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When I was a kid (‘ark at ‘im!) there was one of these usually dumped in the shed at Wellington (Salop). Lord knows why, Wellington was GWR & LMS Joint place, but the shed was a GWR establishment. The only LMS local working was the Coalport branch, and nobody in their right mind would send a four coupled loco down there, it was always “coal tanks” on the passenger trains. Still, there it was, one out of a class of ten, highly unusual.

There is, as usual, a thread running on Lockdown Fen on here: Nice, innit? although suffering from the Curse of Lost Pictures in places. What I find confusing is the realisation that you’re busy working tomorrow in the summertime when everybody should be tucked up snug and warm in bed on a frosty winter night.

You can keep on up the Severn with commercial traffic, as it is navigable (locks and weirs) as far as Stourport, linking into the canal system there, so the boats could be going that way. There has been a model of Butts siding done not so long ago.

Well, I started this thread three years ago today, and thanks to everyone for their support since then. To celebrate I thought I’d plant a tree, or two. Now, I’m no Constance Spry, but the essential fact you need to grasp when you’re sitting your diploma for flower arranging is that: YOU MUST ALWAYS PUT AN ODD NUMBER OF FLOWERS IN A VASE, NEVER AN EVEN NUMBER. With this in mind, I’m adding another one to the right hand clump, and an odd one in the left hand corner, next to where the station building is going. (The other two in the pack can go on one of the other lines)

Most excellent, the goings on at a very simple branch line terminus. Really enjoyed the video.

Please sir, a question on your use of “offside” and “nearside” for a van, as it not a term I seen applied to a railway vehicle before?

Some time ago I wanted to replicate the GER “painted teak” shade, and asked Mr. Phoenix Paints at a show for it. He told me they hadn’t done it, as he had never been able to find a proper sample to work from. Mind, I have the view that working from a prototype sample will make a lot of paints look too dark on a model.

Can’t you just cure the hump by going along shoving beermats under the legs?

Very nice looking job. “All the builds on this thread have been completed”, what are you taking??? I want some of it.

Shorten it a bit, and you’ve solved the problem....

I would say that the first deficiency is the will to fight. The vast bulk of the Army are conscripts who didn’t want to become soldiers in the first place, those would could have fled out of Russia. The propaganda machine is working overtime, but I doubt very much that the poor sods are indoctrinated enough to fully believe Putins take on what’s happening, and I’m sure there’s just enough little scraps coming back from the front to their families which undermine a wholehearted acceptance of the propaganda. So there they are, clutching an old gun, clothed poorly, and being directed to advance by officers who still have a WW2 mentality to the cheapness of life, I.e. if you retreat you will be shot, and you can clear a minefield if enough men advance. What to do? Get a skinful of the bottle of vodka that’s thrust in your hand, and stagger out trusting to luck. You could feel really sorry for them, but for the fact that as an occupying force the Russian army has been proved quite ready individually to murder, torture, rape, and loot. It can’t go on.

It’s interesting how the mighty, powerful image of the Russian Army, before their invasion nearly a year ago, has been transformed into a completely deficient organisation in every aspect.

ODSHERREDS JERNBANE - OHJ. Thank you, Mikkel, I thought Southend beach got crowded! That passenger/ goods vehicle is as good as anything Colonel Stephens could do. The two OHJ 0-6-0s look very attractive, as well, plus the stars on their chimneys: I see it’s still functioning, although these days using nice flashy rail cars: http://evp.dk/index.php?page=ohj-vl-stationer

Without looking, is “Zapata” one?

DANISH 0-4-0T Looking at the 0-4-0T in the museum, it is very delectable, so here’s a picture of four Danish beauties: I don’t know much about three of them, but then the fourth is the Hs 0-4–0T in original state, and on a passenger train, too. (I think it’s a quayside shuttle service connecting to a ferry) Here’s a write up with pics: https://www.jernbanen.dk/damp_solo.php?s=1&lokid=72 The later series were done with flush fireboxes and the combined steam and sand domes, a really Danish feature. There’s an interesting build running for a very similar litra (class) N 0-4-0T, which has the attraction for the modeller of not having outside valve gear, a very tempting idea:

If he is going downhill, you’ll have to push a couple of those brake levers down on the hoppers?

Some time back, HRH the Princess Margaret was attending a racecourse meeting, passing graciously along the crowd wearing a dashing fashion ensemble including a red hat. Somewhere in the crowd, a broad Wiltshire voice loudly observed: “Red ‘at, no knickers”.

Virtual pub meeting???

SKORSTENSBAND. I did do a link back on page 6, but I copy it off here, “skorstensband”, with a few accents, refers to the coloured band round the base of the chimney for steam locos in Denmark. The national system,DSB, used the national colours, but the privatbaner, of which there used to be quite a few, did their own thing. The Danes have a strong maritime tradition, and you could draw an analogy to the funnels of shipping lines being done in “house” colours. Down the Mersey way back, “Ellerman”, “Canadian Pacific”,”Cunard”, and so on. Fancy if British pregroup lines had done it?

The exhaust effects on that video are very good, IMHO.

IL MONDO DEI TRENI Just idly browsing this morning, and I found a useful website to further assist anyone interested in Italian Railways. Loads of blog type articles on different aspects, plus the index will take you to loco lists, descriptions of individual lines from the historical development angle, and so on. I’m on Apple, so trying to get the translate to work at present. http://www.ilmondodeitreni.it

Wait til you see Roche chapel:

http://mcmullin.me.uk/places/wantage.html

I like the tune: