bigherb

So could have Bachmann. So I will be buying the red box.

That rules in a MN, 7'6"x7'6" IIRC.

Looks like one given the electric lamp with the lamp iron above it. Did any other Pacific's have electric lighting without outside valve gear? That's a jolly big flywheel.

I think the smell actually came from Watneys in York road. Wandsworth was a lot less smelly after it was demolished.

Britannia design clever?

I always thought the Westerns would have looked good in Marshes Umber.

I think you mean Bremhill Bridge, not sure it was rail connected, it is part of the Government pipeline and storage system.

I doubt if Hornby are worried they will do their one to the standard they deem fit for their market. Triang/Hornby have made trains for a long time and may well have an archive of original drawings from when Triang made their version.

My main concern is the backwards compatibility of the coreless motor with older controllers that some of us (maybe a lot of us are using) KPC, Digitol AMR, etc. I'm not going to change controllers for one loco when they are able to power Portescapes motors OK.

Good question. Not knowing a great about construction when I was eight, but I actually think it might have been timber and asbestos sheet.

Yes my pre order price was £76.46. Might rethink this one not something I really need and the Limby one will do fine.

Possibly it has been reserved as a special for the Bluebell.

Yes I did for a Peckett.

It doesn't matter how many wheels are driven, it is the weight on the driven wheels that gives the traction. An 0-4-0 will have the same traction as an 0-8-0 of the same weight. The problem with the prototype railway was the maximum axle load, the heavier the loco the more axles needed to spread the load. We don't normally have that problem with models so a 0-8-0 running with only four wheels on the track would pull just as well.

Yes there is the Hornby Dublo/Wrenn/Dapol, RTR model and Parkside do a nice kit.

Defiantly looks like an ex SR CCT. Drop down flap at the end, uneven side planking, four vents in the end doors.

If you include diesels we are starting to get some dedicated industrials with the Hornby Sentinel. DJM's forthcoming Hudswell Clarke gives us a small 0-6-0. So an 0-4-0 Peckett for me like an R4. Importantly I would like a livery variation without owners markings, just a nameplate if need be. We don't all have NCB industrial layouts.

No Idea, I never noticed anything there, it was always wooded that side of the approach road so it wouldn't have stood out and the house has always been occupied AFAIK, so I never went into the garden.

Why not if it is a better model and cheaper, no one complains when Bachmann updates a model in Hornbys range. If it is to the same diagram to Bachmans model then it is still duplication just not in the same livery's yet.

The wagon looks nice shame there is no BR grey livery.

Don't forget the London Country 410 Reigate to Bromley double deck bus went past Westerham Station, original operated by RLH and then after they lowered the roadway under the bridge at Oxted RT's, until replaced with RMC's (I liked them very comfy and warm in the winter). That was one of the problems for the railway, the 705 Green Line and 410 London Country hourly buses where staggered so you only had to wait half an hour for a bus stopping at Bromley South or North stations with better connections or just shopping in Bromley.

It could be, the Kent section is the worst maintained section of the M25.

I had to go to the tip today as it was sunny I took some more pics of the site of Chevening Halt Standing on top of where the bridge would have been. The cutting to Dunton Green would be in the foreground you can just about see the course where the infill has slumped. The high tree in the background is the start of the trackbed. The other side looking west, the west end of the platform is under the south bound carriageway of the A21 Sevenoaks bypass which would have had to have been a bridge over the railway. The much maligned M25 does not really encroach too much on the trackbed just parts of the clockwise hard shoulder, a lot of it runs beside the line. Junction 5 is 100 or so yards north of the railway. The only part that goes over the trackbed is the section that filled in the Coombe Bank cutting. Not a good picture a snap shot taken from the dash cam of Coombe Bank Drive, the road was flat here and went over the railway, the cutting has been filled in and the M25 on the top of it, the road has been built up to cross the M25 overbridge.

I thought it was going to be the runaway train.

J94/Austerity NCB Kent = CHL01