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I did that before I came here. No response as yet.

It seems nobody knows what the colour is, and those who do know like C-Rail-Intermodal dont answer emails

Yeah Ive no problem to fade the colours I need however to start off with the right colour.

On 21/08/2020 at 21:32, Edwin_m said:

There's a connection for empty stock in the former Mersey Railway tunnel between James Street and Central, so it's possible to emerge at the portal going towards Hunts Cross, or going towards Southport by reversing at Central, though obviously no passenger train does so.  I'm not sure if this makes it a single tunnel with four portals, and if so how that might count towards Merseyside's tunnel quotient.  

Different tunnels but they count as both im afraid.

The Birkenhead tunnel goes from Birkenhead to the north side of Central station

The Loop tunnel leaves the Birkenhead tunnel at Mann Island Jn and re-joins it at the point the Up West Kirby becomes the Stock Interchange Line. There is no junction here, there are two tunnels joining each other.

The Link Tunnel is a multi bore tunnel with single bore sections as necessary. It starts at 59 chains in the Up Direction (north) from Central station, and ends at 36 miles 17 chains in the Up direction from central (south), counting up from Southport, so in layman's terms it starts 36 miles 17 chains from Southport and ends 59 chains past Central station when travelling from Southport to Hunts cross), it intersects with the Birkenhead Tunnel at Paradise Junction which is at the 36 mile 71 chain position within the tunnel, access to the Stock Interchange Line is in the Down Direction only from Central station however both the Stock Interchange Line and the Down Southport lines are bi directional. It is at this point, 36 mile 71 chain that the tunnel was originally the Birkenhead Tunnel, as it went from Birkenhead to what is not the reversing sidings north of Central station, when the Link tunnel was made it became the "Underground section" and the Birkenhead Tunnel portal into Central Tunnel (The Link Tunnell) at Pradise Jn became the new tunnel portal for it and that is where it now ends.
No passenger services are allowed to use the Stock Interchange Line, the line is 5mph only and I doubt it will ever be used for passenger services, the ground would need to be replaced to allow services to carry passengers.

The Northern Line from Hunts cross to Southport has 

Woolton Road Tunnel
Fulwood Tunnel

St Michaels Tunnel

Dingle Tunnel

St James No 4 Tunnel

St james No 3 Tunnel

St James No 2 Tunnel

St James No 1 Tunnel

Central Tunnel (The link tunnel, "the Underground section")

There are also 14 level crossings on the line.

The Northern line beats most claims to fame into a cocked hat and its just the start as there are serious plans now to open the Central Tunnel up either to The Waterloo Tunnel or The Wapping Tunnel (First railway tunnel under a metropolis and just The worlds first railway tunnel) to extend services.

Hi guys.

Like you guys at the minute Im interested in modelling some containers, but for a model railway but as a member here I thought the best people to ask would be you guys as they are intermodal :-)

Ive got the colours I wanted so far for Evergreen RAL 6017 (Tamiya XF-71), Hapag-Lloyd RAL RAL 2000 (no colour), Maersk RAL 7037 (Hataka C249), OCL RAL 5013 (Vallejo 71090) and Tex RAL 3005 (No colour) but the one Im stuck on K-Line red, P&O Blue and MSC yellow. 

Can anybody help me find the correct RAL codes for these paints please?

Any suggestions for the other colours would be good too as its a bit of a mine field trying to find model paints to match RAL codes, a lot of them dont seem to be made. 

Oh right, I didnt realise there was a section for them, Thank you very much. 

Im not really sure if this belongs in prototype or modelling related forum. Ill post it here as it is a question about the prototype in the hope you understand my mistake if it is one.

Ive got the colours I wanted so far for Evergreen RAL 6017, Hapag-Lloyd RAL RAL 2000, Maersk RAL 7037, OCL RAL 7031 and Tex RAL 3005 but the one Im stuck on K-Line red, P&O Blue and MSC yellow. 

Can anybody help me find the correct RAL codes for these paints please?

On 28/05/2020 at 19:48, Trog said:

 

Would that have been train made up of Sealions and Stingrays?

The era you choose to model would dictate that, I just used the Seacow as an example

Im not really sure if this counts as a question or as a discussion, but Ill put it here as it has a question in it somewhere.

So the other, maybe a week or so ago I was watching railcam Crewe 4 camera and I saw a Class 66 hauling a single set of intermodal wagons that had just one intermodal tank container on it, it came off Salop Goods on the Down Liverpool Independent heading towards Runcorn Folly Lane.
I assumed it was carrying some raw materials for one of the industries down there. Caustic soda maybe...
 

Seeing it made me think of wagon load freight hauling as there was just one container. But then I thought about all the trip workings we did back in what now feels like the far distant past.

Would this have been a trip working from Bassford Hall to Folly Lane, I didnt think they did that kind of thing anymore as there was so little money in it for the private companies to make it pay.

Buxton has a green aspect for station approach.

There are cases where a 2 aspect colour light signal can only show a yellow aspect, for instance where the route set can only be to a diverging route.

On 05/01/2020 at 10:01, John M Upton said:

I have to admit I prefer old paint mixes with their admittedly nasty chemicals, lead, etc both domestic decorating and modelling versions because at least back then they were much more reliable.

 

Quite a lot of paints being produced today are quite frankly rather naff...

There are indeed, and to be quite frank its nice to see so many manufacturers doing so many products these days. I am probably just like you from a time when there where very few manufacturers producing hobby paints whos colours shades and hues where on the dubious side a lot of the time...
Airfix and Humbrol where the mainstay of course and they are still around today. Is that what you go with today? or do you prefer something more esoteric? 

On 05/01/2020 at 10:11, Harlequin said:

Acrylic paints are also based on oil of course.

 

However, "oil-based" doesn't necessarily mean petro-chemical based. There are various manufacturers removing solvents completely from their paints (so less smelly fumes) and using plant based oils such as sunflower oil and linseed oil.

 

I wasnt expecting pedanticism when I  wrote that as I was rather hoping that my use of the word oil would be taken to mean the petro chemical based oil paints such as enamels and lacquers which stink to high heaven when compared to the likes of Vallejo and Citadel paints. Tamiya while being based mostly on alcohol have a rather pungent smell and I prefer not to use them. I suppose its rather along the same lines as RailMatch thinners however I find the smell over all isnt as bad as enamels and lacquers.

On 05/01/2020 at 15:54, Nickey Line said:

Traditional pigments are also potentially hazardous though, even though lead and arsenic are no longer used. Cobalt, cadmium, chromium etc.

I started on pigment based paints, my father taught me to mix my own colours while I was still a child as he was an artist who mixed his own paints up from base materials.
Not something I would want to do these days when there are so many perfectly useable offerings on the shelves of our wonderful model shops.

For me there is nothing between the one and the other in all things until you get to the smell of oil based paints, be they enamels or lacquers.

I think its about time the industry completely dropped the oil based paints and focused on the acrylics as its only a matter of time before they die out anyway because they are oil based.

13 hours ago, Mick Bonwick said:

Try ringing Howes Models on 01865 848000. It's not listed on their website and that normally means it's not currently available, but they may have plans to make some more.

Is that who makes it?

I was in my local shop recently looking to get a pot of Railmatch 2255 EWS Maroon only to be told that the shopkeeper couldnt order it from his supplier as it has been discontinued!

I was wondering if anybody knows if it has been discontinued by Railmatch of just my local shops supplier.

Any help would be appreciated, I am only looking for the acrylic paints, I have no interest in enamels, sprays or any other kind of paints beyond acrylics.

I have RailMatch Tinners, Citadel, Tamiya and Vallejo thinners. 

Im more wondering if anybody has had any problems.
For instance I was told not to try Mr Colour Leveling thinners because it turns Vallejo paints into a gooey mess.

Not really looking for cheap alternatives.
I was just wondering if anybody had used something other than Railmatch thinner to thin Railmatch paints.

Vallejo thinners for example.

Can somebody help, Im wondering if anybody has used Railmatch acrylics and if so have you thinned them with something other than Railmatch acrylic thinners? If so which ones did you find success with?

Has anyone tried Vallejo Airbrush thinner with RailMatch acrylics?

 

 

 

 

On 17/11/2019 at 23:26, 298 said:

Kenilworth has 112 but that's with me counting them quickly as several freights/engineers workings share the same path but only one is activated as required.

Over what time period is that?

You wont really find any intermodals on single lines.
At the time the lines went to singles due to lack of use intermodal working would mean there is no lack of use.

You might want to look at Navigation Road station. Its a single line but there is another track next to it used by the Manc Metro. so the platform isnt OOU.

The real problem is he wants to depict two things which go against each other in the real world (or as you guys like to say in the prototype)

Why is it all split up like that?
I mean why are all the china clay wagons not together?

I followed this thread a while back with interest then while looking up information about Edge hill station I came across this picture of flickr, Im sure the owner wont mind my sharing it here

A class 502 EMU train with car M28354M passing through Bank Hall station.

Thank you guys, thats a nice start. I think it was a classic LNWR canopy... I think I must look earlier than what I thought...

Its hard to get a grasp on what the station looked like over all though

Hello :-)

Im looking for some help getting some refrence photos for a layout I would like to make of Edge hill station in the 1970s while it still had the canopy over the platforms and while the bay platform was in use.

Any help in any kind of way would be very much appreciated as Im not having much luck finding enough to actually go about building something, especially the carriage shed that used to stand between the station and the Up and Down Wapping lines.

 

 

 

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3 minutes ago, melmerby said:

Precisely.

The Dinting Glossop Hadfied does that as it is one service Manchester to Manchester but reverses twice to end up facing the way it came.

For instance this train (2G89):

https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/Y63390/2019-10-21/detailed

Nar that dont count, it reverses a reversal and ends up going back out the front end first :-)