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The new couplings are a big improvement, Luke. What model filler did you use?

Yeah that's why I went for the browniest bright red that I could find on the shelf at Halfords, and a more subdued brown for the other side> I feared the lurid orange may have been too much of a contrast!

I think this one from RosiesBoss deserves inclusion http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/95885-makeover-of-tri-ang-north-british-shunter/

Thanks again! Lots of food for thought. In this alternate take on Awdry's universe I've changed quite a few things, for example: -Much of the development of the island has been backdated, so more railway expansion in the Victorian period -The 2 constituent companies of the NWR are the Sodor and Mainland Railway (which doesn't fail in this version but operates trains using hired FR motive power and has a ferry service from Vicarstown-Barrow) and the Wellsworth and Suddery Railway (which by 1915 runs Brendam-Tidmouth) -The TK&F (instead of the TK&E) stays independent until the 1923 grouping, when it is absorbed by its big blue neighbour -Because of the cordial links between the S&MR and the FR, the FR remain friendly with the NWR but the MR/LMS see it as a competitor and they do not get on. The LMS contests the decision for the NWR to retain running powers to Lakeside and Carnforth at the grouping, which sours things a bit. -The NWR doesn't get absorbed into BR in 1947, much like the IoMR did not, due to the interesting politics of the island which I won't go in to here (blatant hand waving but it suits me) Your explanation of how these two had navigated their way North suits me just fine! Perhaps the LMS was happy enough to offload some tired stock to it's little neighbour. Going on from your post I found some interesting info on Motor-Fitted stock here http://glostransporthistory.visit-gloucestershire.co.uk/Push%20Pull%20YTT.html

Looks like a fun project and nicely proportioned. I wonder if you could swap the wheelsets for some BR 08 ones and use dummy outside frames like the NG modellers often do? It might set it off nicely?

Height issue sorted!

It's one of those 'but for the couplings, I wouldn't have thought it was N gauge' layouts, and in such a small space too! Very impressive.

A stock photo of a Shap banker, it's a good pic as it manages to convey noise and motion and power. As does this one from Keighley https://preservedbritishsteamlocomotives.com/47279-lms-7119-lms-7279-and-br-47279/

Ahh thanks for the info! I wanted to add some compartment identifying numbers to the doors so that is very helpful. Coaches are a bit of a blind spot for me, I've not really looked into them much before. What year would these have been built in? If I need to move their arrival date earlier I suppose I could use the 'requisitioned by the WD during construction' ruse that managed to get an LBSC tank to the North West Interesting to see the roof furniture, too. Makes a big difference.

Another Restored Ratio coach, ABL joins CBL fresh out of the paintshop. I do like the red side quite a lot and may do the mainline stock to match. The roof hasn't been fixed down, my plan is to add some suggestion of an interior. Mikkel - Here is a rushed close up of the window on the new coach, I didn't use as much glue on this one but you can see a bit around the edges. Here's the older one with more spillage.

hehe, no I just ripped Sabotage off with a different song, got an A for it though!

If you have read the excellent 'The Chronicles of Pendre Sidings', the TR went through a phase of looking for second hand locos to adapt and ran into this problem. It's a lot more work. They looked at adapting Linda and Blanche and it would have involved a lot of surgery. If you have it, take a look at the widening of 'Douglas' in 'Locomotives of the Talyllyn and Corris' - it's a much easier job. You don't need to move the frames out at all. I believe it involved new axles, spacing the motion out, and adding spacers to the cylinders to move them outboard. This was a big factor in using an inside framed loco.

I find this kind of thing fascinating, all these posts have given me food for thought on my own timetabling. I've made a start, detailed here in this blog post in case anyone finds it useful: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/1365/entry-20165-timetables-and-traffic-requirements/

Looking forward to this!

It seems that a lot of locos from the Leeds manufacturers of that time seem to only differ in cab shape. So that smokebox and saddle tank outline could give you Manning Wardle, Hunslet, Kitson, Hudswell Clarke etc.

The first drawing you posted is one I would like to do on the same platform. I have to thank you for this discovery, by the way. You allowed me to build these two on the Junior chassis (re-wheeled) and using the Junior body parts. I'm very fond of them. Another one I considered was the Stewarts and Lloyds Kitsons from Corby, which is a similar outline. This MSC Hunslet is a similar style to the drawings you posted, this is the style I would like to emulate.

Now you are just rubbing salt in the wound, that's lovely!

10 years ago I would have understood that a lot of people in the hobby don't have the internet and that they should be catered for. Now I just feel like refusing to use/learn to use the internet and then complaining about services not catering for them is a bit like complaining that a company doesn't send a messenger round to your house because you don't have a phone. It's not a problem, you can still get on with your life, but you have to understand that you will miss out on things. Now please can someone print this and hand out a copy to everyone in their club? I don't want to learn to drive so I can't deliver it myself.

From a personal point of view, I'd much rather have more articles (which I can refer back to and use later) than a list of dates I never read, are soon out of date, and would take me seconds to look up on the internet anyway.

Hey Callum, I was just wondering, how did you do the brick rubble next to the destroyed building? It looks like proper bricks.

Excellent. At the moment I'm kind of hoping we go on to the second page as this one is so video-heavy it struggles to load! Edit: Mission accomplished.

I would have thought the frames would get in the way. The Talyllyn locos that were converted were generally inside framed locos to begin with.

Hi Mikkel, I think it does show a bit, I'll try and take some close ups of it to show the results. It does take a long time to 'go off' so you need to keep an eye on it if using the draw-across method to make sure gravity doesn't cause it to build up at the bottom and pull apart.

It's a shame that ARC models stopped making their bodykits for the electrotren chassis.

I prefer the 8AT to the 5AT. Although, it does just look like a kriegslok