Clarky1000

Great pics Phil!

It really is a minefield! In Brush Veteran's Class 37 photos is a super pic of 6921 with BR Logo amidships and sans serif numbers.............look perfect corporate blue, but its actually green! 0F74 would be a good head-code for me - Light Engine to Bristol (Bath Road) G

They look great Teddybear! Like Radyr or Margam on a weekend! Terrific stuff G

Hi Brian ............I wouldn't be able to resist having a 37 on a train of Cement Presflos though! That would just be perfection! G

They did indeed! Pulverised Fly Ash from South Wales in HAA Wagons. And it was throughout 1970 and later, so the timescale is spot on! There were always South Wales based 37s around Bristol. but they became more prevalent in the mid 70s. G

Thanks John You are of course absolutely right! I would like to do them all with the single arrow amidships, which I think looks better (just personal choice) I've managed to find a few photos of 6875, so I'm sure she was like that. ...........but as you say, I do need to be careful! G

Just needs weathering now! I've collected 5 of these over a few years - I want to get them numbered as they would have been in Summer 1970 Perhaps too many for a layout based on Bristol - but I do like them! G

That's absolutely brilliant Thanks chaps. I'm really, really grateful!! Cheers G

I would be really grateful if anyone could help me identify Class 37s based on the Western Region (so all would be Centre Head Code machines) which were already carrying BR Blue Livery by mid 1970. (Specifically by mid 1970, not by THE mid 1970s) All help very gratefully appreciated I've found 6875, and possible 6975, but I'm really struggling to find others! G

Can anyone tell me who makes brake shoes and hangers in 7mm suitable for a BR Mk1 Coach BR1 or Commonwealth types would both be fine? Any help gratefully appreciated G

I just had an e-mail chat with Laurie at MM1 Models. I'd asked him if he could supply B4s as under his (ex JLRT) Mk2 coaches as separate kits and he said he will. I'll put a pic on here as soon as I get them, but knowing Laurie, they will look good.

The Darstaed ones are a little high too, but I can live with that. I have had to model the Commonwealths with the springs quite compressed as you can see from the position of the axle boxes - to get them as low as possible G

Thanks for that mate - very much appreciated! They do look very good indeed on your BG - having seen what you have done. I will take your advice. My Mk1s are all Darstaed and I have replaced all the bogies with either the Newer Darstaed BR1s, or with MM1 Commonwealths. I've got 3 sleeping cars and I fancied doing two with Commonwealth bogies and one with B4s

Can anyone offer me some advice on the best looking 7mm model of a B4 bogie? I want to fit a couple of my Mk1s with them and wondered what experience any of you chaps had? I see that both Easybuild and Invertrain sell them. Any comments or help greatly appreciated G

having spent 39 years building 12" - 1ft passenger vehicles for the Big Railway, price increases and a delay only add to the realism!! They look fabulous to me!! Unfortunately, as a BR 1970 modeller, I'll have to limit it to the BG . Great job!

I phoned Tower Models and asked them to us their close links to Heljan and make sure the B/G Mk2s didn't have Inter-City branding. They phoned me back and confirmed that they will just be plain and unlettered /unnumbered. Models look lovely from the images!

Lovely!

Thanks Rob!

Thanks 37114! That's a great idea! Cheers

It seems that the Bristol locos are a very popular choice! I've done D2121 in blue as well. Looking at photos oh her, she was fitted with a bell on the hood below the cab horn. I made one from plastic rod, but I'm not sure that it worked too well. Does anyone know if its possible to buy a small bell casting that would do the job?

Your depot looks great Odin!! Like a Sunday morning at Eastleigh, back in the 80s!

And Precision labels do superb TOPS (and pre-TOPS) Data Panels and the stick on (or stencilled) shed plates that were used on the blue Hymeks. They are very delicate but very good

Severn Mill do etched individual Hymek Numbers. They do look good

Ordered 2 in Blue. They will be 7049 and 7087, Both Bristol machines in Spring 1970. I've got two of the first Heljan batch as well. I did one as 7070 (CF) and the other (which I haven't done anything with yet) will be 7041, also a BR loco, but from the earlier 7000 - 7044 lot, with the Stone Vapour Boilers rather than the Spanner 3. Has anyone got any pics of how the boiler exhaust on the roof of the earlier locos differed from the Spanner ones as on the Heljan loco? Any help would be very gratefully received.

The first one that I ever saw was 405, stabled in Perth in 1972. The last one that I needed to "Class them" in my spotting days was 50043 at Totnes in the late 70s