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One of mine sits on a Triang 060 chassis with the front end chopped off. My one though is basically the two sides from an early chassis used and bushes to suit 1/8 axles. Autocom also Did a suitable chassis too.

Guess so, they will be staying in the box though!

Here is a set of K s transfers, coincidentally my loco is being done as a BR black 5800.

Thanks Mike, I as a kid used to refer to my old Triang green class 37 as the growler!!! My school friends all had ringfield versions!! Dad used to buy job lots of old models out of the local paper!! Taught me lots of useful lessons getting them all going though and still have them all.

My thoughts confirmed. Only ever built one white metal diesel loco, an A1 models Baby Deltic which sits on a collection of heavily modified Hornby mechanics. Just need a load of readymix now before it can be painted!!!!!!! That said it will pull anything. Don’t think I will be utilising the bogie somehow. Anyone got an old Romford flywheel motorbogie they don’t want???

I have this motorbogie acquired in a pile of odds and sods of eBay. I’m fairly sure it’s a MRRC 1001 providing the power which may end up in something else. I doubt the bogie is Airfix due to the wheels. Is It possibly MTK? It may go in a K s GWR railcar but not sure I can live with those spur gears out of the back!! Can anyone confirm what it is?? Thanks Russell

I have something similar in the tuit pile a Cotswold 4700 with a brass boiler! No footplate though! Maybe it was going to be exchanged for a brass footplate?? As for driving the non flanged wheels I can’t see any problems with that . As for broken coupling rods etc???? Triang drove the flange less wheels for millions of locos without issue!!

I was about to offer a scan of my instructions, glad you’re sorted. The Westward is very similar to build to theCotswold 2021 and 16 xx. The Westward kit makes a lovely loco well ahead of the Stephen Poole or Nucast Versions.

Thank you, thought it was.

Can you pm some pictures of where it is at??

Will do. Remember as a treat for a birthday in 1982 deciding to take a trip on the Central Wales to Swansea , expecting the usual class 120 to turn up, however 140 001 rolls up. Quite an experience! Maybe tempted to model it.

Did you ever sell the 140? I’d be interested in it.

That is a Zenith motor!!

I have 1216 here too which is the closest I have to yours. I would put it into about 1957/8.

Is this a Phantom??

No that is because I need to check them. No 504 is in a Farish Prarie so again early 50s , 2482 Is in a 1961 Wills Q. The Wills Q didn’t become available until April 1961 and the chap who built it passed away in 1961 so gives us a fairly accurate date. There are a few more here, I’ve just bought off eBay a pile of 1950s Romford motors, one has gone into a Rowell Duchess and is less than 10 numbers from the one it has replaced.

Do your motors have serial numbers stamped on them, I have several here with serial numbers on them I can roughly date some of them . I have a Jamieson 4f with an early triang princess motor in it. That dates to about1951/2.

I have one that started out as a kit, still have its plain white box. Would that date it? Mine had a new scratch built chassis back in the 1950s . It has Romford wheels and a 7 pole flywheel motor and still puts in appearances on my layout.

I’ve been building kits for years last brass kit I buit was a Craftsman 36xx . Have a couple of kits to build but a bit of a mix of not the easiest ones. A Falcon Brass Earl, a Jamieson 2p, Mercian BCR Carlisle and a Brassmasters Stella! The Jamieson has gone together well and I’m pleased with it! I’ve also just given heavy overhauls to A Jamieson J39. And a 4f .

Has anyone built the GW Earl? I have one here to do, might stick it on ebay and buy another Bachmann!!!

The early cab 57xx was introduced when the kit was given a major update in the early 80s. I had one as one of the last locos I built before other interests took over. I built it up with the later cab a set of Romford wheels and a DS11 motor. Recently I dug it out and rebuilt the body after a full strip down. I used the early cab this time! Then on eBay I bought an incomplete 57xx for less than a tenner. That came with a damaged cab so used my cab to make it up. There was no motor but it had Romford wheels!! I had a root about in the motors box and found an identical DS11 and mount so had another pannier for less than a tenner which is now mechanically the same as the other one. The revised kit is very different to the older model. I still have the wheels and D axles unused. They might find a use. I’ve just rebuilt a 44 xx prarie which I’ve fitted the Hornby can motor out of the 101/ pugs etc. It drives through a Comet 38:12 stage gearbox and runs lovely even down to a crawl. Top speed is not going to worry Mallard either. Guessing thousands of those motors run reliably so thought it’s worth a try! Especially as I have two of them already here. Maybe the D axles and the other Hornby motor will end up under the 45xx prarie!

I think the chassis is shared with the 44 xx prairie tank.

Read through this, I think I would be stripping it right down , reaming out all the axle bushes and reassembling checking every wheel set runs free. I always test the motor in the chassis with all valve gear etc fitted off leads direct to the brushes before messing fitting pick ups!! If it doesn’t run right at this stage it’s never going to on the track!! As regards the motor I think the Anchorage is not man enough for a 2800. Can and gearbox is way to go. KS mk1 and II were a bit hit and miss! HP2M forget!!!

The photo of the Fairburn is taken on the railway at Jurby . The HD stuff on display at Jurby Transport Museum is mine too.

I can’t find the reference to metro tanks at the moment being borrowed by the BCR, that said in 1905 GWR no 107 a 2-4-0 tender loco was hired and a photo exists taken in Bishops Castle!!