Moxy

I can't find a picture of it at the moment, but Greater Manchester Buses used to have one operating out of their Bury depot. I believe it was one they rebuilt themselves after accident damage. (It had an argument with a bridge. The bridge won). It looked a bit like the Glasgow one, but with a higher roof line. The strangest thing about it was the seating arrangements. Instead of the 2+2 seating you would expect, the front half of the bus was bench seats all down both sides and loads of standing room in the middle. I only saw it the once on a Bolton to Bury service, and then it was either withdrawn or transferred somewhere else.

The reason I couldn't find them in that album I linked to earlier is because it's the wrong album! That is the Great Southern/CIE album. If this link works, https://transportsofdelight.smugmug.com/RAILWAYS/IRISH-RAILWAYS/ULSTER-TRANSPORT-AUTHORITY-1/i-R6WNMCS it should take you straight to a GNR(I) Beyer Peacock SG class.

Yes, they did. The GNR(I) had a lot of Beyer Peacock 0-6-0s of SG/SG2/SG3 type (SG being Superheater Goods). On reflection, I think you're right, they probably are GNR(I) Beyer Peacocks.

I agree some are possibly Irish, but I'm not certain. This website https://transportsofdelight.smugmug.com/RAILWAYS/IRISH-RAILWAYS/GREAT-SOUTHERN-RAILWAY-STEAM/i-3xQkqWL has the most comprehensive collection of Irish locos I've found, but none of the examples seem to match that website. Could photo 7 be the 'English' Great Northern Railway perhaps? Photo 9 is an LNWR coach, probably at Crewe or Wolverton, if it's an official photo. Moxy

I'm sorry Stuart, but that doesn't ring true, emulsion is a much more recent inventions than 1890's. I think if somebody is trying to claim that is a contemporary account, they are pulling the wool over our eyes. Locos in the 1890's were hand painted & sign written. I don't know when transfers came into use on trains (see Compound2632's reply below) , but emulsion paint wasn't invented until early C20th. Also the paint would have to dry before you could put a transfer on it, and once emulsion paint is dry, it doesn't wash off. Ask British Rail & their 'Police' 37 from their 2008 TV advert. That is what BR intended, they used emulsion so they could put it through a carriage washer to wash the paint off after the filming. It didn't work, they had to send the loco back to Crewe to be repainted in BR Blue. Edited in light of new info

A Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns product, according to this site https://www.heritagerailway.co.uk/5503/steam-afterglow/

I'm not well up on GW vans, not sure which would be the right one, but Parkside/Ratio do a range of chassis kits which will go under RTR bodies. Link to H&A models here. (I've only chosen H&A because I know they stock them & they have pictures on their website, other retailers are available). Hope this helps Moxy

I agree it would be useful, but that's one kit that's not coming back. The tooling was not just damaged it was destroyed in the Winsford factory fire just before Dapol moved to Chirk. There's a link to a discussion about it here. I think we're drifting a bit off the topic of meat vans though, it's time to give Mallard60022 his thread back. Moxy

Hi John RT Models offer a kit of the Manning Wardle Old 'I' class (currently unavailable). However, they do have a PDF of the instructions on their website which contain some drawings of the brake gear, and also a list of other sources of info, particulary the Colonel Stephens Society, who apparently have a drawing. I won't link directly to the PDF, but the webpage for the kit is here. Hope this helps

That's an interesting variation in the cabs, doors in the back AND the sides, presumably for operational reasons with the compessor wagons. Not something you usually see in industrial locos.

As did Preston Corporation: https://www.flickr.com/photos/81936099@N08/8084045027/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/128088688@N06/20093712708/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/mals_uk_buses/4608851192/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/16313630@N07/5971093176/ (Links because they're not my pictures). Some of these were converted from open rear platform to front sliding door by the Corporation in their own workshops (see notes under the last photo). I'm not sure if Ribble did the same with theirs, but they certainly had the workshop facilities at Frenchwood to do such conversions.

Hi Alex I have some thoughts on colour, nothing scientific, and people's perception of colour varies but here's my take on it. I would say Humbrol Brunswick Green or BR/GWR green would be too dark on a small shunter. A bespoke mix as you suggest under (2) might be the way forward, but I would tend towards 75% Brunswick & 25% Emerald green, then adjust it to suit. I have attached a photo of a preserved Sentinel that's been repainted into 'factory' livery. https://www.andrewbriddonlocos.co.uk/locos/sentinel/108-sentinel-48-ton-0-6-0dh-tom.html As another suggestion, while this is not a Halford's list, this https://www.tradecarpaints.co.uk/index.php?main_page=page_4 gives the BS381C colours for various greens. Middle Brunswick Green is listed as BS381C226, but to my eyes, that looks too dark ( and indistinguishable from 227 Deep Brunswick Green). At the end of the day it's your model and your choice, but I hope these suggestions are useful. Halfords used to be able to mix specific colours to a sample, I'm not sure whether they still do. Hope this helps Moxy

Very nice! I'm afraid Narrow Planet have already stopped taking orders for the rest of this year. https://www.narrowplanet.co.uk/pages/coronavirus-information They (or their etchers) haven't yet caught up on the backlog from the first lockdown in March.

I don't know if this is helpful, but the bigger the font size, the fewer options are visible in 'edit.' I have to have the font quite large (Yeah I know, I need to go to Specsavers!), but if I make the font smaller (Ctrl & minus on my PC), then strikethrough becomes visible, and it works on a previous post of mine in this thread.

Hi Andy They are no known problems with signing up at the moment, but as I say the software is still updating, so there may still be a few issues that haven't come to light yet. The only thing I can suggest for now is to keep trying. Interesting what Sir Douglas is saying about security 'photos' to click, I got the same security question as you earlier today when I tried it. (Welsh Highland Railway). Maybe the site is now doing random photo OR security question? Keep trying and good luck.

Yes, I am a member & signed in. They have updated the forum software yesterday (to this same version as RMWeb uses), so there may still be some glitches to iron out. I will ask the question about new members & post a reply on here, when I get it.

I'm not aware of any 4mm kits for this particular van, unfortunately.

It's probably an LMS 12T ventilated van to Dia 2103. A clearer picture is on this website.

I was getting the same on my PC, but changing to 2021 Theme has fixed it. Windows 7Pro, Firefox 81.0

I like that idea. I have a suggestion for the 3 tracks at the right hand side. On the centre one, the headshunt (1 x R600) is too short to be of practical use. If I were building this, I would lose the 2 x R8072 points that link the bottom & centre roads. This would make the centre siding a decent length, and you still have the loop on the left hand side to run round the wagons.

There's a couple of blue one's on Ebay now, should anyone be interested. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fleischmann-HO-4247-D818-diesel-locomotive-MJC/143707797943?hash=item2175a6f9b7:g:GfMAAOSwl5hfSWXl

Yes, there were some Bulleid coaches made by Fleischmann, I think in BR green rather than malachite. Unfortunately they were to that rather odd in-between scale, I think they were 1:80 scale. British Trix/Liliput also used that scale for their Western loco & their coaches.

Thanks for the correction, I had misremembered them as Mk1s (in my defence, I don't actually own any of the coaches!)

Yes, I have one bought recently (well, within the last 12 months) from ebay. It is a Fleischmann, they also produced a rake of southern region Mk1s to go with it. They are good models, but being H0, they only managed to sell a few in the UK. The sequence of events is pretty much how you describe it, there was some sort of reorganisation at Fleischmann (takeover possibly? can't remember) that meant a stock check in the warehouse found the remaining stock of these. there was only one batch ever made AFAIK. The one that didn't make it from Fleischmann was a Battle of Britain/West Country in H0. Had the Warship sold in the UK, the BoB/WC would have been their next H0 loco.

IIRC it wasn't Heljan's idea, it was a group of modellers who were going to commission Heljan to produce an 'H0' 37, but it never got anywhere because they couldn't get the numbers to make it financially viable.