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Can anyone let me have the dates of any railway modelling magazines please, which include a drawing of the LMS 4-4-0 Fowler class 2P loco.? Are the chimney and dome sizes etc. shared by any other LMS loco please - 0-6-0 class 3F / 4F perhaps ? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Keith

Can anyone suggest a casting company in the UK please, who are able to cast a relatively few small Gauge O / gauge 1 white metal item items for my own use, from a very old white metal "master" of unknown origin ? Or is this an impossible task and yes, I have tried without any success to find out who made the original master. Or would it be easier and presumably less expensive to cast it in resin ? Many decades ago, I used a company who I believe was in the Devon area, but I can't recollect their name [springside ?]. Their castings in white metal were of superb quality with no "flash" anywhere. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Sorry about the mistake - old age is my excuse [once again]. I'd just been looking at a Slaters MR 0-4-4T kit on ebay I did mean North Eastern Railway coaches !

Hello, Can anyone tell me if and when, any drawings were published in the Model Railway News, Railway Modeller etc. for Midland Railway suburban bogie coaches please and if these coaches used Fox 4 wheel bogies ? I'm assuming that there aren't any O gauge etched brass kits, or bogies / under-frames / fittings available for these coaches - or are there ? Any help would be greatly appreciated, including reference to any books. Thank you, Keith

Can anyone please give me their views / experience on 7 mm scale 3 link couplings for rolling stock, which actually look realistic ? I appreciate that reasonably true to scale ones will not allow tight radius curves to be used on a layout, but some links that I've seen on often superb models, would look equally at home in a bathroom situation. I need to buy several pairs - your help would be very much appreciated !

Thank you for all your information - I've just read this at another topic re. joining Premier Component rods :-- "You may need to patience if you intend to phone Bill, and after a few attempts you might have better luck making contact via snail mail." I was enquiring as to whether 7' 6" x 9' 0" plain rods could be produced, as I don't see them listed anywhere. Does anyone happen to know if "specials" can be made please ?

Does anyone know if this company :- "Premier Components" is still trading please ? I have sent them two emails, one to bill@premiercomponents.co.uk and the other to sales@premiercomponents.co.uk. as per their web-site Both were returned "unable to deliver" I telephoned three times and got a recorded message "not available", on the first and I was told to leave a message, but was cut-off half way through. The two other times, I was told that I couldn't leave a message, but I should telephone later. I am not convinced on this showing, that writing a letter to them will produce a response. Is this typical of this company - I hope not. Keith.

I used to visit Dent station quite often with a view to modelling it; about forty or fifty years ago but due to various reasons this was never achieved ! I was on friendly terms with the signalman who always seemed to be on duty when I arrived at the station and I have his details but I suppose he will have passed on by now. I appreciate that several years have passed since you asked for information on Dent station but I do have thirty-nine [a 35mm black and white film] photographs which were printed directly from the film and they are on two sheets. I don't have the negatives. The photographs are approximately 36 x 24 mm. They are from memory mainly of the station building, the signal box, bothy and trackwork, including the approaches. If you would like to borrow the two sheets and copy them etc. you are very welcome, but I would like them returned when you have finished with them, as they are memories for me. Before I met this particular signalman, apparently the old Midland Railway track was taken up and replaced and he hid some of the rail chairs, which presumably are still there. I think that I remember where they are, but obviously I can't describe their location here, or the name of the signalman and where he lived. Keith

Perhaps gauge widening on curves, as used on full-size track ?

Thank you everyone for your interest. For me, this is a fascinating concept and one which I hope to pursue. I have just asked the question on another thread, relating to the appropriate bullhead rail code to use for these standards. More to the point I suppose, who can supply the rail without having to buy commercial track ? Please share your thoughts on Scale 3 and whether you have ever considered having a go ? Keith

Thank you very much Phil for this information. Has anyone ever built anything to these standards and continued to use them please ? I for one would very much like to see a photograph of a model - of anything ? I hope that there's a photograph in the back issue of MR Jan '73 that I've ordered. This really fascinates me !

Hello, I was just browsing through the Internet and came across this site. Being a doddery old 80 years geezer with a not very brilliant memory, I am still going to hold my hand up, having seen 13.5 mm gauge mentioned several times. I believe it was in the early 1970's that I scratch built an L.M.S. 0-4-4T loco to 3 mm scale and I seem to remember that I wrote an article on it, for the Railway Modeller magazine. I remember it was, purely by chance for 13.5 mm gauge, by putting packing washers on the Romford axles. Whether this was coincidental with other attempts at this gauge or whether I started something, I can't remember; in fact I don't remember much these days ! Some time after and as a member of the L&Y Society, I was persuaded to manufacture [purely as a hobby] 7 mm and then 4 mm loco kits for L&Y and N.E.R. prototypes. Eventually I couldn't cope with the demand for these kits, sold as "O7 Kits" and George Norton took them on and I understand that they have been passed on since to others. I mention this because my artwork for these kits was used by the 3 mm Society for some kits. I am very interested in development of the Stewart Hine Scale3 standards and I have just found on eBay, a copy of the Model Railways magazine for January 1973 in which I believe his proposals were published. Does anyone have any experience with his proposals, of which I know nothing at this time ? Stewart produced some "fine scale" bullhead rail for me decades ago, I presume by heating commercial rail to red hot and stretching it, in 9" lengths. I always thought that he did this by holding one end in an engineer's vice - a marvellous product ! I'm thinking about building a 3 mm scale round-top boiler L.N.E.R. O4 loco to his standards, if I possibly can. Apologies to all, if I'm completely wrong; it was a long time ago ! Keith Dales