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You could always just say it was experimental.... blood and custard would look nice behind it.

Well I certainly wouldn’t want you to get started on shades of grey.

I'm afraid I must report bent running boards as well, I've emailed rails over it, hopefully it will be sorted.

Sorry about that, Gub'ner.

The bent footplate is gonna be more of an issue though. Plus today my DP2 from eBay arrived and while the model is as described, its worth at least £40 less that what I spent on it.

Aww, dang it.

Stunning, well that decides it, I have to admit a small part of me was hoping it would be a duff un so I could avoid the expense, but I am simply too taken. Now, how to get the wallet out of the mouse trap.

I just like the idea of Nord Pacifics working into St Pancras, or a Merchant Navy at Calais.

I've been wondering what the impact would be if a rail bridge was built across the english channel in the 1890s. How would the evolution of 20th century locomotive design have been altered by a direct continental influence.

Thanks Neil, though it's actually Donald. Edward Beal was an accomplished author on Railway modelling.

Yes, I remember, in squadron in action on the B17, of one plane making it back after a 109 collided with it and almost split it in half. Its very good work you've done, I should've said and I hope my comment didn't come off as disrespectful.

With a hole like that I don't fancy the chances of getting it back to base, all kinds of havoc with the Airflow.

Hi @Adam FW I've been thinking of trying the Julia edge kit, the Kitson pannier was such a unique prototype I was automatically attracted to it. Would it be possible to beg the file for the 3d print off you at some point?

So a real gas guzzler at low speed?

Well if your not.... Actually what was GT3 fuel consumption like? Data seems a little thin on the ground (by which I mean I'm lazy, and just want someone else to make it easy for me)

Well, I never said it was a good idea!

A post of mine from another site I frequent, I've got GT3 on the brain. Maybe in another timeline, this could have been the basis of diesel design, at least temporarily. ScR

I've had my order amended to R3810, though I do know wonder if that's going to turn out to be too good to be true.

Hello all, does anyone know the name of the stand where the baseboard backscene design company had set up, they had a diorama to demonstrate their style of construction, which seemed to be similar to L-girder, but with formers to allow for scenic applications. I recall that one of the slogans they had was 'We spend hundreds of pounds on locomotives and scenery, but pence on the backscene, discuss'. They also offered layout disposal services. Any ideas?

And done very well indeed.

Ahh yes forgot about Perth Harbour, @34theletterbetweenB&D Interesting proposal, though I haven't quite thought as far ahead as the grouping.

Yes, the 1840s are a wonderfully febrile period for the Alt-history fan. For example it was originally mooted that the Caledonian main line would avoid the climb over Beattock and instead run through Nithsdale via Dumfries, a gentler but longer route into Glasgow. Had this happened, and had another company pushed a line over Beattock instead, then it is entirely possible that the 'Caley' does not grow to the behemoth it did in our world and instead becomes a backwater company in the South West of Scotland. Another arresting diversion is the fact the Edinburgh and Northern Railway initially planned a bridge over the Tay and its own station in Perth, rather than going via Moncrieffe tunnel. Now if you look at a map of Newburgh in Fife, which the Edinburgh and Northern, later called the Edinburgh, Perth and Dundee Railway, ran through you can see Mugdrum island, which is all but perfect to build a bridge across. So this could lead to multiple stations in Perth itself.

Hello all, So I've been working on a personal project, for a long time I have thought about designing a fictional or freelance railway, in fact I used to do it quite often when I was younger. I became inspired by @Nile 'London Midland and Western Railway' project, which was a proposed but never built line that was to have run from London to Oxford. This clued me into the notion of unbuild or reworked railway proposals, this is also one of the rules I had set for myself, that the railway had to have the feel of a real life proposal. Now if you've read about Scottish railway history you'll know that the 'Scottish Central Railway' was very much a real railway, in fact if you've travelled in the central belt you will have probably travelled over it, its the main line from Perth to Stirling. Now as ideas go a railway between the two principal towns of Central Scotland is... actually fairly sensible. In fact because it was so sensible, it was immediately targeted by larger companies who saw it as part of a vital link to Aberdeen and further north, the Central would spend most of its life leased by the Caledonian railway before finally being absorbed entirely by that company in 1868. So my idea in short was for the Central to persevere as an independent company, the turning point seems to have been the failure to gain parliamentary approval for a planned amalgamation with another railway, the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway in 1846, without this amalgamation the Scottish Central had to make other arrangements which lead to the leasing arrangement with the Caledonian and subsequent takeover. So what this thread is for is to ask if anyone has any ideas to add to the project. So far the idea is for the Scottish Central Railway to succeed in amalgamating with the Edinburgh and Glasgow, before moving into Fife and consolidating with the Edinburgh and Northern Railway, then on to Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness at the railways most northern extent. I'm just not sure how it should go beyond this, further south? Into Midlothian or the borders? What other railways might be built in this scenario? ScR.

Looks like a shrunken version of an accucraft Dora https://www.accucraft.uk.com/products/dora-live-steam-0-4-0t/