Penrhos1920

Is that converted from a Bachmann? Or it kit ?

Shame about the tail lamp. But that aside I’m feeling very tempted to splash the cash.

Previous challenges have allowed people to use a car & trailer to transport the entry. Is a trailer allowed this time?

Have a look at the photo of the E17/8 for the step that replaces the footboard.

Footboards were removed from the bogies and replaced with a step on the outer end. By 1949 there were only 3 D66s left.

I remember that model. It was of HS2. Didn't it get cancelled before construction was complete?

Yes I think you're probably right. Isn't Fishbelly a name made up in the 50s by historians/modellers? The GWR registers just call them both 9' bogies; and differentiate by recording either '5' springs' or 'Coil springs'. There was somehting special about the Fishbelly bogie. Almost all the toplights that were formed into Ambulance trains had their American bogies changed to Fishbellys. And even in 1939 coaches built for certain branch lines had second hand Fishbellys swapped from old toplights. The toplights then received the 9' Collett bogies that were being built at the time.

Just 10 in a GWR third class non-corridor compartment

Don't forget that there were at least 2 types of fishbelly bogies. Some had volute springs and others had leaf springs for the primary suspension.

It’s a LMS period 1 50’ BG.

This one is unusual in that it doesn’t look like a GWR coach but it’s in deepest South Wales in the 50s. Llanfyrnach on the Cardigan branch. in M R C Price's "The Whitland & Cardigan Railway" details that aren’t typical GWR are the door ventilator only has 3 rows not 4 rows of louvres, the door handles, and the waist moulding doesn’t form a shallow panel.

Not drawings but there are some good photos of bogies in the Carriage Shed on www.gwrcoaches.org.uk

They were panel-less steel bodies built in 1939

I don’t think it’s GWR. For a while I thought it was a bars 1 toplight until I realised that there’s only 1 waist moulding and not a waist panel with mouldings above and below.

Do what industry has done for years and use cable numbers. Just search cable numbers on Amazon.

I don’t think that is a sleeper. It looks more like a clerestory restaurant/dining car with kitchen at the near end. The GWR built 6 between 1896 & 99. They were regularly updated/rebuilt, but only 2 made it past 1931.

The lashing ring locations on GWR hydras and loriets were very similar. On the buffer beam just above the buffers and near the end of the well: On the hydras that have little plates above the buffers they are inboard nearer the coupling hook. I have a drawing of a G6 hydra that appears to show a ring 2 planks along the well just inside the side girder.

Theres a good roof photo on www.gwrcoaches.co.uk

Thank you both Pauls. I’ve tried a few combinations of cv4 and cv285 and come to the conclusion that my multimaus is not changing cv285. So I was going to set cv4 to 255 as an interim setting until I can borrow a different controller when something went wrong. I think I’ve set cv8 to 255, but I could be wrong. Whatever I did left the loco total unresponsive. I had to reset cv1 to 3 to get it to move but I’ve got no sound. Help please.

I’d be concerned that they might not be around in 10 years time as it’s a one man band.

Is there a way to increase the coasting duration? At the moment when drifting down Penrhos bank I need to count 20 loco beats and then nudge the regulator close, count another 20 beats and nudge the regulator closed again just to get to the bottom without a silly chuff or two part way down. In reality once the train was rolling down the bank, the regulator was closed and the train controlled with the loco brake, whilst the wagons were trying to accelerate the train into the valley below.

Its not in the 1936 edition but I don’t have all of the alterations between 1927 & 1936 so I can’t be more specific.

Thats interesting because the GWR built 4 58’ coaches specifically for the Bournemouth service in 1898. 8’6 wide with guards lookouts at the end which made them 9’ wide.

I’ve written a bit about those coaches on my GWR coaches website under Dean Coaches > London Metropolitan Designs. In the 1927 Alterations & Additions to the GA there’s this note “coaching stock running between Dovey Junction & Aberdovey must not exceed 60’ in length and 9’ in width “, which effectively ruled out most of Churchward and Collett coaches as those are maximum coach dimensions over handles and buffers. For the all third designs absolutely zilch. The 56’ coaches had smaller toilets! In the 1936 appendix, the GWR had a list of LMS lines that could accept 63’ 6.5” long by 9’3” wide stock. The same stock couldn’t travel over LNER or SR routes. Similarly there’s a longer list for 60’ x 9’ stock over LNER, LMS & SR. The dimensions of coaches permitted over ex SE&CR & LB&SCR routes basically only allowed Dean coaches up to 50’ long and nothing more modern. I guess that there weren’t any through coaches on those routes!