Southernman46

Hi Gents, Been lurking on this thread for a while - just amazed how you guys get these right with so little info to work on. :icon_clap: My correct guess was entirely due to the fact that I had been studying the OS map to suss out some locations to photo the diverted XC voyagers and freights whilst Soton tunnel is closed. Anyway - these's the next one...sorry it's an attachment rather than visible image .... clue is it's not East Anglia or Lincs :icon_what: Map challenge square.pdf

Hurstborne Jn between Whitchurch & Andover ?????? Don't know how to show the complete map - but hopefully shown below

Hmmmmm - Got to go in on an annual leave day - it's still dark AND it's absolutely heaving down it in Wilts.

I agree with the above post - Have had cause to visit several times over the last 3 years whilst at Uni (I'm 46 - long story). Always busy - phone going off - sometime hard to get served etc etc(but that IS what the display cabinets are for - I'm sure) but always been satisfied and never had any problems with mail order. I wonder whether sometimes the shop atmosphere depends on the particular days' team as in any organisation this can affect the dynamic very subtlely - could just be having to work in Heeley - if you've been there you'll know what I'm talking about. Anyway I'll still happily give them a portion of my hard earnt (ill - gotten ??) stipend

Hmmm - I would agree - as photographed the chrome needs just a very subtle tone down (mainly to mitigate the non-scale reflections as another poster has pointed out) - What do they look like at the 3' viewing distance though cos close-up as in the sample photos just might not be doing them justice ??

These look excellent - well worth the effort you put into them - If you were to put these on eBay - they'd be snapped up like hot cakes.

Ah - the "Agfa curse" - that explains it

"Given that 37s weren't ever done in chromatic blue (only a few hydraulics were), no blue 37s were known to have small yellow panels, 37s werent overhauled at Swindon and nothing was blue in 8.64 apart from D1733, I doubt it. In fact I doubt it's even a 37 - it's something blue admittedly, but it's behind a sliver of reddish brown which is probably the corner plate of a High Goods wagon" No - the other photo of D9505 at Swindon on 16-08-64. It definately a 37 - it's definately not standard rail blue and it has a SYP. S'not a Class 41 either, it's got Oleo buffers. Anybody got any clue ?????

Clicking on that link - have a good look at the pic of D9505 at Swindon 16-08-64 Is that a Class 37 in chromatic blue with small yellow panel parked immediatelly to its right ??

Definately saw one of these (9135 I think) at Weymouth in 1973 on a train from Leeds or Newcastle

This seems to have gone a bit quiet - anybody got any info ??

Silly nicknames are all part of the fun !!! "F-uglies" gets my vote and they are definately growing on me - poised between Southcote Jn & Basingstoke ready for the first Southampton working :icon_thumbsup2:

Hi all, Replacement chassis runs perfectly. Having now done the brass bush mods on the original chassis it to runs well - so it will go under the DC kits Class 74. Didn't know that the the bogie wheelbase is 18 inches too short and the overall bogie centres 12 inches too long however, it does look right but then I also like the Dapol MBA / MCA 's

I just need to report on the high quality of service from KERNOW models regarding this issue. Bought a Clayton from them in April 09 (defective chassis) - e-mailed them last week about it - new chassis by return the day after - brilliant !! :icon_thumbsup2: After stripping the old chassis literaly to its component parts last night and doing the brass bush trimming / opening out exercise, it runs quite nicely. So it's going under the DC kits Class 74 - the length & wheelbase is just right - very lucky :icon_e_biggrin: So if you have a defective Clayton chassis and haven't cooked the motor - it's well worth doing the repairs to produce aworkable chassis. Now what am I going to do with this spare black beetle ???

Yup - I agree with the above - once uninstalled the old chassis is going to get some treatment to see if it becomes satisfactory - if so, then it's got a future life powering a DC Kits Class 74 that I'm about to build. Ah - that's what Dapol will be doing as their first dabble into "proper" (not AC) ) electric locos just after I've finished it.

Has anybody got details or even a photo or knows of a photo in a book showing the consist of a "Merdog" ballast train on the Southern please ? It's realy just to get an idea of the relative positioning of the two different types of wagon - I'm guessing grouped by type but would be delighted to it's Dogfish / Mermaid / Dogfish / Mermaid and so on..... Phew - long week of nights mending the real railway - might go to the NRM today for a fix Ta Southernman46

OK - I'll do it - what are we going to nickname these things ??????? I quite like the comparison with Delboys' Reliant Robin So how about "TROTTERS" for a first suggestion ??? :icon_what:

It just gets better & better :icon_thumbsup2: Of course I'm sure these engines were regularly "seen" at Winchester regularly on Ripple Lane - Fawley oil & Kings Cross - Bevois Park cement trains coupled in tandem with a Class 15 !!!!! Oh that'll mean I can justify both on my layout then :icon_wink: :icon_wink: :icon_wink: :icon_wink: :icon_wink: :icon_wink:

Daughter: Are you going to show mum. Me: No, mum is not interested in trains. Daughter: Are you going to tell her about it. Me: No, she does not want to know. Ho-ho - very amusing - ditto recent conversation with wife on arrival of said "KESTREL" "That's different - How much was that then" "A lot - You don't really want to know" "Then why did you buy it ?" "Cos you always say - why do you need another blue & yellow engine?" No reply !! - I'd won - I think I've won - I'm sure she was quiet because I'd won ? :icon_confused: :icon_confused:

This , whilst very simple almost resulted in personal injury from laughing when I first heard it Two fish in a tank...... One says to the other "Are you sure you can drive this thing....?"

Probably exactly what the Scottish region ops department were thinking around 1969 !! The irony is almost enough to give one a headache !! :icon_frustrated:

That's the whole point - they're were exclusively eastern but I've had to bend the space time continum to justify getting one and Falcon and Kestrel and a pair of Claytons and for an SR late 1970's layout (Modeller's licence ) They were however regular visitors to Hither Green on X-London freight. I also have a photo taken from the top of one of the HG yard lighting towers (circa 1965) with a D82xx and a Class 20 in the yard !!

Well at least that'll mean there'll be more Flangeway Mermaids for the rest of us then

Maybe it's just me but given the level of critism of Dapol's valiant step into modern RTR to give us another previously not nodelled prototype - I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if they just turned around and said "well sod you lot - we'll not bother in future" and deny us some of the other stuff they had planned. Coming from an era when the best we had was "magnahesion" and the original Hornby Class 08 - which only looked like an 08 'cos it had 6 wheels ! I feel the detractors out their should cut Dapol some slack - what does it matter that the 3rd rib on the 9th flange, etc etc is missing - treat their version of the MBA / MCA as a slightly different prototype and have some fun in this hobby - we dismiss the efforts of others at our peril because if they stop doing it we have nothing - especially those of us that don't have huge amounts of spare time (yet) to be building kits, etc... Southernman46

They are RIV registered wagons with all the necessary fittings and could just as easily end up in Dusseldorf if the traffic warranted it The Eastleigh - Wembley 6M44 enterprise service regularly conveyed 2-6 of these (ex-Quidhampton. The traffic to Irvine now runs as a block train through the CT instead of from Burngullow