Porcy Mane

Further to Jons pics here's yet another phot of the fan Exhaust. Taken in 2005, for those that don't know the area it shows how rural the colliery location was. The red arrow indicates the room that housed the airlock door shown in post #247. P

Hmmm? I bought a hopper kit some time last year (2014) and it had the same style transfer sheet as the last batch I bought in the 1970's. Don't know how long it had been in stock? and application method had changed from rub on to methfix. 7. Remove boiler bands??? 8. Remove Tank top rivets. ??? (A couple of top down 1950's pics of short bunkered 72's I've seen appear to have flush riveted tank tops but who is to say they were like that pre grouping?) P

I know of one 4mm exhibition layout that has scale dog logs deposited around. Their appearance (Or the pointing out of their existence) is dependant on the type of exhibition it is. Looking for them has provided non railway interested kids plenty of entertainment! And then there are some railway related thing's that you would never consider modelling. http://news.sky.com/story/85759/disgusting-goat-sex-man-jailed P

I can't vouch for the accuracy of this site but I've found myself using it with more regularity as it's quicker that digging out the ABC's. Here is it's entry for 62011. http://www.brdatabase.info/locoqry.php?action=locodata&type=S&id=601101011&loco=62011 P

Anyone for a J15... Porcy

Your prerogative of course. The fact we all have varying viewpoints makes the world far more interesting. With a tiny loco against that magnificent big sky it would make me think how insignificant we and all our views are, in the bigger picture of things. Nice pic though... P (And it then would be a picture of a loco on a viaduct?)

Needs a loco on it. Preferably a pacific trailing an exhaust to match the clouds. P

The Shaft was capped years ago with some major remedial work being carried recently as part of the open cast mining in the area. This is the air lock door colliers walked through to access the shaft. The airlock was located to extreme left of the long low red brick building (with light coloured window surrounds) and led to the shaft top directly under the headgear wheels in this pic: https://flic.kr/p/a57dSm Probably one of the most extensively mined areas in the North East. That's why the transformer men have cap lamps. Bantling Castle colliery and sidings lay directly south by only a few yards (I think it was called Sebastopol locally[after the battle]) then East Castle Colliery came later it's shaft and sidings located only a couple of hundred yards to the East but to the North of the S&T. The "hole" of the Pontop Pike area was a warren of collieries and wagonways. P Edited to turn a spelling mistake into a pun.

Things don't change. It always struck me when walking through any drawing/design office that there could be dozens, if not hundreds of personnel beavering away at their drawing boards/workstations, distilling ideas, yet it would always be the guy in the top office that would be given the credit. Adrian Newey is a name that pops into my head when thinking about this a little deeper. I've always seen the man in the top office as the leader that brings everyone together and has them pulling in the same direction. Seems like Thompson couldn't do this (for a multitude of reasons, both personal and engineering wise, according to what's been written and documented) yet Peppercorn could. I wonder what they would have thought about the Hornby model? P

Dunno about that. 62027 had a lucky escape coming down the Lanchester Valley. Totally wore away a new set of engine and tender brake blocks but fortunately no trains in front of it. That's according to the driver, the late Harry Friend who used to be a neighbour. Reason given was only eight out of 34 loaded 16 tonners had the brakes dropped. I think it should have been 18 sets of brakes dropped and pinned. His account of the incident was written up for a magazine a good few years ago. P

... but a bit weak on braking of loose coupled freights. P

Two ways of looking at it. What If someone asks if your Hornby is a Bradwell? Just so happen to have one of them sat next to my Hornby jobby on my bench at the moment... P Appy New Year to all and Sundry...

Nice light. P

Crikey!!! You gave me palpitations with that post, having just researched out 62050 and sorted out some tender sideframes with straight ends for which it was fitted in the 1960's. But think I've sussed it now. I suspect you might of typo'd. Should 62050 not be 62020? I think it should. Porcy (Who's off for a lie down to recover)

I'm with you on this Bernard. Having just had a look through my K1 prints and not so many B1 prints; straight on K1, Scalloped on B1. In service I'm sure there would have been examples of visa versa but I haven't found any so far. Also further to my earlier comment, I haven't come across any phots of 4200 gallon tenders with the division plate repositioned to the further forward location not having the vertical "strengtheners". I'd read somewhere on this forum that Hornby considers themselves one of the premier model manufacturers in the UK market (or words to that effect). For even a percentage of that to be true they should perhaps be trying a little bit harder. 62024, 62027 and 62015 as modelled by Hornby all are straight as is 62005. If the Hornby tender chassis was a one piece moulding I could understand the financial reasons why they would compromise and use the B1 tender tooling but as the tender sideframes are a separate clip on moulding I can't see why they didn't tool up a new one. Surely it can't be as simple as Hornby not realising there is a difference? As model makers it should be easy enough to cut new sideframes to the correct profile. There are a couple of suppliers out there that can supply separate spring/hanger/axlebox mouldings. Doing this would allow anyone the model the bolts/rivets that Hornby have missed but as has been said previously, why should it be necessary. Here's a Pic of a lamp-less B1 tender with a flat top dome to mull over. 61036 by Gricerman, on Flickr P Edit: To add the picture... Bu**er!

But that would be a portrait. Sort of like this... you mean? but using a decent loco. From the portraits thread: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/73847-locomotive-portraits/page-3&do=findComment&comment=1099012 Porcy

Can't remember seeing this in the thread before. 61237 near Heaton Lodge with a vans train 3 September 1966 by pondhopper1, on Flickr Steam and pandrols. P

...and 1 minute 10 seconds further into it's journey. Porcy Edited to post correct pic.

Bachmann 37 of my oval of track. (It's 37174 approaching Browney, Durham, ECML,really) Porcy

Renishaw ironworks No 6. Porcy

Nurrr, thets ernly fer commoners...lyke.

Mick, I think thery are listed on the downladable planner. For some reason you cannot link directly to the page Go to http://www.highlevelkits.co.uk/ then click Gearboxes > Planning > Profiles That should take you to PDF with the key for final drive gear fixings at the top of the page. P It's arl reet Chris. Arl dee ya jerb fer yeh.

Sun was shining in Blighty for this one too. Porcy

With all this talk of babies it's worth considering that Mr G may have had more than just a hand in the conception of the original DJH AB! I keep suggesting a complete 14" 0-4-0 Barclay saddle tank to Chris but he never rises to the bait. But then... even if he did bring out an AB... would you buy a loco kit of this man??? He he... I've been looking for an excuse to post that for ages... Happy Christmas Chris...

Mr G does like to pose his stock on P4 track... I suspect he has secret desires. Porcy