MikeOxon

I was intrigued by the origin of the Danish word 'jul', until I realised that it's equivalent to 'yule'. I note that it's the same throughout Scandinavia, even making it into that often different language Finnish as 'joulu'. Passing the winter solstice must always be a cause of great joy in the far North - it's pretty good news here, too 😁

what he said (and I hope it's not rude 😄) Mike

So nice to get a comment almost 10 years after I wrote the post - it seems to have stood the test of time 😀

I tried even more cropping and 'enhancement', although the printing screen is intrusive. With a little imagination, I can see the 'To carry 8(?) Tons' legend and, even more tentatively, a '9' digit but, as Mikkel said, there is a leafy twig across most of the number.

I noticed the 'forest' of telegraph poles alongside the main lines on the right of the photo - looking not that different from the electrification infrastructure that has sprouted relatively recently 🙂

The change of the name of this thread has prompted me to restore my posts about building a GWR 3-plank wagon from the David Geen kit (NLA). As well as restoring the images, I have also changed the names of these posts to reflect their contents more clearly. Mike

This is very interesting to me since I modelled a standard gauge tilt wagon on rather scanty evidence. 'Somewhere', I read that a few broad gauge tilt wagons were 'narrowed' by removing the central section of the ends, which resulted in a pointed Gothic arch. The photo shows that this was not necessarily the case as this wagon has retained a rounded profile, like my model 🙂

I had not found this link before and found the whole article about South Wales wagons of considerable interest, since it also refers to some aspects of GWR wagon design. I have extracted the relevant pages from the 'Proceedings' and attach them here, since I believe that they may be of interest to others Mineral Wagons_IME-1884.pdf Mike

The version on Facebook is over-exposed and, on my screen at least, does not include the front row of wagons, all with small right-hand G.W.R What is clear from the over-exposed version ( when copied to show the whole image) is that the wagon frames and undergear are the same shade as the wagon bodies. Of course, the next question is "are they red?"

We have to place railway employment conditions within the context of their time.

It looks as though I shall have to call myself a 'pioneering' modeller from the 'era' definitions. I'm relieved I'm not a 'primitive' modeller as in some 'epoch' definitions that I have seen 🙂

It seems to have been a popular style at that period. I grew up in Southport and had a nagging feeling that the style of the towers was familiar - I found the following on Wikimedia: Pavilion Buildings, built in the 1870s as a Luxury Hotel at the southern end of the main Lord Street thoroughfare. Source From geograph.org.uk Author Gerald England Attribution (required by the license) Gerald England / Pavilion Buildings, Southport / CC BY-SA 2.0

This is a real tour de force, although I felt quite exhausted just reading about it. All that detailing of the string courses, buttresses, finials etc! I hope you will take a very well-earned break for Christmas 🙂 Mike

I've restored the images - see my NG Tilt Wagon, followed by 'A Hat Box for Blanche' Mike

I described my version of GWR red - described as a bright light red - in my post 'Trial of the Reds' Mike

Wonderful misty scenes - very 'atmospheric'

I thought this looked your sort of computer, Annie 🙂 According to 'New Scientist': "The machine, known as DeepSouth, is being built by the International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems (ICNS) in Sydney, Australia, in partnership with two of the world’s biggest computer technology manufacturers, Intel and Dell. Unlike an ordinary computer, its hardware chips are designed to implement spiking neural networks, which model the way synapses process information in the brain." Mike

Thank you for the info. - my knowledge of brickwork is minimal. Yet another skill required for railway modelling 🙂

There seem to be some unusual brick sizes being used in the pillars between the windows. Compare with the English bond courses below the windows.

The one Sir John ascribed to Blanche might be too big for your purpose: https://www.rmweb.co.uk/blogs/entry/14670-a-hat-box-for-blanche/ Mike

I like the result very much. It is interesting to note that the 'DCC Concepts' platform lamps that I used at North Leigh contain filament bulbs, rather than LEDs, since the manufacturer claims that incandescent lamps provide a more authentic 'glow'. These lamps have a variable resistor in the control unit,so I could adjust the glow to meet my aspiration. There is something very special about watching the trains pulling into the station with just the glow of the oil lamps on the platform. One day I shall do the same for some of my carriages and intend to use you proposed method of an internal battery 'somewhere in the rake to provide power to all the carriages.

I think your work on the interior is really splendid. There's no doubt that 7mm scale offers far more scope for real detailing, rather than 'suggestion', which is often the case in smaller scales. I rate this 5 stars but the system didn't seem to respond to my attempts to show these.

I tend to agree with Magmouse that the coach-style rounded mouldings go with a black finish.

Sorry it came too late for you! As I recall, that undergear was very tricky but I learned a lot from making it.

It was your post, Nick, that reminded me I had made one just over 10 years ago! I was going simply to restore the original pictures but then I found I had lots of other photos on my computer. I don't know why I didn't use them at the time. It seemed a pity to waste them. According to the 'Wizard Models' instructions: "Livery details are believed to be as follows: body sides and ends coach brown, possibly crimson lake between 1912-22. The sides were almost certainly lined in gold at first with black mouldings, with droplight frames and window bolections in Indian red. An unlined livery was later adopted, probably during the Great War."