Sylvian Tennant

I think a few people have already seen my own before but I finished these about 18 months ago. pretty all down to what Mike posted.

Political predicaments and financial issues preventing modernisation, plentiful supplies of cheaper fuels (coal, bagasse). There's a lot of talk about China being the last stronghold of regular steam, but someplace in eastern europe and smaller islands/countries are still be found utilising steam locomotives in very limited numbers. West Germany still had steam locomotives until about a decade after BR steam, East Germany twenty years after...

Any chance Wizard Models could look into it. He seems to be doing a good job of keeping stock of the old supplies coming.

Hello again Just another quick question. How was the push pull equipment controlled on airbraked locomotives such as the M7. Did it use the same equipment as the air braking? or was there duplicate equipment used? If so how did it work?

Brilliant stuff, Yeah the valve gear is a bit scary. I got an idea for a g45 project using this loco as a basis.

Thank you hopefully soon we'll se some more progress.

Does anyone have any information/images of the CR class 141 0-6-0ST. Specifically images of loco or models.

apologies for the pants lighting but the tram and the J27 are done, now just waiting for the paint shops.

Henry II's better anyway. Nice work. I'm looking at doing the 'Flying Kipper myself at some point.

Something to consider as the completed models are only one aspect of modelling. The really interesting bits tend to be the process towards completing it.

So far so good, i've managed to pretty much overhaul the locomotive and tender to give a decent representation of a J27. Unfortunately when I was looking over some images of the engine i was going to represent it turns out the dome was the wrong type. Being that anal I hunted around for another J27 with NER Pattern buffers and dome in the Teesside region...eventually finding 65870 which spend most of it's life in or around Area 51 and have the correct pattern details I needed. Following on from this, I just need to add some more obscured loop couplings, make up some three linkers and glazing otherwise she's ready for a repaint. Saying that, I am considering making a slightly bigger balance weight for the centre wheels to help hide the other splashers as the J27 had them only on the centre ones.... maybe I should have done a J26 !

Thanks guys - i don't have much information at all. it was mentioned to me by a friend who is a non enthusiast and they say they couldn't get a picture so I'm a bit stumped. Saying that an Intercity liveried locomotive on a low loader is a hard thing to miss.

I might shamelessly steal this idea

Does anyone have any information a loco in intercity livery being transferred by lorry in the south of the UK?

I love trains and model railways and can genuinely now say I cover all of the main gauges in British railway modelling. How did I achieve this - by being given an O Gauge Y6/J70 tram locomotive. I am genuinely not sure if it's a kit or scratch build or scratch aid kit or what. it was built, and it seems to have been built okay if a little dated. There was some work towards making a chassis for it but I was given a Lima motor bogie which works and will fit on to the body with some work. Anyway. I have decided to take advantage of restoring this little old lady up to work order. As the tram seems to have a combination of both the Y6 & J70 locos I decided to give it a completely made up designation and give it a fictional railway to run on. I'll reveal all, once it's complete. Anyway, I want to give it a slightly lived in (whether to weather or not) feel some I cut out some of the windows and front doors. Of the window frames many broke up due to the soft and thin plastic the body was made up of some I had to make some new ones from 20 thou plastic sheet. The the body was rubbed down to later be replaced, the skirts were extended. The roof edges had some chips which we filled in and some slight modelling imperfections were addressed. Hopefully the outcome will be a pleasing affair. I'm currently looking into building a Wisbech style coach and wondering what wagons it could haul. Nothing too big as 0 isn't my main gauge but something to run when visiting my friends garden railway.

I'm back on the modelling horse again - ironically, I've moved to Tyneside and this has spurned me to to think about some of the projects I have in mind around this neck of the wood. Where I've moved to is not too far from Tyne Dock which has bumped me 9F project further up the list to convert it to 92064. Also going to ram through with the J27 to get something done before 2017 conks out on us. So far I've gotten close to the structural completion of the model with a cab scratch built. I'm just building a basic cab with elements purely representational without it being finescale. In addition to that, the way the chassis comes away from the body mean that the cab will have to be removable. A lot of the dodgy modelling will disappear once painting and weathering occurs and the crew are added and it's placed in the loco. The tender bulkhead also needed to to be updated to look the part... theres still some work to get it finished but the main components are effectively there. Again, i'm just adding bit to make the locomotive look a little more complete without falling into finescale representation. More to come soon.

Some lovely work has gone into this. Very creative.

I wanted to do one of those in LNER livery. Nice work

Yes please

I'm very interested in this subject. I'm looking to building Henry eventually with the flying kipper and some other wagons. How was James built?

TIGER FORCE!

Last year I was given the opportunity to start my own garden railway... all the bits had been bought when i was more affluent so most of the track and stock had been bought before. Without going into too much detail here are a series of photos I the development it took over the nine months or so of building it. Unfortunately, all good things come to an end. We moved house and had to take the line up. But all is not lost! Despite having a leaky back yard...efforts are afoot to recreate the line, slightly bigger with not so many too tight s curves! Watch this space...

This is asking mainly for a future possible modelling project. Understandably the Leader project was a bridge too far in terms of Bulleid's radical development projects - it weighed too much, cost too much, the asymmetric drive kept on breaking the piston rods and it practically boiled firemen alive. It's fair to say, it wasn't too successful. However, I was looking through an old magazine of mine and found some sketches from John G Click who worked with Bulleid whilst he was at the Southern Railway one of which showed a locomotive with top half resembling the air smoothed BoB & WC classes and the chassis taken from the Leader. This got me thinking about the whole "What If" ideas. Could there have been any prospect of the Leader or design aspects of the Leader being successfully implemented at all?

Cheers chaps - one further question. I have seen picture of a black 5 hauling a rake of bogie tanks. I think it was empties near carlisle can some one provide further information on this.

I love what a lot of people have done here. Though the Caley Pugbashes and that G5 have struck an extra special resonance with me. Many moons ago I built this up with the intention of creating an 009 gauge layout. As interests veered and whatnot it has since been left to one side of the best part of 4 years now. I utilised a Grafar 94xx chassis. I'm thinking of going back to the drawing board with it though.