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    The men were very proud of their steeds and looked after them in those days, my grandad told me that Guards had their own vans and used to clean and varnish them, also having bits of carpet in the doorways, they also could get "stained glass" transfers that they applied to the windows.....
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    Were the cab and tender roofs green or black ? I have seen both on models......
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    I have been told by several men that were there that a S160 was studied in detail before the B1 design was finalised, particularly the cylinders and porting arrangements......
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    My father had met both of them and said Peppercorn was a nicer man.....
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    Well done, a lovely model :0), whats next something more exotic ?
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    My Dad told me about once having to move the W1 onto a curve so a portly driver could get into the cab....
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    My Grandad told me about an outside framed goods engine working an excursion once and the cranks knocked off a lot of the coping stones on the platform, I thik it was on the Seamer line. The track had been relaid and no outside cranked locos had been there for a while.....
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    My Dad a loco fitter told me the longest passenger he ever saw was 32 coaches worked by a V2 during the war. It was 2 troop specials coupled together after one loco failed. The driver was Harry Gutteridge, he worked the train forward until another loco could be found, not at a great speed however. This was at Darlington working northbound, Harry patted the loco on the cabside whilst saying "come on girl you can do it. I wish we had properly recorded his memories.....
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    Very enjoyable, thanks for posting, well done to all concerned.....Owen
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    A long time favourite of my Dads and mine, he was a fitter 1937 >67 and thought them better/stronger than B1s
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    I had a dock tank produced by Wills that fitted onto a Fleischman chassis, the footplate was too long at the front, so I handbuilt another chassis and shortened the front based on the Roche drawing. Long gone now.....
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    Yes, the GER did , the decapod springs to mind, there were others as well...
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    The NER, LNER and BR oil pots I have seen/had were all galvanised...:0)
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    BITTON

    Class O replied to Andrew P's topic in Layout topics

    Onwards and upwards, hope you find a new project soon and enjoy it :0)
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    I heard that......pardon >
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    Thank you Tony, yes I mean putting it back to the rear (original) position, easily done in plastikard. I know Hornby have done both versions , not sure if it ts a seperate moulding for the top and comes off easily..Someone might know....
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    I hope you can help, Is there ant physical differences between Hornby B1s 61267 & 61270, and is it easy to backdate the tender rear division plate, when were moved to the forward position? I want to model 61275 as I cabbed this one several times as a kid..Thanking you in anticipation ....... Owen Lancaster
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    Yes the tender frames, I agree with you I just mentioned it as Tom likes to get things right when possible.....
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    Usually s/heated P3s had oval (Raven) slots in the frames, but they did get swapped, best check a photograph. Looking a lot better though.....
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    Thank you chaps, I thought there wasn't a 4mm one .....
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    Is the S160 oo or HO ?
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    Thats what I always thought.....
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    My Grandad woked on the NER told me that he was "lent" to the MR at some time due to a local flu epidemic just after WW1 .....
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    Nice to see one built up,can't have been easy, it went into production before even a test build. Well done....Owen Lancaster
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