Penrhos1920

I’ve had a look at the previous archived topic of this title and online. Was there a specific bell code for 2 or more light engines not coupled together?

My son has done 2 test prints of the end of one of the viaduct piers. The blue one is with a 0.2mm nozzle, the other is 0.4mm. The 0.2 looks better but I’m reserving final judgment until I’ve painted them. Yesterday I had a day out at the NRM archives. I had reserved several rolls of drawings from Swindon C&W. I had a successful day looking at drawings of GWR Crocodiles loaded with buoys from the factory at Pontypridd that would have travelled via Penrhos, drawings of the wagons themselves and drawings of the coaches built by the GWR specifically for the Cardiff valleys. Whilst having lunch I saw this signal post. The somersault arms could easily have been from the valleys. Does the finial tell someone what line this was from? I’m puzzled by the arrangement of the counterweights. Why are there 3?

Do I need to ask my host company (namesco) to tell me how to redirect the www subdomain to the TLD? Or is it really easy?

Is the smokebox door a separate piece or is it integral with the boiler moulding? I have a BR version that I want to backdate to GWR.

Well my railmotor has finally arrived. It runs flawlessly backwards, forwards, with sound, up and down the hills and around the curves. its brilliant. Except there’s a rattle. Clearly, somewhere inside, there is a piece that is moving around and I damned if I can find it. So what do I do? Send it back or keep it? It probably doesn’t matter what I do with it because it’s scheduled to become Barry Railway steam rail motor number one. And that requires cutting 10 foot out of the middle of it, changing one of the bogies and changing the roof. Not a small job but then again not a big job either. The question is will I be the first to do a cut and shut on this lovely thing.?

Yes the first one.

I think I bought my most recent window grills from RailTec. But I can’t find them on their website.

Definitely. That will be the other scenic break. My son is currently printing the first of the viaduct piers.

Yeah the kits for the 2 scenic boards have arrived and this is a dry run of building the first board

Are Lokcommander decoders any good? I can’t find much about them.

they are custom transfers that they sell for brakevan allocations. They also suit coach allocations for the ends to replace the Birmingham division 43. You can even make up your own like Tondu No.2 but don’t tell @The Johnster

Cardiff set 26 D91. 4678 4679 E125. 6692 6693 Cardiff set 27 D98. 4977 4978 E131. 6387 6388 Personally I've given up renumbering coaches as the numbers are so small and I cannot read them except with a magnifying glass. RailTec have supplied me the transfers for the ends which I can read.

One set of 4 “Hornby suburban bowenders” were transferred from London to Cardiff in 1936 to become Cardiff Division train 27. Also in 1936 a second London set became train 26 in Cardiff. It was almost identical to the Hornby coaches except it ran on 9’ bogies rather than 7’ bogies. I’ve no evidence that they didn’t stay in South Wales until they were condemned.

Well, it’s been a long time since I’ve posted on here about building Penrhos. I had hoped to be able to show you some progress but unfortunately the baseboards that were promised for January still haven’t arrived. Having started out in P4, then giving up with P4 and changing to OO, and then flirting with EM, when the EM Society brought out the Peco points, I’m now looking at P4 again. Last autumn, the Scalefour Society announced the jubilee challenge competition (build a P4 layout with the scenic area being less than 18.83 ft.² and being capable of transported in a car). Now it turns out that the area between the road bridge and the Barry viaduct including a reasonable amount of the cutting is only about 17 ft. so it would be possible to enter this area into the competition. This would require not modelling the Barry track over the viaduct, in order to comply with the area limitation, but that’s okay. At about the same time as the Jubilee challenge was announced by the society they also announced that ready to run P4 points were going to be available from British Finescale. That probably solves what I find hardest with P4. The EM versions have had good reviews so the P4 should be good. So I am going to give the Jubilee challenge a shot. Having a deadline really helps focus the mind. However, instead of laying track on the baseboard the last couple of weeks I’ve done an inventory of rolling stock. The conclusion is I am going to need a few more wagons! The question is how long should I make my trains? A friend of mine suggests that a train that is more than one third of the scenic length of your layout is too long. But given that on one track the scenic length is a meter between the two bridges that makes a train as nothing much more than the steam railmotor. Even my friends DMU wouldn’t be permitted. Whereas in reality trains of up to 80 wagons were seen on that route. Now I can’t manage 80 wagons and have any wagons left over for the other trains. But I do feel that I should run a train where the loco is hidden by one bridge and the brake van is hidden by the other bridge. What do you think? On a more important topic, I’m looking for a recommendation for someone who can supply me custom flat pack baseboards for a curved section. It looks like my first choice will be taking too long to laser cut those boards. I found a local supplier who can do all the other boards but will not do boards that don’t have 90 degree corners.

So how do you switch the 2 frogs on a diamond, since it has no blades to switch?

667 definitely received “GREAT WESTERN” and plain ”G W R”

Or using the Elizabeth Line?

Yes. Well I’ve bought at least that many from Dave Franks to do them on the V14/16s I’ve preordered. And since I’m doing them they’re going to be sprung. The problem is there is still a shortage of sprung buffer heads.

I can understand that she’s travelling with a trunk 2 bags and a hat box. But I can’t fathom out why she needs to take a milk churn as well ??

How many of those routes around Clapham Junction could you travel as a passenger when that map was drawn and how many can we travel today?

Only 35 where built for the Rhymney. According to information that I've been given from the GWR wagon registers their RR numbers were: 47, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 61, 62, 76, 273, 274, 275, 276, 279, 286, 292, 294, 328, 345, 358, 364, 381, 389, 392, 397, 407, 416, 423, 428, 433, 438, 439, 443, 459, 463. BUT notice that Rapido have used a number that is not in that list. @RapidoCorbs So maybe they've got different information they would like to share. Below are photographs (taken by John Lewis for me) of the RR and GWR Minute books regarding these and other wagons bought from the GWR at little more information about the van is on my website: https://penrhos.me.uk/RRVans.shtml

Is there a bus service from Aylesbury station this year? Or am I thinking of a different show?

How wide were 5 digit numberplates? Eg the shunter 15105

I started using it just after Christmas. But stopped once I had entered in all of my Vallejo and humbrol tins. It doesn’t have railmatch or Precision paints. I emailed them and they don’t have plans to add them. But if we all ask maybe they will.

I’m looking forward to Mikkel backdating the Accurascale 57xx