Arthur

Look at the dates of the posts in this thread before your question, 2014. Prior to that there had been much angst expressed in these pages over the useful and interesting Impetus range of industrials and whether or not they’d reappear. People have just given up hope, lost interest. For MANY years the Kalgarin website suggested these kits were in the process of revision prior to relaunch. Nothing ever happened, nobody ever got a direct answer about the future, in fact responses become a little ratty and then the mention of the kits disappeared from the website. This is a range which, sadly, has disappeared. They pop up on eBay, often selling for silly money. .

I chip in a fiver every now and then. It’s a handy reference source and a useful springboard for further research. Always right?, No, but what source is? .

Just bought my wife’s Christmas present, seemed so suitable. Can’t wait to see her face on Christmas morning; .

Good for you, pleased that you think they are ‘nearly very good’. Let’s hope nobody starts to rip your efforts to bits. Perhaps rather than a high handed ‘I take exception...’ a more considerate ‘I find it useful to...’ would have been less abrasive. .

Well Gents, we await your video reviews to show us how it should be done. They will be flawless we know. Somebody has gone to the trouble of taking the model apart, highlighting some of the difficulties and identifying an issue or two and people can only bitch that it was ‘dropped’ and are outraged that screws were left around! Special tools indeed, I’ve been pulling those plugs off with sharp nosed pliers for years without problems. Andy, thanks. It was an interesting review and the identification of the tender body removal issue in particular will be useful when I’m prising it off. Otherwise I’d have been wondering had I missed a hidden screw or something. .

Looks to me like they’re just the hangers and the shoes have yet to be fitted. .

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That’s a big undertaking and how many of your current residents would be interested enough to visit the ‘garage’ on a regular and ongoing basis? This could easily turn into a labour intensive white elephant. I’m just wondering whether taking some of what has been offered and using it to produce something along the lines of what you had originally envisioned; Something more manageable and accessible for the residents and, should they lose interest, you haven’t invested too much. This with the caveat that we don’t know quite what has been offered, it may not be a suitable donor for this type of reduction. .

Doesn’t need a rail vehicle at all, looks really good as it is, a near abandoned siding that only rarely sees traffic. .

I like the sound of that Leyland coach conversion. In those days of lesser regulation hauliers were often quite creative in their workshops. .

Something Talking Pictures has brought home to me is the sheer volume of work put out by the British film industry in the couple of decades following WW2. I’ve always had in interest in watching them and when, in the past, they were shown on Sunday afternoons and later midweek on Channel 4, watched or videoed them as required. I would have presumed that there were not many I hadn’t seen over the years. I’m realising I couldn’t have been more wrong, Talking Pictures seems to have an endless supply of them. .

Hell is a City was shown yesterday, Saturday, too so I suspect it will get a few showings. The various locations are identified here http://www.reelstreets.com/index.php/component/films/?task=view&id=409&film_ref=hell_is_a_city_-_trailer You get a brief glimpse of the top of Manchester Exchange above the villains car as they ‘case the joint’. Central station gets a couple of inclusions. The other railway locations at the end are all around Deansgate station on the line west from Oxford Road. The coin pitching scenes, and a good number of others, were filmed around Oldham. Pretty much the Manchester I knew as a young lad. .

Wiki cites 14 other, non US names as being pioneers in the development of the electric light bulb before Edison gets a mention. It also mentions this “In addressing the question of who invented the incandescent lamp, historians Robert Friedel and Paul Israel list 22 inventors of incandescent lamps prior to Joseph Swan and Thomas Edison.” No where does it state that Edison invented the light bulb. It credits him with early efforts to create a commercial bulb and getting a patent. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incandescent_light_bulb .

Certainly onerous but that was how it was done in earlier days. Later, tipplers were installed at many works and they were used to empty not only tippler wagons but steel and wooden minerals, and hoppers too. I have a photo of a 24t ore hopper being tippled at Skinningrove ironworks. By the 50s and 60s many works has rationalised their ore transport operations, installing tipplers or hopper unloaders, with ore wagons used to suit. In the 1960s there was a trend to using tipplers for home ores, they tended to be wet, sticky and lumpy, and hoppers for imported ores which were drier, often pre-treated and freer running. No point shipping several tons of water half way across the world with the ore. .

First photo in this post shows a typical iron ore train heading north from the East Midlands ore fields. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/69274-dave-f-more-photos-added-21-june-from-1947-to-1955ish/?p=1056603 Tipplers, steel minerals, 7 planks, hoppers, more 7 planks..... Trains consisting of nearly all wooden bodied wagons were not unknown. .

Iron ore was still being carried in wooden bodied wagons well into the 1950s. Trains often consisted of the most motley collections of 5 and 7 plank wagons. They never looked full as, owing to the density of ore, the wagons were at their maximum weight capacity well before maximum volume capacity. .

Why do people get so snotty about Wikipedia? It’s a very useful, easily accessed resource, largely correct (certainly for items of fact) and a useful springboard for further research. If you find an error you can change it. It would be incredible if such an enormous bank of data, assembled by humans, did not contain a few errors. And having found a fact that raises doubt Mike asks here, ‘is this correct?’ Surely a very sensible approach to the use of Wikipedia?’ .

We had a thread on pipe wagon loading a little while back; http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/43656-parkside-br-tube-wagon-loading-information/ and I posted some general information and photos here; http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/43656-parkside-br-tube-wagon-loading-information/?p=474187 As pointed out in that thread, there is no technical differentiation between tube and pipe, the terms are interchangeable. There are significant differences between cast iron hollow sections and steel hollow sections which impact on their appearance, handling and loading. The major suppliers of cast iron pipe and fittings were Stanton, near Nottingham, who used a patented ‘spun’ process and Staveley, near Chesterfield, who used conventional casting methods. The companies later merged and were owned by Stewarts & Lloyds, the UKs largest steel tube maker. Stanton also had a very large trade in concrete pipes (and, like Staveley, traded in other cast iron products). .

I’ve been a Warley regular for a few years now but this year it clashed with a holiday so my “Warley Weekend” was spent in the Maldives where we have a four day break following a tour of Sri Lanka. Saturday Sunday Bit different to the NEC. .

Ply also has a more consistent surface and construction. Having recently used OSB to roof an outbuilding (subsequently clad in metal tiling) I found different parts of the OSB more or less difficult to drive screws into. Depended on just what bit of the material mix formed the surface at any one part. .

Now says, Connections SD Card, USB port (Expert users only) Anyway, fully supported by the wonders of modern technology, I ordered mine this morning on my mobile phone whist onboard a bus grinding it’s way up the winding hill road to Kandy in Sri Lanka. Thought I’d get in early knowing that ALDI may not repeat the offer. The printer will likely be at home before me. As a bonus my wife is buying it for me as a Christmas present. Better learn how to do some 3D graphics.... .

That mine tub looks pretty damn good to me David. Even accepting the need for some surface sanding I’d be very pleased with that from an entry level machine. .

As well as fitting the criteria I also think it looks much better without the loco. Just better balanced, less busy. Nicely executed.

My experience of tools from ALDI (and Lidl) has always been good so I’ll certainly be very interested. .

Photos of both types in preservation here; http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/124647-side-tank-extensions-and-their-commonality/?p=2794022 The long tanks, known as the Sweden type, were needed as a consequence of the size of the MSC system. The ‘main line’ ran for fifteen miles or so between Salford and Warrington. .