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Churchil was used until the closure of the DVLR in 1981 and it was sold to the DVLR after the line closed. It is now on the DVLR at Murton. The exhaust was covered as its duties were seasonal.

Given that the last digit of the number appears to be 5 this could well be 65655, a photo of which micknich2003 posted above. It was active in 1958, was allocated to Dairycoates, and has the same arrangemant of tender coal rails as the Little Weighton locomotive.

Thank you.

This is certainly vintage, but I doubt that it is collectable. It is 00 gauge, with a metal chassis and tinplate roof. It has a transparent (perspex?) floor and sides. It is very crude and lacks detailing such as doors-does anybody know what it is?

2485 was, at this time, hired to The Derwent Valley Light Railway, stabled Monday to Saturday in the DVLR shed at Layerthorpe, Returning to York MPD on Saturday evening for servicing. These photos were, therefore, presumably taken on a Sunday. There didn't seem to be any coaling facilities at Layerthorpe-would a full bunker be sufficient for 6 32-mile round trips & shunting?

That was quick-thank you. The chassis definately live.

I have recently acquired a chassis for a project I have in mind. Can anybody advise me as to who made it and what it was? It has no manufacturers name, or any serial number. THe motor is a five pole one and the chassis narrows at one end, suggestng that the original body was single ended. The chassis length is approx. 16 cm. Thank you

I would be suprised if the brake van was part of the train. It didn't seem to have a use after sundries traffic ceased c.1970. After sugar beet traffic ceased it was to be found stored at Sledmere siding with the crane. It may have been just parked in the siding. This is a recent quote from facebook regarding the DVLR pallets: "Horsley Transport bought the floorboards from the demolished Warter Priory and made pallets out of them. At the time HT were taking delivery of 120 tons of fertiliser in 1 cwt bags every day. These were transported from ICI Billingham to York then on to Dunnington on the Derwent Valley line. Each train had 12 box vans carrying 10 tons in each. Pallets meant that the trains could be emptied every day". Margaret Horsley Oct 2021. The photograph, and others seem to confirm that the train was unloaded rapidly and the pallets loaded onto lorries later and the traffic would explain the demolition of the loading bank. I only once saw the vans at Dunnington, but I don't recall seeing any loaded pallets in the yard (it was probably a Sunday). The train frequency (1 a day) seems seems to be very high, though the traffic would presumaby be seasonal-traffic returns may provide clues as to how many trains there were.

I don't think this is two cottages converted into one-note that the door in the adjacent wall has a number on it (no letterbox, though).. It seems more likely that the door on the emd house has just been blocked up to make more room in the front room. The adjacent property is a different colour and has its own number plaque. The difference in brickwork on the corner may be a result of using better quality bricks on the frontage. The single down-pipe certainly has its work cut out if it is the sole outlet for the front and rear gutters from the whole block!

The last 1001 was withdrawn from Malton shed in 1923 and preserved. They did work goods trains from Malton To Whitby. The Rosedale system was isolated from the rest of the system because of the incline-the 1001's operating above and below the incline had been replaced by class P (J24) locomotives by 1920.

A small point. If the wagons were being used to carry anything other than coke why is every wagon in the train a coke wagon?

Thanks for all the replies. The maths is not a problem, but my eyesight is. I will have a go at some of the suggestions. The panels are for a cut-and-shut Bachman cattle wagon to represent an LMS d1661.

I need to reproduce a small area of 7 inch planking. This distance doesn't line up with any mm or 1/2mm lines on a steel rule. Does anybody have any tips or know of any tools for reproducing accurately space lines? Is a divider and a magnifier the only way forward? Any suggestions would be most welcome.

The 1949 survey indicates that the building extensions were in place by then. Given that care was taken to match the original building, with finials and matching roof tiles I think that the work took place in the 1930's-Murton Station building was extended between 1933 and 1936.

You are a little bit out with your Google maps, Neil. The filling station existed alongside the railway from at least the 1950s.The railway passed through what is now Phillip Welch's car showroom beyond the filling station and along the far side of the side road (this road originally ended in a cross-roads opposite Common Lane to the east of the station (hence the name Four Lane Ends), but it was diverted when the railway was built to avoid the need for two level crossings.