2750Papyrus

Thanks very much for those pictures, which help in understanding the construction and operation of the layout.

I had hoped there might be separate votes for Footballers and famous houses!  

I took little interest in football till I lived in digs In Manchester.  My fellow residents were nearly all footballers and fans and one night we went to a match at Maine Road.  I was hooked!  Good times; Charlton, Law and Best at Old Trafford and Lee, Bell and Summerbee at City, whom I supported as (initially) the underdogs. 

My parents were deeply involved in Scouting all their lives and therefore 2871 loses out on this occasion to 2846, Gilwell Park, which was for them and many others the spiritual home of the Scouting movement.

I also have some reservations about voting for diseasels.  However, my Dad and I used to watch out for Deltics displaying new names in the FP depot sidings or crossing the Seven Sisters Road bridge.  My first serious girlfriend lived in a house backing onto FP depot, so in time I saw most of them. 

I prefer the names in the racehorse tradition to the regimental names, my favourite being Pinza. ( I was in a group  which used to play Searchers' numbers!) 

Worth trying the "sliding" middle wheel solution.  Wheels fitted to 2mm tube, free to move on 1mm rod as axle.

I think I remember seeing and cabbing Britannia at an exhibition when she was new in 1951.  Marylebone or King's Cross?

So she has to be my choice, although years later I enjoyed a footplate ride on a sister loco.

23 hours ago, The Stationmaster said:

Top of the poll are the new generic 4 and 5 wheeled coaches - with some very mixed reactions

Mike, are the 5 wheeled coaches prototypical?

2 hours ago, Tramshed said:

Both are correct. Or rather, both were carried by the locomotive. The Hornby model depicts the earlier form of 'Knight of the Thistle' as built in August 1924 but which was an incorrect title. The error was corrected to 'Knight of Thistle' in December 1932. However, the locomotive was paired with a corridor tender in July 1928 and was not paired with a GN type tender again until June 1937. It went into wartime black in March 1944. The illustration therefore is correct for the period 8/24 until 7/28.

The illustration includes the definite article but the headline reads just Knight of Thistle.

Hornby, you'll get in trouble if you don't decide between Knight of the Thistle and Knight of Thistle!

I did!

Best - Tudor Minstrel.

Worst 60500 - ET, for the alien operations he performed on defenceless locomotives.  

First saw him in 1963.  Last saw him in 2019.  RIP Gerry.

I wonder how many Liverpool fans have heard of Carousel?

Thanks for posting those photos, Tony.  A pleasure to see them on a gloomy day.

Wolf of Badenoch is a wonderful name but I cannot support it as a favourite in rebuilt form.  So my vote goes for Tudor Minstrel, a melodious sounding name.

Very nice!  

Any plans for further GN buildings?

3 hours ago, adb968008 said:

Not neccessarily.

 

Your patient medical history is stored by the NHS, not the ID card.

They just need to establish your ID, to access the medical records they already posess.

 

NHS patient records, Ive found to be pretty enviable, compared to other countries.. you can be pretty much anywhere in this country, and get help as if you were talking to your local GP.

Very useful if you are taken ill whilst away from home on business or holiday.  Our surgery operates an an-line system for requesting consultations and repeat prescriptions and also provides viewing of ones medical record.

That's a smashing layout for young children.  Lots of detail as well as action, well done.

I am sure you and your (step) grandchildren will continue to get many hours of enjoyment from it.

Do I recall a tale that the use of initials instead of Christian names was dictated by the perceived limited space on the smoke deflectors?

As I'm not a fan of the renaming of A4s after relatively unknown directors, I have no guilt in expressing similar sentiments regarding union officials/Railway Executive executives.  So W P Allen is my nomination. 

Much better to have been J G Robinson!

I am finding this difficult, it seems like asking us to betray an old friend!

Given that a policy of naming the class after winning racehorses had been established, my choice is for the politically expedient though loyal Prince of Wales.  Much better saving it for the largest express locomotive class - the P2!

Pasty wouldn't have been a great name, either!

I think a Bamford Wuffler might prove popular.......

Some wonderful names and some curious ones but naming express locos after racehorses was an inspired moved likely to turn up some curiosities.

As a child, I was enthralled by Henry Charles Webster's book "Legend of a Locomotive", so I have to cast my vote in accordance with my forum name, Papyrus.  A great shame she was not preserved, though I believe her driving wheels still turn but under 4472.

I have always found the choice of names for the A4s to be a curious selection, not really in keeping with the locomotives' image.  However, the worst have to be those of directors and officers not well known at the time and now virtually forgotten.  Lord Farringdon and William Whitelaw had given many years of service to the LNER and its predecessors but some of the others would have been better contained in the B1 Director name series. 

My pick for the worst A4 name goes to Andrew K. McCosh.

I have assembled 4 of the GN printed wagons in 00 to date and am very pleased with their appearance. 

I did find the springing arrangement fiddly and a challenge to my eyesight, and experienced some axlebox splaying through using top-hat bearings.  I'm afraid I chose not to spring the buffers. 

Some simplification would probably suit me but I received another kit as a Christmas present and will procure more if suitable prototypes become available, whether to the current or a simplified design.