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Unfortunately it seems that the concept of a political debate in which both sides stand a chance of convincing others via evidence and reason has ceased to exist.

I mean, somewhere I have drawings for a Saxby Frame if you wanted to make the levers in that style?

I'm pretty sure there have been at least two fictional West Midland Railway schemes in railway modelling history, one (I seem to remember) by Edward Beal way back when and another more recently by @Nile of this parish - They might provide some inspiration! Nice though purple may sound as a livery colour I'd suggest trying it out on a few old loco bodies before settling on it. There is also, I believe (could be very wrong) the problem that purple was, for centuries, a particularly expensive colour which may explain why it probably wasn't used that much on locos in reality. I believe blue was also relatively expensive, and thus relatively uncommon, but obviously it was far from unheard of.

Generic though they may be I think many of us intend using them to represent real vehicles from those companies. So if I were modelling the S&D in, say, 1915 I probably wouldn't want to make use of the 4-Wheelers nice though they'll look. Does anyone know if there are were any Cambrian vehicles remotely like these? I was thinking a couple might be nice in GWR livery to represent ex-Cambrian types and add a bit of variety amongst the Ratio 4-Wheelers I'm also likely to use.

I seem to remember that your 'box is Saxby so a Saxby cap would make sense, or something simpler if you're going to suggest that the GSR had it's own pattern.

I have plenty of peaked caps... But they're probably not what you had in mind.

Sorry, probably should've asked first!

My contribution was amending the thread title last night to reflect your current Lickey activities! I've been too busy settling into university accommodation, though some GWR coaches are currently on my workbench.

That sort of confirms what I thought, but I wasn't entirely sure of the dates.

"Number of SDJR locos" 'Scuse my ignorance, but what S&D locos have we seen that these would be a fair partner to?

As I don't think a complete 2-WIM has ever been offered as a single kit it might be a good one to do, perhaps even allowing for the 'Overhead Option' although I must confess I haven't looked into exactly what the conversion entailed. I'd be very interested in both third rail and overhead.

See... I do somewhat take umbridge at that as I think to date I've had six locos and a wagon (so admittedly not a coach) in that material and on not one of them have I managed to get them smooth enough for me to be happy with them. Anyway, I digress. If this version were able to be produced as a traditional resin casting based on 3D Printed masters that needn't be a concern and I would imagine the cost would be rather more reasonable than Shapeways'.

It was the strangely British-but-clearly-not appearance of the loco that did it! I seem to remember that those tanks were built there too, rather than being Beyer Peacock imports.

At a guess I'd say it's Dutch.

Unfortunately it's in that horrible nylon material that, when I last used it, they called WSF.

Someone was bound to ask - Is there any chance of this being made available to purchase? It looks wonderful!

The six wheelers even more so than the four wheelers!!!

And I must say that they're beautiful models. A friend of ours has one and we have another in bits downstairs.

Need some nice period wallpaper really, but that might be a tad extreme for one photo!

Ah, well, y'see... Those coaches look much too modern for the period. Really like the concept though. Might try that one myself at some point.

I'll just leave this here... Dangerously close to topic, and not at all relevant to the above discussion, it may be found on the rear of the August 1912 edition of The Railway Magazine.

Many years ago I downloaded a 444, 450 and 158 into SketchUp, replaced the multicoloured swooshes with green then did the rest of the train in salmon and brown.

I remember I once had a really nice (payware) version of the WSR (for TRS2006) in then-current form that I thought was the best thing under the sun. Hours of fun with that. Can't remember who made it though. I doubt it's available now but if it is then it might be worth a look for better representations of the stations? I remember it came with two Manors, a 6400 Pannier, two BR Class 35s and a BR Class 117. Also included were some quite nice MK1s and a variety of wagons all modelled relatively closely on the WSR's fleet at the time. I remember being impressed how they'd modelled the cottage at Watchet that we'd stayed in that summer.

I think, though, that as @45655 (him again...) have discussed there are enough common elements between signs that a generic 'Southern Railway Font' can be developed for use by modellers. Particularly on larger signs and in larger scales it is increasingly noticeable, for me, that certainly this would be better than trying to use a proprietary font such as the famous Gill Sans or even a derivative of Johnston.

The blue car stop numbers were, I thought, an LSWR hang-over? Blue signs on the South Eastern therefore sounds rather odd.