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And of course in places is laid on top of the original original light rail system that was closed between mid 1950s and 1961. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jul/28/erased-from-history-how-sydney-destroyed-its-trams-for-love-of-the-car

If you are in absolutely no hurry at all (!) I can go and have a look at some point for you. I live in York and visit the Search Engine maybe twice a year to dig out drawings for the Hawksworth County project (and anything else Didcot asks me about). I work full time from home so can easily arrange a visit. They are beginning to know me at the Search Engine so I can usually get my hands on anything I ask for (such as the Duke class GA that I just wanted to see for my own amusement).

Well here is is. In terms of numbering I just used what was quickest on the sheet - no it wasn't that it was a string of numbers 1-9(!) - but it was a wagon number that I nicked the last two digits of. From what I've seen they didn't put a second tank in the coal space but as I used an old Hornby tender with the moulded coal it was the easiest way of covering the hole left with the coal removed.

Glad I'm not the only one to have this problem. I bought some primer from Vallejo some time back and it was terrible and I had to strip it all back off the coach I was building. The primer's been under my desk ever since while I bring myself to throw it in the bin - the Yorkshireman in me keeps coming out when it gets close to the bin! You've done a great job. Well done for persevering.

The Ffestiniog remote operator for ETS works where winding the release handle "offers" the train to all the other ETS machines for the section (end or mid-point), and if the auto-response is line clear (effectively is the sum of releases and returns an even number) then you get the release. This makes it first come first served - the only proviso is you are supposed to check with Control before you do it - the only time I didn't was when we had a fire at Boston Lodge Works and I took the token to protect the fire engines crossing the line and then told Control what I'd done while the phone went red hot as the PW manager wanted to know why he couldn't get a release! WRT to repeated trains, if you don't want train detection, locking the starter to the release and then having a timer on the starter would do it.

That's really interesting. Here was my sketch circuit to build something similar for my friends' Tanybwlch and Penrhyn. Had this all drawn up and a weekend chosen to go and make it and some adjustments to the layouts in March 2020... I'm sure we'll get round to it one day!

There is every chance some Dean Goods were still in "Great Western" at that time. In researching for what to paint a Cambrian Jones Goods immediately post war, I did a lot of research into what was about. One of the interesting pictures I found was this one of a Star having had a "wash coat" for the shirtbutton with the Great Western clearly visible underneath. After a few years the wash coat would rub back and you'd be able to see the original insignia as can be seen in this picture from Didcot's Going Loco blog. It's difficult to be sure but I would suggest this tender never had the shirtbutton and went straight from Great Western to GWR.

Thanks Jim, That's really interesting.

That's really interesting Mike, thanks for the info.

Interesting thought. The caption in the Wartime GWR book says they were Govt requisitions (which I suppose might be why there is so little data about them) and one train had six tenders though clearly that must have been a mix or 3000 gal as it says the train had 15,000gal, enough for 2.5 hours firefighting.

Thanks Jim, that is interesting. I wonder if they didn't because apart from putting a proper set of buffers and a vac pipe fixed upright they didn't do anything else, so in extreme conditions they could reuse them as a tender.

HI all, Does anyone know if there is a reference anywhere (web or book) that lists the numbers of all the tenders converted for firefighting in WW2, such as this one that appears in the STEAM archive and in the Wartime GWR book? https://www.steampicturelibrary.com/railway-war/second-world-war/great-western-tender-no-w84-no-2641-1941-19931797.html#modalClose TIA Cheers Chris

Looks really good John. Liking your lever frames too. I want to do that on mine too but feel that may require me to retire first to have the time! I'm envious of the space you've got. Maybe I need to move back to Australia so I can have a bigger layout?!