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Just to mention that in the photo I posted of the two PEs above, the engine which we can half-see already loaded is a "Special EE" class" - two sizes bigger than a BB1 and although we can't see much in the photo, it is clear that the flywheel has been removed. This is by no means the ...

although the edition of 'GWR Goods Wagons' I have refers to some being strengthened at some time after 1922 "to carry 20T steam rollers and traction engines" which, frankly, I don't understand My guess is that it is to do with the weight being concentrated on four wheels rather than being...

I had decided that detaching the chimney would be unavoidable. My main concern was the width over the outside of the driving wheels, which on the Oxford model is 34mm. The figures quoted by Howard (8'0" or 8'3") suggest to me that I might be able to shave a little off the insides of the w...

ralphrobertson wrote:Changed all the windows
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This is the kind of dedication we so admire - well done Ralph!

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These are the best I can do for the Devon. I'm fairly sure that is the Manor - the Devon is not on a sloping site and there were no electrification cables over the boiler house as it was steam driven up to closure in 1962. I never saw the engine though I do have the maker's plate in my garage! Best...

Sorry to make more work...

Here is a (hopefully!) clearer extract from the same photo...



Edit:- Do I also notice that the side windows should only have 3 panes rather than five? Maybe Dave has a better photos from the Kent or Devon?

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Looking great Ralph! Just a small concern with the front window - there appear to be a couple of bits which are timber which I think should be glass:- ER Wondow.jpg (this one is from a - still-existing - Sydney Stott mill, but they were all the same) These things were very characteristic so I though...

Unfortunately, my Oxford model is in rusty/muddy condition, so it will require a repaint to something closer to the photo in Howard's post. I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that using this model as a wagon load on my layout is not really practicable... That version is a model of 15145 whic...

... This machine doesn’t seem to be as large as the model I was proposing to use, and it makes me wonder whether the Oxford Diecast model I have may be over-scale, although it is definitely labelled as 1:76 scale. I am coming to the conclusion that this model is just too darned big to be used as a ...

Looking first-rate-excellent as ever Dave! The answer to your question is very clear to me - they would be the "Midland Railway Standard Fireiron Length". Since the Greater Midland did not worry about such trivia as the tender being the same width as the loco cab, I doubt that the dimensio...

I have emailed Barry privately, and here I can only echo everyone else's comments. I am very proud to be the custodian of Colin's 4SUB - one of those models that the closer you look the better it is. Perhaps the kindest compliment came from an oberserver at the Warley show who remarked "You can...

... whatever we may think of the methods of an earlier era, they don't seem to have given rise to any problems in practice. I fully agree. I always smile when I see a "modern" Semaphore signal - which typically has more steel in it than would have been used to build a loco in pre-group da...

Maybe the example I noticed with the diagonal bracing wires was in an exceptionally windy location. I confess to having done no calculations, but I hypothesise that the buckling load of holding a dozen or so tons of water in the air is at least an order of magnitude greater than the bending load du...

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I don't think Roger will mind helping the project - he did go to the Manchester show especially to shake Ralph's hand!

Great news that Alpha Mill will be at Scaleforum.

Fair to say this is a somewhat more grand terrace than yours Ralph, but it does show the kind of thing we are talking about. Even though windows etc have been "modernised", they have struggled with the rainwater ware! Tearrace1.jpg This one is from overseas (Burnley) but is a similar examp...

I wonder if Howard B has any recollections of this? Dave. When ah wer' a lad wi' mi Mam an' mi Dad... cast-iron gutters were non-existent on older buidings, and I would not be too surprised if there were not at least a few which have still not succummed to "modern" materials. I can also r...

Just to confirm that I have uploaded a new version of the notes - Dave if you were able at your leisure, to re-download and confirm that I have done the necessary, I would be very grateful.

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Hello Dave, Firstly, many thanks indeed for the kind words re-the etches, and well done for making a great job of it judging by the photos. You might also be the first one to post a pic with the turned handles and very nice they look as well. Now to your queries on the dimensions, regarding the 1.4 ...

Just a bit more progress to show on the Leeds City Wellington frame. All that remains is to make and fit the locking bridles and cut the ports in the tappets... Wellington Frameno locks.jpg Meanwhile, the locking design is now up to version 5, though I feel this might just be THE one... Here is the ...

I do have documented a freight train leaving Cambridge 'for Clare' which implies that on occasions a train may have been run around and send back the way it came. As a Lancashire Lad, I'm not too sure which end is Cambridge... :? but of course a loco CAN run round (from either direction), using the...

The coal siding accessed by points 14 was very short (about 3 wagons long) and a rebuild of the arrangement shown in John's plan from about 1952-3. I couldn't see how point 14 could ever be put back normal while it was being shunted and I would not expect a locomotive to ever be 'shut in'. Given th...

I'd wondered which way around the FPL would be. I agree with Kieth that it is more common for the FPLs to stand "out" (ie reversed when locking the point) but companies varied in their practice so if you know what your "prototype" did you can follow that. However, from a model p...

Tony Wilkins wrote:Haven't found Snooze 181 yet as my easy to find ones go back to 187, but I will.
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Tony.

Easy-find versions here Tony:

https://www.scalefour.org/members/newsarchive/

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Hello Howard ... Do you know how Mike disguised the trench that would otherwise be evident? Kind regards Andrew Not quite sure which "trench" you are referring to, but if you mean a "gap" in the ballast, then this is present on the prototype also - ie the surface of the ballast ...

Hello Tony, Just a suggestion, but faced with a task like this, I always believe in seeing what others have done in similar circumstances. And I would suggest the type of stretcher described by Mike Norris in his article "Stretcher bars on Preston" in Snooze 181. I don't know how many stre...