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- Sun Aug 16, 2020 6:00 pm
- Forum: Track and Turnouts
- Topic: curved platforms
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1103
Re: curved platforms
Wouldn't it make sense to lay the track first, then make the platforms fit using your longest coach to check the clearance?
- Sun Jan 12, 2020 2:29 pm
- Forum: North London Group
- Topic: Bodmin
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4796
Re: Bodmin
Noel With regard to note 2 in your earlier post, the 4-plank GWR wagon tipping at Fowey was one of a batch numbered 01142 to 01211 hired from Birmingham in November 1903 and mostly off-hire in 1921. During that time of course they were converted to spring buffers etc and registered by the GWR. I'm n...
- Sun Jan 12, 2020 2:14 pm
- Forum: North London Group
- Topic: Bodmin
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4796
Re: Bodmin
Regarding wartime pooling, china clay wagons would presumably have been Non-Pool – like tased loadstone wagons and tankers. I would have thought the same, but the two photographs in J. H. Russell "Freight Wagons and Loads in service on the GWR and BR, WR" referred to under 3) in mine of 5...
- Fri Jan 10, 2020 4:59 pm
- Forum: North London Group
- Topic: Bodmin
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4796
Re: Bodmin
I have been collecting material on Cornish POs – if I live long enough it may find its way into print! Richard Kelham Hurry up with your book. You have one purchaser already. I would be interested to know how you accumulated the information as it seems information is scarce. Thanks. Good to know I'...
- Thu Jan 02, 2020 11:21 pm
- Forum: North London Group
- Topic: Bodmin
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4796
Re: Bodmin
The wagons were accurate models derived from some photos of Bodmin taken c1925. As Noel says, Renwick Wilton wagons could be seen anywhere in the West Country – including Bodmin. The 1925 photos also depicted a New Rock Colliery wagon from Somerset as well as the ECC coal wagons. I vaguely remember ...
- Sat Aug 18, 2018 6:33 pm
- Forum: Layouts and Operations
- Topic: Ulpha Light Railway
- Replies: 188
- Views: 46000
Re: The Ulpha Light Railway
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...
- Fri Aug 10, 2018 1:14 pm
- Forum: Layouts and Operations
- Topic: Ulpha Light Railway
- Replies: 188
- Views: 46000
Re: The Ulpha Light Railway
Nice to see John Birkett's Bobbin Mill model has survived relatively unscathed.
- Sat Jun 23, 2018 9:28 am
- Forum: Wagons
- Topic: GWR Cordon twin tank kit
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2910
Re: GWR Cordon twin tank kit
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
Paddington
Swindon
Bristol TM
Exeter
Cardiff
Worcester
Wolverhampton
Birkenhead
Richard
- Sat Jun 23, 2018 12:15 am
- Forum: Wagons
- Topic: GWR Cordon twin tank kit
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2910
Re: GWR Cordon twin tank kit
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...
- Fri Jun 22, 2018 11:54 pm
- Forum: Layouts and Operations
- Topic: Ulpha Light Railway
- Replies: 188
- Views: 46000
Re: The Ulpha Light Railway
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...
- Wed May 16, 2018 5:16 pm
- Forum: North Norfolk
- Topic: Taking Shape?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2897
Re: Taking Shape?
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.
- Tue May 15, 2018 5:51 pm
- Forum: North Norfolk
- Topic: Taking Shape?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2897
Taking Shape?
It really doesn't look as big as I thought it would...
- Wed May 02, 2018 6:50 pm
- Forum: jim s-w
- Topic: Brettell Road
- Replies: 599
- Views: 169394
Re: Brettell Road
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!
- Mon Apr 16, 2018 6:14 pm
- Forum: Jeremy Suter
- Topic: GWR Steam Railmotor Chassis
- Replies: 247
- Views: 75725
Re: GWR Steam Railmotor Chassis
Likewise – I'll have two, please, when you're ready.
Richard Kelham
Richard Kelham
- Wed Mar 14, 2018 4:46 pm
- Forum: Wagons
- Topic: Private Owner Wagons
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4592
Re: Private Owner Wagons
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
Richard
- Mon Nov 13, 2017 12:39 am
- Forum: North Norfolk
- Topic: NNAG November meeting.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1349
Re: NNAG November meeting.
See you there
Richard
Richard
- Sun Nov 12, 2017 5:21 pm
- Forum: Steam Locomotives
- Topic: Bachmann N class mogul p4 conversion
- Replies: 24
- Views: 7228
Re: Bachmann N class mogul p4 conversion
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
Richard
- Fri Oct 20, 2017 12:53 am
- Forum: North Norfolk
- Topic: NNAG October meeting
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1901
Re: NNAG October meeting
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
Richard K
- Fri Sep 29, 2017 3:36 pm
- Forum: Jeremy Suter
- Topic: GWR Steam Railmotor Chassis
- Replies: 247
- Views: 75725
Re: GWR Steam Railmotor Chassis
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
Richard
- Sat Sep 02, 2017 10:09 pm
- Forum: Guy Rixon
- Topic: Printed buffers for wagons
- Replies: 62
- Views: 21611
Re: Printed buffers for wagons
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
Richard
- Thu Aug 10, 2017 9:22 pm
- Forum: Guy Rixon
- Topic: Printed buffers for wagons
- Replies: 62
- Views: 21611
Re: Printed buffers for wagons
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
Richard
- Sun Aug 06, 2017 3:33 pm
- Forum: Jeremy Suter
- Topic: GWR Diagram V2 Van
- Replies: 42
- Views: 13915
Re: GWR Diagram V2 Van
Looking really nice!
Richard
Richard
- Mon Jul 24, 2017 9:40 pm
- Forum: North Norfolk
- Topic: NNAG August meeting.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1197
Re: NNAG August meeting.
See you there! Personally, I can live without the bells *does Quasimodo impression*...
- Sun Jul 23, 2017 10:19 am
- Forum: Craig Warton
- Topic: wagon building progress.
- Replies: 114
- Views: 46247
Re: wagon building progress.
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...
- Sat Jul 22, 2017 5:34 pm
- Forum: Craig Warton
- Topic: wagon building progress.
- Replies: 114
- Views: 46247
Re: wagon building progress.
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...