jonhall

part 2 the bits fitted

just reinstating the photos in a few posts until they get restored part 1 modifications to the crane

There was a 'Europ' pool of common users but that was strictly for non-ferry vehicles. The list of restrictions on Ferry wagons was wide ranging as well, not just down the Hastings line (or the Canterbury and Whitstable which also seemed to get painted on) but all sorts of other places, Jon

The wagons could be back loaded to certain 3rd countries that were en-route, in broad terms an Italian wagon could be back loaded to France or Switzerland, as they were both in the right direction, but not to Holland, because it wasn't - there where lists of what was and wasn't acceptable. In effect BR paid demurrage for all continental (administration owned) ferry wagons from as soon as they arrived in the UK, therefore they were tightly controlled centrally, local stations couldn't make those decisions. Britain was always a net importer via the train ferry so a number of vans would go back empty, and in the early days of the train ferries the LNER provided the boats, and the Belgians provided the wagons, and this seemed to continue until the BR 'VIX' vans, so for the most part there would have been back loads in continental wagons. Jon

https://www.regionsetcompagnies.fr/produit/ferry-boat-a-quai noticed elsewhere for those with deep pockets jon

S.F.V. 6316 582115 and 582116 renumbered 21 87 078 0 010 and 019

doesn't ring bells with me, but seems the sort of thing I might have seen...

You might enjoy this Jon

There was a photo published in the SNCF society journal probably 15 years ago that showed an LMS 1f loco shunting a Dubonet tank at StAlbans - it was unusual as the tank was 'barrelled' ie the diameter in the middle of the tank was larger than at either end. Jon

Warning - Everything that follows is a generalisation.... There were of course two train ferry routes, via Dover, which mostly dealt with traffic from Southern Europe, and that was mostly agricultural products, and via Zeebrugge-Harwich, which was mostly from Northern Europe and was a different mix, probably more industrial and chemical traffic, if you think about the climatic difference between Germany and the UK, the growing season and range of crops wouldn't be all that different. You also need to look where the UK end of the journey would be going, draw a line on a map between any major German chemical plant in the Rhine/Ruhr area, and say Ellesmere Port, and its pretty obvious which route would have been taken. Jon

Are you trying to do this all in one single pass? I'd suggest doing repeated passes at lower pressure, letting the first pass define the route the blade will probably follow in subsequent passes. For what its worth, my portrait 1 won't cut through plasticard of any thickness, but I have only ever used score to snap, and have done that successfully up to 40 thou. Jon

yes I'm talking rubbish - I should have stuck to the bogie hoppers Jon

The Hornby version is closer to the 10T version (that pictured being a 6.5T) but yes, fundamentally the same parentage. Jon

If you are going to repaint, then you might be better starting with the Bachmann 'blue' and re-springing it - the Lima 'Grainflow' livery has always sold well secondhand. Jon

Bernard beat me to it, but if you want the Yeoman/ARC livery (and can accept the body is wrong for those types), then you want 'Axle motion' types, there isn't a current kit, but Appleby and Chris Leigh both did these as whitemetal castings - I have half a dozen of the Appleby version that you could have a £5 each if you wanted them. Jon

I notice that Dave Hammersley posted on the Roxey Facebook this week that he first exhibited Roxey Mouldings at the EMGS May Meeting in Marsham Street in 1972. Which means he will be celebrating 50 years in business this weekend! Is there any other company which has been trading continuously in the same original ownership for longer? Unfortunately i will be on the Isle of Man, having been first introduced to the delights of the railways there by Dave over 30 years ago. Jon

As with all of these things, the end use is critical to the actual risk - the exposure (and therefore the risk) using small quantities for a few minutes as a hobbyist once a month by brush, is different to that of a professional painter spraying 8 hours a day 5 days a week, vs the operator of Humbrol's* factory line, who measures several liters into a vessel that might be heated and or agitated, or the tanker driver who delivers 30,000L of the stuff. The MSDS is inevitably written based on the suppliers manufacturing and distribution, which is why in a commercial setting a further the risk assessment would be written (COSHH in the UK) to reflect the quantities, practices, facilities and incompatibilities of the end use (in a laboratory or manufacturing workplace) however it becomes a lot more difficult to do that in a consumers home. Jon *recognising they sub-contract making it it.

Are the plastic buttocks in the tender removable? Jon

The Surbiton loaded examples would have been built by AC Cars Thames Ditton. I'd be surprised if there were whole trains, as these would presumably be somewhat bespoke to the end users disability, so unlikely to be stockpiled at a dealer. However to rather contradict my own argument, there are at least two in this train. Jon

i think the class b ones here might be cone ends> https://www.cctrans.org.uk/ame.htm Jon

Then I've a fair idea which retailer, because I actually overheard the conversation whilst browsing as a customer! Jon

this will tell you what's available in the way of Railrovers http://www.railrover.org/ Jon

Some friends and I go away most years to somewhere in the UK - I've written up a few of the trips I really ought to do the rest Jon

I would regard the layouts as a nice bonus - Statfold Barn's railway is great, and I'd happily pay the entry without any extra layouts. Having said that I would like some info about any bus link from a station. Jon

The BR VIX is a 'UIC ORE Type 3 van' and a number of administrations had vans with all the same principle dimensions, although they all had differences as well. The UIC ORE was a standards group a bit like the Railway Clearing House, but obviously for European standard wagon types. Jon