brown wooden shed) as it was a lot closer to the fuel point than the general mess room in the main building. manna

G'Day Gents This has been a wonderful trip down memory lane, thank you for posting them, I liked the GN 0-6-0's don't see to many of those. manna