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  1. Many moons ago, Merlin Models produced a live steam model of the ex Sierra Leone Government Railways 2-6-2T (as running on the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway). My credit card limit had just been increased to £650, the price of the loco and surprisingly, I was not owing anything on it! I was tempted but in the end bottled out of paying that much. Many Bachmann locos passed me by too, as at the time they appeared, I couldn't afford them - good old "limited run batch production!!!!" Being a BOF, I hanker for the days I could go into a model shop and have an equal chance of buying what I was after! Nowadays, modelling in N gauge has really limited my missing out on stuff.....
  2. 25052 with an Officers' Special at Rock Ferry, heading for Canning St and maybe the Wirral lines. May 1983.
  3. I had the turbo fan car; a bonus was it could be pushed round when the juice was turned off! My first train set was a Playcraft one and my brother also had a set too. The Playcraft range appeared in Woolworths each year in the run up to Christmas and at first was all we had was an 0-4-0 and and 2 mark 1 coaches each. We quickly found that moving one loco would generate enough power to move the second one. We also found that this would create enough interference on the TV to warrant our Dad coming upstairs to tell us to pack it in....
  4. Not an article but this advert from the 1971 David & Charles Light Railway Guide opened my eyes to light railway modelling (I'd not long discovered narrow gauge railways too! ).
  5. I've seen photos of class 24s and 25s on the line up to Blodwell Quarry and not long before the line was mothballed I was stopped at the level crossing south of Oswestry when a class 31 passed with a train for the quarry.
  6. I've always understood that the first lager brewed in this country was produced by a brewery in Wrexham around the start of the 20th century.
  7. Here are a few photos of a coil train arriving at Dee Marsh, from South Wales, behind class 37 Tremorfa Steelworks and finally a photo of a covered wagon in the sidings. Taken 23/3/1990.
  8. Here is a slightly better (hopefully) copy of my slide referred to in the quoted link. It was taken 14/5/1981
  9. The numbers are not lever numbers they are reference numbers in the list shown (the full extent of which covers the lines from Birkenhead Park to West Kirby and New Brighton). The diagram was issued by the Mersey Railway to their drivers for road learning purposes.
  10. Regarding the above comment, at Sutton Manor Colliery near St Helens was this 16t Min fitted with open spoked wheels. Photo taken 13/2/1982. (this is a better scan than the ones that appeared a while ago in my thread on Sutton Manor colliery.
  11. Quick reply. I think 7 could work the points and traps, though a S&T Man might disagree. 5 could become the FPL with 6 the main line points if you're concerned. Disc 8 applies to the loop for moves to the main line. Points 12 would likely only be sprung and worked by a hand lever if the platform finished short of the crossover. 15, I think would be needed if there was a lot of shunting; you could live without it though. Disc 3 only applies to the move from the main to the loop (and sidings). The Southern, especially, seemed happy to use one disc for several routes.
  12. Here is my sketch of how I would signal your layout as shown by the plan above. I've moved the signal box onto the platform, mainly because it would allow the Signalman (Porter Signalman) to undertake other duties in between trains; the position of the box on your diagram is fine though. There is a couple of comments on the diagram; I hope they make sense (but having not long finished a 12 hours shift, I may be a bit addled). The numbers on the diagram are the lever numbers.
  13. Hope these are of interest. Looking through my stuff carefully arranged files, I saw the following on (what was I assume) a Mersey Railway Driver's route learning aid in preparation for the electrification of the Wirral Lines of the LMSR. The numbers are for identification purposes only. The diagram is annoted :- "Central Station, Birkenhead , July 1937. Also shown, are 2 back board plates that were given to me from the box; the first is for lever 5, the ground frame release and the second is for lever 34.
  14. Here's my attempt at lengthening a Hornby coach. It is 2nd from the left and is mounted on its (cut in half and with added bits from another) chassis. I trimmed about 1mm strip from the top of the sides which can be seen on an unaltered coach and seems unnecessary to me. I originally used the roof from the coach and lengthened it with a piece from the leftovers from the conversion but it seemed too high. I lost interest in it after I discovered it was similar in length to a Ratio kit but eventually carried on with it. I replaced the roof with one from Ratio that I had spare after creating the coach on the left from various pieces of Ratio coach sides but it is a little too high still. The left hand coach is a representation of one that ran on the Wirral Railway, bought from the Mersey Railway and in my world ( the one with the pink sky.....) was then sold on to my light railway by the LMSR, hence the green livery! The 2 right hand coaches are Ratio kits. The inspiration for this last coach was an article by Nigel Digby (?) on the Wirral Railway Livery, one of many he did for BRM, shown in the second photo. The final photo shows the bits left over.
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