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Ludlow isn't a big place, so it's more or less all within walking distance

You're just being pedantic now...

You could do that drinking in Ludlow Brewery which is a topically pre-grouping structure.

Which is within walking distance of said antique emporium. Downhill as well.

Searching for my pic the other night of Moreton-on-Lugg hollow oak tree station I rediscovered this delight

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with some delightful pen and water colours of the Brigadier's pre Grouping memories. He was born in 1898 at Blackheath, was a Gunnery officer in WW I, won an MC in Palestine in 1936, spent WW II in the War Office , and retired in 1950:

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There is a refreshing sense of being drawn from memory on quite a number of pages (eg Euston, and the Aldburgh sketch), though the GW slip coach looks to me like a copy from a photo - note the pedant in me.

It was published in 1983 by Pan Books London. I see I paid a fiver for it at an open day at the Nene Valley Railway some years ago.

 

dh

If anyone is interested, there are several copies of this very book for sale in an innominate antique shop in Ludlow - it's two or three doors down from Artisan Ales on Old Street.

Now, now, all the Scottish lines have their charm. I felt that the strongest argument against Scottish independence was the essential contribution to English (!) politics of generations of Scots - from James I & VI to Blair, Brown and Cameron... Likewise, they've given us their locomotive engineers. Indeed, the county of Ayrshire alone probably accounts for more than any other corner of Britain - giving us both the Stirling and Drummond families - at one time or another on the Great Northern, South Eastern, London & South Western, and Hull & Barnsley after their Scottish careers. Although English-born, S.W. Johnson and William Stroudley cut their teeth in Scotland too - indeed the period when Johnson was in charge of the Edinburgh & Glasgow's locomotives with Stroudley and Drummond as his assistants could be regarded as crucially formative. Nice rake of North British wagons!

 "...wooden brake blocks on the Maryport & Carlisle railway." At last, now this thread is starting to get interesting !

The French version was of the later HR Castle engines, fifty built for the Etat in 1912. Article in Model Railways for July 1975.

Yes, that's the one - IIRC, our Gallic cousins were none too impressed with these engines from NBL.

A Jones goods may be pre grouping but it certainly isn't French!

I have a vague memory of a Dennis Allenden article in MR about the, ermm, French version of the Jones Goods...

A couple of Cumbrian possibilities which were actually contemplated and quickly shelved:

 - A Maryport & Carlisle branch to Caldbeck

- A  LNWR line from Windermere to Keswick via / under Dunmail Raise

There was a couple of that issue of Modellers on Ebay recently.  Longacre from Macclsefield was another in RM in the 60's.  There is a very nice TT layout from I think the Keithly or Bradford group called Aireworth that was in the modeller a few years ago.

 

Garry

Last time I heard, about 3-4 years ago, the Macclefield club was looking to sell or give away the succesor to 'Longacre'

.... but is it correct? I've always had the feeling that it's too short.

 

Any views on this?

 

Regards,

John Isherwood.

I think it represents an ex-PO wagon. With a 9' w/b, it's relatively more accurate than the ex-Mainline version with it's 10' f/b.

Not that I'm aware of. The only ones I can think of as being missing are ones that were well past their sell by date such as the GWR Open C, NBR cask wagon and NER coke wagon.

 

They still even have the CR/LMS iron ore bogie wagon that many experts reckon either didn't exist or was only a prototype. I wish I knew that before I bought five of them. 

 

 

http://www.peco-uk.com/prodtype.asp?strPageHistory=category&numSearchStartRecord=0&strParents=3340,3344&CAT_ID=3350&numRecordPosition=1

 

 

 

 

Jason

Although the old Ratio 24t iron ore hopper would be worth reintroducing if the moulds still exist.

Pretty much defines optimistic...also, how can a signal box be EM/P4 ?!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/EM-Gauge-P4-4mm-Finescale-Signal-Box-Birchdale-Full-Interior-Main-GSP-/132216746910?hash=item1ec8bb739e:g:lZgAAOSwJH1ZNXNx

This is fantastic proper modelling - more please !

IRRC , the Ratio MR clerestories represent the coaches as modified by the LMS.

Thanks.  The line is already scored as it was cut on a Silhouette cutter.  I could score it a bit deeper but I was worried it would go too deep. I will certainly think about that for the sides.

 Please tell me you'll do a test piece first - I would hate to have given you duff advice !

I was musing on your problems with solvents as I had similar problems the last time I was using plasticard to build a M&CR horsebox. My problem was that the brand of plasticard I was using, Jarvis, seemed immune to most solvents bar  Revell 'Contacta', which was a major problem in itself but was exacerbated when I tried to attach parts made from Evergreen or older material from Slaters and Kenline (I told you it was old !). My impression was that the composition of styrene may have changed over the years and also probably varies between manufacturers. Our basic techniques for working with styrene are essentially developed  over 50 years for the original Slaters plasticard and Mek-Pak but these  probably need a re-think given the multiplicity of possibly incompatible materials and solvents.

Just a thought but how about cutting a groove for the end beading with a 'scrawker' or Olfa cutter rather than just relying on the lightly scribed pencil line ? The rod should centre in the groove, making it much easier to apply solvent without it moving out of position.

As far as model railway shops go, the ones I remember from growing up in Cumbria in the 1970s were Minitrains in Kendal (before they went 16mm live steam and decamped to Wales) and The Locomotive Model Shop in Workington near to the railway station and owned by the Jenkins family. LMS was unbelievably cluttered and untidy but always very friendly and you could spend hours in there (I did !) rummaging though boxes of stuff - how they ever made a living from that shop is beyond me ! Minitrains, on the one hand, was a lot more serious and pricey but stocked all of the fine-scale items I'd only ever read about in the Railway Modeller - I also recall exchanging a nearly new Hornby Black Five for an old Tri-ang B12 - they definitely got the better of that deal ! 

Welcome to Ludlow CKPR, there are a few RMWebbers dotted around the town. Nearest decent model shop is Hereford which is easy to reach by train. Your models look fantastic, it would be great to see them at the local show one day.

Thank you - everything is up in Cumbria at the moment but I'm hoping to bring 'Mealsgate' down soon (I'm working on the soon-to-be Mrs CKPR...) and to get working on the scenery and proper buildings for Mealsgate. I'd love to bring it along to the local show and Ludlow racecourse is much nearer than it's debut outing in Workington (still on the LNWR though !).

Kirdon controller included in this mixed lot of Tri-ang and Trix:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Tri-ang-Railways-R3-Set-With-R-52-Loco-Twix-Loco-Job-Lot/232272185520?_trksid=p2047675.c100011.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140107083358%26meid%3D98b1b0f88c934cac859e060bd4961852%26pid%3D100011%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D5%26sd%3D172506228887

Regarding the gap on cooper clad sleepers, this can be filled with 'Greenstuff' filler and then sanded - much less messy than using epoxy !

I have an unused Codar controller - how does it compare and is it worth keeping?

 

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Thanks in advance,

 

Steve

Canada

Definitely worth keeping  - the tag line of 'the world's finest controllers' sums them up !

Still no new modelling to report but I've been to my 'new' local model railway show at Ludlow where there was nowt of a pre-grouping nature to report, unless you count the excellent 'Up the line', a well modelled and very atmospheric WW1 7mm narrow gauge model. However, I did exchange £25 for this beauty to add to my collection of  Codar control equipment and which will no doubt be used on 'Mealsgate' at some point.

Has anyone ever modelled any of the stations of Trollope's fictional Barsetshire, such as Winter Overcotes or Shearing Junction (change for Worsted and Fleece) ?

On 13/02/2017 at 22:42, Pacific231G said:

Hi Dave

Could you expand on that please? It's a claim I've also heard many times before so it would be good to have a credible, preferably peer reviewed, source to deny it.

 

It's very difficult, if not impossible, to 'prove' a negative but it's very straightforward to demonstrate that any given hypothesis (e.g. All railway modellers are autistic) is false. It's known as the 'black swan argument', in that it's easier to disprove the assertion that all swans are white, as all you need to do is to find a single black swan to disprove ('falsify) the assertion / hypothesis, rather than  it is to check all the swans in the world to prove that they are all white. I wouldn't advise the latter course of action anyway, as they're horrible creatures (says someone who was attacked by a swan in 1967 when it bit me AND stole my ice cream cornet).