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Looking through old copies of Trains Illustrated, September 1950, I found the following: The Postal takes the Waverley Route. On June 8th the Railway Observer records, when the Caledonian main line was blocked at Harthorpe on Beattock Bank owing to the disastrous fire on the 11 am from Birmingham to Glasgow, the southbound "Postal" was diverted from Carstairs to Edinburgh, and came south to Carlisle over the Waverley route, presumably with a double reversal - at Dalry Road Junction and again at Haymarket West junction. The engine was converted Royal Scott No 46145 . I have not heard of this before. I believe that the Postal left Aberdeen with 4 TPOs; how many did it pick up before Carstairs? Norman Blackburn

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In this kit the coupling rods were pieces of bullhead rail with holes drilled and the connecting rods were punched out n/s Norman

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The Jamieson kit I have is for an NBR Atlantic. It is described as a Hand Cut kit for which the small number produced precludes the economic preparation of special instructions for each kit. The general diagram supplied is for an LMS 5XP along with 4 typed sheets. This seems to be earlier than the Mk1 as described by JeffP. Sorry about dragging this thread away from etched kits Norman

Were Jamieson parts not punched out? Hayfield We must have been typing at the same time

Thanks for the replies and the link to the previous thread. I think i'll continue with white spirit ( as I have some) and different switch cleaners could have various solvents, some of which could affect the plastic. Norman

I don't know if this has been asked before. I have several Portescap gearboxes which have seized due to the original grease drying out. In the past I think that I used white spirit to free them. Is this a good idea or are there better solvents? Norman

Full size boiler fittings are not brass they are bronze Copper/Tin

I have now retrieved my photo tooling from Photo Etch and I am looking for another company to do my etching. Norman Blackburn NB Models

With the demise of Photo Etch I, along with many others, will be having problems with obtaining their etches. I have still not heard from the liquidators as to how to retrieve my photo tooling. The liquidators may not even have been appointed . As I have limited stocks of etches customers should be aware that future supplies of my 7mm NBR loco kits could be considerably delayed. I will post further info as things progress. Norman Blackburn NB Models

Hi John In the past I have used caustic soda to strip paint of mazak. not hot but room temp. Crystals mixed in a jam jar with water. Crystals in to the water not water to the crystals; it is a very exothermic reaction. These days for paint striping on models I use Mr Muscle oven cleaner. Since its a metal body how about cellulose thinners/brush cleaner Norman

Thanks Brilliant Norman

I had read comments about the price increases from Shapeways but I had not really paid much attention to them. I was about to order some vents but $18 for posting to the UK seems excessive. Looks like I have a bit of scratch building to do. Thanks Norman

Hi All, Thanks for your replies. I agree that you shouldn't build models from models but, these look right compared to the Nick Campling drawings. I was not aware of the S Banks web site, looks like a lot of useful info. I'll put some photos up when I get the set finished. Coaches always take longer than expected to build! Thanks Norman