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Lanarkshire suggest that most of your locos would have started with 20'' buffers - and the 350HP shunter 16'' ..... possibly replaced with 22'' later : http://www.lanarkshiremodels.com/lanarkshiremodelsandsupplieswebsite_138.htm ........................................ shame they don't offer them all drilled for springing !

28 minutes ago, MarkSG said:

 

....... The history of RTR shows pretty much continual improvement, overall. So what makes you think it's going to reverse that direction of travel and get worse again .........

Hasn't a well-known manufacturer - not totally unconnected with Oxford - announced some tinplate stuff ??!? ........................ improvement that ain't !

Simplest thing would be to copy what Bachmann or Heljan provide ..... unless that doesn't look right on a particular loco !!?!

15 hours ago, Nile said:

The brake gear on the far side is the wrong way round. Another cattle wagon like boo-boo.

..... and what's that peculiar infill between the brake hanger and safety loop ?

But if Oxford are listening - it's a very good start !

13 hours ago, AVS1998 said:

Me again!

 

Does anyone know if the 9' 'Ashford' bogies are available anywhere, for Ironclads? I've looked on 247 Dev., Roxey and Worsley, and Comet, none of which have the bogies at all. I imagine an extra 4mm is not massively noticeable once the vehicle is moving and so standard Southern bogies may suffice, but it's still worth investigating for future reference. 

Phoenix again : sales@srg.org.uk .................................. but I don't know why Weddell attributes them to Ashford when they're only an inside-frame version of the earlier 'Ironclad' bogie.

12 hours ago, rab said:

https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/live-updates-a38-closed-after-3884738?utm_source=linkCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

 

Cornwall's turn today!

OK traffic's stationary on the main route .............. but what about the trains ??!?

11 hours ago, peanuts said:

thanks jonathan try this one 

 

Did seem to be an unnecessarily long wait for a green light ........ BUT !

3 hours ago, pH said:

Who needs turntables?

 

https://www.railpictures.net/photo/726728/

Looks very finely balanced - especially on metre-gauge tracks ........... one puff of wind and it'd be over ! ( not spinning a'la Garsdale )

I think the vans Keefer refers to had a brake valve on the balcony so the guard could apply it there rather than having to dash into his cabin when he neared the stop blocks ......... but I've a feeling these vans had wasp stripes on the ends in addition to any other markings.

13 hours ago, Trog said:

 

............ The coning is usually set at an angle of 1 in 20, the rails are also inclined inwards at 1 in 20. This gives a self centring action so the wheel sets stay in the middle of the track without to much wear on the flanges.  

Yes, it's usually 1 in 20 in the UK - but most of the world uses 1 in 40, i believe ...................... so you'd need even wider tyres for the coning to be effective on three-metre gauge .... and lots of gauge widening !

On 23/02/2020 at 08:55, TheQ said:

........ Loading gauges were often set by how well the railway was funded.  Witness the small tunnels in the south east and Isle of wight.

If the south east tunnels you're thinking about are those on the Hastings line, this was absolutely nothing to do with funding. The contractors only lined the tunnels with one ring of brickwork instead of the specified four - so the only way to rectify them was to line them down ........... OK, maybe if the railway hadn't opted for the lowest tender ( i.e. funding ), they might have ended up with reputable contractors .... but ............

Anyway - back to track gauges -  7' gauge may have been the broadest that was actually installed ( other than for dockside cranes and the likes ) but there was a proposal for three metre gauge high speed lines back in the thirties ....... the idea of some chap called Adolf .........................................

........... er - but none of those were EVER malachite green !

( Or was ONE 5MT done in 1948 ? )

The simplistic answer is probably 'NO' .......... up until the sixteen tonners' heyday aggregates for road building would have been sourced locally if possible and what crushed stone the railways carried would have been in hoppers of one sort or another - most of it for track ballast. When, eventually, there was found to be a surplus of sixteen tonners they were tried as spoil wagons but - most stone being denser than coal - they were easily overloaded ( until modified ).

On 23/01/2015 at 09:00, Robin Brasher said:

........... The LNER and BR extra long R6682 and R6683 CCT vans at £19.99 each are welcome additions as there are only five Big Four goods wagons in the main range and three in the Railroad range,

Sorry to resurrect such an old thread - but is there another one dedicated to the LNER 'extra long' CCTs ? - a search didn't find anything !

My question - whether here or somewhere else - concerns the LNER 'teak paint' models : Should the ends be black ? - non-gangwayed passenger-carrying stock had black ends long before these were built. 

Ah - found it ! : 

For EM gauge, I added pieces of 30thou Plastikard in the floor slots and butted the brake mouldings against those after removing their tabs - overall length locates them nicely  - finished off with Comet yokes in 0.5mm holes ......thicker Plastikard might be necessary in P4 - but, with thinner wheels, maybe not much thicker.

Beware if fitting Lanarkshire buffers ! - the bases are a little over size  and need trimming to fit between the body's corner stanchions.

Indeed ...........

............ and before anyone asks - NO, they were NEVER YELLOW !

5 hours ago, DavidB-AU said:

....... Sounds like the same photo.

Which raises the the interesting question of who's got the copyright !!?!

9 hours ago, melmerby said:

How the hell did a lorry hit this?

https://goo.gl/maps/NhsNbdnFtqSPFe9KA

 

5m is a typical height for a tall lorry

Usual story of deep re-ballasting I guess ...........................

2 hours ago, petethemole said:

The Listed Dock Gate 10 at Southampton West Docks was damaged about a year ago by an overheight lorry; https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/17456737.unsafe-dock-gate-10-closed-in-southampton/

Guessed as much when I saw the scaffolding ....

1 hour ago, Compound2632 said:

 

A flight of fancy. Quite apart from significant difference in design - those large bosses on the Claughton wheels - the GJR had no 6'6" engines, the Allan type being 6'0". Also, one would have needed three Allan singles for every Claughton, so the supply of GJR wheel centres wouldn't have lasted very long!

Not necessarily the driving wheels ! .............. but it's rather unlikely anyway.

No E4s retained Maunsell lined green at Nationalisation - or I'd have renumbered a Bachmann one myself .... apart from 1948 Maunsell livery survivors ( black & green ) the old Livery Register lists 'interim' liveries, showing that E4s 2497, 2562/7/81 received unlined Maunsell green with Bulleid lettering between 1939 & 1941. When it's published, the NEW Livery Register should show which of those survived to ( or beyond ) 1947.

1 hour ago, jamie92208 said:

........ All this talk about such things is probably a good sign that people are actually behaving themselves on level crossings.

 

But we've managed to reach the two hundred page landmark all the same !

That looks familiar - though on a different occasion ( Feb.'85 ) when there was snow on the ground according to my notes ( MUST get the slides scanned ). There were diesel locos stabled there too and 4498 had to shunt 45.026 out of the way as it had flat batteries !

4 hours ago, JSpencer said:

 

.......... Today people expect soft seats, ..........

 

Wishful thinking there ! ................... you might expect soft seats then a 700 or 800 series turns up !