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Hi Londontram, Nice progress! This image is from Phil's workbench featuring a Ks GWR Armstrong 4 4 0. Looks like he used slots! Not totally scale! Cheers, Loz

Hi Rob, Any chance of a scan as well please? Doing the same project. Btw, have just bought a copy of RM Sep 1964 that has a picture of a GWR Armstrong 4 4 0 on the front cover. Took a a chance on the contents being relevant and useful! Cheers Loz

Thanks Mike, appreciated.

Mike, did you use the chassis from the K's kit straight out of the box?

From Phil's Workbench a series of blog posts on building the K's GWR Armstrong 4 4 0. Includes how he built the chassis together with a 'High Level' gearbox. http://philsworkbench.blogspot.com/search/label/Armstrong

Here's an article from Railway Modeller March 1982. The quote that I have included, below, shows how to build a GWR Armstrong 4 4 0 from a Dean Single 4 2 2. Copyright Railway Modeller.

Contents from Sept 1973 mag https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-x-Railway-modeller-magazine-September-1973-and-October-1978/283962879750 Page number suggest July or August edition?

Thank you very much Kingdom2, re-Railway Modeller mag feature very useful.

A Skinly drawing of what looks like a GWR Armstrong 4 4 0, plus others (no association with seller). https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Outside-Frame-Type-GWR-4-4-0-Loco-Design-Drawings-By-Skinley-4mm-OO-Gauge/133476419835?hash=item1f13d088fb:g:APwAAOSw6PJfH0hk

Thank you for posting this topic. Will follow with interest. Have plans to do the same project.

The link below is from the Shepherds Bush Cricket Club website. Paragraph 2, about a third in, talks of a proposed railway around 1887 causing the club to find an alternative venue, at least for a while. It seems the railway would have run South from where the terminus would have been, on the current site of the Barbra Speak Stage School, crossing East Acton Lane and then across what was, until fairly recently, the site of the old Shephard's Bush Cricket Club. https://shepherdsbushcc.com/about/ Cheers, Loz

The first link identifies that The Barbara Speake Stage School was built on the site of a disused train terminus at East Acton. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2113382 This second link shows the abandoned railway line Just above where The Barbara Speake Stage School is now located today. You'll need to scroll down to see East Acton. You can zoom in and out. Look for the East Acton lettering on the map and just above it is the abandoned railway line. The 1900 and 1930s maps look very similar. https://www.theundergroundmap.com/article.html?id=350&annum=1900 I was brought up in Acton during the 1950s and 1960s and worked there off and on during the 1970s. So Acton is my 'Manor' of old. Was looking at a map of Acton Central Station and noticed the abandoned railway line! Which eventually led me to here. Hope it helps. Cheers Loz