Siberian Snooper

I couldn't possibly say!!

Not quite, the train with many wheels probably passed through Carnforth on occasions.

Pity the new stock is built to the European loading gauge, otherwise you could take the train out onto the Midland line and reverse it down the Thameslink line, to get to Kent. Yes it would be a lot slower and probably play havoc with Thameslink trains, but some sort of service is better than no service!!!

I usually catch the 09:15 PLY ex 07:10 ex PNZ, it's usually running late after SER and tends to lose more as it comes up through Cornwall, sometimes with some smart work at Plymouth we get an on time departure, but not always and rarely make up time, especially if there are any TSRs en route. The last time I caught it our train was 10 cars sitting in platform 5 and the 5 car PNZ portion came in on ^ and they had to de-train and cross the platform, with all their kit, utter chaos, 29 minutes late at RDG, my destination. As Gwiwer, above says, down trains rarely leave PAD on time and continue to lose more, even on the juice! By the time they get to RDG.

There used to be a MoD freight train that regularly parked in the loop at Keyham station, a member of P&DMRC and a chief in the navy photographed it and built a model of it. He submitted it as an entry for a competition at the Bristol show, and the sh1te hit the fan. Said train had accommodation for armed security staff, I will say that the sensitive bit of the train had lots of wheels and used to regularly derail on one of the curves in the yard, until they relaid it with staggered joints. These days they use commercial equipment.

You will need to use some thin card to pack up the bullhead to match the flat bottom, when I have done it on models I use several thin layers and start with a length around 75 mm in length the 2nd 50 mm in length and possibly a 3rd layer 30mm long to give a reasonable transition. The real thing just uses more ballast packing.

The drivers may not sign the route between Preston and Carlisle, hence the no Avanti trains north of Preston. TPE operate from Manchester, so I would have thought that those trains could run to Carlile though.

If you buy the kits from H and A models, you can specify EM gauge wheels with the kit.

I used the 0 gauge safety flux, it takes quite a while before it dries out again. Unfortunately, it's no longer available.

The fishplates used to transition from B/H to F/B are specials they lift the bullhead to give a level railhead across the joint.

Is the raincoat to keep the sheep dry? hat, coat and heading for the door!!!

A couple of chaps in our club built an 'N' gauge layout that had a curved turnout which caused a lot of derailments. I measured it up using verniers, but I couldn't find anything really untoward, in the end I hand built one. I tightened up the wing rail gap a fraction, which reduced the flangeway gaps and thus wheel drop. It's not perfect, but a lot better than the Peco product. Fortunately, the turnout is in the fiddleyard.

I believe that Dart Castings are bringing out Dean bogies, 6ft 4ins? 8ft 6ins and 10ft.

It could be any of the liveries, depending on which year you're planning on modelling, repaints were at around 7+ year intervals, so the choices are GW Lake, 1922 livery or the simplified 27/8 livery.

I didn't know that the Brentford branch was still extant. Freight only?

Removed

Smiffs?

Merry Christmas, All!

Looks like the broad gauge is making a comeback!! Hat, coat and heading for the door!!!

The Brentford branch had a similar arrangement, road bridge over the Brentford branch of the Grand Union Canal, which in turn crossed the railway. Of which that may be a sketch of!

Pedant mode on " all boilers have feeds" some are on the backhead, some are along the barrel, about halfway up and some are on the top! Pedant mode off.

Merry Christmas, Rob and all you other thread followers.

There's at least one unit still running, which I saw crossing St Levan viaduct at around 3 pm on Monday afternoon.

A very merry Christmas, to Rob and all ANTBer's!!!

With the domestic authorities being amenable to linking the boards together and your boards being only 18 inches wide, you could set them up through a doorway, for the odd running session. I do that when testing layouts, the scenic part fits in the front bedroom, and the fiddleyard fits through the door and onto the landing. I could probably make the whole thing transportable, if I made the backscene removable and made some light but strong box lids to allow them to be stacked in the back of the car.