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Impressive looking work. With regard to pop-up adverts, I don’t get those on my Ipad although there are ads onscreen. Also don’t get pop-up ads on PC, although I do have an adblocker on that. Hope you can find a way that the adverts are less annoying for you and that you can return to greater participation here.

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Depends which country they are in. Sorry for being off topic.

Had never heard of them. A link for others who might not have either: http://www.lendonsmodelshop.co.uk Looks like it could be a good source for spares. I wonder if the likes of the 2-BIL power bogie is self contained, i.e. picks up from both rails? If so perhaps it might have potential for, say, industrial shunters in 4mm or locos in O16.5?

Colour picture of the west end of Newton Stewart, including signalbox, on ebay at present: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/363017280519?ul_noapp=true Hope of some interest. Have also posted this on the other Newton Stewart layout thread (I assume there are only two!)

Colour picture of the west end of Newton Stewart, including signalbox, on ebay at present: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/363017280519?ul_noapp=true Hope of some interest. Have also posted this on the other Newton Stewart layout thread (I assume there are only two!)

Ah, sorry remember that one now. I just linked to the one that is in your message “footer”.

I’m sure you were aware, but other mapping is also available. This is the 25inch from between 1892 and 1914, which shows the track layout in greater detail, including a connection immediately after the viaduct to a colliery off to the left of the picture: https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17.755836797213863&lat=51.65170&lon=-3.65370&layers=168&b=8

Interested me enough to try and find a map showing the railways, so found this one (use the slider to compare and contrast with either aerial photography, current OS mapping etc.): https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16.381115879214708&lat=51.65259&lon=-3.65347&layers=193&b=8 Apologies for adding to thread drift.

Not quite the same but similar:

Dragging up an old thread, but this picture seemed worthwhile posting. Apologies if it has been linked to before! DB964008, and D5384, at Cricklewood on Sunday 23/09/62.

Wonder if they should be the other way around, i.e. with the life buoy facing towards anyone approaching the dockside? As they are at present someone wanting to use one has to go around to the dockside to retrieve it, and is therefore maybe in some danger of falling in the water themselves, especially if they were rushing in an emergency. Yeah, I know you have painted the life buoys now!

This picture on ebay is a different angle, I think? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/193494164980?ul_noapp=true In the foreground it looks like some sort of walkway on the "off side" of the bay platform?

This picture currently on ebay any help? Sorry, haven't been through all the thread to see if you have posted same/similar but am "following" your thread so thought it worth posting, just in case! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/392807382475?ul_noapp=true I follow this seller (GCR427) because for a while he had some interesting wagon pictures on offer. Therefore saw this in a recent email of his recent listings by chance!

For the first part try: https://brcoachingstock.groups.io/g/main Was a Yahoo Group but moved over when Yahoo Groups seemed to come to an end. It has had various carriage marshalling documents available as PDFs. I think if you join then there is a list somewhere of those that are available. And others seem to be added occasionally - there have been a few this week. I think it has even had early 1960s recently. The stated period not of interest o me so not aware if this has any uploads. Second part is probably far harder, but I would guess that some named trains on the ECML, at least south of Edinburgh changed from steam to diesel when the Deltics came into service. This on the basis that they were on the prestige trains which in turn were presumably the named ones! Hope this helps.

I think they have been there for some time? If you sort your preferred category by price then they are, generally, listed in ascending price, e.g. Bachmann steam era wagons: http://herefordmodels.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=369_370_377_387_391&page=1&sort=3a Which shows that these vans are the cheapest but there are other items listed which seem cheaper than they might be listed elsewhere. I assume this is stock that has sat around unsold and they have never increased the price to reflect current selling prices? Anyway, maybe makes it easier to see if there is something that you might want!

Had great service and communication regarding purchase of one of their small gift items.

Thanks for this. Some useful information that can hopefully be shared to a wider audience of those modelling this period.

Ah, see that implement now! A couple more pictures of the same event have now been added to the “The Carmylie Pilot Ltd” Facebook page.

Don’t know if you use Facebook or not, but hopefully this link will work regardless. It is a picture at Arbroath of an engine taking water. What I thought might be of interest is the water crane and the long “lum” (spelling?) on the stove attached to it. Anyway, the link: Hope of assistance!

No problem, it was all pretty fresh in my mind. I would be interested in the same issues as yourself. Useful to know that the recent 21/29 book does cover this as I haven't got it, yet. I think both the page count and price of it are substantially more than the Clayton one? The author of the Clayton book has obviously gone to some trouble to find information, e.g trips to National Archive, Kew and from Clayton's. Presumably just different individual approaches by both publishers and authors. Regardless, I thank them for the time expended and putting their research into print. I don't remember any mentions!

Funnily enough I just read my copy earlier this week, having had it for about three years and only getting part way through it at the time of receiving it. To try and answer your questions, there is very limited information about problems, other than the usual general comments about unreliability, e.g. no input from maintenance staff, operating staff etc. and no information on availability figures. No coverage of what the mechanical issues with them were, even those requiring early rectification, or whether depots started to get on top of them. There are a few titbits. One caption of one at St Rollox says "This works especially did wonders with the troublesome Claytons ..." but doesn't expand on what that work was. There is also a description in one caption of the small door immediately in front of the cab (to the main generator compartment) being left open by some drivers to increase ventilation because the filters in these doors clogged before they were due for scheduled renewal. Get the feeling the author maybe knows more but hasn't covered it all! There are three pages from a Driver's Assistant about their operation at Barrow Hill. There is a list of "Works visits", partly based on Engine History Cards and Engine Record Cards but the author advises these are thin on the ground. There are plenty of photographs, mainly in black and white and reproduced at a decent size - often two images/page, sometimes three but the latter are still a reasonable size. A lot of loco portrait type images but also a good few on various workings, including a few sets of images of one working. Quality of them is generally good, if not excellent. A smaller selection of colour images when in service. Approximately 24, 5 of which are in blue livery. The latter not my era but they are a pretty disappointing selection. Also about 30 in colour of it in preservation - a set of detail images. Unfortunately no overall potted history by loco, like in at least some of "The book of .." series for some steam classes. A lot of the information is probably in here, just not set out by individual loco for all aspects. There is a list of allocations, loco by loco. The livery information in particular seems pretty limited, but that might just not be available. Also missing is any explanation of why the design was developed or its context and why it was just by Clayton. e.g. did the BTC put out a brief to more than just one Company. A few minor gripes. The author has obviously identified how to distinguish which end is No. 1 end, as there is reference to which end is leading in a few of the photo captions but he doesn't explicitly explain it nor is it indicated on the two drawings included - General Arrangements from Clayton's, one showing interior detail. I did work it out from the text describing what end some equipment (exhausters?) in the boxes beside the cab was at but couldn't find it again when I looked just now. Also, a proof read should have easily sorted out a few typo type issues and poorly structured listings. From a modeller's perspective probably has all you need. From a BR diesel history perspective it seems somewhat lacking. Is anyone aware of any coverage of issues in, say a "class history" in a magazine, e.g, Railway Magazine or Railways illustrated? Cover price was £26.99 when published in 2016 although I think I have seen it discounted on some stands at model railway exhibitions. Mine was a Christmas gift but overall I think I would have still bought it at full price for myself, given a long standing interest in the class - I managed to get an MTK kit of one up and running in OO about forty years ago! Hope this is of assistance. BTW, my copy doesn't have the cover typo!

I assume the goods yard is in a corner of the railway shed? If so is there scope to have access to the outside side of the station boards, perhaps by shortening/removing the “straights” you have on short sides of layout? Or, I wonder if there is scope to further compress the engine shed area? Either reduce length of sidings or maybe their number, after all I would imagine far less operational interest/activity there than in the goods yard area. If you keep the baseboard area as your plan then reducing the engine shed area, or reducing the straight after it, would maybe allow you to stretch the west end of the station around the top left corner of the layout, thus allowing the goods yard area to be a bit longer. With regards to automatic uncoupling, it might be worth some experiments before you commit to baseboards, track layout etc. that you later find are inaccessible or at least awkward to access, to the extent you don’t. Just some thoughts. Feel free to ignore!

Had forgotten that resource. Copyright seems an alien concept to some, unfortunately.

Hello. Do you have a search set up on ebay for photographs of Newton Stewart? Seems quite a good source of occasional "new" pictures. You can generally download and save the images although obviously they will all generally have, quite rightly, some form of copyright marking on them. These two ended recently and are different views to the normal ones (hope the links work): https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/35mm-Railway-Negative-Loco-View-Newton-Stewart-23-6-1962-2-/362966382416?nma=true&si=AwT3fCCO%2FKd9HgWEVICO3AgwIg0%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 and https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/35mm-Railway-Negative-Loco-View-Newton-Stewart-23-6-1962-/164155064917?nma=true&si=AwT3fCCO%2FKd9HgWEVICO3AgwIg0%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 Well, I though they were different, but a similar view to the above, and same date and train, but in colour: I assume you have already found that collection, given the earlier link to the 8F and cattle wagons picture. One image there shows the connection to a short siding, Carty's siding, between Newton Stewart and the Cree viaduct. Is there scope to include that? Although I doubt it generated much traffic - rails look very rusty in the picture. Regards your plan, I wonder if all the goods yard sidings are rather crammed in to one corner? Assuming one of the attractions of the station is freight operations then you might need to consider access for uncoupling etc. NLS maps mentioned above. I assume you are aware you can view them as an overlay with, say, aerial photography, see: https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=18&lat=54.95404&lon=-4.49089&layers=168&b=1 From that it looks like the goods shed still exists, or it was quite recently. Found it on Google StreetView, although that image is from 2009, see: https://www.instantstreetview.com/@54.95396,-4.48875,278.19h,-4.85p,1z You can also see the road overbridge at the west end of the station and part of the the abutment of the underbridge at the east end. Really should have explored these remains on the ground at some point in my time in D&G! Perhaps when we are able to safely go out again. Hope some of this helps!