Edge

There is a kit out for adapting the A4 to W1-I see no problem in using the same chassis, tender and front end-a large saving in tooling up.  Whilst we are at it, a new streamlined body and tender for the B17, and run as a special edition, Caprotti bodies for the LMS class 5 ditto, and a Crosti 9F.

 

Also, reading the posts, the original P2 rotary valve gear was troublesome, and fixed settings gave inefficient working.  An improved 2001 could be produced by using 71000's arrangement. 

Tooling costs for any RTR locomotive are massive and for the most part they cannot be split without destroying the original tool. These are engineering-standard components that cannot be changed without destroying the ability of the tool to be a tool.

The only exceptions to this are some tools that are designed with slide-in sections to represent detail differences (headcode boxes and the like), I believe that Dapol is the most common user of this practice. Still, such an idea must be taken forward in the design stage, and not retrospectively.

So you couldn't use the front of an A4, the boiler of an A3 etc because you would eiher have to cut up a tool (in itself, not the easiest of tasks) or create a brand new one from scratch. In either case, there isnt a whole lot of cost saving there.

The same problem with the B17, there would have to be an entirely new tooling for the body.

Fraid that this idea is a bit of a non-starter: its wonderful in principle, but I doubt that it will ever be able to be used in the real world

No results on Google, so even if it is happening, they're not going properly yet.

Not sure that a DP2 rebuild would be distinctive enough for popular support anyway INHO

(of custard made)

for fish baiting

It's not a railway item, but I've managed to pick up a Dark Angel Chaplain Seraphicus for £8!

And ona  railway note, managed to grab a Pullman coach for a conversion project for a quite reasonable sum of 99p and a DCC ready N" in BR Black (a la the Olympic trainset) for £40. Not too shabby at all

Well it certainly looks like a P2

Be still, my beating wallet

rheumatism, but then

although of course

tomato sauce base

wrestle poodles and

His stuff is a rip-off; old Hornby models for more than new railroad ones of the same type etc. and this! That's a lot, even though it is weathered

You mean weathered badly never seen any pic of steam engine that looked like that

Saw a spaniel puppy chasing a balloon this morning. If you don't smile at that, you aren't human

There's also Bournville Steam and Chocolate by Mike Hitches, http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bournville-Steam-Chocolate-Mike-Hitches/dp/B002DID9X2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1372326799&sr=8-1&keywords=Bournville+steam+and+chocolate

 

 

 Yoink winging its way towards me as I type, er, speak

no unpleasant bending

Edge,

 

It's not totally practicable as one entry, as there are probably around 200 of various aspects (and many have to be converted from TIFF format).

 

I thought I would drop them into the thread as and when relevant to whatever was being constructed. Some are not of particularly high quality but others are very atmospheric and were one of the reasons for going down this route.

 

This is perhaps the favourite, though it pre-dates Waterside by about 20 years.

 

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peterL

I wasn't nagging honest just very interested in pictures that I have found to be rather rare and hard to find myself

frog like noises

These pictures from the Cadbury works are fascinating. I'd love to see more if there are more to see: I only live ten minutes away from Bourneville and its one of my favoured tourist haunts whena  friend from out of town comes to visit

I want it all - Queen

I think (don't rely just on me, for gods sake) that Cadbury used to import raisins and currants from Italy for its fruit and nut bars. They are reasonably perishable traffic, and so would have needed ventilated vans.

Also, lest we forget, there had to be shipments of the Chocolate fruit (Cocau?) from Ghana, and rails across Europe would have been a decent way to achieve this. That's a complete guess by the way, got absolutely no evidence to back it up

If you were thinking of modelling the railway in its later years, there is a rather handsome diesel shunter sitting next to the kids play area at Cadbury world. You can virtually climb on it

Dear DapolDave,

I model Industrial steam in 'OO', please stop making me buy loads of 'N' main line locos and modern image units. My wallet now hates you

Yours,

Edge

The idea was explored just after reopening, and the line that runs to the right hand side of Boston Lodge (when travelling towards it over the cob) is the remnant of that idea. I think it was dismissed as too costly and imparactical. The geography isn't too kind to the idea of laying a railway, and I don't think that even Porthmadog is big enough for trains from three separate routes to meet there

fire and brimstone

In all seriousness though, its about time. She's a beautiful engine, literally one of a kind now, and Steam engines were meant to move, not be stuck at the back of a shed somewhere or slowly rotting on a plinth.

Well, Portmeirion is going to need to get the China out somehow and as all roads will be destroyed and road vehicles short circuited the FR/WHR is needed urgently to perform this essential post-apocalyptic duty

How about this gem.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AIRFIX-No-R201-B-R-RAILBUS-CONTRUCTION-KIT-BUILT/271096520659?rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222002%26algo%3DSIC.FIT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D15990%26meid%3D8462641183142290662%26pid%3D100005%26prg%3D7588%26rk%3D2%26sd%3D380657584473%26#ht_903wt_932

please, Mister Lister, take my money!