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  1. I had no idea about livery and was going to it a dark oxide just because i thought it would look nice but looking at the book, it suggests 2 tone grey for early wagons and brakes but the partial photo shows it all the same colour (what ever that is) and the book doesnt say whether the ends should be red or not

  2. The charlesworth was weathered and in the coaling process  im just waiting a few days for the pva to dry

     

    A while back i scrapped brakevan No1, i wasnt happy with it for a few years now and will be replaced by something else. This was quickly decided after browsing the L&Y wagon books and seeing the drawing for an 1870's brakevan, ive just been to the library to reprint to scale along with a few other wagons i like the look of

     

    Another recent scrap was wagon 15, a flat with a Fergie tractor. After a few years i wasnt happy using a dumb buffer as an implement wagon and i dont want the fergie anymore since its post war. The chassis wasnt worth repairing and reusing so its gone, 1 day i'll make a pregrouping implement wagon with 20's or 30's machinery on it

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  3. The pennsylvania S1 reputedly went over 130mph and another apparently did over 140mph and werent even trying to set any records, they were just doing their job and happened to do it in the process but no dyno car and no official record while Mallard had to go downhill while falling apart to set the record, the yanks werent bothered with the official speed records at the time but now a group is building a Pennsy T1 which is similar to the S1 but a bit smaller, The T1 theoretically could beat Mallard's record and to prove that it can de done

     

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  4. So theyve got a new cross head and i'm guessing they they need to prove that it runs reliably before being allowed back on the mainline? Or is it getting it running somewhere to make back money lost from down time?

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  5.  the redesign of the P2 was nearly all by him, if youve watched the a1 trust videos about the p2 cylinder block, it was presented by him, he knew this was coming for a long time and was documenting all his work so it can continue after he is gone, hopefully he was able to complete this

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  6. I honestly think that the old layout pages are obselete and i dont any them anymore, not just because that layout is gone but all the posts are a bit useless without the photos and i'm not going back to replace them, i would just keep the first post which would become a compilation/back story intro for what it used to look like

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  7. 1901

     

    Bass & Co Burton

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    No1228, the last Caledonian single which was about to be scrapped, the magazine tried starting a campaign to save it for preservation but it didnt work

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    Crediton, i saved this one just for the trackwork

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    one of a few shots around the Furness's Barrow works, what took my interest is the loco on the right which looks like a Hunslet or Manning wardle

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    The last GW broad gauge train

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    Manchester London Road Goods

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    Newcastle 1848

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    various rail sections

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    Tiller patent fold up sheet bars tried out on a North eastern wagon, i already posted the rest of these photos in a different thread

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