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I think London Road are going to have to make a lot more RSU's after this. Thanks for the Masterclass

A very big thank you to Jeremy for his marathon live demonstration, on YouTube, of building a Morgan AA13 chassis (at my suggestion). Very much appreciated by me and hopefully the others who watched the day particularly as he worked through 2 of his scheduled breaks in the afternoon! Well done!

I've watched all 4 videos late into last night and a very impressive and inspiring layout. I particularly appreciate the attention to detail regarding operation and adherence to the WTT and marshalling. This is reinforced by the time period modelled (1912) for which no contemporary memory exists and...

Thanks in advance to all those who have taken the time and trouble to make this happen. I usually meet up with my brother at Aylesbury but I now plan to be there virtually next week especially as Warrington is back in lockdown.

Thanks for the insight Noel and I was coming to the same conclusion. Having dragged myself through the Working Time Table there were exceptions where a North bound goods could drop an empty wagon off at Berrington & Eye but the Yard Foreman at Hereford had to inform his counterpart at Leominster...

It might be worth pointing out to the unexperienced that "live chat" is via text. There are other video apps popular at the moment such as Teams where you can chat verbally.

Berrington & Eye was particularly camera shy. This is one of only two photos I have showing wagons in the yard. The other shows a stone wagon which I think was there whilst the platforms were being raised in the early 1900's. Berrington & Eye is (was) North of Hereford. On the Shrewsbury to ...

Coincidently I have been reading this volume this week. All 6 shunting examples regard marshalling trains into station order by a shunter in a yard or marshalling yard. It does not address what happens when the train is on the road and collecting empties. Is the neat station order maintained or do t...

Thanks Guys, I do have some Tredegar wagons painted and lettered in the WIP pile at the moment whilst I prepare the Brassmasters underframes (Roberts in this instance). Returning to the issue of Local Goods on the main line with both up and down trains. This is important to me because most of the da...

The presence of the wagon at Berrington & Eye implies that M & H operated there, which in turn implies an office of some sort. So, once the wagon was empty, it would normally be sent somewhere for another load, probably on instructions from Head Office [such as it was]. M&H was a Herefo...

Noel wrote: You could check what water was available at intermediate stations. There was water at Leominster and Church Stretton according to photos I have briefly looked at also probably at Craven Arms and Ludlow so no problem there. Noel wrote: so shunting with stock on the main must have taken p...

This picture is the down local goods from Shrewsbury to Hereford collecting an empty coal wagon and a "foreign" wagon from the yard at Berrington & Eye. I have assumed that the foreign wagon would have have been exchanged at Hereford where the Midland had connections though there might...

Having not chatted on Youtube before, I noticed that it logged me in under my channel subscription name which is nothing to do with railways but guitars.

When all else fails read the instructions. Prompted by this fascinating discussion, I revisited the Working Time Table and noticed that the up local goods (one each LNWR and GWR - mine is a joint line) ran as "express goods" for part of the journey. Does this mean they had to attach the va...

I have been pondering a similar issue but for a main line. I have assumed that the up Local Goods would have dropped off full coal wagons. And the down would have collected the empties. But where in the train would the empties be put? Would the rest of the train remain in station order and the empti...

Its a while since I built turnouts but from what I remember the chairs are labelled on the sprue and the switch chairs are all included. Either that, or there is an Exactoscale template that explains it. I think the old Exactoscale site is still active. You will also need slide chairs, standard and ...

The problem I foresee with the tube solution is that you might force the tube into a wheel and find it hard to get back out.

I bought an Easichas and had them swap the bearings for 1/8"

Wouldn't it make sense to lay the track first, then make the platforms fit using your longest coach to check the clearance? This does make sense but assumes you have your longest coach already which I didn't when I planned and built my layout. I have some 70 footers in the to-do pile which may prov...

IIRC the default setting for P4 minimum radius in Templot is 1000mm. Below this you get the warning.

I used the facility in Templot for the track plan to draw in the platform edges for my platforms which are all curved. Thus far it has worked though clearance for outside cylinder GWR locos is very tight. My platforms are on an overall transition curve though the tightest radius will be somewhere be...

I've recently finished an old Mallard Barnum with a BRO firebox and no dome. I bought the kit decades ago but only realised recently that the boiler was missing so had to scratch build that anyway. Used an alan Gibson milled chassis with the Sharman wheels I bought originally. Just got to finish the...

According to the Martin Finney instructions for the contemporary 3232 class: "If you have not fitted top feed, fit the two clack box castings to the backhead"

Seems like you've lost a tank vent in the process

I also updated an old M&L chassis to produce a shorter wheelbase 517 (15' without trailing axleboxes). In the pic you can make out my compensation beams for all 3 axles similar to the High Level arrangement. Again this is on a Mallard footplate:

I have used a High Level 14xx chassis with a Mallard 517 which required shortening the frames and swapping out the axleboxes for those in the Mallard kit but worked out fine. IMG_1425.jpg I understood that the Mallard kit is too wide for anything but a later 517 so I narrowed both the footplate and ...