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Try this... https://emgs.org/virtual-show-2021-welcome-closed/virtual-show-2021-demonstrations-pre-group-wagons/

Also visible is a wagon longer than the others, maybe an ex-LYR double end door open , with one end boarded up, Dia 81 or 83 possibly. and possibly two ex-LYR Dia 99 vans at the back.

ISTR there was a full page photo of a train made up of these MR sleeper wagons with (very blurred) similar large LMS lettering in Bill Hudson's "Through Limestone Hills". Haven't seen a copy for ages, though, so I may be wrong about the photo, or even the book. Perhaps someone with a copy could check.

It's Father Stone. Apart from the pose... and hospital... and she doesn't look like Ted...

Shades(!) of Model Railway Constructor in the sixties

Last Wednesday, the same Lidl also had some micrometers in stock.

Middle of Lidl (at least the one between Halifax and Bradford) has some digital calipers @ £9.99.

Based on Maritime Pit at Pontypridd ( he writes )

In his book "Model Railway Layout Design", Iain Rice showed a multi-level plan for a South Wales based pit, "Deep Navigation Colliery". Pete

Loco profile no 37 has a works picture of 6225, with the caption commenting that the ventilation louvres were added to the 1938 batch of streamliners, and were therefore missing on 6220-4 (as built). So it depends what number you're modelling.

Having lived in Klagenfurt in Carinthia/Kärnten for a year in early 70s as part of a German degree, I can sympathise with German speakers trying to understand Austrian or Swiss dialects. I lodged with a family who originally came from a remote valley near the Slovenian border, and it took me a couple of weeks to get the hang of "Karntnerisch", which apparently Germans found hard to understand. Some of the the southern Austrians I meet on holiday are surprised to find an Englishman recognising their accent, and asking if they live near Klagenfurt.

42 endings? 7 cases x 2 (singular and plural) =14 x 3 genders =42

Mike , there is a detailed GA drawing no 1829 of the Diagram 21 brake van in the "Virtual Museum" on the LYRS website. The end elevation shows the lower footsteps as 1 and 3/8" thick; the upper veranda step looks to be the same , drawn about half the size of the 3" floorboards. HTH Pete

I think there is a photo of a train of these sleeper wagons in Bill Hudson's " Through limestone hills", but as I don't own a copy, I could well be mistaken. Pete

Thanks a lot, I'll pass it on. He's a retired engineer, and should appreciate the technical info Pete

A friend of mine is travelling round eastern Europe in his motorhome and occasionally sends me photos of interesting railway stuff. He recently sent me this picture from Poland of some unusual v-shaped steel sleepers, and was wondering if I could enlighten him as to why they were this shape , as opposed to the usual cross sleeper. As I can't , hopefully some-one else could let me know, please. Pete

TThe move from "content" to "content-eu" looks to have caused the pages to revert to text on my work laptop, as outlined earlier Not sure why that would make a difference on the work VPN, but presumably due to the latter being blocked, and the former being ok. Pete

This is the same problem I mentioned a few pages back. Since the host change, rmweb has displayed correctly on my personal laptop and phone, but failed to display on the work laptop using MS edge and internet explorer, even after clearing history/cookies etc. However it did display ok on the work laptop using a secure browser called garrison, but only up to 5th April, when the server was down for maintenance. After that, garrison will only display as text, so possibly the CSS was moved to the site mentioned by @Moonter below, which is blocked on the work VPN, or something else changed on 5th. A pity, as browsing here was a pleasant way of spending lunchtime at work. As it works for probably 99.99% of users, I doubt it's high on on Andy's radar. Pete

Thanks Andy, but unfortunately that hasn't made any difference. I'll try tweaking some more settings here Pete

Congrats on getting the site back Andy. My laptop now will only display RMweb in text mode using MS Edge and also internet explorer after the migration to the new provider, so I guess a script has changed somewhere, maybe Javascript or CSS, although I'm not too au fait with those. I've reset dns, cleared cache, and checked security settings, but still shows text mode. Pete

All the covers ( albeit low res) can be found here at the magazine exchange starting in 1964

Yes, here are my thoughts... Just in case you haven't found any drawings, I've dug out my made up GWW 3 planker, and the dimensions are as follows, measured with a vernier: Top of side to bottom of solebar = 11.5mm Top of round end to bottom of headstock = 15.1mm So the top plank is 3.6mm, which equates to about 10.8" in 4mm scale. It doesn't overlap the side. The chord is 27.25mm, so I'll leave others to work out the radius of the round end, my O-level maths was a long time ago. Pete

You must have found it difficult to breathe under the circumstances.

Sorry Duncan, I don't have the actual drawings. I was merely showing where the drawings can be found. Pete

If you can get your hands on a copy, the 16 page instruction sheet from Great Western Wagons 3 plank kit has the history, lot list with numbers, livery details, an extract of an 1884 engraving, and a source list of 23 photos. The 1884 engraving is in "Proceedings of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers" 1884 Plate 68. I doubt your local library will have it. Drawings are available in Railway Equipment Drawings by L. Tavender Edward Bros ( scale drawings) ref 12/9 ( round ends) Development of the GWR 16' open wagon, HMRS journal 1972 , v7, nos 9/10/11 BG 3 planks had square ends. Round end disappeared c. 1914 . All the above info is from the instructions. I've never heard of Edward Bros. Did they do a range of drawings like Skinley? HTH Pete