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19 hours ago, Ramrig said:
Apparently, word has it, that the loco has failed and is returning to Crewe for repair. Can anyone confirm this?Nope. Saw it leaving Kidderminster on the Web Cam.
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10 hours ago, MrWolf said:
Arkwright or Margaret Thatcher's dad?
Same person I was told.
Yo.
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1 hour ago, TrevorP1 said:
I saw it too…. 🍺So it was you on the floor?
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3 hours ago, Captain Kernow said:
They used to double head the Pines Express over the Mendips...
I saw one on the ACE at Axminster in 1971. I was drunk.
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Thanks Andy. D24... a welcome addition to the SR range. There goes my Comet Sides and or Southern Pride 'Conversions'
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I think fitting the Couplings could become a trendy phrase.
Ar$£
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24 minutes ago, 30368 said:
I have checked my PDK MN kit box but no instructions full of original MN! Have you spoken to Paul at PDK? He usually can help.
07732 213251
pdkmodels@hotmail.co.uk
Kind regards,
30368
I shall contact him if all else fails.
Thanks R.
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Has anyone by any chance built a PDK 5500 Bulleid Tender Kit? I've got one but no Instructions. Not the end of the World as I can probably Busk it, but would be handy to have some Instructions and know any tips, if you have and have the time to share?
Many thanks.
Phil
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On 20/04/2024 at 10:09, Captain Kernow said:
What's the point of growing old disgracefully, if you can't occasionally complain about aspects of 'the modern world?'
Anyway, the expression 'chill' is another linguistic abomination. If I want to 'chill', I'll go outside without my coat on a freezing winters night, thank you very much, or have a walk-in freezer room installed!
Anyway, I blame British Telecom...
"Going forward..."; don't get me started; (see what I attempted to do there CK?)
His mightiness, the Duckworth of 36E (ex 72A and 83D).
Before anyone says this is OT. Going forward is what a Manor should do and at various speeds. I thank you.
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2 hours ago, 2ManySpams said:
Apparently they woz robbed...
They wuz. Shocking bl00dy decision.
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On 12/04/2024 at 14:34, gwrrob said:
Blimey. That looks superb. Good Job I've got enough to run Diversions on SOSJ!
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60536 might be controversial in certain company?
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Don't mention 61663 or 61664 unless you know where you are in Merseyside.
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Just now, PeterStiles said:
I think I'll stop now. This thread can only end up too political.
Nah, not if you keep to the funny side of things.
How about all the Clans having to be shedded very carefully Geographically for example?
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34001 and 34003 were hated by their respective Footy Fans.
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Don't think there has ever been a Loco named Beeching?
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12 minutes ago, Mark Saunders said:
Your trying to judge yesterday by the revisionist standards of today!
The country was not long out of the war and was still rebuilding at the time and yesterdays heroes are todays monsters.
'Todays Monsters'; only in some peoples opinions. Others have differing opinions. Has thus been and probably always shall be.
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Actually I hadn't really tested my 'added Lead' Engine for ooomph and I can't remember what it became after renumbering and all that Tender faffing, that is a nightmare, now!
I'm lucky as almost all my Bulleids have loads of hauling power and the layout (Seaton Junction) is long enough with decent radius curves off stage. Longest Trains are ACEs (sometimes 14 on the Up) and the Brighton Plymouth; 9/10 Mk ones as you know.
Have you by any chance built a PDK 5500 Tender Kit? I've got one but no Instructions. Not the end of the World but would be handy to know any tips, if you have and have the time to share?
Also, have you built the Self Weighing one? I've part built one and its a good Kit. Nowhere near finished but looks good behind a MN.
ATB
Phil
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51 minutes ago, Combe Martin said:
Hello yes, and based on that Flickr picture I've ordered and received red ones from Fox. All I've got to do now is fit them, move the scrolls up the sides, and renumber it with cabside number transfers and fit the smokebox number plate ! Oh, and hard wire a decoder in (Weymouth is a Wilton era loco, no socket).
I've done a few of those non DCC Ready and added Lead (Roof Flashing) Strips to the Can sides as there is loads of room, even after Decoder Fitted.
I found some really simple Sockets and the Decoders to go with them. I can find the name of the Kit for you if I go up in the Loft.
Only basic and inexpensive (4 Functions I think?) of course, but the socket is dead easy to wire up.
You may well have already done it before and have your own choice of Kit.
Those Scrolls are teeny and so easily lost! Good luck with the Cabsides but I find Fox to be excellent to apply.
All the b est
Phil
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On 09/04/2024 at 08:24, Combe Martin said:
Yes, well that's what I thought initially, but when I started clicking on the ordering options it insists you click on the colour box and there's black as well as red !, which is why I started studying the pictures more closely, and the colour ones didn't show the plate as red, but rather either black or dirt. Most WC's, even if they're filthy still seem to show a red plate.
Did you sort this?
The choice of colour may be because the alternative Plates could be for Modifieds? I've forgotten how it went but B of B were Blue.
I never remember seeing an 'original' W.C. with Black Plates.
Sorry this is a late response.
Phil
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I'll have those Kevin if they are still going. 17.53 Wednesday 17th.
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Blimey Steve. That was a quick job. Looks damn good to me and I'm wearing my top notch Specs.
Phil
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On 15/04/2024 at 12:33, 31A said:
By way of light relief after finishing the latest coach for Peterborough North and a full on Easter weekend behind Grantham, I've been making a wagon kit. This one to be precise:
At first sight, 'only a mineral wagon' but actually something a little bit different, being a wagon built in the 1940s by the Southern Railway for the LNER, and with a few distinctive features - 8 plank sides, prominent external angle iron 'side knees' either side of the side doors, and no kerb rails.
Cambrian kits are great, but I decided to replace some of the bits with metal parts from my stash because
- They're better detailed
- Cambrian wagons have a tendency to riding too high - something to do with the underframe mouldings I presume
- I had the parts in the stash anyway and thought I might as well use them
So, I replaced the axleguards and buffers with ABS white metal castings, used etched parts from Wizard Models / 51L for the brake gear, and drawhooks from Ambis. I really like these 51L brake gear parts:
https://www.wizardmodels.ltd/shop/wagons/blgva/
They can be a bit fiddly to put together but as long as you follow the instructions they go together well, make a big improvement to the appearance of the wagon and result in a more robust model. As the parts cover a range of prototypes, I had to modify the brake lever for length, drilling a new hole further in from the thick end and cutting off the thin end after it had been bent to shape.
Here's the underneath of the wagon, with the work in progress. Although as mineral wagons they had independent brakes, I put a single cross shaft through the V hangers to keep everything in line, then cut away the middle section when everything was set. The inner V hangers and Evo stuck to the inside of the solebars, with the outer ones being cranked round the lower flange of the solebar. Always fun soldering metal bits attached to plastic bits, but at least soldering the stay between the brake lever rack and the axleguard was easier with the axleguards being white metal!
This shows all the added metal parts.
The door bangers are from brass strip, threaded through slots in the top of the solebar so that they could be glued securely to the underside of the floor. Their angles were adjusted after these photos were taken!
Another unusual feature of these wagons was that they evidently had 'standard' buffers at each end, rather than the buffers with upstanding lugs that mineral wagons usually have at the door end, to hold the floor in place.
I then cut back the cross shaft, just leaving enough of it to thread the brake shoe moulding onto the remaining stub, having drilled through the centre of the moulding. I'd cut away the moulded safety hangers, and replaced them with the brass ones from the 51L etch.
That was all fairly straightforward; in fact I think construction took less time than painting, but I'll come onto that later....
Kit building Wagons and Vans is very good Therapy I find. Especially when you add some more robust parts and decent Buffers.
Good job Steve.
Phik
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A Nod To Brent - a friendly thread, filled with frivolity, cream teas and pasties. Longing for the happy days in the South Hams 1947.
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Talking of Bloaters; the Bristol exhibition!
If any of you West of England folk are going, do say hello to my pals on Grantham the Streamliner Years. I pass my best wishes to you through Steve, one of the Operators; (owner of Finsbury Cross). Please don't be afraid of the Loco's on that layout.
Sincerely,
Mad Duck