SR Chris

I hereby invoke Rule 1! I'll try not to run them alongside Bulleid 3-sets or Mark 1 stock.

Straight out of the box, a gauging special to check platform clearances before fitting the step boards ... I ordered two BTs to make up a four coach set, but unfortunately due to an administrative error by my supplier I have only received one. Soon sorted after a 'phone call and the second one is now on its way. I'll probably get another third to make a BT-T-F-T-BT set. Step boards fitted and Hunt magnetic close couplings fitted, one close and one ultra close to each vehicle as two ultra close couplings are just too close without sprung buffers ... The special was being shunted from the platform road to the sidings, to check running over the yard pointwork when the loco came to a sudden halt. No amount of prompting would persuade it to move so a closer inspection was made upon which the problem became apparent ... Ooops. Fortunately the crankpin was found lying nearby.

My vote goes to the class 309, although the 310 is a close second as I spent many journeys in the saloon behind the driver's cab after school trying to figure out how the things were driven.

Standard tank for me too, although the SR W is a very close second.

Weird, I looked at that last image and studied the B2 and its train, not noticing the lamp post. Then I read your caption and looked again, it was as if the lamp post had sprouted from the B2's chimney while I was reading your sentence! Proves that we only see what we are looking for I guess.

Isn't clacking yer Nan illegal?

What are you doing on RMWeb then?

Deal itself (despite rationalisation and replacement of the adjacent level crossing gates by barriers some years ago) remains fully semaphore signalled albeit with position light shunt signals from it's original art deco box. It's the lone semaphore survivor in East Kent.

Difficult to choose between them, I think the cropped view works best with that lighting.

Nudge, nudge ...

Hi Rob, I painted that Starfish four years ago and unfortunately can't remember the details. I brush paint Humbrol enamels (or Pheonix for railway colours) well thinned to avoid brush marks, several thin coats being preferable to one thick one. By the looks of it I painted that one all over brick red first, then added gloss black panels where the ModelMaster transfers were to go and in places that hadn't rusted. Then it looks like I stippled on the other colours using a knackered brush (or it would have been by the time I'd finished!). I can see rust, leather, dark earth, mid stone, desert yellow and chocolate at least, possibly with a smidge of mid green. The colours would be well thinned and built up over several days with lots of drying time in between. I try to paint wagons in batches so I'm not tempted to rush individual wagons. Painting always takes 2 -3 times as long as building the thing. Once finished I'd apply the transfers and protect them with two or three coats of Klear, then weather them with watercolours. Using watercolours if I don't like the result I can just wipe it off and try again. Wherever possible I work from a photo of the wagon, or at least a similar one. I have many (can't have too many) wagon books for reference and nowadays the web will always turn up something. As DB987002 was built by BR in 1949 it should only be 9 - 10 years old so I may have overdone the rust a little! Here's the other side ...

A Starfish can provide hours of fun ...

Brilliant video, made my windows rattle!

To assist in estimating dimensions, is that a British Standard thumb in the picture?

Now I'm going to have to build a canopy just so's I can nudge it.

It's a slippery slope! OO modeller with, errrrr, 8, no 9, O gauge locos.

How about Pontfawrdrosnantfach Viaduct? Or Wasornby Viaduct? Would it be named after the stream passing under it which is .... I'll get me coat ....

Green, white and blue. De-branded Southern liveried 377164 leads South Eastern liveried 377505 Up past Plum Pudding Island, Birchington with 1P50, the 1553 Ramsgate to London Victoria on Saturday, March 2nd 2019.

Or some of us have been working all day!

This is a good place to start : https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/BRCoachingStock The Carriage Working Notices and Appendices available through this group have provided many hours of research interest and guided my selection of suitable stock for my use.

I like to see the train as much as the loco, so perhaps a slightly less severe crop to include the wagons would be preferable ...

Worked for me, downloaded and opened OK

Indeed, but then the incoming service would be shown as the ECS that had been round the loop and not as the previous Up service.

I concur with your interpretation of the CWN, what goes Down must have come Up, but in the reverse order.

Or use the home button on the keyboard.