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Stephenson's Link with wide single-bar slidebars & crossheads. No balance weights on the weigh shaft. Want a drawing?

Stephenson's Link with GER-style wide single bar slide bars & crossheads and no balances on the weigh shaft. Want a drawing?

Captured circa 1910 using the new state-of-the-art Autochrome Lumière process, this Yorkshire & Lincolnshire tar tank is a very mundane subject for such an expensive glass plate image. More photos here (external link).

David, The D14 & D15 rebuilds tended to have the most recent LNER boiler mountings - backhead clacks, steam manifold, sliding firehole door, etc, and most were given the Gresley single anti-vacuum (snifting) valve, though initially boilers had the old GER pattern header with twin valves, some of which lasted until the 50s. Of the H88 rebuilds (those which retained the valences), the first 30 retained the twin GE valves and 21-element superheater, but those boilers built after 1936 gained the single Gresley valve. Looks smashing.

You betcha!

A version of this postcard was on an earlier incarnation of RMWeb, but I thought it appropriate enough to regurgitate for this thread. 'Success' was based on an Agenoria Manning Wardle with a number of scratchbuilt elements. The Slater's vans were very early unredeemable efforts which now lie in disgrace in some cupboard, not even fit for making a tenner on ebay.

Very little remains of my short dalliance in the mid-90s with British Railways Eastern Region in 7mm circa 1958-62, and I've very few photos of that project. 16T minerals of the period I always found hard to capture - easier to go to town on the weathering, but most in that period weren't utter rust-buckets, and capturing the subtlety of the rust breakouts and the overall weathering on wagons just a few short years or months old is quite a challenge. Back then I failed utterly and always overcooked it, the condition of this old thing would be more at home in the mid-late 60s (and later), and the photo shows the beginnings of some of the techniques I later spent hundreds of hours trying to hone (I got better, I hope!), and was one of the last of the pack to get sold on. If I had some more to do now I'd swot up on Pennine's techniques as his results are, to my eyes, spot on.

J15 65463 on a short branch freight near Standon Lordship on the Buntingford line. It was my second 7mm loco built about 16 years ago, a Gibson kit, bought a few weeks before the much better Connoisseur kit was released. It looked OK...from a distance of about 10 feet if you squinted hard. I pickled it in cellulose thinners a couple of years ago and later applied the flame-thrower to it, so now in bits awaiting rebuilding as an N31 class (J14). Got the drawings and the sheet metal, but not yet got the time...

Sounds like tautology to me...

Never say never. On the Great Eastern (where else?), the practice of 'hollow sheeting' was done on purpose during long dry spells. In his autobiography, Fenland Railwaymen (Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd 1968), Arthur Randell recounted: Edit: which is probably so infrequently modelled it couldn't possibly be a cliché.

That's a DMR one. My comments in re Ace are coming off forum...

The DMR J17 is fine, and apart from having to tweak some of the pre-rolled parts into their proper shape, will go together well and make a very nice model. It's the other on the market by SM Models that has an incorrect wheelbase, though to give the manufacturer his due, he has said he will be looking at re-drawing the relevant etches. Here's a part-built one on the West Mersea branch, constructed by Peter Hunt.

Approx 30' x 4' before the curve. Having stock running into the workshop is going to be fantastic.

Like Tim I've just found this thread for the first time, and wow! Simply stunning.

Now that's just gorgeous. Nicely shot and edited Mikkel. :icon_thumbsup2:

By phoning Karlgarin perhaps?

Fantastic, and very tempting - running trains in the snow has always appealed.

All of the goods depots I've seen had the painted GER references replaced with LNER, and these were subsequently painted out during WWII for the same reason running in boards were removed during hostilities. Of course, just like the infamously thin wartime black paint Stratford applied to locos soon revealed the old transfers underneath, so the thin black paint on the brickwork soon revealed the LNER Goods Depot wording underneath. FWIW, in the GE period they always used a circumflex over the o, as in Dep??t. PM sent.

Wow! All these elements - disparate as they were in reality, come together to make a superb, almost perfect scene. You know that I'm a proponent of having the platform in front of the running line with all the attendant view-blocks, but I really like this view from the non-viewing side too. Dave at Roxey is threatening to release the 0-4-2T in 7mm, and it's going to take a lot of willpower to resist. Holden's carriages have become like old friends; I had correspondence totalling several dozen emails earlier this year, in an attempt to unravel the actual carriage numbers in a single set running on the Widened Lines c1890-6, just before the sets were broken up and reformed with a number of them rusticated and/or rebuilt.

Lummie! I must have copied and pasted the first reply but looked at the 'reply' button as I was replying and got in a muddle...if you get my drift. I don't know what's wrong with me this evening, though I did spend the afternoon (with a suitable respirator) sitting in clouds of atomised cellulose and enamel paint. Oh yes, very much like that one. What a beauty!

The little 'reply' button at the bottom of each entry or comment quotes the relevant passages. I then chopped it up and used the quote button (3rd from right) in the little row above the text field. Yes, that's what I did. There are some smashing photos in 2a - unsurprisingly it was the photos of Smithfield on the Widened Lines which attracted me to the book in the first place, but there are other gems in there too. Well...........a condensing 633 or Metro wouldn't chuck sooty deposits all over the interior of the depot would it? :icon_wink: Am I allowed an embarrassing U-turn and change my mind over the GER wagon? The photo purports to be taken in July 1921 and as there was only one GER wagon with a bar extant at that time - the D.73, I assumed that it was a GER wagon under the tarpaulin - it's usually a good bet. However a much more clearly reproduced photo shows this is not the case at all, and it's actually GW wagon under there after all. Still, with the GER tarp there, it's likely there's a GER wagon close by out of shot. That'll teach me to be a smarty pants. :icon_redface::icon_mrgreen:

This is going to be interesting to watch - the subject matter is just my sort of thing. Order it now! It will galvanise your thoughts and answer many of your questions. It's a superb book, and I keep meaning to get hold of Part 1. Of course it'll put a halt on any modelling for a few evenings as you pore over it.... I believe that in general most large depots of the period had hydraulic accumulator houses to power capstans and lifts to facilitate the movement of stock within the building. Outside there was often a mixture of power to move wagons; locos, horses, capstans and pinchbars were all utilised. Have another look at that Paddington link you posted. Front left - a lovely 7-plank Great Eastern wagon to Diagram 73 under tarpaulin number 13194...I'll expect to see that one replicated! :icon_wink: That truncated one on the right is an LNWR 4-plank (Diagram 9 perhaps?) - so the answer is a resounding yes.

Brian Haresnape commented that he discovered a wide variety of browns from burnt sienna to dark umber brown, dark chocolate and even dark yellow ochre on LNER stock. Bottom line - mix up a brew and you won't be far off. Done.