Northroader

I admire the insouciance of this lady cyclist, blithely forming a charming foreground to the tug of war going on behind.

Alright, then, small 4-4-0 with biggish tender, here’s a Cape Government Railway (South Africa) class O2, from North British in 1879:

Yes, here we are, what it looked like soon after opening in 1848,then halfway through the job I described in 1901

The one strange thing about Shrewsbury station frontage is that the upper two storeys were built first, the entrance awning is at the platform level. Then it was developed by being built downwards, with the forecourt being scooped out, and the lower storey being added below the other two. Now, Jonathan mentioned the Snailbeach District this morning, permission to bore the pants off everyome, my captain, by putting this link in. Post 202. (More cycling round Shropshire, a long, long time ago)http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/124063-tall-tales/page-9#ipboard_body

I’ve got my eye on the 7mm jobs, but really, I must wrap up the multitude of unfinished jobs there are about the loft before I pick up anything else.

There’s two versions of these on the Shapeways site.

I was wide awake but that’s made me nod off.

You’ll have trouble following it if you’re wide awake.

If you arrive at peak hours at Paddington off a HST, the next thing is either on to the H&C or Bakerloo for your onward journey. Its a regular occurrence that the stations are closed for ten minutes or more for safety reasons due to the crush of people waiting for the underground to clear. Whilst Crossrail will be faster for the last stage of the journey into central London, the same thing is bound to happen for that.

Is there enough room in the bath for you and that?

Here’s a nice, compact, little fairy tale castle, and it’s pretty well the view you get from the train going by.

You need some help with those point motors:

I was thinking if you added a liberal supply of garden gnomes scattered around, plus a FOLLY!!! (Yeah! Fish tank ornaments) otherwise, it’s another job for our Sem, add the “Fairy Queen” to his growing list of things to do:

You’ll never find a car that looks like a Hungarian 3phase electric loco, sorry.

They all look like that these days.

They do come without:

Some of the recent offerings in laser cut “wood” seem to me a bit suspect. That 5” wagon should be OK, but I’ve recently got some awning valancing in a fancy fret shape, done in what looks like an ultra thin MDF. Ply I love, but I fear this stuff looks very brittle.

PS.. it’s just dawned on me, too, you don’t think this thread is about the Brighton Line? We try to be a bit interdenominational as well. Thinking about the Pullman specials, presumably they run from one of the main London termini, and a very pleasant way of doing it, but hardly time for a meal, suppose it was how fast you could neck the drinks served up by the steward. Anyway, Tattenham Corner looks the poor relation, despite the Pullmans, compared with next door at Epsom Downs, although no horseboxes in sight here.

Another use for horsebox traffic, and a nice, bright, lively poster as well:

You missed out having a tinkle. Hope there were no accidents?

Usually the red disc was fitted on the rail side if the crossing wasn’t protected by signals, this being for running lines. In GWR usage it could then form a stop signal in its own right. On a siding?? Can’t think of a good example, probably not, as you say.

This picture appeared on another thread only a few days ago, but hey... Tattenham Corner, and a few SECR Pullmans thrown in as a special offer for Alex.

It seems a lot, and they would all date from Victorian times, as they were superseded by a later design with a longer 21’ body, which must have given dobbin a smoother ride, but only 40 of these were built. Tustin points out that there were racecourses at Hurst Park (Hampton Court), Sandown Park (Esher), Kempton Park, Ascot, Epsom, and Windsor in the London area. In addition, there was quite a big army requirement in the Salisbury and Aldershot areas. When you allow that a large system would have a steady day to day requirement in moving horses, you start thinking they must have been stretched to cover the flows, so that cattle trucks came in for some of the army traffic.

There’s another chassis kit now being carved up, this time a 9’ wheelbase wooden wagon underframe, Slaters cat. 7038. Very common on MR goods wagons, as well as other folks, and also P.O. mineral wagons. I’m using it to go under a LSWR horsebox, as the short (16’) bodied version also had 9’ W/B. These were the older build, and had quite a stubby look, which will do well the other ones on the horsebox special. The SR inherited no less than 319 of this type. The deck that comes with it is too short, so I made one from .060” plastikard the right length, and cemented the inside frame members to it. These were cut square, as the moulding hadn’t had enough material go in, and they had blobby ends. Extra strips were cut to go across each end to make up the gap behind the headstocks, and these and the solebars were cemented in, then buffers and couplers fitted. The chassis needed 3’7” coach disc wheels rather than 3’2” spoked wagon wheels, and I thought the flanges might touch the underside of the deck, so I cut clearance holes, and the diagonal frame members needed to be cut back as well. The outside of the solebars should be plain, but I left the crown plates on as they showed where to line up the axleguards. To compensate for the change in wheel size I filed the hole for the bearings upwards to an oval shape setting the height by gauge. The axleboxes (delugged!) then cemented on in the high position after filing the tops for clearance on the springs, and the bearings glued in. The assemblies went in on one side, then the wheelsets, then the other side, and I was relieved when checking, that the flanges all touched down on a flat surface and the buffer heights were right. The spring shoes were trimmed back and dummy spring shackles added from scrap plastic. I used up all the brake bocks from this kit and the last one to make clasp brakes, as they were vac. braked, although they also had a wagon type brake lever. I used the vee hangers from the kit, which is really too big, with a wire crossshaft to hang the levers off, although I didn’t bother with spreaders, pull rods and brake cylinder as they’re not very visible. I went wrong here to start with, as the handbrake levers face away from the grooms end on both sides, rather than the usual point into the right hand end, and this threw me with the stepboard hangers, as they’re not symmetrical, presumably because of this. I made the hangers to go straight across under the deck from .040” brass rod (Slaters) and soldered some Marcway sleeper strip to them for footboards. I’ve corrected the handbrake levers, but CBA to redo the hangers. Anyhow, here it is with a coat of primer, and I’ve put against the drawing, one of Mr. Tustins form the May 1952 MRN, although you can also find it in Beals “Modelling the Old Time Railways”