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It’s hard to make out the cab roof with the steam but that looks more like a Drummond cab than Holmes

I was thinking the same

Google brings up a few things Deal was an archaic UK and US unit of volume used to measure wood. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a deal originally referred to a wooden board between 12 and 14 feet long that was traded as a maritime commodity. Deal is a type of softwood, usually obtained from Scott pine trees, sawn with parallel sides of thickness 2 inches to 4 inches, and of width 9 inches to 11 inches. And on this site http://www.woodworkinghistory.com/glossary_deal.htm In Britain -- where the term has a long history -- "deal" was introduced with the importation of sawn boards -- usually of fir or pine -- from a German part of the European continent. From the beginning "deal" was associated with these kinds of wood. Its first meaning is evidently, "A slice sawn from a log of timber (now always of fir or pine), and usually understood to be more than seven inches wide, and not more than three thick; a plank or board of pine or fir-wood", but as shown by the Oxford English Dictionary, historically, as this term relates to topics in the timber trade, numerous variations in the meaning of deal, have crept in. In the timber trade, specific variations, geographically, are: in Great Britain, a deal is understood to be 9 inches wide, not more than 3 inches thick, and at least 6 feet long. If shorter, it is a deal-end; if not more than 7 inches wide, it is a BATTEN; while

Could the beading be angle iron?

Is there not also the possibility that some will move from N to TT120 only slightly larger and slightly more space needed but with more detail possibly and a better coupling?

Straight framed ones are interesting to me as well. Just to add something else to the mix. What about the 700’s rebuild to 2f power rating with belpair boilers? Am sat in a parking space with no books to hand so cannot remember the boiler type

Lovely job All you need is one of the trailers Worsley works do for it to pull

Hi Ian Put me down for one thanks Mark

Quite a few of them survived in use in Cadbury factories for a long time I am interested in what you do with the two triang ones, particularly the roof hatch on the L&Y one, that looks “interesting “

I got an email from Accurascale about the Chaldrons which tantalisingly mentioned something about no rtr locomotives …yet Is there something planned?

The 9ft-5 point that Martin has mentioned a couple of times sounds interesting. Otherwise an A5 and a three way. This is one of those questions that could end up with a big list

sorry for responding late to this but just reading my way through the thread I can remember driving a military 110 Landry with trailer well-loaded through a small town when a local decided to pull out in front she realised her mistake as I drew inexorably closer and she saw the look in my face missed her by about six inches yep they take a while to stop especially with about a ton on the tow bar

Were there not a couple of these on the Somerset and Dorset as well? Might be another source of info

And all this started with mentioning sharing poles.

What sizes are best for nuts and rivets?

Great grandfather was a carter, in Dundee there is a very steep road called the hill town. Story is he had a sack of sugar around a hundredweight to deliver to a shop at the top of the steepest part of the hill.He did not want to cause his horse a lot of strain and he was a strong sticky man so he put the sugar sack on his back and toon it up the hill. When he dumped the sugar in the shop the shopkeeper told him to look behind him The horse had followed him up the hill. There is a railway tie in as he worked in the goods department of the North British and LNER.

They could be shared poles, even now it’s not uncommon for telephone lines to use electricity poles in rural areas. By which I mean gpo and railway.

Any idea how long the ones transferred to the Midland and NB lasted?

Handrails for the little people as well.

Will be nice to see how the re-released kit goes together. And what’s in the box.

Hi Stephen This question seems more appropriate here than on the D299 thread. Now that Slaters have re released 4 Misland Railway 6 wheel coach kits, what diagrams do they represent? And any ideas of other types that could be produced from them?

It was mentioned at the time the setts were dug up, they may now be in the local museum. Jute has some interesting combustion properties, once alight in quantity it’s very difficult to put out, and it can smoulder for some time The smell is also something else when it does go up.

Wooden blocks or setts were also used where There was a danger of spark’s from metal tyres used on horse drawn wagons some were recently dug up on roadworks in Dundee city centre, it’s believed they were used due to the danger of sparks setting fire to the jute being transported Main reason why the pugs used in the docks here had spark arresters fitted, and also why when the LNER tried using a Sentinel shunter it was swiftly removed due to the sparks emitted.

There is a difference in temperatures between wood burning in an open building and wood burning in a limekiln where the shape will cause a forced draught Think a blacksmith’s forge where introducing a draught increases the temperature of the coals One if the issues with lime kilns is burning the line at too high temperatures