Ramrig

I have separated mine in the past fairly easily with the tool. Hopefully my replacement loco is arriving today. Excellent service as always from the team at Derails. If it arrives I can then run it in on the club layout later 👍👍👍

In Search of Angels - Runrig

I was thinking more “IS THAT IT! IS THAT IT! I’ve put my best pink top on to come and see this”

The look on the woman’s face in the pink top, on the Prague picture J1438 says it all…. I Don’t think she is to impressed with it 😂

As both 70000 and 92212 are both owned by Jeremy Hoskins at Crewe. I think we can have a guess where the part was borrowed from. I believe 92212 is still under overhaul. Added. Didn’t he also buy spares from 92245 when it was broken up at Barry? He certainly had the boiler as a spare if I remember correctly.

Stainsby Girl - Chris Rea

Well I finally got to run mine tonight on the club layout. I have had the loco since early October when they first arrived. I carefully ran it in on my rolling road. Then up and down on about 8 feet of track on the front of my layout. Before tonight’s final proper run. Two laps of the “Duffield” layout and …….. Another on its way back. I’ve never had this happen before on a new locomotive

Harvest Moon - Runrig

isn’t that a picture of Gill Head, Physicsman’s layout that he is building? link:

Oakamoor station on the North Staffordshire line/ Churnet valley line. Station, level crossing over Mill Road then a tunnel.

Caption Time ” with this ere Dremmel and the rest of these odds and ends, I reckons we could fix that wrist and save ‘im a trip tomorrow”

I hope it all goes well tomorrow John, followed by a speedy recovery. Looking forward to the next instalment of Exhill Works in 2024.

I think the furthest one is under the green tarpaulin in the street view from earlier in the year. I’ve not been to the Butterley end of the line for a long time, but it looks like rail buses are taking over

Always on my Mind - Pet Shop Boys (to get back on track)

Red Barchetta - Rush

In that second picture it looks like the connecting rod is bent, between the centre and rear driving wheels. Must be the camera angle (hopefully)

Ride a White Swan - T. Rex

Child in Time - Deep Purple

Any one else spotted this

Closer To The Heart - Rush

the street lamp was formally a Gas one that has been converted to electricity. Where the ‘T’ bar is below the green box is part of the old gas system. The green box would have been added along with the swan neck fitting above when the gas lantern was decommissioned. The green box would have contained back then the fuse and neutral block on the end of the incoming underground cable. Most likely YEB property. Above it would most likely be an electro mechanical time switch with seasonal settings. The feed wires to the lamp head would most likely be VIR insulated. I have certainly changed a few of these in the past in the old EMEB area.

Hi. I am also just finishing off a Bachmann conversation of an early version using 3D parts. The other thing to look at is the exhaust pipe. Some of the early versions were flush with the bonnet, others had a thin tube about the height of the cab. Photos are your friend if you can find them. Mine is to be 11102 just after delivery to the W &U where it quickly gained an exhaust pipe after complaints about smoke in the cab. I put a thread up in September if anything here is of any use. The best picture I have is in a Shunter book, title evades me, I’ll go and find it and report back. Also don’t forget the early version had buffer beam numbers also. Edit: just to add I am using MLI 195 and The Diesel Shunter book by Colin C Marsden reprinted/updated in 2003. Some good images in there of the early liveries, pity there black and whites.

Nice to see a little progress Peter. I know where you are coming from with daughters 😉, Just wait till you have grandchildren to contend with as well 🙈. Modelling time becomes even less 🤣.

Looking on Google maps/Google earth it is still in situ

Closer to the Heart - Rush