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51 minutes ago, dibber25 said:

It depends how accurate you want it to be, but there are several picture of 68222 as she was the last J70 to operate on the tramway. She stood in for failed diesels in 1953 and was the loco that ran out of water at Upwell and had to be filled by Rev. Awdry's hosepipe! I'll attach a picture of my version. 68222 was distinctive in having some rather bodged replacement end windows. Both front, but only one rear. The frames appear white in photos - they may have been bare wood or even the pink wood primer that was used in those days. There was only one builder's plate. It's precise location could vary between locos.Mine is incorrectly placed on the left side - it should be fourth plank up, right-hand side on 68222. Unusually it still retained its GER '5' area plate, top centre on the front only. I have photo references for 68222 as follows:

Cover and page 31 W&U by Gadsden et al Town & Country 

Page 9 W&U by Hawkins/Reeve Wild Swan

Cover Branchline to Upwell Middleton Press

(CJL)

Thanks Chris, this helps a lot and nicely explains everything. Great picture by the way. Jason

Hi all,

Sorry if this has already been discussed, but my model of 68222 only includes one each of the 5 different builders/works plates (unless my eyesight is worse than I feared). Should the model include a pair of each of these plates?

I certainly seem to have enough shed code plates and all the other bits :-)

Plus, can anyone recommend a good picture, or advice, on which etched parts to fit to 68222 in it's supplied condition?

Thanks in advance

Jason