Penlowry

4 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

The part you see here opened in 2019. It runs from Circular Quay along George Street, through Surrey Hills and out along Anzac Parade, where it splits into two branches for Randwick (L2) and Kingsford (L3). It crosses the original light rail system (L1), that opened in stages from 1997 to 2014, near Central station.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_rail_in_Sydney

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

3 hours ago, corneliuslundie said:

 

Unfortunately there is no chance of me ever getting to the NRM to search them out.

 

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. 

12 hours ago, SteamingWales said:

Then the primer that I bought from Vallejo wasn't what I expected and essentially pooled at the bottom of the tank sides when I wasn't looking, so all that had to come off and start again, which also damaged the filler in places. I genuinely felt like giving up at this point  Should have just stuck to the good old rattle can 😒 

 

 

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. 

9 minutes ago, 5BarVT said:

...  We wondered if both ends could be left in accept ready for either one to offer.

Having found some ‘old’ circuits (1980, reflecting what was done on Exeter Salisbury years earlier) the answer is yes you can!  To offer a train your accept switch must be at Normal and the other end at Accept, so if both were turned to accept after the previous train you had to turn yours back to normal and then plunge to offer.

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you won’t be wanting the full functionality of proving trains arrived or automatic Train in Section that comes with full blown tokenless but will you have something to prevent repeated trains without getting a second acceptance? Or is it as simple as procedure - when the receiving signalman sees ‘from afar’ that the accepted train is on its way (or even just the starting signal I’d Off) he removes his acceptance (but that seems to remove the FCFS principle).

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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. 

8 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

Two jobs today, each started but not finished yet.

 

The second job was the mock-up of the FCFSTB system. I prepared four green and four yellow LEDs with 470 ohm resistors, two 3-way rotary switches and a short length of 9-way cable, to simulate two signal boxes...

 

 

 

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. 

18 hours ago, JimC said:

FWIW here are the water tank entries in the Tender Drawing Register from Lot A119 (1928).
 

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Thanks Jim, That's really interesting. 

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

6 minutes ago, Compound2632 said:

 

I was surprised to see such an modern tender used. Is it possible that this one was done solely for the publicity photo? (Maybe even mocked-up?)

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

20 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

And here it is:

 

 

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?!