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Latest A class is in Midland green livery. I'm sure @Compound2632 will have constructive feedback on my interpretation! I also have no idea what colour Midland carriages were in this period, so I went with red ones...

Also just found a series by James73, just search "Cut & Cover"

If you're still looking for Cut and cover tunnel pieces, check out the WL series from Mick_Berg

Apparently the condensing/compound combination worked pretty well for reducing steam in the tunnels.

Another A class for your Urban layout

A complete set of District locos wearing different lampcodes

It being an earlier version is certainly a possibility.

I've just received a copy of these from the LTM shop (all this model making made me want to learn more about District History). Excitingly, it has an excerpt from the 1901 rulebook covering lampcodes! I won't post the book page here, but I can confirm most of what @Nearholmer suggested for the District is correct. The main differences are that some codes involve blue lights as well as white and that the code for Hounslow Barracks uses only two lamps. There are also various other codes not discovered by Nearholmer including codes for LNWR trains which feature the Circles and Diamonds attached to the Chimney NLR style as previously discussed in @Annie's thread.

I think it's about right, the screenshot I posted was from a very low angle which is making it look higher than it really is.

I suspect the place to go searching for definitive information is the LTM archive, however for now Nearholmer's summary should be good enough to provide a decent set of options in the game. Here's the latest District loco carrying a suitable lampcode.

This is brilliant, now I just need the time to code it up.

Looks like a useful publication for general reference. At only £7 I might have to get one...

Many thanks for this. As is typical it's come just after I gave up hope and uploaded them using RCH lamp codes. Looks like it's time to do a V2 upgrade! Any District info would also be welcome as I'm working on those versions now.

There aren't (as far as I know) any NLR models available for Trainz. One day, if time allows, I might do something about that.

Why not both! If you're going for a fictional station it can be "somewhere in East London" and be served by various of the Suburban companies including MET and GER. You could probably justify some District, Midland and SECR in there too. Alternatively the Met lent the GER a bunch of A classes at a time when the Met had a loco surplus (they had expected to be operating the District and bought the locos, only for the District to decide otherwise).

Hi All, As you may have seen in Annie's thread, I'm working on a Met A class virtual model. I'd like to give it selectable head lamp codes, but have so far utterly failed to find out what head lamp codes the Met used. They must have used some as the locos had lots of lamp sockets. The scheme must also have changed at some point as photos from different eras have different numbers of sockets. If anyone here as the requisite arcane knowledge, or can point me in the direction of a useful source, it would be much appreciated!

Based on my Met Tank research for the new model this seems to have been a later addition, they obviously learned the hard way!

For this reason all the Met condensing locos had a big valve under the bunker that could be used to dump the entire contents of the tanks into a drain in 4 ft. The tanks could then be refilled with fresh cold water. This was done once per "lap" of the circle line. It's also why condensing locos always have feedwater pumps as well as injectors.

There shouldn't be any smoke going to the tanks as the valve that diverts the exhaust steam is before the steam is mixed with the smoke (see bottom right image). Some locos also had chimney dampers to prevent airflow out of the chimney when in condensing mode (ie there would be no exhaust at all) but I think this was unusual and most locos would always emit smoke but only emit steam when not condensing. My general thought is that condensing locos in trainz should just have regular smoke because (as previously pointed out) the condensing was only used in tunnels and a properly set up tunnel in trainz prevents smoke emission anyway...

Latest 3D loco model that might be of interest here. This variant is nearly done, but there's lots to add to represent as built locos, District line examples, etc.

Some excellent freelance designs here, the 2-8-2T is particularly brilliant. I'd also like to express my approval of the the purple liveries. I did a virtual model of a fictional narrow gauge class with a similar livery, I recommend a pinkish lining to really show off the paler background colour...

It's a while since I did these models but I'm pretty sure the compound has a 2 500 gal tender. The single has a smaller tender with a lower platform height. I also did what I think was a 2 000 gal version (same wheelbase as the single tender but same platform height as the compound) which was never released as I hadn't done a loco to go with it (yet!). They were all based on a set of drawings from an old issue of RM.

It's entirely down to the discretion of the person building the model. The modelling software will usually have a tools to insert a circle/cylinder/sphere and when used there will be an option to choose the number of sides that the shape has. Generally the number of sides chosen is the smallest number that still looks OK at the intended viewing distance as the more sides you add the longer it takes for a computer to render the object to the screen. Obviously this is very subjective so it's up to the modeller to make a judgement for each curve they model. Sometime you can disguise things further, for example with lining out. I find this particularly helps with wheels which are often the largest diameter circular object you have to deal with.

Another Met image that popped up on social media that might be of interest here, an early O gauge three rail set. Knowledgeable commentators state that this is the 1927 version of the set which had modifications from the original 1925 version after that was banned for being too dangerous. Apparently the original version had exposed 110V studs on the rheostat and the home office stopped it being sold in this country (but this didn't prevent them from continuing to sell it to on the foreign and colonial market). The models themselves look excellent. I know we've had a OO MetroVic electric recently, but I wonder if there's ever been another RTR Dreadnought produced after this set?