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The request was obviously successful, as per the LYRS website... The Society The first Line Society - 1950 and all that! In early 1950 members of the Bradford Railway Circle got together and started a correspondence group discussing the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway. They placed an advertisement in the March 1950 issue of the Model Railway Constructor inviting like minded individuals to join. By 1956 a regular Newsletter was in production and its first editor, Tom Wray, was at the helm.

...I strongly suspect that this wagon was only ever fitted with the vacuum through pipe... Thanks for "differing", I forgot about the through pipe option. There are some more MR wagons in the Transport Archive" . Here is an extract from my rough notes on wagons contained therein, with terms to search for in order to find them... MR van 26705 1959 through pipe removed, either side brake mr cct 37381 1955 mr cct 37360 1952 2 photos mr van M7281 vacbrake in 1950 mr open m62495 search "51241" lms 40t brake M284725 under ref "CW10258" mr open not D299? m 97766 in 1955. search 50655 MR 6wheel ballast brake DM646 MR van M26491 as tool van. search under "95027" MR 5 plank 122000. grease box. D299 search for "2155" LMS/MR brake, no ducket, M688 search 58148 MR 5 plank 88981. Grease box. D299. search for "1603" MR fruit milk van M38473 in 1951 HTH Pete

Here's another one 26705 for your list, if you haven't already seen it. Assuming (!) the lighter paint on the solebar was behind a removed oblong numberplate, this may be pre-1913, with strengthening ironwork on the ends ( 7281 doesn't have this), vac brake gear removed, and double vee hangers on each side, so perhaps the "Independent Brake for Covered Goods Wagon" mentioned above. So built between 1909 and 1913? What livery would these be in by that date, apart from dirty. LMS/BR Bauxite or grey? They look to have been repainted since the war. Please beg to differ. Pete

Could they be for loading double-deck sheep vans? I think the Highland Railway had some. Pete

Interesting L&Y Dia 92 wagon on the right, with metal underframe. built 1920 ( L&Y wagons vol 1 p187). I pointed out a similar one in Jan 2021 in another thread.

I googled Shadwell Basin and found a plan here---> trainsonline from 2003 HTH Pete

IIRC Iain Rice based a small layout on this goods station in his "Designs for Urban Layouts". Pete

A bit of a long shot for finishing off Colin Ashby's kit, but is anybody aware of a photo of the internal bracing/brackets on these? The Tatlow drawing/diagram in the original LNER volume implies wooden ones I think, but the drawing on the HMRS website shows metal triangular brackets with the tops curled inwards, presumably to stop the plate load sliding over the end planks after a rough shunt. They may well have been renewed over their lifetime of course. I don't know of any other plate wagons which had this feature, so maybe it wasn't thought to be a problem. ( I've seen the photos in the new Tatlow volume, and the build on the LNER encyclopaedia website) Best wishes for Xmas and New year Pete

I remember reading in an article on pooling wagons ( maybe an early MRJ Chris Crofts piece? ), where the author wrote that if you hesitate to put a GWR open with sheet bar and a coal load onto an LMS coal stage, you haven't understood the concept of wagon pooling. The photo illustrates this perfectly.

In Wein die Wahrheit. In Wasser die Klarheit. Aber es liegt die Kraft in Goesser Saft is a little rhyme/slogan I was told when I lived in Klagenfurt as a student. Apologies if it's not quite right, but it was nearly 50 years ago. ( Truth in wine, clarity in water, but strength lies in Gosser juice ). Pfiat di Gott Pete

L&Y 1 plank wagons ( diagram 74 = 12' wheelbase; diagram 80 = 10'6" wb) were never vac-fitted, so you can leave it off. (Source: Noel Coates L&Y Wagons vol 1)

Indeed, from 1963-70. I managed to avoid Jock, apart from RE lessons.

Taught by a Mrs. Emslie, ISTR (on the left). We were told she was brought in as a part-time teacher from a firm to teach computer programming. I kept my exercise book with the flow charts and punch tape sellotaped in for decades until a clear-out.

If it's the picture on page 7, can I suggest early Midland, similar to plates 37 and 39 in Midland Wagons?

The wagon on the left matches up pretty well to the 3-plank loco coal/coke wagon drawings in Coates LYR Wagon books. ( Early 8 ton in Vol. 1 figure 8 , with the 10 ton in Vol. 2 figure 106 ). If the 1850 date is correct, I'd plump for the 8 ton version.

Not mentioned so far (afaics), Arthur Wolstenholme also did some of the colour centre spreads in the Profile booklets. I don't possess the full set, but he painted Royal Scots, British Single Drivers, and Jones Goods, and maybe others. The other artists were David and Peter Warner, separately and jointly, presumably there were more. Pete

Congratulations and ditto! Other news is I'm a grandad again ! My middle daughter in Australia Leeds gave us a baby girl boy this morning.

Chris This is at the top of the gearbox instructions... I assume the guidance section contains additional notes for the gearbox assembly. I can't see this on the new website anywhere. Have I missed it, or has it not been uploaded yet? Pete

Eric "Winkle" Brown's favourite From Wikipaedia As regards his preferences Brown states: My favourite in the piston engine (era) is the de Havilland Hornet. For the simple reason it was over-powered. This is an unusual feature in an aircraft, you could do anything on one engine, almost, that you could do on two. It was a 'hot rod Mosquito' really, I always described it as like flying a Ferrari in the sky.

or "basers" (= baseball boots, obv.) round our way in South Shields in the 60s. I think they had a round piece of rubber where the ankle bone sticks out.

The first pic.; when was Hywel Bennett on the railways?

There was an article by John Hayes in MRJ 120, describing modifications to the Ratio kit to produce 3 types of SR van, one of which had the Maunsell 8-shoe brakegear. Pete

Are you thinking of the article in Model Railways with a picture of an 0-6-0 tank ( Bamburgh?) on the cover and pile of scrap parts behind? Pete

Yes, somewhat ahead of its for the small business without a dedicated computer department, usually ( in my experience ) run by the accountant/sales director, with real-time updates on 10mb exchangeable discs ( Model 40 IIRC ), as opposed to the usual 1970's batch processing with reel-to-reel tapes. Morphed into the ICL System 25, thence to emulation on Windows and Unix. Pete

You may already be aware of this, but there's a good 1964 photo in Coates' L&Y Wagons Vol 1 Plate 153, showing an L&Y diagram 92 5 plank open, numbered 5476 with M S C livery. HTH Pete