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G'Day Folks Victor Wild gets a run today. First up, passing Mill Hills goods yard x2 Slowly passing Edgware. Just noticed the 'Gold' LNER on the tender, need to cover that with a set of decent transfers. manna

G'day Folks 30 years since I've travelled on the ECML, but from the pictures I've seen, Hitchin doesn't seemed to have changed much since I worked though it 50 years ago . manna

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G'Day Folks This may be a A2/2.........but, interesting. manna

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G'Day Folks A few more from the last photo shoot. Including a J3 about to gets it's chance on a passenger train. manna

G'day Folks Time for an update, not going to be a fast build, not that type of loco. Slowly building up the cylinders, playing with the boiler, making sure it's true, the cab has advanced to, now has the correct roofline, more K2, rather than C1, plus I've joined the runningplate by the cylinders, not so floppy. manna

G'Day Folks Sorry for no comments on the last set of pictures, for some reason, it only let me put up pictures. So to recap, we have double headed J3's ( bet you worked that out !) and a J4 on the 'Jam Factory ' working, but did you notice the wheat hopper, in the make up, been a BIG, change at the 'Jam Factory' they are going into the 'Biscuit' business, so the need for Wheat, they'll also need Sugar, more wagons! Today it's having a look around the goods yard at Edgware. C1, 3299 on a local passenger train. At the bufferstops. Lastly, 'What's been hiding in the Goods shed for 20 years' needs a new proper tender, and some paint on the bogie wheels. manna

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G'Day Folks Wells, Salisbury and ?..........maybe. manna

G'Day Folks Also Electric trams and Trolley buses.

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G'Day Cypherman There's a great likeness in those two loco's. A overlay of the side tanks and curving the tops of the tanks, would save a lot of work in narrowing the cab and bunker. I've just bought a shortish four wheel chassis off of e-bay, which maybe from a M7, but I'm thinking more along the lines of a GER 2-4-2T or a 0-4-4T, we'll have to see which is the closest fit. manna

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G'Day Folks A bit of an advancement on the C1, front bogie has been fitted, as you can see off of a A4, and believe it or not, I bought a pair of these bogies from Malta, in keeping with it's cosmopolitan selection of parts. The cylinders have been enlarged (roughly) and the footplate cut to make it fit, Cab and Boiler have loosely placed on top to show you how it'll (hopefully) go together. One normal pic, the other with the 'Flash' in case you can't see under the footplate. manna

G'Day Folks W1 had a very intimate contact with the Midland lines at Peterborough in the 50's when it derailed north of the station, when it was re-railed it was hauled north on the Midland rails. manna

G'Day Folks One thing I've not noticed before.......the lack of population on that wonderful platform, looks a little to bare, no seats, trollies no Porter sweeping up. Just three or four people, would be enough. manna

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