RLWP

Why is he wearing a kilt?

47 minutes ago, The Johnster said:

This possibly validates my view that McDonald's burgers are suitable for vegetarians, because they only contain trace elements of meat.

Would that even more meaty, sort of a homeopathic burger?

2 minutes ago, Brassey said:

 

The short answer is I don't know but it might be worth asking this on the LNWR Society Facebook page as there will be more knowledgable members on there than I.

Which is here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/109619289726001/

Richard

1 hour ago, Brassey said:

The key to the map is missing but it might have been helpful as it somewhat confusing.  Bristol is shown which the LNWR never reached but it too was accessible by through carriage but so too was Penzance not shown.  Scotland is omitted which was on the West Coast Joint route north of Carlisle.

I'm not sure of the source of that particular map, it's clearly from one of the many pieces of LNWR publicity printed by McCorquodale . I suspect it has been selected for the LNWRS website because it's relatively compact

There are many others, for instance:

http://www.lnwrs.org.uk/Sales/map.php

The answer appears to be that keen to make the LNWR look as impressive as possible, railways that included through working for LNWR carriages is included. It's much the same for any of the pre-grouping companies, a GWR map would similarly extensive

Richard

There's a similar product but fibre based that B&Q sell, green stuff in packs.

I have used that - under the flooring in my modelling room

Richard

16 hours ago, RLWP said:

 

My understanding is that the thin lines are where the LNWR had running rights. I'll ask on the LNWRS forum

 

Interesting question

 

Richard

I have also posed the question on the LNWRS Facebook group, which is rather more active

17 minutes ago, ChrisN said:

 

Hopefully not hijacking the thread, but this is a question about the LNWR in North Wales.  

 

In the map in the link all the Cambrian Lines are shown, but only as thin lines.  Is this where they sent through coaches, or rather where they had running powers?  They were never allowed to exercise them on the Cambrian as the powers were there in case the Cambrian did not supply an engine to convey LNWR stock, and the Cambrian made sure that never happened.

 

Like most maps it does not have Traeth Mawr on it, which is a shame as LNWR locos have definitely been seen there as building 1895 Cambrian locos is a long term project.

My understanding is that the thin lines are where the LNWR had running rights. I'll ask on the LNWRS forum

Interesting question

Richard

20 minutes ago, slow8dirty said:

Google Hannants.co.uk, they're the plastic modellers equivalent of mainly trains or hattons, if a set exists they'll stock it. I'd link but not on a great connection at mo. 

And be aware, you are teetering on the edge of a scary aspect of any modelling. What's going to happen is this:

You search for appropriate decals and find a really attractive scheme. Only then you find it is for a different mark/block/series of aeroplane to the one you are modelling. But there is an aftermarket resin kit that will correct the model to be the mark/block/series you want. And the kit also includes some other part to 'improve' the accuracy, so you'll fit that too. Meanwhile you found an aftermarket cockpit/landing gear/missile pack/gun installation/ejector seat/pilot that you just have to have. Oh, and you ought to buy some books about the model while you are at it, and you've found a really neat walkaround on the internet that shows some really nice piping details in some obscure area that you ought to represent

Pretty soon, you've replaced 90% of the kit, spent four times the original cost and all the 'research' material weighs ten times the original model

Ask me how I know this...

Richard

1 minute ago, maico said:

 

I lifted the board and no they are different material and one sided.

Excellent, thank you

Another mystery

2 hours ago, Crosland said:

 

They are mirror image for left and right hand points. They are different boards as the materials are different. They may be of the same design, with tracks on both sides.

If you design a 'left hand' one and turn it over, you'd have a right hand one. Only it's likely the material finish is different side to side. So one board with the components fitted either side and you have what i think I'm seeing

Richard

16 hours ago, sharris said:

The top one has a green laquer protecting the tracks.

 

The bottom one looks designed slightly better as the mounting holes don't go through the tracks.

Isn't it the same board, turned over with the components mounted on the underside?

Off the wall suggestion

Call in at your nearest Games Workshop when it is relatively quiet. They are keen on getting people to make things and are usually happy to get you doing something. Yes it will be fantasy wargaming, the skills are very transferable

They'll get you using acrylics with water - very versatile. I much prefer acrylics

Richard

DO NOT buy any Empire/Catachans/Space Marines - you'll end up in a whole new world of modelling that way

Was it BRUTEs that were made up into trains and hauled down the slopes and under the tracks at New Street?

Richard

4 hours ago, mclong said:

GNR Six-wheel 4 Compartment Brake Third built 1895. From Railway Heritage Register On-Line. 

Their website:

http://www.cs.rhrp.org.uk/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=5628

Richard

6 minutes ago, Malcolm 0-6-0 said:

 

I suspected you were joking.

 

However the concept puts me in mind of the slightly confused person who is always one step behind the action. The sort of person who in the early 19th century if presented with a sailing ship and a steam engine and asked to consider how the former might be improved by the latter, would go to a great deal of trouble inventing a mechanism to furl and unfurl the sails without ever quite seeing that replacing the sails with paddle wheels or a screw powered by the engine would render the sails obsolete and the ship more efficient.  

I'm not sure it was that clear cut at the time. There was a lot of scepticism that a metal wheel on a metal rail could provide enough traction to move a train. Brunton's horse uses existing technology* to provide the contact with the ground

What I think is more obvious is the limitation of the design because it has to rely on the weight of the loco. The model lifts the rear wheels off the ground, the full size one would almost certainly do the same when the load got too great

Richard

*you know what I mean 

I'm now waiting for a detailed analysis of £ per class per linear foot of model

Enquiring minds need to know!

Richard

Do you know about this?:

http://lnwrs.org.uk/Modelling/4mm.php

Richard

50 minutes ago, Brassey said:

I wonder how the LNWR arrived at Wrexham?

Bus?

http://www.lnwrs.org.uk/Map/index.php

Richard

2 hours ago, Mark Saunders said:

Alas it is descending into I want this and that ; that's not correct it should be like this!

 

Sorry to say but it has became a cross between a "Camel" and the "curate's egg"!

 

Mark Saunders

I've avoided being norty and asking for LNWR Commode door handles...

Pat does

Do you want to borrow a Megger tester?

Richard

27 minutes ago, Philou said:

Sorry if there was any feather ruffling going on and certainly no intention of any myth starting (though hey imagine 20 years on 'but.... but .... it's what Philou said on RMweb all those years ago .....') .

 

Cheers,

 

Philip

 

It isn't you that started this myth, Craig. It's somehow got into this thread that LNWR carriages are exceptional

With my L&NWR hat on, this is obviously true. With my 'generic' hat on, I could probably find as many Midland/GWR/GER carriages that are as exceptional as the LNWR

The L&NWR is not a special case*

Richard

*except in all the occasions when it clearly is, of course

2 hours ago, Hroth said:

 

Ummmm....

 

If they were the "usual" sort of computer monitor, they'd surely have electric kettle type mains cords.

Not so, if you go back to my post just after Cliffs, you'll see the expectation was the lead was part of the equipment. Kettle leads post date his (and my) anecdote

Richard

25 minutes ago, Philou said:

Seemingly, the basic outline of a lot of pre-grouping coaches were not too different from each other (LNWR excepted)

 

Philip

Where has this come from? If you are 'into' this stuff, all the pre-grouping carriages are significantly different to each other. The L&NWR is not exceptional, apart from the livery. They are all the same in that they are all different

I can sense a new pre-grouping myth taking wing here

Richard