macketty

Sorry for the slow response Marke. Thanks for the reply. I'll need to see if  i can make some like yours then for dad! He's 87 and even in his younger days (when his eyesight wasn't so bad) he was no great scratchbuilder, so it's either straight out of the box or I make it!

Mac

Hi. Really like the layout. Very impressive. A trivial question if I may: where did you get the hydraulic buffer stops from? They look just what my father needs for his layout, but can't seem to find anywhere.

Thanks, Mac.

Not impossible that it's a Henry Casserley photo if it IS Berkhamsted ....... so the answer might be yours for a mere twenty quid ! : https://www.waterstones.com/book/steaming-through-berkhamsted/h-c-casserley/9780954383824 .... there should be a photo or two in the right direction.

Thanks for that Wickham. I knew the Casserley family slightly and was lucky enough to get some of Henry's duplicate prints when the family were thinning out the archive some years ago. There are indeed some shots taken from almost exactly the same spot on the northbound slow platform in the small collection I have and that was what made me think the Tank train image was one of his also.

Always had a hankering to build a layout based on Berkhamsted, so anything additional background info like the above is always interesting.

Thanks. Mac.

A typical war transport train, not sure if that are warflats with the tanks, Churchill tanks?  , old picture low resolution , from the old 1945 book.

Out of interest, does the book say where the photo was taken? Comparing to some images I have, it looks like Berkhamsted?

Ta. Mac.

The history of the city class is well documented and no city ever carried Kaki livery. If they had, they would be carrying an ROD not a GWR number.  Those that received a repaint appeared in unlined green with GREAT WESTERN on the tender in a similar veign to the Star in the Hornby troop train. Certain GWR moguls however did have a full ROD kaki repaint as they were sent overseas to work in mainland Europe, along with the ambulance trains.

 

http://www.totnestrains.com/uploads/6/9/2/9/6929845/8134500_orig.jpg

 

From the few published images, the safety valve is painted over in most cases.

 

http://www.southdevonrailway.co.uk/image_uploads/5319-m.gif

 

 

The only reason I can see Bachmann has, in using the city is due to it appears to be the only early GWR tender engine they can currently produce.

 

Mike Wiltshire

Just to pick-up on "Coach bogie"'s and others assertions, in Appendix 7 of the HMRS's "Great Western Way", 3711 is noted as being observed in Khaki livery in September 1916. This would appear to support the livery choice of Bachmann.

Mac.