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Along with the rolled up trouser leg and the special handshake?

I misread that and was wondering why John, Paul, George and Ringo were regular users of trains in Cornwall.

YOu You haven't left a gap at the back of the bench so the contents rotate naturally as you push them from the front to make a space for the next project.

I was thinking just the opposite, and what a marked difference it makes. One of the noticeable features of the full size loco is the spoked wheels and the new chassis shows these in a way the original does not.

That looks impressive. I hadn't realised the valve gear was going in that. (It explains the screw heads on the outside of the cylinders though). I would be making the flared bits with laminated styrene sheet. I have never got the hang of compound curves in metal. Is it just the photo or is the top front driving wheel out of true?

Same place as the whistle?

Not that odd, my Dad had a flat-twin Douglas, pre-war, in Yorkshire. He stripped it down and put it into store when he was conscripted at the start of war. While he was away in the army his brother sold it to the rag and bone man.

I haven't seen this thread before so forgive me for responding to old posts if you have already found the information elsewhere. B1 No. 61348 was recorded at Banff in 1950. One loco that I don't think has been mentioned as working the branch are the Ex-Caledonian 0-4-4Ts that made their way up here in the 1950's. 439 class No. 55185 was on the Banff branch in June 1958. Of locos available RTR, Hornby's Fowler 2P would also be appropriate as one of those was on the line in 1959. Regarding coaching stock, displaced ex-NER passenger stock was sent to the Great North. In the 1940's the set for the Banff passenger trains consisted of the unlikely combination of a GNSR corridor or lavatory composite and two non-corridor NER brake thirds. I don't know how long this continued to be the formation. It is worth remembering that the North East of Scotland was something of an outpost and the branches relied on both ex-GNSR stock along with stock replaced by more modern vehicles elsewhere on the system. Neat rakes of matching stock would be unlikely, even on the main line. The running of goods only trains was mentioned earlier in the thread. The working timetable of 1911 shows one early morning goods train up and down the branch but then the rest of the day it was mixed and passenger only trains. I don't have any other information as to the pattern at other periods.

Perhaps because a lot more of them will be running around freelance industrial concerns than models of, for example, Huntley and Palmers' Biscuit factory or the Manchester Ship Canal system. That's the reason I ordered Dodo. I am not sure yet what I am going to use it on but I do know it won't be a model of either of those two concerns. If I build a freelance industrial layout, or scene on a bigger layout, I think it would be more convincing to portray that industry as J Smith and Sons Ltd, Westwood Engineering Works or Hogwarts Brewery than to try and pass them off as branch operations of Huntley and Palmers, the MSC or any of the other original owners of W4s. I imagine many prospective purchasers would welcome a selectional of fictional, but plausible, liveries rather than have Dodo popping up on every industrial layout throughout the land.

Throw in a low budget film crew and they could call the set "The London Express".

The forked ends of the coupling rods didn't help either.

I think I will have a go at converting mine. While putting stuff away for Christmas I found a Bachmann 4F I have no recollection of ever buying, along with a Brassmasters Easichas conversion kit and a set of P4 wheels. I am thinking of a small industrial exchange sidings set up with the 4F dropping off and collecting a few wagons for the Peckett to shuffle round the works yard.

I'm thinking about it, as yesterday I found a brand new Bachmann 4F that I have no recollection of ever buying, along with a Brassmaster Easichas P4 conversion kit and a set of Alan Gibson P4 wheels for it, so I am thinking along the lines of a small factory exchange sidings set up with the 4F dropping off and picking up a few wagons for the Peckett to shunt around the works yard. I initially thought of a brewery when I ordered the Peckett but it seems that idea might not be that original.

I've got a Dodo, I've got a Dodo. Just arrived in the post It is a stunning little model. The only slight flaw I can see is the brake standard is not vertical, but it moves so should be an easy fix. Now, what the heck am I gong to do with it? I don't model in 4mm scale, or I didn't. The last thing I bought from Hornby was prefixed by Triang and had Rovex Industries on the box.

There aren't any stuffed ones. There was one in a museum but they had a clear out and put it on a bonfire. One of the staff realised what had happened and rescued the unburnt part of it but there is not a complete dodo left in existence.

Woohoohooo! Model Railways Direct has updated my order for Dodo to "Shipped and Complete" They currently show both Dodo and H&P as in stock (24 of each) but no No.11 as yet.

Forget the trailer and put the cow, or better still, a horse, on the front. Works on the Isle of Man.

None of that will matter if we haven't got our Hornby Pecketts before Christmas.

They have H&P listed on their New Arrivals page, but not Dodo as yet.

Today's entry in Hornby's Engine Shed blog has a section headed, "The B12 and Pecketts have arrived!" that goes on to say, "the much loved Pecketts have just arrived in time for Christmas." Which suggests all have arrived. They only have a photo of the H&P one though.

I would have thought they were spot on. They were built from 1885 to 1906, Dodo dates from 1893, No.11 from 1897 and the H&P loco from 1900.

Modle Railways Direct website is still accepting pre-orders on Dodo. The other two are sold out.

Roll of lining paper, a ruler, a long straight edge and a pencil (and probably a rubber). My alternative to Templot.

There's fs160 if it is continental modelling you are interested in.