Northroader

That’s where the Brummagen Colosseum stood until Attila the Baggy knocked it down.

I should stick to admiring all the images, they do look great.

Jolly boating weather and all that, do they wear those little caps and big stripey ties, or don’t you notice that?

Hey, ducky, great to hear how you’ve mastered all the fancy electrickery while you’ve been building the layout in the last year or two, both installing and trouble shooting. I’m lost in admiration, and that you’re nesting under the line, it always does my head in working there.

I wish I knew what you’re talking about.

Furr-longs could have been a good choice?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU

The back of an Austin seven wasn’t that good for such goings on, I’d suggest the front passenger seat as being more likely.

The mess up with the horses happened when the cortège arrived in Windsor, not in London. http://www.thamesweb.co.uk/windsor/windsorhistory/royalfunerals/qvicfuneral01.html Ps it was not I who added the accent, but the spell checker thingy, for which it deserves full recognition.

Wouldn’t “Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports” qualify him as a nob, and a Southern one at that?

Otherwise there’s the bogie CCT painted Pullman colours used for Winstons funeral, which would meet the theme of your meeting?

I’d best get back on topic, and not burden you with luscious greyishyellow ladies. We’ve established what the SR Royal train looks like, but I think your train with a single Pullman spliced in looks great. Very typical for a lot of SR expresses, and quite unlike the rest of the big four.

Marge is alright, but the rest of them....

Only through tension locks.

The link you gave for the SECR royal train shows that it came out the winner for being adopted by the SR as their train, most likely as it was the most recent one, having been built in 1902. The LSWR built six 47’6” bogie saloons in 1884, 15- 20. Most stayed in general traffic, but no. 17 was rebuilt in 1887 as a Royal saloon replacing an 1877 30’ saloon. The internal arrangements were altered, and it had a clerestory roof. It ran like this until it was downgraded to a picnic saloon in 1913. It ran until 1931, SR no,4107, and after withdrawal the body was sold to become a home. It was removed in 1989. To preservation? No. 20 was rebuilt to a Royal saloon in 1897, No.17 forming a reserve. The roof profile was changed to the then standard elliptical form. It had a new underframe in 1915. It was usually teamed up with a 44’ brake rebuilt as a kitchen van, no.17, an Eagle saloon, and possibly a few more coaches. No.20 waswithdrawn in 1933 as SR no. 4110, but what it functioned as in SR days is unclear. The LBSC built a Royal train in 1897, again replacing an old saloon, from 1871. This train was five 52’ bogie coaches with clerestory roofs. The main coach was a 12 wheeler, (no. 562, SR 7970) the others eight wheeled, being two saloons (563/4, SR 7971/2) and two brake firsts.(565/6, SR 7766/7) usually used by Edward VII, also featured in Queen Victoria’s funeral. In SR times it was demoted to first class, and teamed up with some more firsts as a businessmen’s express., keeping the mahogany livery until withdrawal in the thirties.

Or worse:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m_9tNAIN2Vk

Wow, dig the headcode! Off to Ascot?

My whistles bigger than yourn: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2-gkpp8ICzI

Rather interestingly, the “Brighton Works” version is claimed to be painted Stroudley yellow, and the picture shows that it seems to be a rather closer match than the lemon yellow that the first batch of Terriers came in.

I feel it’s a good building for stirring memories up, particularly the list of mismatched goodies on the end, oil products tangled up with foodstuffs, and you get farm- speak such as cake and nuts, which joe public would never recognise as such. The ironmongers in Bassett had a lot of farmers for customers and a shed out the back used to have a simple list a bit like this. On a personal level, when I had grown large enough to be trusted with it, about 1944, I would walk the mile into the local town to the local merchants. This was a low wooden shed, much like Mikkels model, but down a back lane rather than a railway siding. Then a large brown paper bag would be balanced on scales, and bran scooped out of a big bin filled by the sackload, until it tipped the scales. The top was taped over, I’d pay, and carry it back home. We kept hens, as in WW2 it was your only hope of seeing fresh eggs, otherwise it was the dreaded powdered egg out of a ration book.

I thought I’d just post a few closeups of the warehouse out of interest. It’s made from 2mm ply body, on a 12mm ply base. I had a nice big sheet of 2mm ply from an aircraft model shop, but he’s retired, so I’m on the lookout for the next source, as there’s not much left. The base has two half inch dowels, which locate the building on the baseboard. The joins between the walls, and to the base, have square wood strip glued along inside for reinforcement. I prefer ply construction, being more stronger than cardboard, remember it’s an O scale building, and also it stays nice and flat. This is the blank wall end, which is angled, mainly inherited from the previous site, but which is useful to fit in the corner. Next to a view of the back, the other side not normally seen. I’m using the Kirtley Models brick paper, and one way of making the structure more interesting is to have the upper structure clad in clapboard, adding to a southern England look. This is Evergreen scenics sheet styrene. No. 4150, .040” thick, called “Novelty”, as the grooves have one vertical face, and one chamfered face, just right for clapboard, and at .150” spacing. Buying this sheet I’m getting nice even clean grooves, if I tried scribing them I’d never get such a clean job. The flat brick arches over the door and window are done by cutting single brick courses, then trimming them to a slightly wedged shape. Before sticking them down I go round the edges with a felt tip pen, pink, buff, brown, so that I lose the white cut edge of the paper. Doors, windows and frames are all in plastikard. I must try to reinforce the inside to support them better, one or two are getting displaced, and once I’ve done the building I can’t get inside again. Continuing round, Ive taken this shot at an angle in bright sunshine to try and bring out one thing, which is that I’ve used brickpapers top and bottom, but where I’ve painted it black for the sign, I’ve used Slaters plastikard brick overlay, so that the brick effect isn’t lost. Going up to the roof, I put a flat “ceiling” on top of the walls, with strip glued under, then partitions along the line of the ridge, which support ply panels. The whole lot is then covered with strips of card cut to form tiles. On to the front, and the “Lucam” which is a ply and strip wood base and more Evergreen sheet to finish off. I was looking at one near Rainham station t’other day, which had just the top storey projecting out, with a big full size door lined up underneath on the first storey as well as the ground floor, another way of doing it. The other item which must be mentioned are the enamelled signs, which really make the scene for an agricultural warehouse. For these I’m indebted to Mikkel, (round of applause, please) on his workshop blog he’s done a lovely set, which I offloaded and fiddled round with for size on a day when my printer happened to be in a good mood, then printed, and put a couple of coats of varnish over to look more like enamel. Here’s a link for that:http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/75/entry-18473-agricultural-merchants-warehouse/ Thanks, Mikkel.

Here’s a link to a link,http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/107190-washbourne/page-22&do=findComment&comment=3068529

I did google translate Danish to English, and Danish “jabnicker” comes out in English as .... “jabnicker”, so now you know....

There’s a society, if you go to “Emett 2” (careful with the m’s and the t’s) I’m in it,(its free!) but I have trouble with the software for their magazine.