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If you know where to look many stations still have the old lower platforms still there. Worksop and Shireoaks (MS&LR) both show evidence of rebuilding to current levels and Derby (platform 1) still has the NMR stone platform included beneath the newer bricks. I'm sure there are plenty of others ...

I've one of the knock off MTK copies that sent both businesses bust.

One of the vehicles I intend to place for unloading at the end loading dock is a Fowler ploughing engine, and it was this 25-ton monster I had in mind. A separate problem is what wagon could carry this machine. It has a very wide wheelbase - 8' 6", and assuming these wheels could not be allowe...

I've seen those metal hinges. Possibly Retford before the loading dock was removed and turned into a car park or elsewhere but I do remember them.

This one?

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Just a thought. The buffer stop would provide a support to any planks, metal or wood between the dock and wagon, acting as a fulcrum.

Considering that this is a later concrete rebuild, possibly wartime or post WW2 it suggests a military connection or a BR sugarbeet dock. One of these was added at Whitwell, Derbyshire (of Heckmondwike fame), but demolished soon after the station reopened. It had metal posts and chains.

What size and spoke are they? No access to my books tonight....

Anyone converted a Hornby 700? I know the handrails are wrong. Anyone changed the handrails too? Are wheels available or straight swap/ easichas?

Will it be offered as P4?

Which Morgan design chassis go with these?
More importantly which ones go with the Cooper Craft open GWR wagons? The floor is too high on the plastic kits.

Not a DJ Models, but I did convert an old Airfix auto tank to P4, I converted my Airfix 14xx with new rods and Ultrascale wheels. Airfix plunger pickups were eased further out and it has run beautifully ever since (20 years). Original chassis, gears and motor. Iain Rice detailing parts (Chimney and...

The model looks like it will be a winner. Weren't the NRM/Bachmann DELTIC and Heljan DP2 pretty accurate? The Bachmann deltic failed on so many levels.

I've never seen a stop "neatly turfed" but can confirm they are filled with clinker and loco ash. I guess the Midland had a lot to get rid of.

I'm sure I've seen the buffer stops used as a coal stacking area in confined yards before. That would explain what surrounds it. It may have a wooden plank. If only I had seen that plan before building the model. I spent ages pouring over Midland Record and the extant one at Butterley. Plenty still ...

Top three courses are the new part.