ScottishRailFanatic

“I fear no man. But that… thing…” “It scares me.”

“Sir, I think Mr Bulleid has gone mad.” ”You say that as if he hadn’t lost his marbles beforehand. The bleeding thing doesn’t even have front buffers.”

And a rightfully deserved one too!

So it is - I never noticed that during editing! I won’t bother fixing it; there’s some good ideas circulating for it already on this thread…

“Night of the Living Bread” A joke Q1 0-8-0T, just to make it look even more like a bread loaf on wheels! If anyone can find a use for it you’ll get a proverbial medal

Works Document 19/7/54: Fowler-style 0-6-0T ”A small but powerful mixed traffic 0-6-0T with some clear Fowler influence. Designed to assist with heavy work on major branch lines, but equally at home shunting. The lining scheme is strange, but will be altered during its first overhaul if it proves successful. May form basis for new Standard class if successful.”

All very good points raised, so here’s a new version! - 2-8-4T configuration - Slanted water tanks - Increased driver diameter - Coal capacity increase - Same height buffers (thanks @BernardTPM!)

A mixed-traffic design in the form of a 7MT tank.

I can imagine that if my Extended WW2 situation were to take place we could also take some other liberties. My thoughts are that, if Gresley never had that fatal heart attack or was replaced by Peppercorn rather than Thompson, then the CMEs of the Big Four would end up working alongside Robert Riddles to produce some extremely effective collaborated locomotives.

Rule 1 always comes first - and what if Stanier went Southern?

I somewhat doubt this thread will ever run out of ideas, even after a decade or so of existence, so I have a new suggestion to start off another thinking spree. Let's imagine that WWII didn't end in 1945, but instead in 1953, escalating after Operation Barbarossa did in fact succeed, and the conflict became a stalemate of Axis-controlled land against the Allies - who now amounted to almost every capable country in the world. What motive power would the Allied powers have come up with to take the ever-increasing loads of wartime conflict that S160s and WD 2-8-0s were no longer sufficient for?

I looked at my extremely squished Terrier from a few days ago, and decided ‘if I squish it even more, it can have a tender’. So there’s the result, a probably useless loco that’s not much different from a Terrier minus being built for long-distance. Of course, Rule 1 always applies!

“Greg?” ”Yes Phil?” ”When they said ‘small mixed traffic locomotive’, do you really think they wanted it THAT small?” ”It’s a small mixed traffic loco. They never said how small it had to be.”

Too small?

Ask and you shall receive, @DK123GWR! I have far too many 9F-based designs in my portfolio…

I don’t know if any of you have heard of a certain gravity-powered aerial ropeway at Forterra in Claughton, but it seems to be an ingenious idea. While the technology has been around for about a century now, it’s still a great concept, and it led me to wonder: if large freight consists were kept at controlled speeds through air or vacuum brakes, could the need for bankers be removed entirely with a similar (much larger) rail-level system if installed on the likes of the Lickey Incline and similar locations?

Presenting, a streamlined mixed-traffic loco, the A4-4-4 (H3)!

Based on the Boston & Albany 4-6-6T, here’s a LNER L1-style version!

Here’s a couple (already existent) candidates for the NWR’s fleet, a GWR Small Prairie for branch/light goods and the LNER V2 for express and heavy goods. I’ve decided on unlined blue for smaller locos and a dark version of the official lined blue livery from the books. More on the way shortly.

Always up for a Sudrian spin on things, and the Castles/Landmarks are something I'd never thought of. A stroke of genius on your part, far superior to the muddle of one-offs and prototypes the island ended up with. Think we need a banker for Gordon's Hill though, or we'll be met with even more dangerous situations than Busy Going Backwards!

A Maunsell 2-8-2.

A squished 2-6-4T forms this next editing venture, imagining a 3MT tank was made to supplement their 2-6-2T brethren.

Based on an American design of Mallet saddle tank, here's an articulated Peckett - excuse the three nameplates, working with what I've got - meet 'Westminster Westminster Westminster'! Try saying that 3 times fast...

Continuing my role-swapping editing spree, here are three more edits in order: - Small mixed traffic Deltic ‘Demi-Deltic’ - Heavy Class 67 ‘Super Skip’ - Extremely (!) heavy freight Class 40 ‘Whistler’-style 1D-D1 ‘Howler’

Bordering the limits of the loading gauge, a Class 56-style D-D arrangement... And on the other end of the spectrum, a 'Baby Shed'!