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You're doing a good job there. It's difficult to get beading right; most folks, and especially pattern makers for whitemetal kits, make it oversize because by the time it gets built and painted with paint that's too thick, it soon loses its depth. You may be better off applying the beading before you use varnish, that way the solvent will seep into the wood a lot easier. Track builders use stuff like that for sticking abs chairs to wooden sleepers with no problems.

To mount the ABSwain bogies, the oval pivot plate screws into the wooden floor, the top-hat  cast bushes go through the big hole in the bogie and screw into the swivel mounting plate using an 8BA screw. I seem to remember you need to fix an 8BA nut under the oval mounting plate. I have spares of all those parts if you need any.

Part of the Hornby Dublo marketing was the film of their Deltic pulling a boy along on a cart.

Battery drill motors are remarkably powerful. In my workshop at home I have a set of Prolift vehicle lifts, rated at 7 tonnes per column. (I restore old buses) Recently one of the columns failed with a bus up in the air. I tried winding it down by turning the fan motor by hand, it was tedious and very slow. I then had the idea to whack a 1/2" drive socket onto the motor shaft and used the DeWalt 12 v drill...believe it or not it worked. the small drill not only lowered the bus, it was also capable of raising it again!! It makes me wonder why they still use 3-phase 2 hp motors on these lifts when a 4 power drills would do the job. 

Put one in a model diesel and see what it will do. :)

Surely anything made by MTK would be the winner?

The Hornby Dublo AL1 was not to my knowledge on the class 20 chassis. It was a slightly shortened version of the EMU chassis. It had the single-axle drive motor bogie with RingField motor. Mine ran quite nicely, I got it brand new back in 1965/66, then converted it to resemble a class 73 as per a Chris Leigh conversion in the Model Railway Constructor. I now realise all these things I bough years ago would have netted me a small fortune these days!

I knew Adrian Swain of ABS Models personally, he used to produce bus kits for me many years ago. He was one of the design team for Concorde and everything had to be right. He was a stickler for detail. His LNER bogies are superb for what they are. Once the flash is cleaned off, use a low melt solder to put them together along with Carr's Red Label flux.

If it's any help, I've recently acquired a CCW pullman car kit unbuilt in its box, if you're interested in adding that to your train.

The terms "inner rail" and "outer rail" still persist today, describing whether the train is going clockwise, outer rail, or anti-clockwise, inner rail.

Amazing stuff there. I'm tempted but my knowledge of computers and my patience with them runs very thin at times! I've got to build a new double double junction on my layout as it doesn't work properly and needs to be moved round the bend a bit more.

Luckily I found the air tanks in my Metropolitan Railway F class loco were the right size for the job. :) My models were converted back in the early 1980s. :). Oh, and I've just found some spare bogie sideframes. Clearing out thre railway room after an invasion of mice!

It needs air tanks on the roof in tops days. :)

It would also be that the signal for the movement from the platform to the branch will display a yellow aspect with route indicator to remind the driver of the speed restriction and it will in effect act as a fixed distant for the next signal along the branch.

Remember too that "permissive working" or permissive block only applies to non-passenger lines except  on the approach to platforms where a train can be signalled into an occupied platform using a subsidiary signal. The driver of a train entering such a section must be prepared to stop short of any train already in that section.

14 hours ago, Michael Hodgson said:

It's not just steam engines that can stall with the wheels spinning ...

 

https://www.iricen.gov.in/ModelRoom/H1_Wheel Burnt Rails.html

https://www.thedieselstop.com/media/rail-burn-4.17610/

They had similar problems at Salisbury when locos were trying to haul the derailed trains out of the tunnel after the collision there a couple of years ago. the trains were wedged in the tunnel! 

Remember pensioners go free on the bus as well.

Well made is the key. The Kitmaster plastic glue was awful stuff, it always came out in great globs which meant the builder always used too much of it. I find the modern acetone-based stuff works very well. I've not noticed KM plastic going brittle.

On 03/11/2023 at 01:35, Jeff Smith said:

Presumably white metal.....

How did you guess? :)

Much the same state the KESR was in quite a few yers ago. Fortunately that railway has survived and flourished. A lot of members there made long-term loans to the company most of which i understand have now been repaid. Some have foregone getting repaid, donating the money to the railway.

One problem is that the UK has maybe too many preserved railways all chasing a similar market from both paying visitors and donations from enthusiasts. A bit like the reserved bus hobby with lots of 1950s buses all preserved with the best intent back in the early 1970s now up for sale as their owners struggle with their upkeep and younger entrants to the hobby aren't interested in  buses of that age. I know because I'm one of those who preserves buses from the early 1950s.

Surely it's the locomotive's insurers who will pay for damage to other people's property?

I've got a set of about 6 blood and custard KM coaches, all built by someone back in the day. They all have weight in them that were included in the kits. There'sa couple of restaurant cars in maroon that need to be rebuilt as well, and a couple of others have the Peco card interiors which really do look nice when made up and fitted.

The main errorI find is the channel section solebar. But run them as a complete train and they look quite good. Back in the day they were ideal for kit bashing, an article in the MRC back in 1962 showed how to make the Clacton electric units from them.

I really must get on with my KM Blue Pullman rebuild.

Yes of course, traincrew area a different breed.

Lovely, thanks. Yes, the spurious bits were shared with the Lowmac wagon. I just found a part-built JCB and what appears to be a nearly complete kit in my round tuits boxes! It's amazing what's to be dug up. :)

There's also a quantity of Hartell track being disposed of. 

2 hours ago, Hal Nail said:

4 5 6 7.....

4 more ran out of the box of rolling stock...cat paid a visit, he can go back in there today.

Sorting through my collection of round tuits I've re-discovered my tram kit collection and some of the missing parts. If anyone's interest drop me a pm on here.

There's an LCC 4 wheel stores car in LCC brown, a West Ham 4 wheeler in LT livery, an E1 in a cream and brown LCC livery, all need finishing off  and have motors, 1 Feltham in LT livery, complete but needs completing, another Feltham, part-built with motors, one end damaged window pillars, a Leeds Horsfield car with XT60 motor and an Anbrico Sheffield Roberts car with motor. And a Varney Liverpool car which was motorised but the bogies haven't been unearthed yes, not has the roof! It's dented but repairable. The London cars have ABS working trolley poles too.I posted pics on here about 5 years ago but they've probably vanished by now.

The domestic cat was utilised later on this afternoon. Rummaging through one of the stock boxes disturbed a family of about 4 mice! Cat was introduced to part of his evening meal. 3 others are still at large. 

Pity I can't log in to the channel 4 site, yet another forgotten password.

About 30 years ago a Finnish layout visited the MRC's exhibition. The Finnish club subsequently used a foam baseboard with varying degrees of success. I suspect we've all been brought up reading too many of Cyril's "shows you how" books.