Tim V

Why, you're not thinking of stalking her until she finally agrees to join the Scalefour Society, are you?

Ha Ha, no does she live on the route of HS2? In which case she has a vested interest.

Since they can't seem to win the "No to HS2" argument, they have to use smear tactics.

One thing I regret not doing (and would on the next one) is paint the underside white. Makes for a smart underneath, seals the surface, and makes it easier to find things (like broken wires)!

Wonder where she lives?

Interesting picture of the slip coach, but I cannot work out where it was taken. It looks like it's heading away from Bath with that background.

That "N" gauge track looks pretty good, is it chaired bullhead?

This one any good?

http://www.s-r-s.org.uk/html/gwb/S574.htm

For those who don't know about such things, the paint is important. Messages were plastered over these locos.

Also, the ex GW engines lost their plates early on, so any numbers painted on were guestimates. One couldn't guarantee you were looking at 7061 (for example), someone had been around with a paint brush, relying on numbers stamped on the wheels (for example). Wheels did move around when a loco was repaired.

Was that an official visit? Lot of people around, whenever I went there, the place was deserted.

Hi Tim,

My recent design changes mean that I now will have some of the arches between Skew Bridge and Old Bridge on the boards.  Do you know which arch they used? It would be a nice feature to add.

Thanks

It was something my mother told me. Can't ask her any more. I believe it was the one immediately by the road bridges, seen in the middle in this picture.

http://www.bathintime.co.uk/image/199079/electric-tram-crossing-the-old-bridge-detail-c-1900

Looks pretty good.

Somewhere are pictures of the turntable at Swindon, with broad gauge still on it, and pictures of the turntables at Charfield and Yate. OK they are ex Midland, but might be worth a look.

Der!

Is there a standard height for DG couplings please, I can't see one specified anywhere.

Fair enough - so long as you're happy!

If you are modelling the viaduct by the Old Bridge, there was an arch there used by the Home Guard in the Second war, how do I know - my Grandfather was in the home guard!

Isn't that the replacement bridge from 1960? Somewhere is a picture of the original bridge, but I can't remember where!

Have you got "Steam Around Bath" Mike Arlett & Ivo Peters ISBN 0948975075. Picture of the turntable on the down side in there.

I just remembered your query regarding contours in urban areas, have you looked at OSM data?

http://www.openstreetmap.org/

Plenty of maps on the oldmaps sitehttp://www.old-maps.co.uk/index.html

The picture up the ramp was taken by the Penny Bridge. The water tank is in your mock up.

Looks pretty good by the way, recognisably Bath.

Just spotted on your plan that you are going to cross Pultney Road, here is the bridge (other pictures of the bridge are on the Bathintime site) taken just before it was demolished circa 1972. Top lock was a destination, as there were trips along the canal, I enjoyed one trip circa 1964. I was invited into the engine compartment of the Charlotte Dundas to start the engine - very thrilling for a nine year old.

Plenty of Bench Marks (not trig points - my mistake!).

Are you talking about this area? Picture dates from about 1971, shortly before these buildings were demolished. Don't ask me for any other pictures - I didn't take any others!

Look at Oldmaps, you should be able to get spot heights from the OS maps. Also somewhere on the net is a list of trig points and heights, when you put in your grid references, it'll give you the nearest heights.

The trams ceased running in 1939, so most likely the rails were recovered shortly after.

Superficially, doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the cleaning regime. Where is the paint flaking from? Is it on edges - the footplate? Paint regularly flakes from there. If so, you could blacken that pre painting. Rub it with a felt tip pen if it's already painted.

As an aside, I have never had much luck with low volume produced aerosols (though others swear by them). I would personally suspect the paint.

I get on very well with the Halfords acrylics, but in 2mm, they are a bit thick - the red seems to make a slightly thinner coat than the grey.

Scrubbed with what? Rinsed with what?

Thought about different paint? Or chemical blackening?

I saw all those 16Ts, must have been an epic session to build them all...

A quick bump for the thread and an aerial view of Warminster c.1929 from the superb English Heritage 'Britain from the air' collection

 

Tim V, did you find any shots of Warminster in the 70's in your collection?

 

Jerry

There are some, dated around March '78. Currently I'm working on digitising my black and white negative collection. I'm on sheet 30, but Warminster is on sheet 125, it was my first trip out with my Olympus OM1 - it's going to be a while. There are a couple of earlier ones from around 1975, I'll come across them whenever.

I hadn't forgotten your request, but I thought Warminster was a long term project?

One tip picked up may years ago was to file a slot in the back of the rim, in line with a spoke, for the shorting strip to sit into. Make sure the strip is tinned before proceeding. As Bill says, use 145 solder, but a normal hot iron (270), get in quick. I've never had a problem.

Of course, if available, you could try the brass centred wheels. They are very nice, I have one loco with them on.