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    I hate rub on transfers! Because the ones I am using are a bit old they are pretty much falling to pieces as I apply them. So I am having to 'correct' them using white ink. The only consolation is it's good practice for doing hand lettering.

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    Took a 3 plank wagon out on to the patio to prime it and promptly dropped it onto the hard surface. Amazingly, it just bounced - no damage done. Resin is not as fragile as some people think - evidently.

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    Something is very wrong with a system when so many people who are willing to work and have considerable talent to offer cannot get jobs. I hope things change soon for all in this dreadful position.
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    You know the one that gets me? The sign that says: 'This door must be kept locked at all times.' Why is it a door then?
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    Wow! I'm amazed that Northenden Junction still had its CLC nameboard so late. Thanks for the great photos.
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    Reminder to self - never accuse anyone of being pedantic. Not when you have just checked the diagram book to see how many leaf springs were fitted to a particular wagon in 1909.

    1. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      and the answer is?

       

    2. Poggy1165

      Poggy1165

      Eight. And I doubt anyone but me will ever notice. In fact, I probably won't myself.

       

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    Damn! My masking tape didn't mask! At least, it didn't produce those nice straight edges that one ought to get. Much fiddly work with a small brush beckons.

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    Just home from Llandudno, and now the question of the day is whether to spray paint or brush paint the Birley wagon I am working on. Lot of transfer lettering to do either way.

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    Putting the capping on a wagon side, I managed to damage the paintwork on the top plank. And although I have sprayed with the same colour, it is dead obvious! Oh well, looks like that wagon had a replacement top plank and is also going to qualify for a good coat of weathering.

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    Very impressive job!
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    A nice Edwardian brick tramway depot with 'Corporation Electric Car Depot' above the door; preferably in 7mm. :-) Many of these were reused as bus depots are were still working as such in the 60s and 70s, and a few survive, often in alternative employment. So it would fit any urban scene from 1900 to 2012.
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    The axleboxes on the GC horsebox do have a look of a particular kind of GC axlebox. Whether they are correct for this model or not I cannot say, but they would pass my eye until I found a photo to prove them wrong.
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    The more photos I see of this layout the more impressed I am. i particularly like the subtle weathering of locos and stock, which makes them look very realistic.
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    I have a memory (a rather vague one) as a young lad of having seen a large blue diesel running through Gorton and Openshaw. I can only think it was the prototype Deltic - what else could it have been? - perhaps being transferred from the LMR to the ER, which I believe happened in 1959. Please do not use this report as a firm source. Confirmation would be necessary - but I definitely saw something, and it was pretty darned impressive.
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    Hopefully it will be extended from Dore to Manchester and then the Euston-Picc trains can have some much-needed competition. I suspect that those dodgy MR tunnels between Chinley and Dore might rule this out though.
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    Have to finish a few wagons, including some that I still need to buy odd parts for. Then it's onto the J63, assuming I don't bottle the project. Not built an engine myself in years...

    1. Rob Pulham

      Rob Pulham

      Have you decided which one you are doing yet?

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    I always think Skelton Junction would be an interesting prototype, but you wouldn't half need a big room! As it would give me GC, LNWR and MR locos in my era, and lots of wagons, it would make me very happy. Hmm, I believe the next Euro lottery is over £100 million so I'd better get a ticket. Thinking about it, in 7mm scale one would need the arms of a gibbon to work the sidings, so it ain't really practical anyway.
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    I was actually on that tour with Clan Line, part of the reason being that I wanted to 'do' the Tiviot Dale line again. If it was not the last passenger train to go through it was certainly one of the last. Memory is a bit hazy but I seem to recall we went via Guide Bridge and somehow ended up at Northwich where we we waited for hours while the tender was filled through a drinking straw. (Or so it seemed). There then followed a very fast run through Chester and Wrexham to Shrewsbury. I had lost my connection there and so rode on the Wolverhampton where I managed to catch a train back to Mancland without much trouble. A grand day out as they say, and recall having a good laugh and joke with two or three fellow passengers - sadly I never got their names, let alone their addresses, but they were grand lads. I know some people don't like the Bulleid Pacifics, but I've always had a soft spot for them since that day.
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    When I was a boy I fell in love with Stockport Tiviot Dale. It was a marvellous station, best described as semi-disused with an alleged train service, to my mind the railway equivalent of an enchanted castle*. I never saw such a clear case of 'the glory hath departed.' * Not a GW one - one of those medieval jobbies with towers and things... Heaton Mersey Shed was a bit special too. It was the only one of my acquaintance where, if you asked the gentleman politely, he would freely give you permission to wander around. Given that we were snotty-nosed kids aged 9-11 I find that quite amazing in retrospect. Usually one had to sneak round sheds, and if you were very lucky no one would shout at you. His hospitality was never, ever abused. All we wanted to do was look at the engines and take the numbers. Happy days, I wish I could go back. No modern boy would be given the opportunity to do something like that, and, in my opinion, the country is worse for it, though I quite understand the reasons why. And we used to travel there on Stockport Corporation Crossley buses (or sometimes Leylands). T'was joy to be alive, and yet it was all taken for granted.
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    Happy bunny! We are staying put so I don't have to sell all the railway stuff and most of my books. Selective pruning instead...

    1. Allegheny1600

      Allegheny1600

      That's a relief! After our last move, I swore I would NEVER move again!

    2. N15class

      N15class

      I sold some bits when I moved to Brazil, but the suff is slowely arriving as and when visitors come.

    3. Poggy1165

      Poggy1165

      It would have been a downsize, happily we have decided it's not necessary.

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    There used to be absolutely cracking L&Y mechanical ones at Manchester Victoria, one on every platform. Sadly they have all long ago vanished. They were functional, but I suppose not modern enough, plus they needed a guy on the platform to push a lever or two.
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    I suppose the point of the exercise with the standards was to try to make them acceptable to everyone. Imagine how the WR people would have reacted to being presented with a fleet of Jubilees, for example. They were hostile enough to the Britannias. (And yes, I know the Jubilee was only a glorified castle, but imagine telling them that!)
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    Oooh, this is the ultimate in subjective opinion. My answer would be a J11, or basically anything designed by J G Robinson. With the Midland engines designed by Johnson as my unbiased neutral choice. But I think Edwardian engines in general were incredibly handsome. To my mind the more modern engines tend to be impressive (at best) rather than beautiful. I think it has something to do with the relative size of the boiler and the consequent reduced ability to fit seemly boiler mountings. But as I said, it's a deeply subjective thing...
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    Heck of an impressive engine! And a fine model.
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    Tomorrow, at long last, I lose my airbrush virginity. Finally got sick of stripping inadequate brushwork.

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