Northroader

The thought of modelling slotted splashers on locos of that era scare the pants off me. Yours look so beautifully exact, presume hand filed? Marvellous!

“No, not the perway hut, all you burn is cut up sleepers, think of the creosote”

”Goods office all you got is coal, think of the sulphur taste”

“oh,..er...?”

”got it! lose some hardwood packing out of the breakdown van!”

”brilliant! oak smoked!”

I regularly tune in to the Southwold Railway blog site to see how the volunteers are doing. It’s an almighty task with minimal resources, but they seem to achieving results. Good luck to them!

https://www.southwoldrailway.co.uk/srt-blog/

One thing to ask is whether they are coming in or going out? Lambourn is a small place, but with a heavy concentration of racing stables, which would need plenty of hay.

The overall visual effect is marvellous, and the loco looks really at home in the setting. The occasional kick seems to be happening over the pointwork? If the pickups could be extended onto the loco this should help.

Very good looking and really useful rake of wagons. Never tried Jameson’s as a vision aid, just drink it anyway.

It wasn’t used at Rillington Place.

Apres ski in the Danish mountains, far more sophisticated than Zermatt.

For Lydham Heath, try Regularity, he haS Some Strange tendencieS.

The wagons look really good, I think having a wagon carrying a high load of fodder and sheeted over puts the clock back very well, and one usually pops up in my goods trains.

Just had a brief skip through the article, and I think that it doesn’t touch on the main point, that railway workshops needed to carry out repairs and maintenance of the fleet through the life of the machines, possibly over thirty years and more. The private contractors were interested in new build, and maybe supplying a batch of renewal components such as boilers, but didn’t get involved in bread and butter work of looking after their products, here or America. Go round any of the Railway workshops, and “new build” was a lesser activity than scheduled repairs, and had the virtue of keeping the workload and resources balanced, always assuming that traffic needs kept fairly level.

Really witty comments for the bunch of characters, good to see you’re a Dickens reader. Not a great deal happens with a simple shunt, but I wouldn’t want to miss any of it. Showcase modelling thrown in as well.

That’s a lovely mixture for all tastes in that selection.

I do like how you’re capable of getting the best out of the space you’re using, it looks great.

In GWR days, traffic wagons got repaired. In BR days as time went by, the diktat came from Derby limiting the extent to which wagons could be patched up. You got a situation arising where local repair shops were trying to keep the traffic folks happy, and maybe some of the restrictions got eased here and there.

Cassettes every time. I’m curious how you’ll be able to square the carefully placed small buildings, which I approve of wholeheartedly, with the bulk a ship being demolished.

That thread is good find, Mikkel. The things that are going on in RMweb that I miss completely! I think the stables at L and B are the block on the map close to the level crossing, above the railway line, and to the left of the road.

There’s a few piccies on the Warwickshire Railways site:

https://www.warwickshirerailways.com/misc/cadburys-railway.htm

This from Inverurie:

An unfitted wagon on the back of a passenger train? (Edit, although I see the handbrake is on) The container with diagonal planking looks like it should be an early design, the Pickfords vans I think of were all seriffed lettering, so possibly sans serif was earlier? You might get away with it.

Would you say that the first type you show matches the ones on Churchward engines around 1900?

Operating in a corner of the living room? Could I get away with that?? You’re a lucky man, as well as a skilled one.

Enjoyed your step by step account, it’s looking a really lovely loco now.

My understanding is soldering gold is not recommended as it rots it?

I think adding some form of locking bar/ bolt might help, so when you line up the tracks, you can hold them in alignment. Traversers do like to creep when you’re not looking.