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Reading a few posts before and a good few after, from this post: you should get chapter and verse on the various guises of the Cowlairs tender.

Look after yourselves up there. You're both forever in the thoughts of the N.E. contingent.

Should be. Hopefully getting picked up by the Sheffield Express. Barring that it's bus, bus, metro. After a bit more perusal of the photographs it looks like the bogies follow standard Heljan practice in that the whole side-frame sits on spigots. Electrical pick up looks more like Bachmanns DMU arrangement with elect transmission via 1mm extensions to the axles. I'll bring my hammers. We'll have it in bits in no time. 🙂 Must get back to painting the Q6. (and doing the ironing).

Handy phots . Thanks. At least the collector shoe support looks like it's a separate moulding so that shouldn't be too difficult to alter for the later shoe position. Looking at the photo, might it be be a split axle setup, on a 2mm axle, insulated by the final drive pinion? I'll not be getting one till next week, if they haven't sold out. Guess I'll have to be waiting till then to find out. Mr Seymores 12 mm conducting wheels may be the way to go. P

A & B end on this electric. Tampo printing should should have it marked on the solebar on the later liveried models. Lympdik for the later jobbies is at the B end. Oh dear... wheres the Zebedee spring?

No. Working appendix were very specific. No lamps if sandwiched between loco & train though. I bet some lamps fell off though, the way the DBT's bounced.

Cable connector. 26500/1 had five of these externally. Bolted busbar box for isolation and disconnect purposes.

Maybe they restored it to the pre-sandbox condition? (or just remounted the bogies the opposite way round to what they had been?). The frame for the lympdik has also been removed from the Shildon loco but the cable remains. At least that's what it was like the last time I looked.

Probably the same model that has been doing the rounds. (bent lamp bracket). I don't hold out much hope John. Apart from the buffers & bonnet handrails it looks like its one tooling fits all. Bow pen & Airbrush at the ready to correct the livery. I'm also hoping with the bogies, it will be possible to swap them end for end to get rid of the NEM socket thus correcting the shoes at the same time.

Depends which end you're talking about.😜 Argyle Street box was about 50 yds. behind the bricks. https://goo.gl/maps/rJBnmpFb6KjMfik17 Here's your cul-de-sac over the yard. Today: https://goo.gl/maps/xLSHPh84dBJ2gpjg7 Oh yes they were. May not be physically the same boards but add hoardings have been on that site since the coming of the rails. The one shown in your link is on the top off the shortest of the Quayside branch tunnels. See earlier in the thread. Ooooh! the Two Trees Union Street. Interesting. There was a few ad hoardings around that pub. Some of them quite mobile. Sunday afternoons in the Ark Royal (pub not carrier) could be entertaining. Spooky! I went to take some photo's of the Quay Yard just before the work began to fill the area to let the redevelopment of the quayside start in earnest. Twas bright and sunny. Afore I got back in the car the worst thunderstorm I've ever encountered began. Must be the area. Lightning was hitting the ground all around and when I got to Whitley Bay I stood in my mates garage with the doors open and watched lightning knock chimney pots off houses opposite. Somewhere I have the negs of the snaps I took that day.

Hardly me owld Duck. I should have been there this afternoon. You can walk down a set of steps across the top of the Quay Yard tunnel entrance. Thats about it. https://goo.gl/maps/DRf3dMDMjQ74GiUEA I doctored up a map a few years ago. See earlier in the thread Last time I saw the Traff Yard Layout it was at the N.E. & Borders EM group skills day at Stannington. That'll have been a good few years ago. Dunno if it's been exhibted since.

That'll have been about the time he was "keeping an eye on a suspect" rummaging about the 16 tonners opposite Lotts Road power station in the Edgar Wallace Mystery, "Urge to Kill".

Apparently a bit of a prick, off court.

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I used to do voluntary work which involved showing Americans (North) around the pubs of Durham. Dere-ham was a stopping off point in between Yurk and Edinbuuuurg.

First time I saw an explanation of Walschaerts was on a series of wall-charts.

Heljan O5's have a plug in buffer plank. Thing is they don't do a matching plank with a filled in coupling hole. It's to provide for different toolings of planks fitted to the same chassis block. To use three links or screws after filling the aperture, I then had to bolt (16BA) the plank to the chassis to stop it pulling off (oh-er missus!) every time it took up load.

That's always been a truism. 🙂

It's not like that on their AB.

Like you, I'm hoping it's not to difficult to separate the entire body from the chassis. Where we differ is, I'm hoping that it comes with 2mm axles so as the wheel centre can be kept in proportion. I suspect it will be a 2mm axle if the cads (I realise there at the very early stages) are anything to go off, but I feel it in my water. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hugh_llewelyn_1310_(6966652794).jpg Depending on the design of the model I suspect Mr High level will be looking at it once he gets the AB chassis sorted.

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Thanks for posting up the images. If the NCB version is based on the prototype I think it is, then its main body colour should be light green not blue. Also should have the square topped sandboxes but I'd guess that would be wishing too much. Rather than No. 8 possibly Jim McIvers ingine, the legendary No.81, may be a better choice. Paint job continually buffed up but only on the one side that faced the NCB Durham & Northumberland H.Q. Lasted in traffic until 1972 and visible at work from the ECML. https://flic.kr/p/2jwhSob

Apologies for the late reply. Just seen your query. There's a few can be seen on the Tippler lines in the Transport age article. There was six (at least) that went to the NYMR. I saw them at Pickering/New Bridge so it would have probably been about the mid 1970's. Photo's of them appeared in "Moors Line". The ICI house magazine had photos of them in the background in photographs that accompanied the trials of the first Janus.

He'd never accounted (or counted) on Humbrol then.