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Wasn't that the Rev Peter Denny ? I thought Rev Beale was from Edinburgh but happy to stand corrected.

I've always liked the original Tri-ang buildings, which although far from being scale models are very, well, railway-like and purposeful. I have a complete set stashed away in my parents' loft along along with the rest of my 'Tri-ang 1957' collection.

Oh, definitely low church CoE or Methodist. I'll get my coat...

Given this degree of schism, I think we are definitely dealing with a religion ...

EM is more High Church CoE in my book but then I've always thought of our P4 brethren as the Jesuits of the hobby....

I have to say that I wish I had discovered Sand adopted it rather than EM when I was moving into fine-scale modelling in the early 1980s.

I was just about to say the same - the NSR latterly carried passengers in coaches that were not only unlit but also unbraked. To all intents and purposes the NSR was a light railway but only actually became one for legal purposes in order to assist in winding down the company after it closed in 1951.

Hello I'm looking for a copy of the instructions for the old Mallard Models GWR 517 class kit. Thanks Dougal (CKPR)

Finally got the Mercian Models "Carlisle" kit down from the Aged Ps' loft at the weekend and just checked it against the TVR Kitson 0-6-0 drawings in Russell ...hmm.

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Hmmm, maybe I should set up my HO US logging stuff around the tree -probably in scale for a giant Californian Redwood !

Smiths sell ready assembled screw couplings, which appear to be the old PC Models / Wheeltapper etched parts assembled on a Smiths coupling hook as used for their three link couplings. This combination is very easy to replicate as the PC Models / Wheeltapper etchings are quite common but don't use the hook supplied as it's pretty much exact scale and too small to be practicable. There are quite a few etched coupling hook etchings that can be used (the old Mainly Trains set is my favourite) and the PC / Wheeltapper etchings are a bit fiddly but really quite easy to assemble using pliers and a small reamer to open up the various holes.

Thank you, this is really helpful - I forgot about the drawing in the Russell book so I can look this up no problem.

I've got drawings (well, LMS weight diagrams) for the M&CR BP engines , available from the Cumbrian Railways Association, and the Les Darbyshire drawings of both the 'Ilfracombe Goods' and 'Carlisle' from MRN back in the day, so I just need to find the same for the LYR and TVR engines - time to find my copy of Leleux's index. There was a drawing of the TVR engine in MRC in the late 1940s and I saw a bound set in Hay-on-Wye last week but the asking price of £18 would go a long way towards paying for the necessary wheels.

I'd wondered about an 'Ilfracombe Goods' as a starting point as well - the apparent similarities between these supposedly standard off the shelf engines is very deceptive. Oh well, at least scratch-building is cheap !

Any thoughts on the OP - use the Mercian Models 'Carlisle' kit or splash out on the LRM Barton-Wright kit ?

Not listed in Essery & Jenkinson so presumably not technically locomotives ?!

Partly correct as The Furness famously never built an engine themselves despite having excellent workshops at Barrow, whilst the M&CR engines were a mixture of home-made at Maryport and bought-in from a variety of sources, including Beyer-Peacock, North British and Yorkshire Engine Co. The M&CR bought-in engines tended to come in pairs except for the singleton No 18 from NBL. The M&CR certainly had an active mechanical engineering drawing office in the 19th century as I own three of the original drawings, which are practically works of art.

Hello everyone I'm looking to get modelling again soon and want to finish off my M&CR stud for 'Mealsgate' - it's a bit un-balanced at the moment (0-4-2t No.17, 0-4-4t No.26 and 0-6-0 No.29, the latter 'Yorkshireman' being wholly inappropriate) and I've got 0-4-2 No. 4 and 0-6-0 No.7 (or 19) on the stocks ( loco and tender chassis for both and the footplate for the 0-6-0 completed ). I'm also looking at the Beyer-Peacock built M&CR engines, especially 0-6-0s No.27 and No.28, to see whether I could build an additional engine using an existing kit as a basis. Cross-referencing Essery & Jenkinson's LMS engines vol.2 and Russell's GWR absorbed engines books, I've found both the LYR Barton-Wright 0-6-0s and the Taff Vale Class L 0-6-0s, both of which are described as Kitson / Vulcan / Beyer- Peacock (I don't really understand the presumably convoluted history of these concerns !) 'standard' designs. I know that the London Road Models kit for the LYR engine can be converted into the TVR version but was wondering whether it could also be built as one of the M&CR engines. Just to complicate matters, I already own the old Mercian Models kits for the Kitson 0-6-0 'Carlisle' (?!) that ran on the Bishops Castle Rly and whilst I know this has some serious inaccuracies having read the posts by Quarryscapes and others on the original engines of the Mid Wales, etc, I was wondering what potential this kit might have for building as an M&CR engine [by complete coincidence, we're going to Bishops Castle for the afternoon as soon as I've posted this]. Sorry for the long post and any information and suggestions gratefully received - if I can build an M&CR engine from the LRM kit, then I've got a couple of weeks to drop some hints for Christmas !

The ubiquitous 3 ton Bedford truck.

If you're using one of the etches for inside bearings, it definitely pays to beef up the actual bearing surface either by soldering on additional washers and then reaming out to 2mm or going the whole hog and fitting proper 2mm inside diameter bearings.

The 105mm light gun dates from the mid-1970s but the 5.5" (as in the Airfix kit) was in front-line use until the mid-late 1960s as was the 25 pdr - you could probably justify the latter two well into the 1970s as they remained in use with the TA and for training purposes.

Just seen these two for sale on Ebay: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2x-OO-gauge-kit-built-0-6-0-locomotives-H-BR/263289541060?_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIM.MBE%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D48786%26meid%3D9732a0aa555b402fb3a393a2e4055aee%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D292314786456&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851 I think these are Reidpath but happy to be corrected.

A few months ago, one of my students told me he had won a 3MT ! Turned out to be a Three Minute Thesis competition (i.e. explain your doctoral thesis in three minutes), not a BR 2-6-2T / 2-6-0...

Ludlow isn't a big place, so it's more or less all within walking distance You're just being pedantic now...