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Ian. Distance between the opening for the Guard's doors and the leading edge of that odd window is 73" give or take .25". Dave

Check out 'Eight Dollar Canyon' at < www.csmrc.co.uk > 16ft diameter. Dave

The Ladies Only labels may well be in the book but I can';t remember them still being on the actual stock that late. Dave

Hi. I use about 25 - 30% water + 5% IPA for wetting. The dry ballast also needs wetting well first with a mist of 50/50 water/IPA mix. Best of luck. Dave

Thanks again for every bodies comments. Cheers Dave

Hi Jez and Dave. Thanks for your coments Dave

Hi again Guys. As promised in an earlier post, I said I would round this subject off with a series of 'finished' views of Falcon Road. Well, it's getting there so here is a collection of shots taken as a 'walk along' the layout from one end to the other. Cheers for now. Dave Carshalton & Sutton MRC www.csmrc.co.uk

Found them. Hope they help Cheers Dave & HNY!!

Originally sent a message to your Blog on this but couldn't upload an image. This is all I can find at the moment although I know I have more somewhere. Dave

Got one partial but cannot find how to attach the file Dave

That's weird. There seems to be a posting of mine missing where I said that I thought it was olive green. Since then I have found a colour slide but these must have been processed very badly and they have vertually lost all thier colour. However, a scan and some fiddling now makes me think it was BR Blue. Dave

Colin. Here's what I have on the bogies. As a reference point I start with the trailer bogie under the 2Bil 2090. Note how the end 'transomes' wrap around the outside of the sideframe. It's a pity that the number of rivets between the so-called 'W irons' cannot be counted. Also there is the top strengthening angle missing. Then looking through other pictures I have, although I noted a couple as Trailer Pickup bogies, I think the rest are all 8' 6" type. At that time at Selhurst, they must have been preparing a few of these for De-Icing units. Looking at the construction differences between the one under 2090 and the rest, I think it's clear they are not the same. Hope this makes sense. Interesting buffers on the de-icing coach!! Dave

Colin. I was thinking the very same when I scanned the negative. I'll have another look. Dave

Hi Guys and Colin. Hope you don't mind my hijacking this subject for one moment. Been looking through my negs this evening and thought a couple might interest some readers and maybe encourage a bit of modelmaking. Our club used to have a large layout where my units once ran. 13 March 1979 A couple of things worth making models of! Finally -- "Just a bit of ice under the shoe guv. Soon be on the move again" Happy Christmas all. Dave

Hi Guys. Are these two shots of any interested. Taken 27/04/84 Cheers Dave

Hi Guys. I remember these workings. Went down to Three Bridges to see them. Seat cushions turned over and bikes stuffed in where ever they would go. Trains made long stop at TB to unload where necessary. Trouble is, I can't locate the photos. Cheers Dave

Hi Howard. I replied on 7th December. I'm afraid it's not good news. I have nothing to help you in that department. Sorry mate. Dave

Colin et al. Back to the subject in hand. As usual, I'm always lurking here watching your build progress. Your skill with Plasticard never ceases to amaze me. Brilliant! All those trips I made to photograph SR EMU details so that one day I'd get the details right has paid off. Although I've used most myself, I am really pleased that others can make use of them to enhance their models. When I started, there was no internet (not that long ago, only 1970) and I did it just for me, never thinking that anyone else might want to see or use them. After all, SR EMU modelling was a 'black art' in those days. The times I stood in sidings (both legally and illegally), sometimes in p***ing rain, taking measurements and photos has now paid off. Fantastic. Dave

Sorry to continue this theme Colin. I currently live in Copthorne, a stone's throw from Three Bridges. BUT Grew up in Morden. (Surrey) Although I was and still am an LT fan (mostly Underground stuff) other childhood memories are of 4 Cor units slamming through Raynes Park and Wimbledon (with gangways nearly coming off) and placing coins on the rails of the Wimbledon - West Croydon line. (true) That's enough for now. Dave

Ben. Found some shots I took during the building of 20001 and CC2. They were both built in the same manner. Obviously, you will want to use the drive unit from a modern loco, Class 45 or 40. Remove the front pony and cut back the sideframes to just in front of the first axelbox spring hangers. Unusually for me, the model was painted after the sides were affixed. They are cut from 15thou shellacked card. A better idea of the general method can be found in a thread I did on building Parcels Car 68000. You'll find it in RMweb if you search. The body has been prepared. The chassis shorted and the roof (also shortened) fixed to the ends after having the sides removed all except a 2mm portion just below the rain strip. With the ends/roof now being one item, flat 1.5mm Perspex has been fitted to form a box. This sits against the 2mm of remaining side below rain gutter and on top of the solebar. The bogies have been cut from a Mainline Peak, retaining the bits of the 'floor' containing the bogie mounts. Blocks of Plasticard have been built up replacing the missing portions of the roof, ready to be formed into domes. A pantograph well has also been cut out and sides and floor fitted to the apperture. A large centre cross piece has been left in place as well as a couple of others to support the bogies. A test fit of the bogies. Card sides have been drawn up and cut out. Also a strip of plasticard has been fitted to the lower edge of the solebar to form the girder shape. The other side, now with the domes formed and the front windows cut out. Finished. The vents in the sides of the roof were a complete nightmare to cut out!! The Lima roof material is VERY brittle. Hope this helps a bit. Cheers Dave

Hi Guys. Here's my take on Cassettes. I've fitted mine with a spring steel clip (call it a kind of Fishplate) (made from B&Q Greenhouse Glass Clips) so that there are no other connections to be made other than 'plugging' them together. The MDF base is wider than the ali strips. This means that when 2 cassettes are tight next to one another there is still room to get your fingers down between them. The ali is screwed to the MDF and keeps it from warping. Always buy your (non-anodised) ali from the same supplier so the thickness doesn't vary. The ali has a 1mm overhang each end of the MDF so no gaps appear in the 'running rails'. Have cassettes to fit train lengths. ie coach rakes, locos etc., etc. A short 2" 'cassette' forms a permanent end to the layout tracks. Fit 'between the rails' re-railers. A micro switch is incorporated into the 'permanent' bit activated by a cassette, so that if no cassette is present, a portion of the approach track is 'dead', thus preventing a driver running a train onto a non-existent cassette. Choose your own length to suit your layout. If you need to shunt within this 'dead' area, do so under the use of a push button that needs holding in. Cheers Dave

They were each made using a Mk 1 around May - July 1981. Makes no difference which one. Are you perhaps asking how it was make? If so then I could try to explain with the help of a couple of photos. Cheers Dave.

Here's my effort on these three locos. These models are now getting a bit long in the tooth. Each made from a Lima coach and Mainline Peak bogies. Dave

Thanks for your comment Rob. Thing is, it takes ages to build. In '00', I felt for a long time that most things had come a long way except the track. I really wanted to bring '00' track up to scratch (as much as '00' track can be) , so went down the road of using scale components as much as I could, including the 16.2mm gauge (00SF). Dave

Hi Chris. It's four sections of 'Skytrex'. Not cheap but well worth it but he'll to paint. Dave