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My pre-order is now being processed on the latest Princess Coronation, taking me up to 7 of the 8 released of the non-streamlined offers, and I’d initially thought it was an issue with the photo angle in Rob’s post above - but the link also intimates the printing of the cabside lining below the Fireman’s side window isn’t square to the apertures / rivet detail?
I’ll need to look at mine more closely when it lands.
Ian
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Hopefully not too much of a thread drift, but is there any evidence (apart from 6229’s ventures being dragged from York to Shildon and back) of a streamlined Duchess venturing on / near the ECML, or Leeds for that fact?
Cheers,
60800
Sure I’ve read somewhere, possibly Rowledge, that City of Leeds made it to Leeds City for its naming ceremony.
Ian
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Cheers Joseph I believe you could well be right.
I’m gonna get a couple of packs of the Wills product ordered up, then see the viability of that route.
I’m planning on in my head 4th radius curve 572mm. Yet to put template to paper.
Cheers
Ade
Be interested to see your findings on the viability of using the kit. With a curved bridge, albeit with angled joints to straight sections, the inner and outer ‘radii’ straight sections would need to be of differing lengths to achieve the curve?
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I had a quick run out to "The Branch" on Thursday, as it was nice & sunny.
Not much progress, I can't fathom the headshunt, seems only trains 4 coaches long will be able to enter the existing depot, I've not seen a proposed track plan, so the (as yet un-laid) sidings to the north will have a separate access, their length etc, I don't know.
From Taylors Lane (south end) I saw this Ninky Nonk going on shed.
As said the north sidings are not yet laid but work was going on with digging machines and orange men surveying etc.
Finally the DB depot sign (I've never noticed before) - Vigan Depot Hmmmmmmm !!!!
Brit15
On the track plan, I screenshotted this from the NR video:
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43077 getting close to Copley Hill going over the Dewsbury line before descending into Leeds
When Elland Road had proper floodlights...!
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I'm interested as a renumbering exercise more than the actual authenticity of the model. I've yet to peruse David Heys' excellent Britannia website for a suitable prototype but having read said resource, I'm aware the Brit's received a number of alterations at Doncaster including steps, smoke deflectors and aws fitting. (Strictly speaking for my 1959 period, I believe one of my current stud of GE Pacifics should have these.)
I take it this model would be appropriate for almost any '59 Stratford or Norwich Brit after its first general overhaul?
And are the likes of Rails likely to split the loco from the coaches?
C6T.
The RCTS book on the standard pacifics is a great starting point. Not all got speedos, there are minimum of three smoke deflector types - original with a handrail / western with brass edged cut-outs / wcml dished hand-grabs - then there are different connecting rods either plain or fluted, depending on when built. I'd try and hunt down 70034 Thomas Hardy for a later GE loco, though the Hornby model has the early crest and no AWS box on the running plate.
Ian
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Looks like Hornby has picked up the o/h flashes to the tender:
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Some on the rear of the tender the week before.
05_001_0076_70013+44781 Manchester Victoria 04-08-1968.jpgStewart
Blimey, looks like Debbie Harry was on hand the weekend before mainline steam ended.
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Missing warning flashes, easy fix by Replica or Fox.
Photos of the loco on the day in 1968 don't appear to show overhead warning flashes. Can't see any rear views of the tender, but certainly the loco herself appears devoid.
Ian
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Hello,
I've spent quite a bit of time trying to trace this location in conjunction with the 'Old Maps' site but without success. The photo came with others taken in the Oldham/Rochdale area in the late 50's/early '60's if this is of any help.
Many thanks in advance.
Apologies for the skewed view of the photo - repeated attempts to show it the right way up revert it to the original scan orientation.
Nick.
Looks like it could be Mossley, the wall alongside the yard is still there I think.
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Have the Bachmann model, what happened to this after its trial in 64 what region / servicesdid it run, I presume it kept the same livery minus the red logo, and later paintedBR rail blue, any pictures if possible circa 60s thanks.
Try this:
http://class47.co.uk/c47_numbers.php?index=6&jndex=3&kndex=33&s_loco=1733
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Do you get Cornish pasties in Devon?
Smuggling. It's in the blood.
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Not exactly viaducts, but that whole stretch from Euston to just past the site of Camden shed is a a myriad of bridges and dive-unders.
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HSTs in the (urban) landscape this time, although too far away to identify...
(I think one of these may have appeared already somewhere on this site a while ago)
017a (1640gS) between Brunel St.(left) +Trevethick St. Gateshead 1991 (T Ermel).jpgSouthbound through Gateshead on 30th March 1991. The street on the left is Brunel Street, on the right is Trevethick Street.
The streets in this part of town were named after famous engineers etc. and the incorrect spelling (should be Trevithick of course) was never corrected(!)
017B (DSC_0949a) HST rear Trevethick St 24-1-17 (T.Ermel).jpgAt the same spot on 24th January 2017 with the new Trevethick Street (same spelling) on the right. No sign of Brunel Street now.
(1630xS) HST Gateshead 1987 (T Ermel) .jpgNear King Edward Bridge Junction, Gateshead, in 1987. The HST has just come over the King Edward Bridge from Newcastle. In the background is the (in)famous St. Cuthbert's Village, built in the 1960s and mostly demolished 30 years later. It is impossible to replicate this shot today as trees and bushes block the view.
Cheers
Trevor
That first pic is just screaming out for Jack Carter speeding away in his silver Cortina.
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What a great photo, it's got everything!
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Some of us can and some of us can't....................
In life imitating model form, aren't there stay alive capacitors these days?
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Springs Branch - Bickershaw was mainly 40's, 47's 25's 20's (sometimes 2 x 20's at front, 2 at rear) and later class 60's. The Standish railway system connected with BR at Rylands Sidings, 1 mile or so north of Wigan NW, and the system closed around 1964.
Some photos of Bickershaw steam in 1969 on my site below.
Brit15
Class 50's as well on the MGR when they were still present in the north west. I think the slow running gear was removed during the refurb programme.
Ian
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Not in my opinion. A Class 50 sounds nothing like an HGV.
Huge Great Vacuum?
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That's a BBQ in Preston.By gum it's bracing up north. 15th July and they still need a brazier for the water column
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I took something bigger to be an O Gauge 24...
It could be a mountain?
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Hands up who nods off counting rivets, not sheep?
Ian
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I hope the trip was worthwhile, apart from the run behind 70013. What was the score?
Did the train travel via Preston, and if so was there a loco change?
Cheers
Trevor
1-1, Blackpool won 3-1 at Brunton Park in the reverse fixture on 30/12/67.
I've read somewhere 70013 worked the return train, but unsure of whether it worked in/out of Blackpool.
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If you preferred an early '80's feel you could justifiably model around Earlestown / Lowton where the electrified slow lines from Winwick Jct. to Lowton West Curve ran on the same metals as the former Liverpool and Manchester Railway - giving you WCML AC's and Deltics on Trans-pennine services to/from Lime Street.
With the added bonus of MGR from Parkside.
Ian
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Hornby Class 87 - Confirmed Newly Tooled Version for 2017 !
in Hornby
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Agreed, I’d expect to see a lattice headspan for Mk.1 OHL and a cable arrangement for Mk.3 and beyond.
Recent electification around Salford and the Bolton - Preston line makes use of double track, single post with cantilever gantry (presumably due to comprised proximity or poor ground) - but on quadruple track you’d expect to see a headspan.
Clive Mortimore has produced some great detail drawings of the variation permutations.