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    What did the typical GWR single track branch look like?

    in Layout & Track Design

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    3 hours ago, Compound2632 said:

    Dyserth. The passenger service was always provided by a railmotor or motor train, but how was the goods traffic worked? Was the line treated as a long siding, with trains being propelled? The 1872 plan on the Disused Stations page shows just the three dead-end sidings. Later on there's a loop a the quarry but I should think that's just to keep incoming and outgoing wagons from getting in each others' way.

     

    I think that the LNWR society Journal covered this  not so long ago. From memory goods stock for Dyserth station was propelled from the previous station. 

     

    I must dig the article out

     

    Richard 

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    Screw pitch help - not M3.5 not 4BA

    in Kitbuilding & Scratchbuilding

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    37 minutes ago, jonhall said:

     

    Not sure - I don't have a 'known'  3/16" BSF to try them with.

     

    Thanks for all the suggestions. if anyone could use them for the cost of postage I'll happily pop them in a jiffy bag - most of my grandfathers (and therefore my) stocks are BA, so I can't really use them.

     

    Jon

     

    3/16 is 0.188", 40 thou bigger than 4BA. 0.040" is near enough 1mm* - you'd spot that

     

    Richard

     

    *or 3" at 4mm to the foot

    Screw pitch help - not M3.5 not 4BA

    in Kitbuilding & Scratchbuilding

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    6 minutes ago, jonhall said:

    yes very old brass - I'd expected ba if i'm, honest - a known 4ba screws in a couple of turns before stopping  - i'm wondering if they are just a little miss formed?

     

    Thanks for suggestions so far

     

    Jon

     

    4BA is the highly convenient 38.5 tpi* so chances are they're 6-40 UNF

     

    Bet you could screw a 4BA screw in until it suddenly shears off. I've played this kind of game before :D

     

    Richard

     

    * doesn't seem to be a convenient metric pitch either :dontknow:

    009 IC industrial loco - kit availability?

    in Narrow Gauge Modelling

    Posted · Edited by RLWP

    Most of those Kato flying carpet chassis are a/. very reliable and useful and b/. quite long

     

    Much too long for the small Simplexes

     

    This is a similar one just about hiding under a Roco 0-6-0 diesel body:

     

    Roco-7.jpg

     

    The loco at the back  has a Kato chassis with the platforms chopped off

     

    Richard

     

    MORE: There are basic dimensions here: http://www.gaugemaster.com/item_details.asp?code=K11-104

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    End of Branchline terminus layout advice

    in Layout & Track Design

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    14 hours ago, clachnaharry said:

     

    This arrangement looks unlikely to me. Crossing the passenger road means that traps and signalling in each direction would be required, They would just have accessed the mill from a siding straight off the main single line in the other direction to avoid all that faff.

     

     

     

    Also, the platforms are accessed by a curve across a bridge and the sidings by a much simpler approach. It seems to be making the working of trains more complicated than needed

    Lifting a train out of a station through a reverse curve seems unnecessarily perverse

     

    Richard

    Pre-Grouping Wagon Loading

    in Pre-Grouping - Modelling & Prototype

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    15 hours ago, Nearholmer said:

     

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    9 hours ago, Nearholmer said:

     

    EDIT: Herewith a film of the horse drawn Nantlle Railway, carrying roofing slate, in action, which should give some idea of what the Caithness operation was like  https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-rails-to-talsarn-1962-online

     

     

    Judging by the SG wagons, there's a good chance the photo and film were made on the same visit

     

    Richard

    Canopy Nudging

    in Modelling musings & miscellany

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    11 hours ago, NHY 581 said:

     

     

    Ah! 

     

    A classic example of the Bonwick Manoeuvre which the York Deflection failed to counter on this occasion. 

     

    The Bonwick Manoeuvre is much prized by the aficionado of nudger-trapping. The delicate interplay of scenery, trapper and nudger beats football any day

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    Locomotive ID

    in UK Standard Gauge Industrial Modelling

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    9 minutes ago, JCL said:

    Hi there, we've narrowed it down to Gilston. Looking again, the saddle on the first tone does look higher than on the second, and the handrail is also higher compared to the cab details.

     

    The shape of the cab front edge is different, and I think the lower part of the cab is longer in the second image

     

    Where the first loco has an injector, the second has a sandbox

     

    Richard

    Pre-Grouping Wagon Loading

    in Pre-Grouping - Modelling & Prototype

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Schooner said:

    *For the next wagon load discussion, I'd love to learn about how the natural ice industry was supported by the railways...

     

    OFF-TOPIC. Well, sort of

     

    Can I suggest the topic title of this thread be changed to 

     

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    Pre-Grouping Wagon Loading - Fish

     

    That way, this thread covers fish, shellfish, bloaters, dabs, crabs and what have you. Then we can have other topics e.g.

     

    Pre-Grouping Wagon Loading - Beer!

     

    Richard

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