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  1. rodent279
    Morning. Are there any good internet scratchbuilding websites? Something that would give me, as a beginner, a guide to techniques, materials, forming, shaping etc? Thanks.
  2. rodent279
    Fascinating though the idea of a replica DP2 is, what would it prove? We have 50's, we have Deltics, there isn't really a massive gap in the story is there? Falcon, Lion, an NBL class 41 or 21/22, or LMS twins, or Bulleid trio-yes, those are gaps.
  3. rodent279
    Would love to see this, I've never seen a photo of a BR ferry van of any sort on a mainland European railway. I have actually seen one for real though, a brief glimpse of one somewhere along the Rhine in 1981.
  4. rodent279
    Thanks. Does your kit cover this loco?
  5. rodent279
    I believe there were some very similar Brush-Bagnalls built for Sri Lanka (or possibly somewhere else in that part of the globe).
  6. rodent279
    Wasn't quite sure where to put this, as there doesn't seem to be a forum for Industrials. I'm looking for details on Hunslet 0-6-0DH locos, for example, 6950 "Louise", at Elsecar Heritage Centre. I'm interested in technical details, numbers built, where used, numbers preserved. As an aside, perhaps there should be a separate forum for Industrial Locos & Railways?
  7. rodent279
    Impressive stuff. I did think about scratch building a class 83. Never really had the guts to start though.
  8. rodent279
    Good work, I'm impressed! How did you get the bottom bodyside edge profile to match a class 81? On an 85, it rolls inward, on an 81 it's almost a square profile.
  9. rodent279
    Do you mean class 81? Good luck, big job.
  10. rodent279
    Similar cabins are used for commercial mobile phone installations, but tend to be used more on rooftops, or with the larger towers and poles. Most streetworks type sites use outdoor BTS cabinets, much smaller than cabins, just containing the equipment.
  11. rodent279
    Reckon the next time I see that bridge it'll be rebuilt. Assuming of course that work continues unabated.
  12. rodent279
    Does that make it an A-1-A?
  13. rodent279
    Not seen a photo with the grilles open before.
  14. rodent279
    Mrs Rodent and I, having been through the whole of The Marvellous Mrs Maisel, are now revisiting Good Omens. Sheen and Tennant are a perfect double act. I hope they make some more Maisel, it's so well filmed, and well written.
  15. rodent279
    Green..... Or black? Not easy to tell is it!
  16. rodent279
    For me, it needs Witte smoke deflectors. Otherwise a nice looking machine. Why not take one of the unrestored Merchant Navies or BoB/WC's and update it similarly?
  17. rodent279
    Start off with a Britannia, with roller bearings throughout, including big ends and rods. All steel welded boiler and firebox. Add electric lighting, air brakes, either oil or pulverised coal firing, feedwater preheater, steam jacketing, streamlining the internal passages, and you're just about on a par with the German Rekoloks.
  18. rodent279
    They only build what customers ask for/are prepared to pay for. To be fair, a number of British engine makes didn't exactly come out of the Modernisation plan covered in glory, either.
  19. rodent279
    To be fair, even the BR standards were a good decade or so behind the later German and French standards. Some nods to modern practices, such as rocking grates, self-cleaning smokeboxes etc, but still wouldn't really have been out of place on the 1930's railway.
  20. rodent279
    Ok, not quite an imaginary locomotive as an imaginary fleet for you-what if Stanier had been poached by the LNER in 1933? Say Gresley dies in office in 1933, or retires early due to ill health? Or what if Gresley himself had moved across to Crewe? Go figure. Let your Imaginations run wild. Edit: following on from this, Collet decides he's had enough in 1937, and wants to spend more time tending his roses. Either Hawksworth takes the chair 4 years earlier, or Bulleid gets parachuted in to Swindon.
  21. rodent279
    Would be a brave man to try that now on those roads!
  22. rodent279
    I've always thought that if any railway would be a useful reopening, it's Bedford-Northampton.
  23. rodent279
    Not jealous. Not at all. Well maybe a little. Ok then, green with envy.
  24. rodent279
    Bedford St John's must have been one of the most miserable stations on the network during the 1970's. Compared to the new Midland station, it must have seemed like a different planet. Roughly where the old Midland station was, is now Focus Do it all. Or was until a few years ago, when they went under.
  25. rodent279
    Going back to 2903, I guess the Badminton route at that time would have still been nearly new, so the track and ballasting should have been in good nick, and nicely bedded in. Can't say I'd like to have been on the footplate though!
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