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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

On 13/02/2017 at 19:32, Furness Wagon said:

the van is now available in 4mm on our shapways shop.

 

Marc

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?

I bought a load of the WRRC's C.C. Green prints from ebay, thinking that Mr. Green had the original prints and/or negatives - when a hell of a lot turned out to have been copied from books, very badly in some cases, not helped by the WRRCs prints being digital rather than darkroom. (digitising the negatives, if indeed there were negatives, or prints introduces yet more quality loss) I'm now a lot more wary of what I buy from WRRC prints! 

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

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

Hi,

The HMRS have a drawing of a 4-4-0 with 6ft driving wheels, which seems to be the right one although the drawing is dated 1904, so it may be the later one.  I will check my books but they are not always very helpful on details.

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

Any chance of the BSYP version coming along in 2mm?

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!

They had left the area before I arrived but the Trethomas trip would have been work to which they would be suited although I suspect they would not have been favoured for Machen ballast trains.

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!