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Apart from being happy that RTR points will be available, I am also pleased with this announcement as it shows ambition from EMGS in promoting itself to the wider modelling public. Well done. Perhaps we’ll see some of the track on future Great Railway Modelling Challenge episodes!?

Nice story, one thought though - did they have a spare shovel to hand for the rest of the journey?

Didn’t need one, it’s downhill to Swansea from Cardiff

I like the format of this programme, as I did with others - they did one about a rural bus route IIRC.  My interest is, of course, that of a future passenger, albeit in the opposite direction.  I now have more of a feel for what the train is like and the territory through which it passes.  It is good to know, for instance, that passengers are not confined to their cabins for the whole trip [where did I get that idea from?] but not so good to know that I will be eating crocodile!

 

Chris

Don’t worry about the crocodile, Chris: it will be dead. Seriously, taste and texture a bit like fish/pork/ chicken mix.

Convenient?

Perhaps it’s a convenience store? Hat, coat and cheerio.

This is my sand house built from a townstreet model.

Regards Neil

Looks not too dissimilar to the one at Dicot; went there today. Thanks to everybody for their replies, Dai

Did small GWR engine sheds, say 5 locos or less, have sand houses? If not, did they have a ‘dry sand bin’ or suchlike? Was there ever a standard sand house/ furnace? Cheers, Dai Davies

Its amazing what wives remember when you thought they had forgotten!

 

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How long have you been married? Wives never forget anything; they just keep them tucked away until you are at your weakest

Hi

 

Trying to establish who sells the best 4mm point rodding ?

Am awaiting a better-qualified answer than mine. As far as I am aware, Wills do plastic rodding kits, including stools and cranks. Look slightly coarse, but a little bit of jiggery pokery and weathering can mitigate this. However, Modelu do very nice rodding stools and appropriate piano wire can do the rodding. Not sure if Modelu do the cranks though.

Post focus edit of the first picture by the PW area.

 

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This area was part of the original 2009/10 part of the layout with my original way of doing the GWR wire fencing....

Glad I changed to the current method, this seems to have got wavier with age!

 

Why don’t you get your ‘men leaning on fences’ to lean on this one to straighten it? BTW, love looking at this layout.

My favourites from when I was a spotty-faced boy:Model Railway Constructor and Railway Magazine.

Can be a tad slow to get to website, but well worth it when you get there. Thanks for putting this up.

I have a Hornby County 1022 County of Northampton. It is a nice enough loco but the slide bars on the cylinder block are plastic and the piston rods pop off the slide bar really easily and the whole assembly seems to be really sloppy. Has anyone else come across this? Or have I picked up a dodgy loco.

I’m not a fan of the plastic slide bars, so my cylinders and slide bars have been replaced with metal ones. I reckon you can get a new set of plastics from Peters Spares, or get metal ones from Comet/51L. Hope that helps.

What is the issue with the Partington location? Parking can be a struggle there but in terms of access it's just a few miles off the motorway down a straightforward road. Not so good for trains but they put on a bus. Plenty of popular shows are harder to get to.

The issue is that, despite the quality of layouts and loyalty of traders, the attendance is not good enough. As someone said in an earlier post, a show must ‘wash its face’, this location probably makes a biggish loss. We need to find a location convenient for more people.

I've had a good weekend there behind Glaisden. As all say, its a good friendly show with an excellent selection of layouts and traders and the opportunity to buy most things you need, unless you want rtr boxes to open. A jewel in the crown of Northern shows. Ive chatted to loads of people, met up with people not seen for yonks and had a grand weekend.

 

There's always a but though and my but is in keeping with most on here, the venue. An overspill estate in the backwoods of Manchester (cue Duelling Banjos. RIP Burt Reynolds) in a hall which is now run down is maybe not the place for a show like this, which primarily needs to attract modellers not the public. There's talk of going elsewhere in the Manchester area, to me its almost swapping like for like. Particularly today a number of traders mentioned to me that they were having a hard day.

 

It pains me as a hard and fast Lancastrian to say this, but the board should consider going  t'other side of the Pennines, possibly back to its roots in Wakefield. Scalefour North shows what a good move that is, its easy to get to from most areas in the North (and the South). Longer journey for me, but I'd still go.

This, except I’m not a Lancastrian.

It depends on the diagram. The Hornby 1925 only have two sets but other Collett diagrams such as South Wales Stock and 1929 stock have four, though the extra length may be the reason.Mike Wiltshire

Cheers, that helps. Where do you get your underframe info from: I have found it difficult to source.e

Correct me if I am wrong on this, but Collett coaches appeared to have two sets of truss rods, whereas Hawksworth coaches seem to have four. Why would this be? Were Hawksworths so much heavier, longer, or what else could be the reason for this? What would the sheep say in Animal Farm?

Kelham Hall at the time wasn’t a stately home, but a religious community (Society of the Sacred Mission) and theological college, which specialised in offering ordination training to those who lacked academic qualifications. From speaking to men who trained there, I gather it was run on a shoestring. I doubt the community would have been interested in buying locomotive nameplates.

To paraphrase from Titfield Thunderbolt: perhaps there weren’t men of sufficient faith at Kelham at the time.

You can see Sidneys poor legs where I rejoined them above the ankles....

 

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Tacky Wax gets everywhere, prior to fixing them in place permanently I shall have to give them a good clean

 

Still chatting, bet they be like that for a while...!!!...

what a brilliant scene!

I want to go and camp in it overnight, fry sausages on an open fire with my pals, tell ghost stories and wake up to the sound of shunting trains beyond the fence.

careful what you wish for. I can see you as a victim in Midsomer Murders!

That really does look great Ruston - a very nice looking model!

I don’t think I’ve ever seen one modelled accurately before - have seen one unmodified mounted on an 0-6-0 chassis which with the original proportions of the body didn’t look too odd.

I think Dowlais did have six-coupled versions of this loco; and, yes, they did look better.

Hi everyone,

 

Over the years I've seen plenty of models of LMS locos in a fully lined crimson livery; I've also seen some old photos that seem to show locos this way too.  My question is, though, what classes got this livery, and how long did it last?

 

(This all started with a comment about a friend's Bachmann LYR tank.)

 

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

Regards,

 

Alex.

They don’t look right to me, should be black.

Splendid weathering, Dave. Ex-Dodo looks superb.

Despite living here all my life I have little or no knowledge of the South Wales collieries. However,no doubt like many her, the arrival of a Peckett at my door has got me thinking. However, I will be looking to Somerset for my location

Outside your period but I thought I would post these images taken in South Wales. I hope you don't mind.

Rob.

Makes me homesick!

Looks like you've captured the ugliness of the real thing to a tee.......

Ugly?..!!!? where are you from? Norfolk?

Steve, your sea wall is getting so close to the prototype that it is beginning to be hard to tell the difference! Great work.Rod

if that’s the case, it will be due for repairs fairly soon then

Evening

 

Whilst reading the GUV thread, I wondered what the longest time a wagon has been abandoned for and is still there. Until very recently the GUV at the back of Derby station would have stood a good chance. Any other contenders?

 

The ones in my loft!