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Nesta up in the galleries of Bethesda. (Fathers layout, my photo)

Snainton and Thornton Dale had the large lamp with red tinted glass like the one at Beamish. I am still trying to best work out how to make one. The set up for the gates looks well made and sturdy. Look forward to seeing it in operation (and will be taking notes!)

I'm currently working on the same station building for a model of Sawdon on the Forge Valley line (see my workbench thread). I've prepared drawings by tracing those in the Forge Valley line book into Adobe Illustrator. If the drawings are of use, send me a private message.

I haven't seen yet, but the printed poster update being dished out this weekend read:

Lined NER I believe.

For me, the Infinity on the face of it looks like a very good leap in the right direction. Most existing DCC controllers that are wireless capable I've seen I consider to be dated, over complicated and oversized in their interaction, much like comparing a first generation mobile phone to a modern smart phone. DCC controllers have a lot of catching up to do compared to other technology devices if I'm totally honest.

Thanks @Jon4470 and @jwealleans. It would be interesting to find some more information on the immigrant trains. There is a photo in the NERA article I mentioned of a Class S2 No.786 with a C1 fish wagon, followed by two N.E.R. matchboard bogie coaches, the second of these could be a diagram 111. The remainder of the very long train (at least 9 more coaches) is standard NER bogie elliptical and clerestory stock. D&S have done the diagram 111 (DS196). There is one on eBay currently (unbuilt) for a very high figure! Any other thoughts on achieving the matchboard effect would be much appreciated.

Built for excursion traffic I believe Mark, so could be seen anywhere an excursion would go I'd imagine. There's an article in the NERA digital archive about straight sided stock - "NERA 4360.pdf" is the title which should come up in a search.

Thanks @Jon4470, I was half hoping you'd spot my post! I was fairly sure that these would have been lake. I'll have to check NER Record Vol.2, but was under the impression that after a certain (fairly early) date, all NER coaching stock was painted in lake. ECJS of course would have been teak. From what I've read, the matchboard stock was all built for excursion traffic. Here's a link to David Berner's own scratch build of one which he's done in lake: https://www.instagram.com/p/CNvGJwtH9k6/?img_index=1 I don't have a handrail jig, but rigging up some kind of jig may be the way to do it. I was wondering if scoring the lines rather than re-drawing them with ink would look better.

A friend donated this scratch built N.E.R. Diagram 111 straight sided / matchboard bogie coach. It is currently in LNER brown, but I would like to change it to NER crimson lake. It's not an incredibly refined build, but I'd like to use it to practice on. The model all comes apart nicely, so painting shouldn't be too difficult, however the matchboard effect is currently ink lines on a flat piece of (I assume) plasticard. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on how to achieve the matchboard panelling in a more effective way? I have my doubts if I redrew the lines that I'd get them consistently spaced as I'd like. I was thinking 1mm spaced plasticard boarding would look about right, however the 0.5mm (20 thou) thick Slater's boarding is too thick to place on top of the existing sides.

I've been spending most of my modelling time over the last month working on the North Eastern Railway Station building to accompany the goods warehouse and weigh hut further up thread. Here is progress so far. For anyone who's been following @Worsdell forever's Chop Yat thread, I'm sure the station building will look familiar! There is still a very long way to go with this scratch build. I'm going to work on the chimney's next.

I’ve used http://www.precisionlabels.com with success for custom waterslide transfers prepared in Illustrator and exported as pdf. Not sure how expensive it will be for the number of colours in your sheet it will be though.

This is what you will be wanting (mould 4): https://traders.scalefour.org/DaveBradwell/castings/ Worth noting only Oxford’s 65817 has the correct boiler for the low dome.

Without wanting to hijack the thread too much, any recommendations for sprung buffers for NER bogie stock @Jon4470? The long 13" head type on Phoenix (4-40404) look to have the right shank but wrong head. I'd been recommended the L&Y one's on Wizard (LYRC025) but they've been out of stock for a very long time.

Edwardian Summertime on the edge of the North York Moors as an N.E.R. Class O passes Wilton Carr with a Sunday School excursion to Scarborough.

An impressive amount of progress! Looking forward to more updates.

I'll drop you a pm Paul.

I've been working on this scratch built North Eastern Railway weigh hut over the last couple of weeks. The model is entirely plasticard apart from the glass of the windows. The downpipes and chimney pot are from Modelu. There were three weigh huts to this design on the Pickering to Seamer branch. Two of those three survive. One at Ebberston and the other at Wykeham. Here is a photo of the one at Wykeham, which retains it's full height chimney stack and pot. My model is intended for Sawdon, the hut of the three which has been demolished.

Would it be possible to see a photo of what you have described here?

A quick makeover job for one of the five second hand Slater's P7's I picked up a while back. This one was originally numbered 54143, but in a livery the P7's never carried (despite the Slater's instructions and transfer sheet suggesting otherwise): So I scraped off the transfers and repainted it a much lighter grey and applied my own custom transfers: Followed by a heavy covering in soot weathering powder before sealing in: The coal load is using crushed real coal on a platform made from plasticard and is removeable:

Yes, I would agree. I needed to make a few amends to get the pdf file in the right format, especially with it having both black and white ink which needed to be on a page per colour. The transfers had arrived on my doorstep a couple of days after payment. Excellent service.

I didn't have the right size lettering to finish the U16 (V4 prototype) brake van, so decided it was about time I progressed my own self prepared transfer sheet. The results of that are shown below. A bit of an experiment, including printing with both white and black. http://www.precisionlabels.com were used for the printing and I'm pretty please with how well they have come out. The sheet has a number of generic letters and numbers for future wagon builds, but also some specific numbers for wagons I intend to build in the near future. Here are the transfers applied to the U16 van, which really just needs weathering now. Although the duckets could do with their windows. I was wondering how to achieve something half acceptable for this and was wondering about a further waterslide transfer print in black for them.

Looks good Mark, thanks for posting. Will you apply the NER livery in the photo that exists of the van or go for LNER period? Mine has now been painted and is ready for couplings to go in, transfers and then some weathering. I need to get some custom transfers sent off as I have N.E.R. in 6" size, but not in the require 9". I replaced the chimney using some plasticard rod and the torpedo air vents are 3d prints found online.

A pair of clergymen are out in the North York Moors c1921. Rumour has it the NER will merge, so they are capturing what they can before it all changes. At Wilton Carr level crossing near Thornton Dale, one has climbed on top of a threshing machine in a field to gain a lofty vantage point, while the other has remained at the roadside. Fortune would have it a special from Scarborough headed by a Class O passes through just as they have set up.

A pair of clergymen are out in the North York Moors c1921. Rumour has it the NER will merge, so they are capturing what they can before it all changes. At Wilton Carr level crossing near Thornton Dale, one has climbed on top of a threshing machine in a field to gain a lofty vantage point, while the other has remained at the roadside. Fortune would have it a special from Scarborough headed by a Class O passes through just as they have set up.