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And a couple more more

I have now made a pair of sailing ships for my O gauge Whitby which gives it a more nautical feel and some more figures around the harbour.

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Here is an old Sutcliffe picture showing the laying of an electric cable accross the river Esk in the vacinity of the old ford river crossing.

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Another portion of the 1894 map showing the original position of the small turntable in the loco yard. Note the river ford crossing to the Spital disrict from the Bog Hall rail crossing . There is a second trig. point on the river bank nearest to the engine shed.

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The oldest photo I have seen of the Whitby loco coaling facilities is this one, The coaling stage has not yet been built and locos are being coaled by a handcrane situated at track level close to the main lines. The yard changed regularly over the years as it still does and it is not always easy to pinpoint when changes occurred.

Corner and Browns dumb buffered wagons on inner dock pier (wagons entirely speculative)

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Here is a map showing the track loop alongside Corner and Browns shed with the spur running onto the inner dock quay. Note the Ordnance survey trigonometrical station marked on the quay as a triangle with centre spot. Fishburns shipyard remnants are occupied by Corner and Browns timber yard, this was where all of Captain Cooks ships were built, Also a photo showing NER wagons being hand unloaded from the spur onto a sailing ship.  Map 1894 photo probably around the same time.

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This was my first and only attempt at water , I used Ezy Water poured to a thickness of about 5/16" poured in one go over wood base painted in streaky fashion with a mix of seaweed green, tobacco brown and navigate blue. If I was to do it again I would use less green and add grey

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Pauls S1 ironstone hoppers were made from my masters originally intended to be made out of white metal for the Runswick Bay layout of Keighley 7mm group

They were very difficult to produce as the entire hopper was a one piece casting as was the underframe with additional small parts. A few were made for Runswick,

about 20 or so in total but were too difficult to manufacture to market with my other Roundfield Engineering wagon kits. Many years later Paul approached me to try to manufacture some out of resin, I lent him my masters for the two main parts and supplied him with the necessary small white metal parts. Paul managed to get the main parts made in resin and has built half a dozen so far as seen in the photos. The drawing for the wagon was made by using as many S1 photos as I could get in combination with the NER wagon diagram by Peter Scarborough and myself, during development of the drawing it became apparent that the wheelbase shown on the diagram was incorrect at 6' 3" and by trial and error we discovered the correct wheelbase was 6' 0" at which dimension everything fit in place nicely. 

Its great to see Pauls wagons and layout and I will watch these pages with interest from New Zealand.

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