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Mark That's a great photo and sums up the area perfectly For me. Happy days.

Fairy nuff

Ok Pete. Perfect for a dio! I'd just paint the switch tiebar to get rid of the shiny metal bar.

Pete, I agree shinohara code 70 is very nice I used it on my Miami layout. Are you using DCC as they are a bit of work to get ready.

Hi Koos If you mean the loksound select then digitrains.co.uk sell them. I'm sure there are others. Hth

Thats great Ray, and there's no sign of rain going away here.

I've found if you click on 'view sellers items' you do get slightly different items than if you click on 'visit sellers shop' and search there. Not sure why but always worth looking at both.

I'll throw my name in for a 02 sound recording, although I need to fit one inside an craftsman brass kit in 4mm.

Ah if your going for Walsall images he's a good one for the 70s 2404? at Walsall by Tutenkhamun Sleeping, on Flickr

Another site for you would be Andy Williams website. He's also someone good to have a chat to as he helped me with photos of Pensnett and some he sent me weren't on the website. He has recorded an awful lot of information regards the South Staffs line and back into the 70s. Here is a Western in Bescot down storage sidings circa 73 : http://www.bescot.plus.com/fullsize/Western_6V06.jpg and another western a few years later http://www.bescot.plus.com/fullsize/D1049_6V53.jpg This link is to his notes on Wednesbury 1976 which if you scroll down a little has a number of notes of Western Clay moves. http://www.bescot.plus.com/wednesbury_1976 A website you can get lost in with lots of detail and notices from the period and many many photos: http://www.bescot.plus.com/ Dave

Phil & Nidge Sadly this is where those many photos that have vanished with fotopic would have helped. I seem to recall an early 80s photo of a peak working empty clays through Langley green. Along with a number of photos of the later tiger wagons through Kidderminster behind a peak. Yes thinking of a Western powering up through Stourbridge would sound fantastic.

Hope you dont mind me hijacking the thread for a while but I've been looking over flickr to see if there is anything new and I've found some great shots that I haven't seen before or angles I've never seen before: New angle of wednesbury steel terminal 1984 (I've not seen anything from this angle before and it shows the canal basin with track too, that must have been lifted not long after that. link only : Class 20 rounding the curve to Wednesbury steel terminal (Ocker hill in the background) : http://www.flickr.co...043/6709966055/ Then there is Dudley freightliner terminal which opened in 1967. But seen here in 1986: http://www.flickr.co...043/6709954673/

Don't know if you have any info in regards your industrial locos but there is this photo: Believed to be owned by the Patent Shaft Steelworks. (It seems that embedding flickr photos is ok and legal so I'll share this one) Abandoned Industrial Shunters by Granradjd, on Flickr Apparently one of them has survived and is at Kidderminster.

Hi Mark The Western linked to above is according to the photographer as 6V53 Etruria to St Blazey china clay empties November 8th 1973. The first Peak link is a loaded clay movement St Blazey to Bescot (onward for the Potteries) 6M32 St Blazey/Bescot on January 23rd 1974. The only loaded daylight clay movement of the time. ( Again according to the photographer ) I've seen plenty of Peaks doing the China clay moves ( in photos ).

Seems quite a regular flow the clay empties along that line before it closed Peaks and Westerns a plenty.

Some great shots from the 70s on flickr. Some of my favourite location Kingswinford jnc and Pensnett. Busy Pensnet LCP yard: http://www.flickr.co...57628468483863/ Western haulage: http://www.flickr.co...57628468483863/ TTG duff through Stourbridge jnc http://www.flickr.co...57628468483863/ Peak through Kingswinford jnc: http://www.flickr.co...57628468483863/ Another Peak passing Kingswinford signalbox http://www.flickr.co...57628468483863/ Rat of pig iron duty for Pensnet: http://www.flickr.co...57628468483863/ Some great photos there should help. Dave

Cav I see that you've modelled 108, was there any changes to the locos other than, Just the speed restriction for the /1s?

There is the Black country history website http://blackcountryhistory.org/ which contains some good reference items. Worth a look. Dave

Sorry chaps: http://www.cornishconnectionpasty.co.uk/ in Wall Heath!

I'm very much looking forward to what you guys are going to do, being a black country lad myself. Factories and foundries, grot and grime!

So will faggots n peas be on the menu at the members day...

Its really not that difficult to get a sound decoder to go up in a puff of smoke!

70 005 crossing on to the Lichfield TV junction to sweep down on to the WCML, to head north. Not a great pic but then it never was going to be with the weather today!