Edwardian

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Meanwhile...

Stunning work. I would suggest obtaining the book, but here is how the early, then later simplified, loco liveries are depicted: Rather Great Northern, the later version. It would be great to see pictures of your friend's loco when painted in due course, though I wonder if the model is in NSW condition, with the cab, bunker rails, and the hand rail arrangement? Most views depict these locos as cabless in Mersey Railway service, though there are pictures showing a wrap-over style cab. The other noticeable difference is that, in Mersey Railway service, the loco would have the condensing gear fitted.

The answer appears to be in Volume 1 of Nigel Digby's livery books Mid-green with a 4" wide dark green border round mid-green on flat surfaces. Originally separated by a vermilion line, the mid-green panels were further lined with a black band edged on the outside in vermilion and inside with white. By the time of electrification this had been simplified to the dark green borders separated by a black band edged white both sides. Boiler bands black edged white. Frames brown edged black, fine line vermilion.

Well, the preservationalists seem to have gone for green. Perhaps someone connected with that project may know.

Well, quite. Yesterday, as Storm Isha was ravaging the North (well, shaking our casements), a day of 99 mph winds that ended with trains north of Newcastle cancelled, an advisory to stay in doors and outlandish claims of a possible northern tornado*, we naturally decided to go sight-seeing on the Wall. And we were not the only ones. Yes, there were diehard Wall-walkers, but plenty of day visitors, including young families, all doing the British thing of choosing to ignore the biting gales and driving rain as we ambled round the fort with an air of studied leisure. There was a museum, which did provide some welcome cover! In better weather last August: * Not seen

RIP Laurie Johnson ....

Nice to see shots of this appearing. The rest of us must continue to exercise patience.

I reaise that a lot of people will want to run Accurascale chaldrons with Hornby's Locomotion in due course, but this would not be a particularly close match. Given how Hornby cheaped out on representing L&M goods stock, I frankly don't believe Hornby will come good with complementary rolling stock for Locomotion, even though hitherto I had expected that. So, if Accurascale could be persuaded to do 1820s S&D stock, rather than stuff that's a generation of more later, that would be welcome.

True, it's a bit parky out. This week we have had bright sun for the duration of the day, but the frost has remained throuighout. Cold bright crunchy dog walks result! Much prefer this to rain and mud.

Apparently there was snow in Darlo over lunch, but barely a trace when I arrived there at 3pm

Wash the car! What does thee think rain's for, lad!

I actually put a scarf on today. No coat as yet, but little cotton scarf to take the chill off the windpipe was in order, I felt.

Sometime later ...

Meanwhile, in Yorkshire ...

I love this Pencil Aided Design! Some great plans.

I was there... What remains of the 'stone outer dock':

Well, yes, hence my original inappropriately flippant comment!

Mine too. But Rails is showing "Expected Delivery Q2 2024"

Ah, brought to the screens of British children as Hector's House. Toutou always makes me think of the RN gunboats, Mimi & Toutou, named by the frankly odd Lt-Cmdr Spicer-Simson, and sent to sink the Kaiser's battleships on Lake Tanganyika, events that inspired C. S. Forester's 1935 novel, The African Queen.

Kikki will set you free...

Yes, I went onto the Kernow site just to double check my re-order was there, and in the list of orders was my original pre-order of 2020, and these will have been a decade in the making. It's nothing short of thrilling to think that we shall have these very soon.

Yes, the houthis, bless their little jihadi socks, may well be of some actual use here. Fortunately, they have not managed to intercept the Kernow GW steam railmotors, due chez Kernow today I believe.

Yes, indeed, though the decision in this case was based upon the fact that the Oak Hill Works Fletcher Jennings body was designed to fit the Hornby chassis, which it does perfectly (once a bit's sawn off). While I daresay it would probably fit over the Rails/Dapol chassis, there would probably be filling, packing and creating new fixing points etc, which is the kind of unnecessary faff I am too lazy and not perverse enough to contemplate. While I don't love Hornby's hex nut crank pins, most of my issues are with the Hornby Terrier body. The only other poor feature of the Hornby Terrier chassis is the clunky guard irons to the wrong shape, but this is not such a factor when the chassis is not being used as a Terrier's chassis. In other words there is no real need to prefer the Dapol chassis for the conversion. Nevertheless, I fear Hornby will continue make Terriers faster than I can buy them for chassis!