redgauntlet

Hi again,

 

Please forgive me all for coming back straight away but I forgot something I wanted to ask.

 

I'm mainly a BR Western Region and Southern Region modeller but maintain an interest in other strange lines in other parts of the country too !!.

 

Please may I ask - I seem to remember once seeing a magazine article on 'cutting and shutting' using A4's to produce the unique W1 4-6-4 in its later A4 lookalike form.

If my memory isn't playing tricks on me can anyone who models Mr Gresley's locos perhaps let me know if I'm right.

After 54 years active in the hobby it sometimes difficult to remember every detail of the articles I've read over the years so I could be wrong over this.

If by chance I am right I reckon the £2.99 A4 has got to offer the perfect place to start as I fancy a W1 in BR livery.

Thankyou for any advice on this.

 

Regards to All.

You're not wrong, I remember the article myself. It was (I think) published within the past five or six years, I think I still have it somewhere and I'll try to dig it out.

My first sight of a Deltic was at Chester le Street in the summer of 1961. It was D9009 Alycidon heading north. It was preceded by 60027 Merlin on the Elizabethan and follwed by 60008 Dwight D Eisenhower on the Flying Scotsman. We cycled there from South Shields, do kids still do that these days?