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The LNWR Southern Division had the two Wilson/Joy 'Jenny Lind', nos 208 & 209, mentioned in my previous post. They were standard 'off the shelf' designs from this company of which over 70 were built for various railways. There were also very similar locomotives built by various other manufacturers. I keep hoping that Chris of 5&9 does bring the Jenny kit back as I've always wanted to build a model of the West Midland Railway (OW&W) 'Will Shakspere' (note spelling). As mentioned most of these early locos were supplied painted green with some of them having the flutes in the dome and safety valve picked out in other colours such as red.

Southern Division nos. 208 & 209 were both 'Jenny Lind' type 2-2-2's delivered in 1848 by Wilson's. The same year they supplied 2-2-2's 201 to 204 to the Sth Div. These were outside cylinder locos of a similar design nicknamed 'Jenny Red Legs'. A quick check through my references has not come up with any on the Northern Division but I stand to be corrected. Edit to add: The photo of no. 35 above could be a Sharp 2-2-2 delivered in the late 1840's. A lot of the fittings seem similar to the drawing of no. 4 from the Locomotive Magazine reproduced in the Mike Sharman book 'The London North Western Railway' from Oakwood Press.

I managed to get all the usual groans and eye rolling when I asked if anyone wanted to pull my cracker. My darling little niece (16) then broke up the entire family group by saying it probably would not be worth pulling anyway!

The time is upon us to appreciate the skillful way in which the wordsmiths of the great cracker making consortiums of the world entertain us with their use of the English language. I'll start off with the first batch of witticisms I have seen this Festive Season. ( Disclaimer: This thread is for those jokes which are so corny they shouldn't even be posted in the regular jokes thread.) What carol is heard in the desert? O Camel Ye Faithful What do you call a man with a pole in his leg? Rodney What goes up and never comes down? Your Age Why did the scarecrow get a promotion? Because he was outstanding in his field What do Santa's little helpers learn at school? The elf-abet What do you give a person who has everything? Antibiotics Merry Christmas to everyone.

And tonight the minimum temp forecast for Adelaide is 32° with the maximum for Friday heading for 46°. Currently sitting at my computer at 2.00 am with the temperature still showing 36° outside.

Very impressive for first efforts. For drawings you could use back issues of a number of model railway mags such as RM (as above) and Model Railway Constructor. As you seem to be favouring Southern prototypes keep a look out for J H Russell's 'A Pictorial Record of Southern Locomotives'.

Much to the annoyance of my long suffering mother, each Christmas my father (84 YO) and I sit down to watch a marathon of Will Hay movies usually starting with "Oh, Mr Porter". Dear old Mum tends to make herself scarce at these times by going to 'read a book' which means she has a long snooze with the two cats.

Would it be feasible to adapt something like the Magnorail car system to run under a plateway track? The rails themselves could be strips of L section plastic strips.

This was also the era of the Rover JET1 gas turbine car. It managed to top 150 mph in 1952 and is now in the Science Museum.

I have a "What If" query regarding this locomotive. If it had been delivered before Nationalisation what would have been the livery and possible running number? The black and silver scheme was used on the LMS twins and seems to have been selected by British Railways as standard for the other early prototypes. If it carried a GWR livery I'm assuming it would have been in lined loco green with brass number-plates instead of the large silver numbers. The model is a bit too expensive to buy for a "nevawazza" repaint but it would be interesting to see it running as a Great Western engine.

I've have used mini side-cutter bits in my Dremel. You need to have a reasonably steady hand but it is relatively easy to do. I place the buffer beam/kit end on some scrap balsa and line up a steel rule along the slot line. Starting in the middle I carefully mill the slot up and down until it is the required length.

That is the type of shop that I used to search for in the past. Often you could find some 'new old stock' toys and models tucked away in a back corner or rear storeroom. I found one here in a South Oz country town back in the mid seventies that had Dublo rolling stock and early bagged Airfix kits still marked with pre-decimal prices (Oz went decimal in 1966). Dave R.

Although you should not take some of his descriptions at face value, the following are from Ernest Carter's 1952 "Britain's Railway Liveries 1825 - 1948" Edit: Sorry - put the pages on in the wrong order.

Hi Corbs, I couldn't decide whether to flag this as 'Like' or 'Craftsmanship'. I always find it interesting the amount of time and work required just to make a shortish commercial. Did you storyboard the whole thing beforehand or just said 'a model train would be good here'? Also did you get to keep the props as part of your fee? As always, I like your work! Dave R

I have one of those on my main layout. I've done away with the crane that came with it and replaced it with a modified Ratio hand crane.

Have you thought about trying to modify the Dapol (ex Airfix) dockside crane kit. As the kit is undersized for a dockside version you could probably hack it around to make something like the one in the picture of 30108 being coaled up. Edit to add - the rail breakdown crane from Dapol may be a better option for kit bashing.

In all the time I've had this photo I had never payed much attention to the chimney. As they say "you learn something new every day". Comparing the 1927 photo with the 1938 one it appears that, when the cab was flared out, new side sheets may have been fitted. The prominent rivets on the cab side seem to have disappeared - bit hard to tell with the 1938 shot but it does appear to be smoother.

This is the full photo that I cropped for m y previous post. If anyone holds the copyright to this I can remove it upon request.

Thanks for the photo info. I did have a file at one time listing any details of photographers, dates and location for most of the photos in my collection so that the files could be saved just under a title such as GWR xxxx or LNWR xxx etc. but I seems to have misplaced it when I upgraded my computer. It does make it difficult to attribute the provenance of the bulk of my collection. The pic in your link is from a slightly different angle from the one I have but appears to be taken at the same time. The gasometer is framing the cab in the pic I posted whereas it is behind the tender in the linked photo. The other photo I have of this particular engine shows the cover in place and could be from the Gloucester and Warwickshire website. There is a coach in the background of that shot with the GWR roundel on the side.

Going through my photo collection I've found the majority of the later period Bulldog shots to have the cover on the firebox side. Nos. include 3327, 3331, 3340, 3372, 3378, 3383, 3399, 3406, 3437 & 3450 Peacock. One of the pics of 3399 Ottawa appears to have the cover missing.

I have used the old Peco sets in a number of models over the years, including the Kitmaster models for which they were designed (I still have about half a dozen Southern Region Mark 1 kits to build). I recently found that I was down to my last set of four different kits and started looking for them online only to discover how much they have increased in price over the years. This being so, I have started to use colour photo-copies (on thin card) from the remaining sets which, when assembled, can't be distinguished from the originals. Dave R.

When I started my first post schooling job with the old South Australian Gas Company I was told that I probably would need to sit an aptitude test at the end of my first week. I worried about it all week until the day arrived and I was given a form with "TEST PAPER" in bold print across the top with under that "NOT BY TEARING IT IDIOT!" followed by the question which asked: "If you were a passenger in a natural gas powered plane and you discovered that the pilot had gone out what would you do?" Dave R.

G'day G-man, Trying to understand all the workings of, and the variations in construction and appearance, in railways for a beginner is like trying to describe tank variations to a non military modeller. To most people one Sherman tank looks like another. They don't realize without research that an M4A1 is very different from an M4A2(76)W and would wonder what you were talking about if you mentioned an "Easy Eight". I've been a railway modeller for fifty years and I still find something new to learn nearly every day. Dave R.

I have a half built Ratio cattle dock that I only bought a couple of years ago. The railings in this kit are made from plastic rod. I can't find my original reference but I seem to remember reading somewhere that some of these structures (and a few fences on the GWR) used old boiler tubes, painted black or grey when first fitted, as railings. These probably weathered quickly with livestock rubbing against them. Dave R.

In South Australia the Road Traffic Act and the Motor Vehicles Act both apply to any 'road related area' which includes supermarket car parks and service station forecourts etc. I worked for a while in SA Police's prosecution section and had to be clear on which areas were road related and which were not. Made for some interesting debates with defending solicitors.