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I found that with a thick ish sheet (50 or 75mm) stabbing downwards in a jaggy line into the thin edge with a serrated knife then splitting into two halves produced a decent start for cliffs, with loose bits then knocked off, strata added and so on giving a good result.

Because nobody in tv or film can ever bring themselves to just make what the author wrote without messing it about for no reason or benefit?

No shortage of them though, and no tears about this one getting cut up really - I think 18 is more than sufficient representation for the type in preservation, theyre basically scratty gwr 460s with extra dirt and wiggly bits that suck up preservation resources which might have been employed elsewhere on more diverse types. I'd trade a dozen of the survivors for Ben Alder (cut up the year before after 14 years of storage for preservation). Now that would've been handy for putting in period films.

Road transport to docks for essentially complete locos was generally the norm, but this was easier for some builders than others. There are photos of locos for Nigeria on pickfords scammel transporters going from hunslet in leeds to birkenhead, whilst identical locos for south African industry are recorded as being dismantled for shipment and reerected on arrival, so presumably it would depend on what the purchaser had chosen or required. The leeds builders and bagnall had more obvious challenges in dock access than the big Glasgow, newcastle and manchester (the ship canal gives good access) builders, but unless the loco was small enough to fit in or on a wagon, shipped in small pieces (even a dismantled loco's frames may still be too wide across the cylinders) or standard gauge and small enough to fit the british loading gauge (not that common) it usually would be taken by road to the docks, and not always to the closest docks - I know of bagnall malayan metre gauge 062t shipped at tilbury docks after road transport there. Having said that theres a photo of a pair of 242t for Egypt being shunted at Stafford by a jinty that were heading to birkenhead on their own wheels (this being the easiest and most economic method of delivery where possible), but since standard gauge (and many metre/3'6" gauge) railways abroad generally had far more generous loading gauges than ours, usually you're looking at a big pickfords trailer.

By the 30s swiss manufacturers had built quite a few metre gauge electric locos for home and export, so I imagine there would be little problem designing something to fit the uk loading gauge for gwr needs.

I like The Train for proper wrecking of things...

If both are intermittently dropping out it's more likely something up with your usb ports or controller (which would affect both mouse and keyboard, assuming they're using USB cables not ps2) rather than both peripherals managing to synchronise their demise. Do other usb devices plugged into the same sockets drop off? Have you another bank of usb ports elsewhere you can plug the mouse/keyboard into and see if that helps? Often different bunches of ports come from different headers on the motherboard, and the usb2 (black sockets) and usb3 (blue ones) will have different controllers. I once had a power failure which fried the SATA 3 controller on my motherboard and left me with no access to hard drives, but the slower SATA 1 controller clearly was made of sterner stuff and the pc soldiered on (a little slower) for another 5 or 6 years with some cables swapped around.

Theres also a kitson meyer left on the Argentine side (no. 40), at tafi Viejo works, but it's pretty derelict. The photos of it in the 70s at tafi viejo show it in about the same state. Looking at the photo and google maps aerial shots I'd guess its stuck on the south end of the works as that's where the buildings look right (ie. Falling down with no roof), but I cant make anything obvious out on google maps.

I converted one into a RSU. Handy, useful things, but be careful and do your research so you know what you're up to. They can usually kick out over 30A if you wire the outputs in a certain way....

Somehow reminds me of the hudswell ones:

Couldnt they get their carpenters/set designers to build a rake of suitably generic 4 wheel stock which could sort of look the part for most railways if relettered or repainted. I believe Messrs hattons might have some drawings they could use....

A double unicorn, illusory (the unicorns being created from intangible nothingness), for the 31st of october. Interesting choice. Whilst not a fan of the americanisation of Halloween, it must be said that pumpkins are a far better choice for carving than turnips. I remember carving turnips when I was a kid - lethal and hard work, and then youd end up getting fed the barely edible stuff in some meal afterwards.

Resin kits for the small boiler early 240t were produced by malcolm mills a while back. Not very common, but there is a photo of one here: http://philsworkbench.blogspot.com/2018/08/?m=1

If you put a few of those viaduct kits together....

It's the commitment and expense. We might think of something daft, maybe even chop up some Dapol kits, or once in a while bash a secondhand loco, but someone has had an absurdly (but brilliantly) daft idea and spent several years, no little skill and a few grand pulling it off. Impressive.

I'd heard a story a while back regarding indian influence for the jones goods. Turns out the web may be more tangled than we thought, and less CME dependent. Dubs built this in 1889-1890. L class for nizams state railway. Hendrie, the chief draughtsman at lochgorm when the jones goods were ordered in 1893, had previously worked at Dubs as a leading draughtsman, and at Sharp Stewart before that (previous to which he'd started out at lochgorm). So perhaps it was his design, inspired by work he'd done at Dubs, agreed by Jones and ordered from his old friends at SS. In which case, credit to Jones for recruiting someone with experience further afield. Coincidentally the river class was also known to be based on a previous design for india.

A porter built forney? A bit ugly, but there were some. I think your Hudswell looks very good, my only thought is that I'd personally rather see the buffers as separate parts on sprues (allows you to put nice turned ones on if you like - you'll not get printed ones as robust, thin and sharp) it would also make your kit more robust for posting.

I was probably being unduly picky - there is little argument against churchward having produced the best pregrouping 460 of any uk railway design office, then just playing variations on that very successful theme. I picked the HR because they produced a range of very different 460s, all pretty well regarded in their time, but clearly without any strong commonality of parts or design. That a relatively small line could roll the dice half a dozen times and get it pretty right every time, whereas many larger railways consistently turned out disappointments intrigues me. Clearly the secret ingredient in the HR's success lies with the design offices of the manufacturers, but again they're coming from a range of builders, so the knack of making a good 460 was out there, were some railways (and CMEs) just too prideful to ask for help?

The highland railway might beg to differ on that (although it's fair to say that their designs might owe more to the design and drawing offices of the manufacturers than those at lochgorm).

There is of course a loco to scan to get you a G class. Several liveries available there too.

The battle worked out ok as a trainer and target tug. If we're playing worst RAF plane of ww2 I'm going for the saro lerwick (following the obscure town theme). A flying boat noted as being unstable in flight, unstable on water, structurally unsound on water, and if one engine failed its control surfaces were inadequate to compensate, so it'd fly in circles, but it was also underpowered and couldnt maintain height on one engine, so slowly descending circles. In its 3 years of service over 50% of aircraft crashed....

That option is very prototypical - when the SLNCR bought its first bogie coaches in the early 20s (straight sided cletestories that looked 30 years older of course) it couldnt quite spring for lights in all of them so one became infamous as the daylight coach...

Both. Sorted that for you...

I do find it amazing that theres no pedant emoji, especially on a railway modelling forum. If ever such a thing were needed....

Yes, too many mk1 coaches, too many black 5s, too many ex gwr locos, too many j94/hunslet austerity 060st, too many bulleid pacifics, too many recently retired diesels, too many quarry hunslets (and if there is even 1 of them to be saved, too many pacers). In an ideal world, there would be less duplication in preservation so the money could be spread around looking after more interesting locos, carriages and wagons and giving us a more complete historical record. However, we have what we have, because someone 50 years ago put hand in pocket and saved what they could or what they chose (and if woodham's was the only place still selling locos, everyone bought what they had rusting on the scrap lines). What is more concerning is something such as this coach, once owned for the nation and unique, from a time period little represented in preserved stock lists, being dumped and rotting. Contrast it with the NER autocar or the NSR coaches to see what could be done - they're unique and provide interest and an attraction to their railways.