Scalefour Forum

Some early mineral railways were built under the terms of The Regulation of Railways Act, 1868 which didn't usually allow for the transport of passengers – hence the need for a Light Railway Order later. This is from memory – I would advise anyone thinking of invoking this to check it out first! Ric...

Nice to see John Birkett's Bobbin Mill model has survived relatively unscathed.

As a follow-up, the 1936 General Appendix has a list of stations where coaches can be gassed while standing in the platform roads – via underground pipes. To no great surprise, the stations are:

Paddington
Swindon
Bristol TM
Exeter
Cardiff
Worcester
Wolverhampton
Birkenhead



Richard

No, the concensus is that Cordons carried oil gas, and were purely for replenishing coach lighting etc. Stations not on town (or coal) gas were lit by oil lamps, latterly the more efficient Tilley lamps. More important stations often received electric lighting in the C20, but more remote stations we...

Norwood MRC was my club when I lived in London though I left just as the Ulpha layout was being planned – I moved to Norfolk and it seemed a bit far to travel for a club night. Norwood was one of the earliest clubs in London being founded in 1946. The remnants of the club have been working on a P4 l...

Flymo748 wrote:

kelham wrote:It really doesn't look as big as I thought it would...

Is it small, or is it far away?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXypyrutq_M


Cheers
Flymo

No, it's just down the road, Father.

It really doesn't look as big as I thought it would...

I suspect that if you lived in mid-19th century Wolverhampton then Worcester would seem like Paradise. Probably not a lot changed in relative salubriousness since!

Likewise – I'll have two, please, when you're ready.


Richard Kelham

The Montague book has too little information ... and too many mistakes. given your area of interest 'Through Limestone Hills' by Bill Hudson ought to be high on your list.


Richard

See you there


Richard

The new owners of Falcon Brass are selling etches only while they try to come to grips with what they have acquired. The K10 is listed as available in that form http://falconbrassworks.com/list.php?range=LSWR#tenderl


Richard

Yes indeed, an enjoyable and useful evening with more good things in the future... Meanwhile I feel the urge to dust off my old Devilbiss airbrush (it's so long since I last saw it I can't even remember how to spell the name!)


Richard K

I'm another who would be in the market for a 'proper' railmotor chassis etch as there's a couple of Mallards in my "things to do if I manage to retire before I go gaga/blind/etc" pile.


Richard

I'm not entirely sure what the springing conventions for 7mm scale are either. I'll have to do some digging... Otherwise I'd be interested in being the guinea pig. I'll have a dig around.


Richard

How easy would it be to scale up the files to 7mm scale? Yes, I know this is a 4mm scale Forum...I'm just asking! I'm thinking in particular of the LNWR buffer housings.


Richard

Looking really nice!



Richard

See you there! Personally, I can live without the bells *does Quasimodo impression*...

You can't go wrong with a few D299s in your yard! I should perhaps have put LMS and LNER in inverted commas as of course all the wagons are likely still to be in their pre-group livery – much more fun. As you're doing the DN&S you could have rather more LSWR wagons than the bald statistics would...

I'm not intimately acquainted with the Brian Morgan etches but could your problems with the Geen 3-planker have anything to do with the fact that the prototype was only 15' 6" long. Trying to fit a 16' underframe under one of those would be a sure source of grief! When will you be starting on t...

...and we had Morris dancers to 'entertain' us. Despite that it was a good and useful evening.



Richard

Jeremy, please add my name to your list as I have a couple of unstarted Mallard kits sitting in my "if I'm still fit enough when I finally retire" drawer.


Richard Kelham

Coming to this one rather belatedly... Definitely an exMR D299 wagon still fitted with the original Ellis axleboxes. It also seems to have bottom doors which many (all?) of the D299s had. The door banger and the strip on the door is non-original though.The brakes on this side look to be original too...

I've seen a photo somewhere (but can't remember where) of a crane inside a GWR goods shed. It consisted of a vertical wooden column with bearings at the base and at the top (attached to a roof beam) so that it could pivot. Attached to this was a fixed gibbet arm from which the hook depended. I think...

I think in their own terms they are very decent kits. They are an excellent basis for a model, and I have packed a couple of unmade Slaters minerals to take with me on a longish overseas posting. You have to be careful about internal ironwork on these wagons - the few photos show that there is cons...