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  1. Wickham Green
    Probably depends which version / boxfull they've checked ......... clearly the U.S.A.T.C. ones went ot a week or so ago ( version 101 ) - you might expect 102 to be next ( S.R. 68 ) but seemingly not ..................... four(ish) years an' counting !
  2. Wickham Green
    So far as I know there's only one suburban ( using the term correctly for once ) 62' frame still in existence - so a trip to the N.R.M. with tape measure might be worthwhile. ( I'd forgotten about the 4SUB and EPB stock at Coventry - or wherever it's rotting now - but have no idea how many of those are on 'original' frames nor whether Bulleid made any significant changes to the design.)
  3. Wickham Green
    Yeah the orange floor is, indeed, rather odd and seems to be Hornby copying Oxford ( inside of L.N.E.R. open wagons ) for some reason !!?! ......... and next ? - D'you think Hornby have noticed that the exact self same chassis was used under Maunsell cattle wagons and Maunsell meat vans ( There's a certain irony there ! ) ..... an investment in tooling that's too good to waste surely ??!?
  4. Wickham Green
    Highly unlikely - but to paraphrase Rule 1 : There's a prototype for everything ! .......... any such conversion would, though, have needed a second vee hanger outside each solebar to stop things twisting.
  5. Wickham Green
    There's at least one - and I think two - in black and white earlier in the mag ...... on their way to Reading if I remember rightly ! ( Sorry I got knickers in a twist over the renumbering ........ incidentally, talking of electric stock, none of THOSE conversions featured the famous triangular fillet - but I doubt if the frames were any narrower than the standard 58' type ! )
  6. Wickham Green
    It was on the other thread : this topic's working in stereo ....... ...... MR-108 is also shown as 'In Stock' on the Model Rail website : the K.W.V.R. one.
  7. Wickham Green
    At least three of these rebuilds appear in the new edition of Backtrack - though not close enough to identify : context and liveries may be of interest.
  8. Wickham Green
    Presumably 'E' means they were Exeter-based and they were - relatively temporary - 4-car formations of Dia.99 Brake Thirds and Dia.418 Lavatory Brake Composite ( sets 42-46 ) with a coupe of Dia.31 Lavatory Thirds added [ maybe just for the sumer timetable(s)] : as always photos would be needed to determine exact formation ...... and a healthy dose of pure guesswork for the exact TLs used in each case, I'd imagine.
  9. Wickham Green
    I'm getting 'NOT FOUND' on that page !
  10. Wickham Green
    Apart from three Driving Trailers ( two of which were actually a foot shorter - on former 'Ironclad' frames ) which were differently configured to any of the Hornbys, the only 58' rebuilds on the South Eastern were in 'Long' sets of older 'birdcage' stock ........... so they'll be not a lot of use until you build an extension.
  11. Wickham Green
    I think Gresley tried a Black Beetle under one of his atlantics - shared between the rear of the loco and front of the tender ................. didn't last very long !
  12. Wickham Green
    Lima tried that - and look where it got them ! .......... ...... I was expecting dropping a set of EM gauge Gibsons in would be a doddle : correct but they almost dropped straight out again ! - simple enough to swap finer wheels onto the Oxford axles though .... but for my second wagon I had a rummage in the spares scrapyard and found a wobbly old set of - I think - Maygibs and swapped the tyres onto the Oxford centres : a tight fit but with persuasion from a vice worked OK !
  13. Wickham Green
    Looks like one of Bachmann's Wickham Trolleys made it out there too !
  14. Wickham Green
    The numbering 'system' was just the existing numbers of the original L.S.W.R. coaches that were converted - so you can blame the pre-grouping Company ! Assuming you're lookoing for a 'loose' coach number you might like to check out Gould's S.E.C.R. coaches book to determine which of these coaches was in an Eastern Section set ............... but 'Rule 1's always an option.
  15. Wickham Green
    ....... wheelsets, buffer heads, coupling hooks, tensionlock thingies ................ if they'd designed them together a common 9' sub chassis could have been used for these two AND the R.C.H. mineral wagons - though it couldn't have been held in by the buffer tails in the longer wagons and the couplers would have needed mounting differently ........ ( On the subject of wheels - have Oxford reinvented them ? - wheelsets on my opens seem to be on significantly longer axles than standard so replacements are extremely sloppy ! )
  16. Wickham Green
    Finer wheels would be available from Alan Gibson .... BUT does the model use a standard 1/8'' axle ? - I doubt it nowadays ! .... sorry "formerly standard" .....
  17. Wickham Green
    If 'SOUTHERN' is on the waist and it has numbers on the doors it's in malachite STYLE livery ..... but it COULD still be in Maunsell green.
  18. Wickham Green
    I'm 99.99% sure that requirement still stands .......... but we DO need high-intensity headlights nowadays ( though yellow ends seem to have come and gone ).
  19. Wickham Green
    I'm crossing my fingers very firmly in the direction of set No.660 appearing at some time in the dim and distant future - though how long it would take in the drawing office is anybody's guess as the non Pull & Push originals have been stuck there for AGES ! Sorry : off topic ...... wrong south of Thames railway !
  20. Wickham Green
    I was thinking specific to Brighton Atlantics - but yes they'd always have avoided changing codes at the 'frontier' if possible ( on all classes of train ).
  21. Wickham Green
    Shouldn't need to catch too many cows at shunting - sorry switching speed ......... ..... woukld be interesting t know the history of Granite Roch No.10 : it's obviously not a Southern Railway loco - but at some time someone's modified the cab with side windows and square front / rear windows ..... pure coincidence or deliberate copy I wonder ?
  22. Wickham Green
    Further to Graham's comment's Mike's Pull & Push bible will show you that there were three similar Driving Trailers built on second-hand frames but : - 1) two used former 'Ironclad chassis so had truss-rod underfames on very different bogies and were a foot shorter .... 2) had fully-panelled driving / brake compartments .... 3) had a totally different arrangement of passenger compartments ............... a MAJOR cut 'n' shut job would be required to produce these from a Hornby oroginal !
  23. Wickham Green
    NO ! ........... the Southern didn't use an 'Express' headcode as such ! - rather different ROUTE codes so London Bridge to Brighton, say, would be different from Victoria to Newhaven. ( Without sources in front of me I'd speculate that the code for Brighton to Cardiff might have had a lamp over each buffer to avoid confusion once on 'foreign' territory !!?! ) ..... as for traction tyres ? - equally NO !
  24. Wickham Green
    You're refering to of course ........ sorry, could't find a British one ! ( Interesting the word 'station' is used rather than 'depot' you'd expect in the 'States ..... pronounced dee-po, of course ! )
  25. Wickham Green
    What always seems odd, to me, is that First Class passengers didn't seem to get priority for the provision of lavatory facilities : where multiple classes were carried some compartments of each normally had access to a lavvy - so the idea must, indeed, have been that you had to 'just nip next door' at a convenient stop.
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