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Is something going on at Grosmont today, the webcam seems down but I noticed the 4MT running around its train on the Goathland webcam to go back in the Pickering direction?

Too late to do anything about the scan, but is this any good?

Charliewagon_GWR_cattle.pdf

On 27/08/2021 at 15:20, Iain.d said:

A couple of weeks back I showed the progress on an old BSL/Phoenix LMS D1807 Third Open carriage. This week I finished it off. 

 

 

I purchased it on eBay, believing I was buying a complete kit but when it turned up it was the body only (it wasn’t mis-sold, I just misread the description), so I bought some Comet bogies and Hornby wheels. I scratch built the underframe trussing from brass angle and used Comet accessories to complete. I knocked up some working scissor gangways from brass leftovers. The left hand end one looks like its falling off; it’s not and looks fine when compressed and coupled up to another carriage. I lined it with a lining pen, its okay but there is certainly room for improvement. I did some more practicing after I lined this one and was able to get consistently good lines on my test piece down to about .2/.3mm – the law of you know who!! Never mind. The Stones Ventilators are from Rumney Models and I think they show up well.

 

It’ll be marshalled next to this Comet LMS D1810 Restaurant First Open, which I’ve already started preparing for construction.  This too will be finished in Crimson and Cream. If the lining on this turns out better I’ll likely strip and redo the Third Open.

 

 

 

Kind regards,

Iain

Crimson/cream, blood/custard? Who's paint did you use for this finish?

Charlie

The 33 was in the SP carriage shed at the weekend, you could see it through the museum window. Because the windows are double glazed it created an optical illusion and made it look 10ft long through 2 of the windows. Being just green it fits in well, why duplicate a blue one which is just down the road at the Spa Valley.

I want to talk about Skippy, our Sentinel 4W DH, after passing over a donation to the HK station fund on Sunday I was allowed to drive the loco up and down the HK yard with one of the 13T Medfits attached, I managed to stop within limits and keep to the speed limits. Not a class P or Terrier, but it was good fun, really enjoyed it. The mind does funny things but my mate has convinced me that I should have one of these for my model railway project. According to the website our Sentinel was rebuilt in the 70's after an altercation at Thoresby colliery, subsequently rebuilt by Thomas Hill in Rotherham with a Vanguard cab. So there is a difference between the Hornby model and Skippy. Does anyone know if somebody has made some etched conversion kit or is there a 3D print conversion for changing the Hornby model to something resembling the mark we have on the railway?

Hopefully it stays as D6570 and green. 

On 15/03/2021 at 15:49, Tony Wright said:

Speaking of painting.......................

 

The LRM J3 is now ready for its coats of paint.

 

 

 

One thing which puzzles me is why folk struggle to solder bands on to etched boilers. If they're subsequently lined, I don't bother with them. If they'll be plain black (as in this case), I'll use PVC self-adhesive insulation tape, cut to the required width. It really is much easier.

 

The dodge is to cut them to length (adjacent to the dome, say) about half an hour after they're applied - that way they'll have shrunk to the correct length and adhere to the surface. A bead of superglue underneath the boiler at the end of each band ensure their staying put. 

 

 

Very nice, in all the 2275 pages I dare say that this question has already come up, but what is the K's model mean't to be? J3? J4?

5 minutes ago, Tony Wright said:

What's left at Wood Green today? No longer Wood Green, of course; now Alexandra Palace. Certainly no photographers.

Regards,

Tony. 

There are still photographers, last time I was down there they were over on the up side catching the yard shunter coming out and the empty stock moving up towards Hornsey. 

4 minutes ago, gordon s said:

Thanks for posting those pics, Charlie. My favourite place as well. End of Wood Green platform opposite the signal box. I was part of the furniture from the late 50’s through to ‘64 when girls and scooters came along......

 

Just two stops down from Palmers Green and access to the best that the LNER could offer.

 

Happy days...

Can you remember the goods shed at Palmers Green and travelling face to face in the Quad sets? I can just recall it though more the dirty Mk1 suburbans and Cravens.

Missed this one

60031 Golden Plover on an up express at Wood Green. Pity about the loco but some of the ballast is in focus? Always thought it strange the down main being a colour light signal.

Steve, can you tell Rob that the battery you were looking at powers this, the approach platform indicator.

If Rob doesn't understand anything, its best to leave alone until it can be worked out. Everything on that layout is there for a reason. I think you'll find some text in a 1950's article somewhere that the Borchester layouts were started late 1940's and preceded the Archers.

Regards Charlie

4 hours ago, Ian J. said:

Silly thought - is it really appropriate to use up a sound function on a locomotive for a sound that is not of the locomotive? A guard's whistle I can just about understand, but station announcements?

I was wondering whether to post the question on here and I made the wrong decision. You missed the point.

I viewed the class 55 yesterday and it is mightily impressive. So to pick up on the words "definitive deltic" in the video, it certainly looks it, I don't know all the functions the sound chip has, but F15 is an English voice announcing a departure from Waverley? By parentage I'm half Scottish but saw Deltics mainly at the Kings Cross end, but if I put the other hat on it would be good to hear an Edinburgh accent announcing a Waverley departure. Come to think of it, if I lived in or around Newcastle, perhaps announce the departures to London or Edinburgh in a geordie accent...Definitve Deltic?

Martin?Wickham,

On the button, many thanks

Regards Charlie

A friend has passed this photo of a junction station over to me asking me where it is. He thinks that it the Brighton main line but it doesn't ring any bells. Any thoughts ?

Having had a bit more time to research the 165 DE, aside from the Bo'ness shunter there are certainly quite a few more preserved and a fair bit of information going back in RMweb to lean on, the search engine had its moments and came up with subjects that had nothing to do with what I was looking for, but eventually got there. So I decided to have a go at the DE and ordered the kit last Thursday lunchtime and it arrived first thing Friday from Judith Edge, excellent service Michael.

Just came across this topic, I'm on the verge of retiring and looking for a shunter for a layout. To cut a long story short, I was an apprentice with Babcock & Wilcox in Renfrew back in the mid-1970 and the works had siding all over the place and you always knew that shunting was going on by the noise of the wheels having an argument with the tight curves around the place. Moving forward 45 years I was looking at the Bo'ness & Kinneil railway website and notice that they were using an ex B&W 0-4-0 shunter of the 165DS type. So, before I go and buy this kit, does anyone know what the main differences are between the BR and industrial shunters? The B&W shunter does not have a jack shaft, the exhaust is also directly in front of the cab, not at the front of the bonnet?

60103 has been at the Mid-Hants a few weeks hence why I thought they were coming back, but I notice that it is staying longer than I thought and will be running tomorrow and the following 7/8th March.

Just seen two Bluebell Bulleid coaches (on trailers) sitting on the slip road from the A272 onto the A23 south? How does stock normally travel by road to and from the Bluebell? From the direction they were pointing I assume that they were going down to Burgess Hill unless they go all the way down to the A27 and then north up the A275 through Chailey?

I assume the reason why they did not travel by rail to the Midhants is they do not have the relevant certification unlike the Mets?  Axle and pull bar testing etc

This would be something different sitting in a rake of say Bmann 14T tankers, can anyone recommend a 9' wheelbase wooden frame kit for this?

Below is an extract from December 1962 edition of the Model Railway Constructor, initially this was not of much interest to me until I read the text. It's a wooden framed wagon and was still in use in April1962, It would be an interesting prototype to have in amongst the Mainline and Bachmann 14T oil tankers I have, but was there a shut-off date when wooden framed wagons could not longer be used?

11 hours ago, Tony Wright said:

Great shot Charlie!

 

'but what was 1C31?'

 

Definitely a secondary service, maybe a running-in turn, for the loco looks brand new. Robert Carroll is the man to ask. 

 

The loco? Obviously a racehorse (though not NIMBUS - no yellow end), so any of the others. 

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

 

 

Clive/Tony, thanks for the response, I can understand the 1 and 31, but having spotted on the southern ECML for a long time the C threw me. If it was Peterborough then this would have been B going into the 70's. I'll give you a couple more - 1A46

D1507 coming through the down loop platform at Wood Green 

1G60 with Falcon on the down main at New Southgate, I'd guess that it is the Sheffield Pullman. Now that's an interest coach on the up side.

4S04, D399 on the down slow through Wood Green

1L59, unknown 37 on the down fast at Wood Green

Terrible photos but every picture tells a story. The camera was a Kodax Brownie 127, not a box brownie as I originally thought.

And finally something without a head code, but the horse box behind is interesting, mind you Ally Pally did have a race course.

Tony, another early Deltic for you, no indication of the number but early 60's, approaching Wood Green on the down main, but what was 1C31? If you are at Stevenage over the weekend then hopefully I will see you there on Saturday, looks like we can get a direct train up from Brighton for the first time. Regards Charlie

4 hours ago, Tony Wright said:

There's a good reason to list D9001/55001 as a favourite, Clive,

 

It was the first production Deltic to enter revenue-earning service. 

 

When was 55001 withdrawn? 1979? By which time the horse would have been 22 years old (having won The Derby in 1960). 

 

I wonder if any of the A2/3 horses outlived their namesakes? It's just about possible I suppose.

 

Regards,

 

Tony.  

This was taken probably with a Kodak Brownie from a train passing FP in it's early days

2 hours ago, Tony Wright said:

In many ways the 'ultimate' 4mm L1 would have been the one Mike Russell (DMR) was working on. He'd just put together the first test etches for the kit (which looked brilliant) when Hornby announced their RTR version, nearly a decade ago. It killed it immediately!

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

 

 

Unless anyone knows otherwise this may be the only DMR L1 tank model, made by Ian Forsyth, seen here running on Borchester Market. The photo does not do the model justice, I extracted it from a word document.

Regards

Charlie