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Good to see the update Andy. Its coming along nicely.

Signals next?

Paul R

2 hours ago, Andrew P said:

WATCH OUT,, WATCH OUT, On Friday, there may be a Video about. 😋

WooHoo!

By the way Andy I am definitely going to Fareham on the Saturday morning. Aiming to get there around the time the show opens.

Paul R

1 hour ago, Adrian Stevenson said:

Hi Paul, very enjoyable watching all the trains go by. I liked the oil tanker train.

 

Cheers, Ade.

Yes I am quite pleased with it. I would like some more but I am constrained by the length of each fiddle yard so thats as many as I can get!   I have plans to install another board at the Witham end  (where the crossing is) nd a possible 2 ft on each fiddle yard.  That would take the length to 44ft but I can't get that up in the garden We are trying to move so I am hopeful of having more space!

Paul R

15 hours ago, GWR57xx said:

Nice to see Warships in that part of the country 🙂

Good long run you’ve got there.

I have a soft spot for Hydraulics even though my main interest is in ex GE ones!!!!

The excuse is they come in on the banana trains from Avonmouth and get borrowed!

Paul

Here is the final part

Paul R

Here we go with Part 4

Paul R

Here is Part 3

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And here is part 2

Paul R

20 minutes ago, jcarta said:

Looks very nice Paul...

Thank you

I made a start on compiling video from the running sessions in May

Here is part 1

More follows

Paul R

Hi Andy

Haven't finally decided but leaning heavily towards Sat morning. 

Will decide very shortly and let you know

Paul

Nice progress there Andy.

Are you going to the Fareham Exhibition in October?

Paul R

I am sorry but I am with Dave on this one. I want to look in the magazine before I buy it. I don't want to order individual issues on line. I used to have a subscription but gave it up when the magazine got rather basic although thats only my opinion. If you go back to the original issues of the Magazine you will see what I mean! I don't think it's a patch on what it was but I guess thats progress and appreciate not everyone will agree with me. However I respect their views.

By all means if you want to bag it up with other magazines and a video please do so but keep the cover price the same. £9.99 for a magazine which in my humble opinion is more geared to the starter/intermediate modellers is ridiculous. 

Paul R

Good enough I would say!

Paul R

6 minutes ago, Hal Nail said:

That one saw service in an ambulance teain. There is a photo here showing they were quite substantially different as ward coaches but then were usually converted back.

 

https://www.accurascale.com/blogs/news/from-milk-to-the-mail-the-history-of-the-siphon-g

 

I would have thought there must be a chance those doors just got sealed up at some time in preservation. We do that sort of thing all the time to keep stock in service especially when rot sets in.

Yes but you would have thought that the manufacturer would have checked hundreds of photos and sources as part of the design process. Or is it simply that the factory got it wrong and it wasn't picked up.

I have to say most people will not notice at an exhibition.

Paul R

Another poster has advised that GWR 1945 built number 2983  has this arrangement of doors ands handles and is located at Winchcombe on the GWR. Maybe this was the prototype.

Ths is the link 

The circular holes in the doors were I understand they are there  to facilitate exit in case somebody got locked in and could be drilled out using the partial holes already moulded and adding holes to the other doors I suppose. 

Lets see what Minerva say.

Paul R

47 minutes ago, kes said:

Hi, there are photos on the internet of GWR 1945 built number 2983 with this arrangement of doors and handles.

 

Cheers, Kev.

I would not be at all surprised if that was the one that got photographed, measured and/or scanned.  

Paul R

21 hours ago, Hal Nail said:

???

Its on the home page.

Looks good but I still cant work out how they missed the door handles on half the doors!

 

 

Has anyone put that to Minerva. Perhaps they used photos of a specific prototype that had them missing.

Now I have seen them or rather not seen them - I can't unsee them! Even if they are not there to be seen! You get my point!!!!

Paul R

Hi all

Yes it is a Minerva. I think you may have to ring them if you want one as you are correct they were not on the site to order when I last looked.

Paul R

Just taken delivery of this.

Stunning model. Just what I need to finish off my BR Blue parcels train.

Paul R

Left hand drive too!

Paul R

Resumed work on Black Notley's station building after doing not much this summer. 

The picture shows the start of marking out the verticals, the horizontal course lines having been completed. It looks a bit rough right now but it will be fine when painted and have a well worn look that will match the photos I have of the station building which for those familiar with it is still extant.

I have now received my pack of class 31 cluster gears from Howes although I have yet to get them out of the boxers and see if they have spilt or not.

Still have a large number of items that need rectification from the May running and will turn my hand to those soon.

Paul R

He's made a good job of that.

Paul R

1 hour ago, F-UnitMad said:

Just be aware there was at least one batch where those screws were extremely stiff and sometimes almost impossible to budge. IIRC the story was they'd been inserted so fast with the tool at the factory that they melted the plastic & stuck tight as it cooled.

I had to use a fair bit of pressure to remove those screws on mine (centre headcode, skirted buffer beam) but maybe (hopefully!) it was a one-off with that production run.

The ones on my first gen split box are very stiff. I have had them apart several times to replace gears and these themselves may need repla

Paul R