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Newport MRS are holding an open day on Sunday 21st May at 11:00 am. RMWebbers are welcome, admission is free and details can be found here: https://www.newportmrs.co.uk/2023-open-day

This any use: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/374312022913?mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=710-53481-19255-0&campid=5338722076&customid=&toolid=10050 Rod

Has someone built one of these please? How did it go together? Anything to look out for?

Thank you Marc - I'd certainly be interested if it becomes possible. Rod

Marc Is the van in 4mm likely to be repeated? I can't see it on the Shapeways site now. Cheers Rod

I haven't built one but I held one of their kits for an GWR ex-RR A/A1 in my hands last week and it looked like a good kit. I've heard good reports of the way they go together too.

Does this loco have 3mm axles? Anyone ever attempted a conversion to P4?

Posted on behalf of Brian Dotson, Chairman, Welsh Railways Research Circle "I can assure Quarryscapes in Post 2625 that the Welsh Railways Research Circle (WRRC) do not own any of the photographs or negatives of the C.C. Green Collection. Furthermore the WRRC do not sell items on EBay. If Quarryscapes wishes to purchase items from the Welsh Railways Research Circle then he should visit the website at www.wrrc.org.uk It is quite wrong of Quarryscapes to imply that the Welsh Railways Research Circle is a less than trustworthy railway research group. If adequate pre-purchase research had been carried out by Quarryscapes he would have found what I have already stated – no C.C. Green photographs or negatives owned by WRRC & no sales via EBay undertaken. The Welsh Railways Research Circle has been in existence for nearly forty years and to cast doubt on the integrity of this well respected research group, dedicated to collecting and disseminating information about all aspects of the Welsh railways scene, is totally unwarranted. Rather than make these erroneous comments and casting a slur upon the hard work of many over the years, an acknowledgement of an error or an apology would not go amiss. Brian Dotson Chairman Welsh Railways Research Circle"

The Kit-bashing for Welsh Wagons Data Sheet (No2 as Sandy says) is available in the Members' section of the WRRC website. I updated it a few years ago and it now runs to 11 pages - and I'd appreciate any corrections or comments. Cheers Rod

Chris Are you thinking of the Cambrian Large Belpaire Passenger Class, Nos. 94-98 built Stephenson 1904 here? I'm told that the HMRS has a drawing of that loco. Cheers Rod

I was looking at these kits at the WRRC AGM on Saturday and they do look very well produced. I'm down for a Horse Box from the next batch! Cheers Rod

Since the toplights continued in service until the '50s you could add Blood and Custard to the livery menu. Rod

Stop worrying about that and get back to P4

How many of all the others would have to sell before we got somersault signals? Rod

I very interesting development and in my view far more important and deserving of mass attention here than the release of any particular loco. Price is very reasonable too. Rod

I find the responsiveness of DapolDave to the comments made on here very encouraging. Is Dapol unique in this approach? It's certainly very laudable. I have no comments on the loco visually but I do wonder if consideration has been given to the ease of conversion to P4. This could be a deal-breaker for me. I'm normally a steam-era modeller but could easily be tempted by what promises to be an excellent model of a WR hydraulic - if it does bring with it too much conversion effort. Cheers Rod

Has anyone converted one of these beasties to P4 yet ? What is the driving axle diameter?

Thanks PMP - it could be that the Carmarthen-Crewe working missed the cameras being on a Wednesday - proving a negative is always difficult.! Rod

drandles Did the Wednesdays only Carmarthen-Crewe work on the South Wales mainline and thence via PPRD or the Central Wales? I was wondering what might have been seen at Little Mill Jc ca 1955!

Thanks SM and Craig - I think it had slipped my mind how little traffic was on the B&M by the time the 14s were introduced. I briefly (and erroneously) imagined them working from Bassaleg.

Would they have worked up the B&M line too, or just the Western Valley?

Thanks for those shed allocations Kenton. I??™m rather surprised that there was never one allocated to 86B (Newport EJ). I remember them on the Golden Mile working Western Valley trains. Pity that there won??™t be a drop-in conversion kit from Ultrascale - I rather fancy one in P4. Let??™s hope the new guys in charge of Alan Gibson come up trumps!