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Looks really good, but I fancy your slipper boy has a fruit business on the side?

I agree with you re using Perspex in this application, it’s a strange choice. I hope the chassis tracks well on your tracks, as I find six wheelers are total ****. You may well find that the centre wheelset needs more play.

Second thoughts to that, I did a very tight radius O a few years back, and I found that the American Kadee type couplers worked very well on it.

It says HO on the box?

If you’re doing a shunting plank to coarse scale standards, with as much pushing as pulling, one need would be to keep the buffer faces away from each other, otherwise risk buffer locking, so I don’t think three link couplers would be the best way forward. Some type of overscale auto coupler, no matter however klunky it was, would answer better.

Some time ago, one of the Welsh rugby team, discussing a colleague who he thought had a superior education, said: “He uses big words like marmalade”.

You’re not Captain Sensible, he is:

Yeah, right...

Ayup, Phil and Stu, just found this thread from the parent thread. This book ere says Sir William Tite was the archytect for the Yeovil Exeter Line, plus the branch, and gives a few photos of SJ, but also drawings for Topsham, which was very similar. If you match that lot up, you should get on a bit further.

Ooh, how lovely, I must have one, what is it????

There’s some nice cobbles on this??

It would look really nice:

You could do your Crampton in Royal Stuart Tartan? I agree, I love Cramptons, but if you scratch build one, you’ll find there’s the valvegear to do, and I run away from it. Anybody want a pair of eight foot drivers? Oh no, Jim...

My source gives Klose as Heinrich Klose, a Swiss engineer who ended up running KWB. The Klose system was applied first in Bosnia- Hercegovina, the Austrians took over the territory from the Turks in 1878, and started to develop the railways, an existing standard gauge line, and new narrow gauge lines, gauge 760mm. Referred to originally as Kuk Bosnabahn, then kkBB, then as BHLB, after WW1 the area finally emerged as part of Yugoslavia. The lines were quite lengthy, steeply graded, and poor alignment and track to start with, so locos were needed to be flexible. First off a photo of a loco with the Klose system, referred to as being modified, but don’t ask what that involved! Next a photo of the complete loco, JZ class 189. It’s an 0-6-2T, having the rear part of the cab and bunker articulated in a stutztender like an Engerth. The cylinders are inside, but with outside Stephenson’s driving slide valves tucked behind the circular housing: Lastly another class, JZ 185. This is an 0-6-4T with a larger stutztender, and has a similar valve gear, for two inside compound cylinders. This is another type originally fitted as Klose engines, as the track improved all of this class and some 189 class were rebuilt with conventional coupling rods, and presumably the axle play limited. The main work on this network was taken over by the class 83 0-8-2 tender engines, also 2cylinder compounds, 187 being built, and these are fairly familiar in folks holiday snaps.

She will look in the wheelie bin, go round the bottle bank.

Thar scene looks totally convincing, really well staged reconstruction.

What a relief, I expect the same occurs on all the regional news programmes, but we regularly have a report of a student, generally at Bristol or Bath uni’s, who succumbs to exactly the same illness, and perhaps through being away from home, does not realise the seriousness of the onset, and fails to get timely treatment. The pain for him must have been terrible, glad he’s mending so quickly.

And blue coaches, too:

Good lad, stick at it and you’ll have as many unfinished jobs as me. Still, it’s the journey wot counts they say.

I reckon the ones with white smoke look much more natural than the black smoke ones. Is there a smoke capsule you can change in your computer firebox?

It should be “I went to Everton, me.”

I thought it was just a plain 0-4-0?

You could do it in On16.5, putting some nice cheap OO chassis to proper use, which does bring stuff to a more visible size? I was just looking at it and thinking if a big flat cab roof were fitted, it would be a nice tea plantation job, particularly in that blue.

You’ll have to do the washing up out of the sink before she gets back.

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