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    Silver Sidelines

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    Roof detail differs between the prototype Class 42 and 43s, for example the exhaust ports are in a different place on the real thing.  There are others. 

     

    What I notice looking at the two models are changes to the front fairing - there is no panel join on the 43, and on the 42 there's a noticeable seam along the solebar bodywork that intersects with the sandbox filler hatches.  Are the real things different in these aspects?

    S.A.C Martin

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    Lovin' this, Simon. As we're tucked away in the relative secrecy of the Blogs, I'll admit to picking up a pair of D49s this week for nefarious Waverley purposes. It's a huge comfort injection to see you (and others) getting to grips with the raw material, and what you've achieved here is right up with the standard we're accustomed to from Copley Hill W/B. Great stuff!

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    S.A.C Martin

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    Well, well, well! Some ScR naughtiness lurking here, buried in the blogs!

     

    Glad you posted on the current thread about blogs, because I decided to take your self-deprecating remarks at face value and check this section out. And glad I have, because a man can never get enough Sad-Eyes coverage.

     

    Out of interest, I think the way you've set out Copley Hill Works blog is actually rather good. I agree traffic to them is light (just as well in the case of 'Chard's Low Benchmarks, I think), and I for one am too time-starved to stray far from VNC and My Content, especially given the amount of Waverley Route traffic!

     

    Excuses, excuses. Keep up the good work kiddo!

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    'CHARD

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    Reports of the 50s' appearances I have from what I would describe as very credible sources. And the weekends of industrial action and diversions that nail many if not all of these rare appearances lend very good credence to what I understand to have used the line.

     

    My belief is also that all Deltics did traverse the route during the much publicised diversion periods away from the ECML, be that via the Tweed valley, joining the WR at Kelso Jct, or Hexham and the whole route via Carlisle. The Chronicles of Napier website is a good source but there used to be a signal box record on line from Hawick South that listed the Deltics that passed on diversion in '67. I can't find that now, and last time I saw it I hadn't knuckled-down to this quest!

     

    The DP1 story is legendary. Fortunately for my period of interest (and bank balance), such exotica as that and D5511 (ahem) fall way before my era.

    'CHARD

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    Teribus ye teri odin!

    Warley was a great show, few beers with our guitarist, a lingering look at some superb and inspiring layouts, many laughs and the Bachmann stand. Well, what can I say?

     

    This: TTGSYP D9007 without sound chip - £45.00, that's what. She's posing about on Teviotbank at the moment, awaiting workbench attention to become D9010 TTGFYE with double arrows, in time for a recreation of that legendary 0658, 42 years on, in a little over three weeks.

    'CHARD

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    If I find another specimen though, I'll narrow the ground floor windows to two and three columns of panes rather than three and four. Where Lilliesleaf is concerned I think the prevailing weather is more temperate than elsewhere on the route, and the greater glazed area - read more heat loss - is less of a concern. For a better upland aspect, not to say better aesthetics and balance, narrower ground floor windows would actually make for an elegant looking structure.

     

    I thoroughly enjoyed teasing this thing together - even with its milk-bottle prismatic glazing - as can be seen in the photos. I have even got the germ of an interior together, but I'll only go to that stage if I decide to light it from within.

     

    Not sure what else was in the Heljan-Hales range, apart from Teignmouth structures and some decidedly Euro-box houses (far too modern). If, when I find my next Danish inn, there's a Teignmouth station building sitting next to it (LOL), I'll snap that up for butchery.

    'CHARD

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    Fivecool.gif D6858, looks like GSY, freight heading for Millerhill over Gala Water, 14.10.68 - nice broadside in 'Border Country Branch Line Album' by Neil Caplan.

     

    Oh me oh my, where's the wipes?

    Thanks for the timely reminder our kid, the main tome missing from my essential collection, and it's a Caplan to boot. Now for a thrash around on Amazon biggrin.gif

     

    Later, on another thread, I've had the OS map out, and it's time to apply some Geography to a few captions wink.gif

    'CHARD

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    Tried out the move with 2M01/3M01 last night, admittedly it was nearer 10pm than midnight, but my Modeller's Licence does permit such time-travel smile.gif

     

    Actually making up the proper consist and working round with the train engine and pilot was very illuminating. Crucially, having the correct amount of stock, and therefore space in the station area, was extremely fulfilling. Admittedly, there were still a couple of placeholders about. Tonight the Class 4 and 3S01 will be out of the frame and more correctly two DMUs will be stabled overnight, as they represent one of the principal constraints.

    'CHARD

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    Quality, so when I'm finished burning out the last of my enthusiasm getting Cully out to it's show I'll be able to sit back and read/view progress on the midlands-based bit of southern Scotland?

     

    Magic. ^_^

     

    Well that's the theory our kid!

     

    Lo and behold when CDs Artists D-E were moved last night, the spacer at the back of the drawer was Lima M-I-B 31019, which made me shake my head like a loon. If I was going to be truly ludicrous, I'd retain her services to recreate the Hawick pic you linkied of the A1A trial of yore. But it is way before my time - didn't she try out over the PPW at all? wink.gif

    'CHARD

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    http://www.dieselele.../p59376440.html

     

    Just a temporary place to park this super shot of a suitable Peak until I blog on visiting foreign traction, D33 is already BFYE on 8th February 1968 and she's received a single centre panel headcode.

     

    http://www.dieselelectrics.photos.gb.net/p59426334.html

    http://www.dieselele.../p59376449.html

    http://www.dieselele.../p59376445.html

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