CKPR

Just to let you all know that I'm still pottering along in the senior scale, collecting kits, including a large pile of ABS wagons, for an Autumn building campaign and working away on various common or garden LNER wagons. Now, the Parkside O gauge range - the first one I built, I wasn't impressed with the underframe and used part of my precious stock of ABS and ex-CCW (!) parts to rebuild it. Then I discovered that all Parkside kits have pretty much the same not very good underframe. Hmmm, I must admit that I was expecting better as these were scarcely better than the old 3H kits, which at least had a certain charm to them. 

And just what is it that makes modelling the late 1920s pre-Stanier LMS so different, so appealing ?

As for No.3, there's actually more work been done than is perhaps obvious. I reassembled the narrowed footplate and then realised that the front buffer beam was all wrong. Fair to say that these M&CR double buffer beams are starting to do my head in ! Going by the photograph in "Rails Through Lakeland" of No.3 at Bassenthwaite on the CK&PR, her front buffer beam was just a normal if deep rectangle without any curvy bits. And this after I narrowed the original one. I then discovered that the tender side frames for No. 3 were different to the ones I'd originally made when the tender was destined for No.20...at this rate, I'll have most of the  parts in stock for the second attempt at No. 20. 

Update: I'm looking to get a proper Rotring techical drawing template in order to mark out the new tender sideframes.

As promised, some pictures first of No.7. I think I'm on the last lap with this engine as she only really needs the steps fabricating, various fittings secured with epoxy, rods fitting and then the motor wiring up [as per all my tender engines to date, No.7 is 'American system'].

A bit like our elderly diabetic cat Fred, I'm still plodding along and have actually made some progress with the M&CR engines, the Special DX (i.e. I've finished the Webb tender and decided to build the Special DX before the Cauliflower) and the bren gun carrier. Photos to follow in the next few days.

I would suggest very gently embossing the rivets from the reverse with an engineers scriber rather than glueing anything onto the overlap - this is fiddly enough in 4mm using styrene ! The use of a second  printed side to make strapping and corner plates is also a return to old school modelling of the 1940s & 50s. Another name to look for in old magazines is Derek Sackett who wrote a few articles on card modelling in the 1960 & 70s.

8 hours ago, Titan said:

no, Just Castles and Warships, that's hall, anything else would just be bad manors.

That's the best GWR locomotive pun, barnum.

2 minutes ago, luckymucklebackit said:

 

Or a rabid dislike of WR locomotives?

I see what you did there...

And Superquick originated with KeilKraft who made kits for wooden model aircraft (the flying variety).

On 10/08/2023 at 12:12, newbryford said:

****!

 

Could be worse - I swear when whenever I see a castle or a warship. Turns out I've got Turrets syndrome.

On 15/08/2023 at 10:56, exmoordave said:

My mate bet me £100- that I couldn't do a butterfly impression. 

I thought that's got to be worth a little flutter........

Mind you, I was offered a bet in the  butchers that I could have the meat on the top shelf for free if I could reach it but I would pay double if I couldn't. I turned it down - the steaks were too high.

Slightly off topic but I try to avoid adding any styrene parts to my scratchbuilt and kitbuilt brass locomotives and rolling stock. For example, I'll always make cab or brake van veranda  floors out of thin ply. IRRC quite a lot of the older rolling stock running at  Pendon is made of card and ply as per Michael Longridge's book "Building 4mm rolling stock" from the late 1940s and which is well worth reading even today.

Here's a long shot - there was a variant of the BR 12t van that had MOGO type end doors but no side doors (Diagram 1/214). These were used between Metal Box in Carlisle and a creamery at Milnthorpe, presumably because of some specific loading & unloading arrangements. I've always wondering whether MOGOs were also used on this run, albeit I've never seen any photographic evidence.

In the absence of anything more suitable and because I wanted sprung buffers, I used the generic PC short tapered coach buffers on my M&C coaches. For the older style of buffers [self-contained ?] used by the M&C on both coaches and locomotives, the Stroudly / Billington LBSC  white metal buffers produced by 5&9 Models look suitable as do some MR ones that I have (possibly ex-Chowbent Models  and now available from Stevenson or Wizard Models ?). I've got an original Maryport works drawing of the older type of buffer so I've got no excuse really !

Workington docks are still rail connected and generate traffic, both originating and terminating,  from time to time.

Alas, no. It probably pulls off the rare feat of being less informative than its predecessor despite being written 75 years later.

Let's just say that the 1947 Oakwood Press book on the M&CR by Jack Simmons is readily available S/H for about half the price of the new one and leave it at that.

Just to let you know that my review of the recently published Oakwood Press book on the  M&CR has been published in the August edition of 'Cumbrian Railways'.

9 hours ago, Compound2632 said:

 

The GSWR, MR, and NBR of course participated in through workings just as the CR and LNWR did; surely the CR and LNWR also had services that terminated at Carlisle and would also use the bay platforms?

 

Which part of the station did the M&CR use?

The M&C always used the south bay on the down lines that was known rather predictably as the Maryport bay. I'll leave to others to comment on any terminating LNWR or CR services as I can't immediately  think of any.

Another possibility is Carlisle, which had double track bay platforms at the north for NBR and GSWR services and at the south for the NER and MR lines.

On 06/07/2023 at 20:05, Hroth said:

 

Rather like the odd displays of cogs that decorate "steampunk" artefacts...

 

Any excuse - https://youtu.be/TFCuE5rHbPA

On 24/06/2023 at 13:52, kevinlms said:

My wife used to own a horse in a previous (before me) life. One day she found it in the kitchen! No mess, just some difficulty removing it.

Sounds like the situation was stable...Taxi !

I don't have photo to hand but look for photographs of Cockermouth station in the 1950s - early 1960s as the cattle docks were beside the platforms and intact until closure in 1966 and can seen in most pictures taken at that time.

I think this was an article by Rathbone Holme and was in RM in 1977  - it was in an article he wrote about a friends layout that British outline but operated with continental stock. My 1977 RMs are inaccessible at the moment so I can't be any more specific other than it wasn't from 1976.