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Dead right, Jim. Oh, and Kevin, thanks for that, I must pull my finger out and do a few more now. Pressure, what pressure?

You’ve chopped the end of the passage off, it reads “ it is rather inexplicable” ...(“what fun it is”)

Slice your loaf on a plank.

A length of track wouldn’t do any harm, though?

Here’s an Edward Beal sketch showing how sheeted planks were done, you could get bulk loads of imported timber from the docks like this.

That index looks a lot of work, Dave, rather you than me. On bell ringers, at my wife’s church they would ring the bells on Sunday morning before the service, then tool off to the pub without going to the service.

I suppose you’ll need a crew or a guard to meet the requirement of two railway items, (is it?) it’s a different approach in any case, good luck with it.

(Stu’s ancestral home was Hilton House!)

Doc, just flagging up the summer issue of “Classic Trains” has a nice feature on the Magma Arizona. They’re doing a short lines special, really interesting stuff. No cooking recipes, though. Ps some very nifty cars you brought back there.

If you follow Peters theoretical line from Bridgnorth to Cosford through Pattingham, you will find there’s a good chance of it passing through Hilton. (Mind you, I reckon using the Worfe valley would be a better proposition) Anyhow, Hilton is a tiny place on the main Bridgnorth to Wolverhampton Road, popular for folks out on a weekend afternoon drive, and by the pub yard there was a miniature railway, seven and quarter inch gauge, very popular run. Some time back it folded, but it’s since seen a revival.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-DUHzDGAXQA

No. 3 was the one, mum brought it home after a shopping trip out. It was the first model railway magazine I’d ever seen, and I devoured it. More recently I’ve made the S.P. boxcar from the drawing in it, and I would’nt mind a go at the small Bloomer some time. Then there’s the Irish layout series.

The next cakebox should be a bit of the Hilton valley railway, then?

Sam, with pony trucks I just add plenty of weight and then leave them to their own devices. The loco is ballasted well, and I make sure the centre of gravity is acting over the drivers. The pony truck is made out of a strip of .018” brass, with a 6BA nut at the back on top. A 6BA screw passes up through a frame stretcher, and this forms the pivot for the truck, and it is a sloppy fit in the stretcher, so the truck can rock fore and aft, and tilt side to side. The axle runs in a brass tube soldered under the strip. The strip is then sandwiched, on top with a length of 20mm x 5mm steel strip (from B&Q) for the weight, and part way underneath with a bit of glass fibre copper clad. The sandwich is held together with two 8BA nuts and bolts. The copper clad can take wires back to the motor with some scraperpickups using phosphor bronze strip (Slaters) as I reckon small tankies need the pickups. There’s a square bracket comes down from the body at the front to limit sideways swing, I suppose a proper craftsman would try some sprung side control, I’ve left it. Hope you can pick this out on the photo, the main pieces have been painted black.

Rule one, dear boy, rule one. I suppose horses on trial need solicitors same as the rest of us.

I would advise you, cap’n, to remember your responsibilities to your models, and take a quick peep in your drawer every so often, to check that their not, er, —- doing things.

Me cos it ain’t 0.

Stolen from another thread: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/62412-things-that-make-you/page-418&do=findComment&comment=3194711

If you like bleak, I’d put Cwmbargoed as the place to be. It was on the line up to Dowlais, but was at the summit, and higher than Dowlais. On miners working conditions, they’d all come up to the surface looking grey from head to toe, but the place I was curious about was Crynant, on the N & B line up the Dulais valley. It was the only pit I saw where they used to come to the surface wearing oilskins.

And when you buy your O, just remember to be a good boy and say what a lovely model it is, please?

You can get a “copper” paint in the Humbrol range. I find with all the metallic paints, such as silver / aluminium, gold / brass, and the copper, that they have a fine grainy appearance which looks too “new”, and also doesn’t wear well. I tend to mix a paint using about half metallic paint with ordinary oil paints approximating to the colour. With a copper job try some orange and a touch of rust brown mixed in.

Yes, New Street strikes most people that way.

I don’t know what the Rememberancer is going to make of it.

I like your line, it looks really good, and the new locos run well. With that music, I was expecting a big bare foot to descend at any moment, going “Phhhrrrrpp!!”

Hi, Annie, it looks like all the wise ones have bogged off out, so you got me instead. The loco you’re after looks just like a Great North of Scotland class K. They started off with outside cylinder 2-4-0s, then sized up to these, and there were different classes with various wheel sizes. The NER Bouch 4-4-0s had a big “American” cab. You’ll note that your virtual loco has the NER type of styling. The NBR didn’t have outside cylinder 4-4-0s, apart from a compound, and outside cylinder 4-4-0s were quite uncommon for a Victorian Railway. If you change the boiler mountings and cab (can you do that easily in virtual models?) you could find some, here’s M&GNR and LSWR samples.