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6106 at Oxford in early 1965 And in December 1965, with plywood numberplate on an OURS trip on the Thame branch. Again I have more pictures but the light was terrible on this trip, so not much detail. Dave

A bit late with this information, but I hope it helps. I have a few photos of 9773 at Oxford in July/ August 1965. The detail shows a bent lamp bracket, which probably explains a lot. I've a couple more front 3/4 if they would be of any use. Dave

I'm starting a clear out of magazines, and am currently working through Railway Modellers. I'm keeping some of interest, and thought that those I don't want might be of interest to others. If you want to collect a batch from SE London, that's fine. otherwise I'm happy to send out individual copies, if you know which issues you want. I estimate post and packing to be in the £2-£2.50 range, and an asking for a donation to charity to cover that. Thanks Dave

A few photos on this thread https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/149758-wheatley-station-on-the-oxford-to-princes-risborough-line/&tab=comments#comment-3757703 . I am slowly working on a Thame-ish layout (called Wylde), link in sig. One thing I'm curious about is that, at some time before closure, the Wheatley signs were repainted with a blue background, and I'd love to know when and why. Dave

Nice conversion, it reminds me of the Bassett Lowke 112 tank Dave

6106 in December 1965, complete with plywood numberplate And the other side, same day Dave

Including , of course, by buying the Hornby brand... Dave

Interesting, and not far from me, not that there is much of that era left there. Are you comitted to housing adjacent to the tram depot? If that block was industrial, a 3/4 relief chimney could hide the end of the sky hiding the upper fiddle yard. I'm looking forward to watching progress in this. Dave

Born in 1950, I remember being taken in the pram to get my free orange juice supply. I remember it as a thick syrupy liquid. One thing which disappeared when I was young were shop made ice lollies. Our local bakery, Blenkoes, used to make lollies in small glass moulds, but this just stopped. It was years later that I learned that new hygene regulations had banned them after some food poisoning deaths. Paraffin stoves. A 5 gallon drum in the coal cellar, lugged out to be refilled at a local shop, or later from the back of a lorry. Pink or Esso blue, only from esso blee doolers of course. Esso blue was heavily advertised Scooters were for little kids. We rode them to infants school, but were assumed to have grown out of them by junior school. Only one boy made the mistake of taking ths scooter on the first day of junior school. Just to add one thing I recognised a few days ago as not having changed in longer than my lifetime. 48 sheet advertising posters are a real survivor, and I was trying to think of other things which have lasted so well almost unchanged. Of course the production technology has certainly changed. and there are more safety options available to the posters now. If it's not too much of a stretch for the topic are there any similar long lasting things about?

Can you merge the coaling road and lower ashpit road a loco length from the turntable? that way you could still operate with a faulty turntable, albeit with a lot of to and fro. Only the top two sidings would be inaccessible, although they could similarly be merged with the top shed road a loco length from the turntable. Wrong railway, but Oxford shed had this arrangement... Dave

I hope this includes platform fencing, here are some fairly recent pictures from Nunhead. I'm not sure of the date of these works. Dave

I've ben through my pics and here are a selection of them. End of footbridge with continuation of ducting? Hope they are of use, I have higher res originals if needed. Dave

Here is an example from Banbury in 2014, still present after the track has gone. The modelling problem is that throwovers, whatever the peco point radius, will be greater, so the cutout will have to be bigger than scale . One possible compromise would be to increase the whole platform clearance, bringing the cutout back to a more scale appearance. Dave

This 2012 (cropped) view from the shard seems to t show some ducting going to the top of the box structures, so cable ducts look likely. Possibly provision for electrical cabinetry of some sort? Dave

Is this sort of thing any use? I took loads of pictures during the rebuilding, and some from the shard. My indexing isn't good so it will take me a while to trawk through them, but I'm happy to do it if they are useful. Cheers Dave

Maybe a silly idea, but... Locate a suitable street, and search local authority planning hubs for applications in that area. These may well contain plans submitted for the work, hopefully before and after. They should be good for the overall dimensions. I don't know if submissions for listed buildings are on the same planning hubs, or whether there is a separate resource for them. Hth Dave

I'm just starting with an Aldi printer and I had some similar problems. One reason I found given on a website was absorbed waterin the fibre, suggesting it should be stored in a dehumidifier, if the printer is normally in a humid area. Hth Dave

1:76.2 surely? Actually I've often wondered whether manufacturers/designers sometimes forget the decimal. Or am I wrong in allowing for it. I grew up on imperial units, then we went to cgs for O level changing again to SI for A level. "Systeme Internationale, that's bl##dy French" said the Physics master. Engineering at university seemed to vary by subject. One early, under the radar and unrecognised, bit of metrication I learned about well after university, was that BA threads were essentially metric, only expressed in imperial units. Supposedly a collaboration between scientific bodies, possibly without political interference. Were there metric threads used on the continent interchangable with BA, or was the subterfuge too good, I wonder. Dave

Is it this (Without the winding hole)? Usually numbered 44 Dave

Lemarco have a slightly smaller footprint, and have the motor at one end. I have some if you need a replacement. Dave

I have Bilteezi dairy, ( also engine shed, Scats building and goods receiving depot) kits if any or all would be of use in the project. Btw, the last two are dated 1982, so might be too new... Bought about 10 years ago in a fit of nostalgia, I won't get around to building them. I'm trying to think whether I have anything bulkier to donate, a few sheets of card aren't going to make much impression on the "to go" pile... Cheers Dave

Will you be able to positively identify the returned item as the one you sent? I don't know if it's a frequent ebay fraud, but this sort of thing is not uncommon on the high street. I bought an angle grinder at Aldi, and when I opened it found it was a manky old one of a completely different make. Someone had obviously put it in the box and returned it for a refund. I think that the commercial argument is that below a certain value it's not worth the hassle of checking. Whether the manky device went back on the shelves I don't know... Dave

Could you steal a bit of length from the hidden part of the scenic board and make a parallelogram traverser. The direction of slide would be parallel to the face of the scenic break bridge, which would stay where it is. The traverser track length would be a bit longer than on the original design. There is a possibility that the front right of such a traverser would hit the side wall, before full extension was reached, but I can't be sure without drawing it out. Dave (purveyor of silly ideas...)

I too bought an Aldi printer last week, and after one issue, when the provided SD card went faulty on first use, have managed a couple of successful prints. The provided software, which I had to download, makes a perfectly good starting point. It will accept a range of file formats, including ,jpg, where it treats black as zero height and white as the maximum you want for that print. This has meant that I have been able to do some test prints without getting into the complexity, (yet), of doing 3d cad. I have been an occasional user of Turbocad, so far only in 2d mode, and will delve deeper into that, but my next test will be to try to see how a greyscale .jpg translated into heights, as this seems to have a lot of potential for some of the things I want to do. Dave

Better late than never, I hope, here are a couple of images of the Wheatley sign. The first is a bitmap image, created from a photo by straightening and removing perspective effects. This is of the area inside the white border seen in the photo. This is only a painted edge, the casting is smooth. The second is a jpg made from a drawing I have created in Turbocad, drawn from scratch from measurements taken from the image above, and checked from the sign. It still needs a bit of tweaking, but so far I'm pleased with it. I will be drawing up other letters as I have pictures of similar signs contailing most of the alphabet. I have yet to do the cross section drawing. The overall size of the sign, ignoring the mounting and locating lugs is 90.25"x23". If you have a suitable cad program I can let you have the files in an appropriate format.. Hth Dave