stewartingram

PW at Huntingdon, 19/9/2009 Self portrait time! Can anyone id the location for me, we had just stopped for a road crossing somewhere on the Central Wales line, heading north to LLandrindod Wells with a Cambridge Railway Circle charter. edit - 47841, sometime in 1991. Stewart

No pictures here either Stewart

Definately Tramalan. You have a PM

Tramalan card kit No.1 featured 762, could be used as a drawing? I've just looked at one I have here and it is basically a b/w drawing but I have no idea of accuracy. Stewart

I guess thats just the BR ones, what about the Coles lettering too?

I bought one of the early releases and repainted it, does anyone know of a source of BR (crimson) transfers? Stewart

What a waste!

I'm certain that these will provide a pwm o/p, that is how they obtain good slow running. And yes, you should be able to replace the rectifier ok.

Looking good there, well done. Some of those pictures on the front look familiar...

NO NO NO too bright for steam era.

A black one, BR livery with electric lights (non working though) please!

A quick Google shows the said company to be the founder of the West Ham FC. Based in Bow, a shipbuilding company. I did wonder if the 2 signalboxes on the right might be a clue. The far right one looks like GER, the one to the left of it I don't recognise but could it be LTSR? Also are the coaches down near them a set of Gresley corridors? Stewart

For what they are worth, I've posted a few IoW shots in my 'Old b/w photos' album in the gallery. You are welcome to have a look and see if they are any help. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/gallery/album/2255-old-bw-photos/ Stewart

Or 2012

I believe I did mention them earlier, but I now found my pics that I took on a photo survey for my (now-abandoned) layout. Do you want to have a look at them? If so I can email them, or post here or in the galleries. There are 30 or so though! Good progress with the layout, I am amazed that you tackled it in n gauge though. Stewart

Nah thats an old Lima HO.

A tad OT but for those into conversions I've posted my old Triang AL1 on RMWeb Marketplace, in case anybody wants one for conversion work. Make me an offer! Stewart

I've got to admit that I'm a bit puzzled by questions about mismatched motors. I can see where they are coming from, but practical experience doesn't bear it out in my experience. If the situation was say a HST set with 2 power cars, and the rear one was more powerful, in theory the worst case would be the coaches being pushed off the track, or at least wheelspin from the rear loco? My experience is that the 2 actually work to match one another, with the more powerful one being held back in performance by the lesser one. Even double heading, with 2 different locos, I don't seem to get any problems. A big wheeled pacific, say, with a small wheeled tank loco, and in worse case a 'well thought out' tank with low speed gearing, coupled to a 'toy' express loco, the two work together. As for back emf; my controller is a 70s design from Wireless World, adapting the then new technology of drill speed controllers with back emf and shaped pulse width. Biggest problem I find in general is poor electrical pickup. I add pickup to as many wheels as possible, and rely on solid soldered connections rather than wipers (such as in recent Bachmann dmu bogies to underframe) to give the best possible pickup. I'm not saying it won't occur, and have no practical experience of DCC, though have fitted a few hundred Zero1 chips in my time. Just my musings and practical experience so far. Stewart

Wow what a challenge! I'm a lifelong fan of Blackpool trams (well up until the Flexi's anyway....) so will follow this with much interest. About 10-12 years ago I started a 00 layout which was to use my collection of Corgi & kit built trams - I still have the boards in the garage loft, untouched since we moved soon after tracklaying. I have a photosurvey that I did at the time, built the track (copperclad) and even included the subtle changes in checkrails etc, just wish I had the room to revive it now. Good luck with this Stewart

And didn't they work across the M&GN to north Norfolk somewhere? Somewhere I'm sure I have a couple of pics, one where it is looped to let the BP past on a footie special, preceeding the other one which is GT3 on a Leicester-Yarmouth saturday train...honestly if you were a modeller they would say you were making it up..... Stewart

Now its looks the part with that backscene - where is the Rev Teddy Boston though? Stewart

Oh dear....maybe I should get one to compliment my collection of Cambridge-Bletcley line stock.....why did you have to post that! I liked the look of it when announced but gave a sigh of relief as I could not justify one..... Stewart

John, thanks for that. You learn something every day! I stand corrected. Stewart

As far as I am aware, there were NO steam heating vans in use on trains on the mainland. Over in Ireland they were used though. The only steam heating vans on BR were used in sidings to preheat stock before being used on a train. There was a thread discussing this on RMWeb recently. Stewart

Wow! A picture of the real St.Ives - well done. Those 16t wagons would have been in use on the sand train to KGX, with the class 100 on the shuttle to Cambridge. That was soon switched to the old Huntingdon branch platform, which had seen little use for many years, thus leaving the main platforms clear for the sand train and its shunting and run-round. Stewart