Flying Pig

I've done this in the past to get round poor blade contct when reusing truly ancient points. The droppers were powered through the dpdt switch that also threw the point through wire-in-tube, which was wired as a pair of on-off switches so that only the closed blade was live. This preserved the usual self-isolating feature of the point, but would also eliminate the risk of shorting across the frog in most locations.

Many British designers seem to have struggled to put a decent depth of firebox and an unencumbered ashpan on a 4-6-0 when the type first began to be used here. A 4-4-2 is much easier to arrange in this respect. This thread seems to largely ignore ashpan design, but for fires burning mostly in primary air it it an important factor, especially over long runs with some types of coal where ash build-up can become a problem. Churchward cheated of course by putting outside frames on his 4-4-2s which would have made them superior to the French engines in this respect.

Yes, it seems to be a pretty murky industry with some very dodgy green claims made by parts of it.

I have to agree with other posters that the Y point arrowed below is deep in Yuk territory. It introduces a completely unnecessary reverse curve, which will hamper smooth running, and if you can lay the adjacent flexible track without a nasty kink at the joint you will be doing very well.

I think the bulk of it is still made from fossil fuels by a variety of processes.

Looks like the same issue with AVG antivirus is being discussed here:

12mm is of course closer to Cape gauge than it is to metre gauge in h0 scale. There's a 25NC at Quainton Road waiting to be measured up.

Like this. I've added another crossover between the headshunts at the left for extra fun and you probably also want to make the diamond on Board Two into a single slip to provide a trailing crossover between the main lines (edit - now done).

While this thread is temporarily awakened from its slumber, here are a couple of ideas about the track plan. First, simplifying access to the docks, which are now shunted from the yard. You could simplify this further by removing facing access to the yard from the main lines and having trains back in. And as far as I can tell, you don't need any further traps, as the headshunts perform that function. Second, some sorting sidings added for making up trains from the docks.

Wasn't Bringewood a vehicle for a 00 track standard Iain Rice was experimenting with? Possibly 'EM minus two'?

Well the photos on Disused Stations show a later simplified layout with just a trailing crossover and the 1914 OS survey concurs. Having said that, both train and signals in http://disused-stations.org.uk/b/blackwall/index6.shtml suggest that the approaches were not worked as double track in this period. Since this is a thread about Minories and not esoteric finescale essays, I'd suggest that the appropriate era is later GER worked with an Accurascale Buckjumper and some Hattons or Hornby carriages.

The Hornby Pecketts are good, albeit not flywheel fitted.

They're also known for attracting unusual migrant birds, particularly in late autumn: something to look at between trains. Later on, you can go and have a piece of pie made with the aid of a rolling pin and a short-handled brush (to glaze the crust). Seems like the definition of useful to me.

Anyone want to draw up a compound 4-6-0 with the cylinders raised up Crab fashion to get round loading gauge issues and driving the middle axle?

Or possibly M.C. Escher's jigsaw period. One can quite understand the pseudonym.

This myth needs to die. Unless you watched a main line for several hours (and possibly for more than a day) you wouldn't typically see exactly the same locos and stock returning (you might not see it at all if it was on a more complex diagram than simply out and back). A realistic selection of trains in each direction is fine for a trains-going-by type of main line scene unless you have the stock capacity of a Retford or a Little Bytham (and even they can't represent every train in the timetable individually, just the more important ones). Most of the big exhibition roundies just run a sequence without bothering to shunt anything. In this particular case, where the main line is basically an exhibition layout for the amusement of the person busy operating the terminus, simple storage on the main line is even more important.

What happens in an Outing Room?

There are some very nice features in this sample. I particularly like the use of cast components for more of the motion and the front bogie. The bogie wheels look finer than on the old model too.

Then you just renumber it and we have a 20 page thread on what number the 843rd Black Five should be. It's a win win situation.

You mean a sort of out-and-back set up with a reversing loop?

What about the rest of the layout? Is it a circuit or do the trains run to a non-scenic area?

The real railway stores everything in the scenic area, so depending on the design of your layout and the space you have then it would certainly work. What sort of layout did you have in mind?

It looks like it has come out of the exhaust as is usual for a Deltic, then run down and been caught by the airflow in various places.

I clicked like because it's a beautiful layout, but oh dear... At least that Mogul is in a sensible livery.

It has a number of features of a loco as built so may be 5200, but engineering samples don't always conform to any single production item.