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Hello Andy all, looking at the photo below I think that I've got to agree about the size of the windows (too deep) as to the left and right position I don't have a good enough view of the kit side to say. It also shows a nice view for the Sulzer engine been lowered in to the body. The photo is copyright but I don't know who to. So is only used to illustrate a point. OzzyO.

How do Steve, are you going to put some of the "hill" behind the tunnel mouth of Seven tunnel east? All you would need is about 12" to get the effect. Nice looking job. OzzyO.

Hello all, sorry that I did not get to see the show. But I would like to ask a few questions if I may. The show was in the library / museum in the main city square? Did any one see the plates from City of Lancaster (about half way up the stairs)? Any of the other bits and bobs that related to Lancasters railway history? OzzyO.

Hello Martyn, I'd still bake it in the oven for about 1 hour at 250 Deg and let it cool in the oven (don't do it when Jo's in the hose though), I'm not sure if zapping it will kill all of the bugs you will have to get the soil to over 100 Degs. to kill them. If you don't kill them they will eat your boards in time (or start growing). The ash from all of your bar-B-cues should be OK for any shed roads. OzzyO. PS. do you want any red soil? The red soil is normal caused by a high iron content. It could look good as a load going to an iron ore mill.

Hello Brian, I don't think that happened for number of reasons, the Cumberland and north Lancashire iron works needed all the iron ore they could get. Also IIRC the Cumberland coal was not that good for cokeing. The other thing to think about is that coke is about half the weight to volume of coal, then to iron ore about a quarter to volume. OzzyO.

Porcy, now I see what your saying. OzzyO.

Hello Porcy, I'm not sure what your saying? In your first part of your reply you say "you would be hard pushed to see them carrying coke over the Stainmoor line". Then you say "that 20ton and 21ton hoppers predominated on coke traffic on the route". Up until A the line or B the iron works closed a lot of Barrow drivers had this route down in their route book up to Kirby Stephen East. Photo of a full train heading west, Photo of a empty train heading east. Both photos copyright to Dalesman publishing. OzzyO.

Hello Ian, all, the maps as promised, the first one showing most of the lines in Cumbria. A close up showing most of the main lines. For Grange Over Sands read Barrow-in-Furness. From Workington it's much the same, if your not sure where Workington is it's to the west of Cockermouth. The maps are copyright to Dalesman publishing. OzzyO.

Also a bit like it has to be brass not plastic in a model, to be correct and it should be soldered not glued. A lot of trains are now made of steel and aluminium glass Etc. AND get this plastic and glue. Not that many trains are made of brass. The front end of the H.S.T. is a big fibreglass moulding to start with. OzzyO.

First to guess what I'm planning to do with this gets a like! (no rude answers please!) IMGP9483-001.JPG Put a GI Joe under it? Coat on and the door has closed behind me. OzzyO.

How did they open? If they were hinged towards the centre line I would think it would be about the same only using the vee hanger as the pivot. When you think about it the doors would not be that heavy say about 25 pounds. OzzyO.

Hello Ian, from Barrow to the east coast, the empties had only about two short routes. Barrow - Arnside - Sandside - Hincaster juc. - Tebay - Kirby Stephen East - Stainmore summit - Barnard Castle - ETC. Or, Barrow - Carnforth F&M juc. - Hellifield - Skipton - Leeds -ETC. From Workington, it was much the same C.K.& P.R. - Appleby East - Warcop - Kirby Stephen East - ETC. I'll see about some maps tomorrow for you. ATB OzzyO.

Hello Ian, I've just found the thread and read it from page one. Looks like this is going to be a smashing kit. Very early on you mentioned the Barrow empties, where are you modelling? Re. closing the hopper doors using a shunter's pole, this is how I think that they may have done it, using the pigs tail to catch the door then pull the pole back until the door is at about 45 deg.then lift the door until the pin can be used to lock the door in place. OzzyO.

Hello all, I maybe misreading this reply, but in these three photos this is the driver side of the loco. IIRC you don't need any handles for the hydrostatic lubrication. Most of the time the pipes for the hydrostatic lubrication would run under the cladding to keep heat loss down. The handle on the drivers side look more like one of two or more things, 1] a manual jumper to to the blast pipe or 2] the linkage for a hopper in the smoke-box to help reduce char (I'm not sure if the L.N.E.R. had them but some L.N.W.R. loco did). OzzyO.

That is one hell of a good photo in that it shows the exchange of the tokens to the start of a single or from one single line to another When you look at the line behind the train you can see the old type of tablet catcher . I did this at about 15MPH and it is not the sort of thing that you want to get wrong. You have to pick up one tablet and drop off one at the same time with out taking off the head of the pegman. You also have to have your arms in the correct positions to do the above. OzzyO.

The west edge of the canopy was carried on steel tube supports which were also used for carrying the roof drainage downpipes. At ground level the water was dispersed across the cobblestone surface from under large concrete safety bases. The eastern edge of the canopy was carried on stone blocks built into the office building at high level Hello Ron, I'm not sure about how you are reading the water dispersement from the roof, ie. sending it across the top of the cobbles. If it worked as you say it would have to come up from under the concrete safety bases. Also sending it across the top of the cobbles could cause undeterminedment of the base of the cobbles near to the base of the columns. Or did the steel columns double as down pipes until above the hard ground level and then it then became a large water soak-off, this would have been a large area for a roof like this. Would it not be better if the down pipes ran to drains that were next to the support columns and then ran to all of the main drains, then the safety bases would be what we would call man hole covers for cleaning out any rubbish. All of this is conjecture as I've not seen any of the plans. Lots of good work going on Ron. ATB OzzyO.

Hello Les, I'm with spray painting the background white (use white primer) and then doing the letters black. For doing the black you could try the flat ink pads that are used for card making these come in sizes from about an 1" square. I' think that these are water based so should stick to the primer,but if it goes boobs up you should be able to wash the ink off and start again. Just had a word with the wife about these and you can get them from "The Range". The down side is that you would have to fix them with some sort of varnish (and that could be fun)! The other way paint as above then use a hard ink roller as you would for type setting, with this you could use a paint like acrylic so that if it didn't work you could wash it off. ATB OzzyO. PS. the working part of the layout is coming along a lot.

After showing off your whistle (and a nice job it is), how are thinking about getting the chimney to fit to the body like it should with just about no visible lip showing? As in this photo. All I can think of is that you may have to mill a rebate into the body so that you can sink the chimney casting into it so that it fits nice and smooth. OzzyO.

That looks very nice. OzzyO.

Hello tender, I'm a bit surprised that you went for the ER25 set of collets, when the ER32s would have given you a bit more rod size that you could have used. Looks a nice bit of kit, where did you get it from? OzzyO.

When you think about it you do have a lot of "National" carriages running around, the only thing is these are Units. Start looking at about the 153s. One car units with a bus body.