Adam88

The reason I ask is because I once knew a man who lived in Bishop Auckland who made models of this type for the Bowes Museum but when I visited a few years ago I could see none on display so I wondered if they had perhaps been transferred elsewhere.

Was this originally from the Bowes Museum?

Sometimes also used as an accompaniment to shunting operations: https://youtu.be/4SfcJ8BFx-8?t=555

We were all taught that: "it is better to be a dead mackerel on the North-Western than a first-class passenger on the London Brighton and South Coast..."

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=oVXzxvS3MLUC&pg=PA294&lpg=PA294&dq=glenn+l+martin+engineering+building+university+of+maryland+'slide+rule'&source=bl&ots=rted8rqNmy&sig=ACfU3U3PxNqOUaQ649wGHHCuY9ecJbhQSA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjn3YjO2pTkAhUTShUIHdD9DZ4Q6AEwDHoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=glenn l martin engineering building university of maryland 'slide rule'&f=false At the University of Maryland they have a whole engineering department building modelled on a slide rule (or a slip stick as our cousins might say) - I doubt it is easy to use though.

One of the first times I became aware of the J6 was an article - possibly published over two or three issues - in the Railway Modeller in the mid-CJF era, entitled "Building a J6 twice, Which Twin is Toni?" by Peter Everton. He describes scratch-building two J6s, one in OO, the other in EM. Both exquisitly modelled. His modelling was of a really high standard and I recall seeing some of his exquisite 7mm LNER models on display at a museum in Scotland.

I think it was spirited away by Patrick Leigh Fermor. He used to do that sort of thing.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCQ_GXnO6xKc2fWb4fgkwBw Here though is a garden railway which runs collectors' items yet operates in a more realistic or credible manner than many fine-scale layouts. Is it the interpretation and setting which makes the difference? I doubt that this would this work with contemporary, semi-detailed, RTR stock (often with non-scale wheels, stamped or moulded valve gear, etc). Where the SDJR 2-8-0 appears on these films, fine model as it is, the spell breaks.

It is interesting to compare the HST photos taken at Paddington with the classic May 1892 views of the last broad gauge Cornishman which appear to have been taken from a similar location. In 1892 the railway knew how to cater for its main line passengers, much of the BG coaching stock would be relatively new and convertible although it may have ridden less well on the Stephenson gauge.