Hair_Dave

On a similar vein, Mega Piranha, entertaining, but not quality

I have to say James, that your test track is looking excellent. A similar exercise is on my own horizon. David

Jonathan, i am looking to make a Rhymney Railway wagon circa 1910 suitable for carrying bells. (of the large church variety) However, i know precious little about their wagons or livery. Can you point me in the direction of suitable literature, or better yet pictures and places to buy kits. I expect a merchandise wagon of 1-4 planks would be most suited. My plan is to make wagon as a homage to a song: https://youtu.be/l5tKgi2Un-4

I stumbled across this and thought of you James, part way through you see Derwent in steam https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-the-official-film-of-the-railway-centenary-1925-online

Hi Sem, The dainty Crew type in the second image, I am trying to get my hands on one in 4mm. Do you or anyone else sell it through Shapeways, Imaterialise or thier own shop??

A little further research brought this up, no help to the wagon load question but an interesting read about the manufacture of artificial fertiliser. http://www.historywebsite.co.uk/Museum/OtherTrades/BCN/CeresWorks.htm

Slight threadmancy here, but I came in search of an answer to the same question the original post asked about. I have acquired some wagons and books from my father. Amongst them is a Morris & Griffin 1 (basically 0) plank wagon which he has made using a Slaters Gloucester underframe. One of the books was British Goods wagons, as mentioned earlier. The text gives no explanation beyond the caption, and it is something of a mystery. My guess is some form of container, however there is a lack of rope hooks on the solebars.

I did realise but (wrongly) assumed that i had displayed enough pendantry to get by. That chap with the berret is a re-enactor of some variety, they have thier own levels of pedantry and button counting which i have not yet plumbed. Note: as it is not always clear in a written medium, i am in now way offended by being corrected, and do not mean offence in turn.

The war department tin turtles were around 2 foot gauge and came as armoured, protected and standard (read exposed) several of each survive in running order. Protected and standard pictured at "tracks to trenches" event by the wdlr society. Returning to standard gauge, there are two simplex in a siding at swannick junction at the Midland Railway centre. My dad helped restore rs9 (one of the two) in the 70s and was most disappointed with the state it is currently in. Edit: added picture

My limited contact with Fakenham has been to do with horse racing, which turns my mind to the potential for racing at Achingham and of course the associated railway traffic in horseboxes and "special workings"

Never!

Ahhh Mr Johnson's locomotives are always so well proportioned, at least until a later vandal gets hold of them. I don't have access to one right now, but have you seen a picture of a Princess of Wales with her bogie tender rebuilt into a Deeley/Fowler style, it looks odd at best. A few pages back a book S W Johnson Artist Engineer was mentioned, I managed to pick up a copy from a charity shop on the platform at the Bolton Abbey Railway near Skipton last year for the princely sum of £1.50

I stumbled across this whilst searching for something completely different. Perhaps the WNR needs a bespoke inspection vehicle http://haylingbillyheritage.org/engines/sharp-stewart/rare-photograph-1-of-481-inspector-ex-499-hayling-island/

That is just what I was looking for. I shall go with teak and Midland lettering and number 127. Thank you for your assistance. David

I have a couple of questions which I haven’t been able to answer myself, and I thought, hmm, if anyone is going to know it is the learned gentle ladies and men here. My first, I have got myself an LTSR bullion van (the Wills kit, the inaccuracies of which I can live with). I have replaced the W irons and axle boxes to it runs nicely, now I come to paint it and I am stuck. When the MR took over the LTSR it cancelled its plans to replace the aging bullion van no.60 (25ft arc roof NPCS) and used the relatively newly built LTSR numbers 1 and 2 (iirc they were built either 1910 or 1911). In LTSR livery they would have been finished in varnished teak. My question is, would the MR have repainted them in lined Crimson Lake to match their current passenger livery, and if they did at what point would that have occurred? Painting wise neither scheme worries me, I am tempted to go for the teak finish because it is different to the crimson of my other coaching stock, however, if it should be crimson then that is an inaccuracy that I couldn’t accept. My second question relates to motive power. A number of the Johnson 2-4-0 locomotives were rebuilt with Belpair boilers, however I can find no information about how many of them and when they were so converted. All the images I have seen of Belpair rebuilds are wearing LMS livery. Does anyone know if any were rebuilt with Belpair boilers before the grouping?

I thought they were portholes not keyholes, I stand corrected!

I am tempted to start collecting "striking" locomotives, that T19 being a prime candidate. I have an LNWR dock tank to assemble, so it starts the collection. *image from Wikipedia

Not so for me, my ERTL toy toby from the late 80s/early 90s was an 0-6-0.

In which case we must Experiment to escape the Webb

"we built this city.... On card and old photographs" From a personal point of view, i think the single brick quoins you are moving to look better than the triple brick you started with.

Having recently read the topic from the start i can confirm recurrent themes of Mr O'Doolight, pyramids and guano

Well, about two months (and over 400 pages) later i have finally finished reading CA. What can I say, except that this is a very inspiring topic. As someone new to railway modelling I can draw a number of parallels between what I am doing and what is going on here. The numerous stumbling blocks I have encountered seem often mirrored here on CA. In fact, it is often these which make it more relevant for someone in my shoes. I read Wordsall Forever's Rosedale thread, linked a few days, but many pages ago;his layout is beautiful, his progress was metronomic, however he never seemed to put a foot wrong and as such it didn't capture me the way CA has. Good luck with the subtle change of direction you have started over the last few days. I will be reading, and joining with the frivolities on occasion. Worse yet, you may have inspired me to try my hand at making my own track when the time comes.

I have been quietly busy, I have finished up my Ratio coaches. Square panelled clerestory 3x brake 3rd,3xall 3rd 2 composites Bain suburban 1x 3rd 1x 1st 1x 4 cmpt brake 3rd Test coach, an unidentified 6 wheel composite. Then I finished construction of my picnic saloon and got an undercoat of halfords grey on it. And did an old K's SECR van with replacement W irons and axleboxes. Quick, satisfying and just what i needed.

You have to love the days when your hobbies coincide. On the recommendation of Compound2632's D299 appreciation thread a brand new copy of Private Owner Wagons of the Ince Waggon & Ironworks has been procured for the princely sum of £7. Very impressed with the content so far, I already want to make several wagons.. Then at the opposite end of the spectrum, a 1/60 scale transforming jet fighter from an anime called Macross Delta. Maybe i should do some ultra modern S gauge Japanese models. Instead,the missus is out this evening so i can crack on with the soldering (i am so bad at soldering) on the picnic saloon.