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Can someone please remind me where I can source a kit for a long wheel base Stanier brake van chassis? I am sure I have recently seen a new kit announced but cannot remember by whom.

Thanks

Ian

I was surprised to see that the Masokits catalogue which John has just loaded - http://traders.scalefour.org/masokits/ - lists a bridge girder kit as item 8.05. This gives a 42' X 6' girder. Mike, with typical honesty, says it will probably drive you bananas! But the rivets are ready-etched, so don'...

The next meeting of the Cumbrian Region Area Group will be at Chris King's in Glasson (just west of Carlisle). We will meet at noon for pub lunch at 1pm followed by an afternoon session discussing our various projects, including Chris' GER terminus, which is coming along nicely. Facilities to run P4...

I have just, purely by chance, come cross a Mikes Models buffer stop kit in my "track" box. Sadly, the rail section is grossly over-scale, presumably to match Streamline or whatever, so would look poor when attached to scale rail. I really think it will be simplest to dig up the short leng...

I'm intrigued by the coach end in the lower picture. Is it an early railcar?

Ian

John Donnelly wrote:
Quite how/if it could be done in Templot I don't know...

John

I'm sure MW could oblige. I just love that B-0 turnout(or is it B-Infinity?) in the middle of the picture!

Ian

There will be an Ian Everett along in a minute, to say that it's never too late to join in the SGW fun... All the best with the new project. Now where did I put my own Round Tuit??? Cheers Flymo Bang on cue, here he is! I confess that N8s, N9s and N10s are very much to my taste, having lived my ear...

Yes, I suppose waitrose customers are always travelling at fewer than seventy miles an hour, or their younger customers are asked if they are fewer than 18 years old when alcohol is in the basket. :-P Sainsbury's customers have one less thing to worry about as they shop ;-) I've been reading gramma...

A relatively small number of steel minerals were built before the war by the trade for private owners, plus a few during the war. All were swept up into the wartime pool and never returned to their owners. Noel Slightly OTT - One of the few things I can remember about my grandfather, Cecil Everett,...

I did the sleeper making for about 12 years That looks like a candidate for Danny's "Unsung Heroes" award: http://www.scalefour.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=4085 Actually, it isn't. The citation must be for some specific act in the year in question. I understand this is to different...

The Standard Gauge Workbench will be featured at Scalefour North in Wakefield on 18/19 April, so this is an invitation to anyone working on an SGW project to bring it to the show to let others see what you have achieved so far. Any project being built to the SGW guidelines - see http://www.scalefour...

I can't help feeling that a traverser is overkill for a two-line (two platform?) branch A fair comment and in respect of fiddle yards in general each person will do what they want. As with everything else it depends on the individual's situation. Elcot Road fits Ian's description but we went for a ...

I can't help feeling that a traverser is overkill for a two-line (two platform?) branch and that a full cassette system incorporating a stock box, as designed by Chris Pendlenton and described in MRJ, is a simpler and more flexible solution, moreover it requires less space. This is what I have used ...

This looks like a worthwhile day out - the chance to speak to the makers of some excellent models.

If I lived nearer I'd be very tempted to attend - and bring Belle View

Ian

If it's good enough for the real railway...


http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/freight/single-view/view/battery-train-enters-passenger-service.html

Jan

The layout will also act as my entry into the MRC's layout challenge. Nestor First of all, welcome to the "club" of small layout builders. It's the right way to go, especially if you can incorporate it into a bigger project later. Which is maybe why there are so many small layout initiati...

I'm afraid that the cowcatchers are part of the etched kit. They do fold up very well and are quite robust. You can see the whole etch here, and that there aren't very many parts at all to it. I'm sure I remember an article in a1950s or 60s RM about scratch building a tram engine*, where the cowcat...

Sorry, Tim. Somehow I missed that and can't even blame Christmas! :? It's good to see you've finally cracked fly shunting: I know it's been an issue for you for a long time. It looks like an excellent system for a branch line station like Clutton where one cut is left from a pre-sorted stopping good...

Nigel,

have there been any developments with finescale DCC uncoupling?

Ian

Hi, Lucy, that looks like a splendid subject - compact, just the right size and with some super structures to model. I do hope it won't be quite as dilapidated as your photos of the real subject - it looks more derelict than dilapidated and with not much in the way of trains! I imagine it was built ...

Hi Ian, Essentially it is two turnouts of the same hand reversed and interlaced. So called (on the GWR at least) because they were common in the sorting sidings at Barry Docks. And now we have the evidence -- a ladder of Barry slips at Barry: Martin.[/quote] Thank you, Martin - an amazing photograp...

Five members gathered on Thursday for our monthly meeting, which started, as usual, with a pub lunch - for a change in the Kings Arms (which was the Drovers' Arms in BBC's "All Creatures Great and Small"). This was followed by an operating session on Clecklewyke. We used the same timetable...

Wonderful work, Mike.

You've set the bar for the next buildings very high. Can we expect curled up ham sandwiches under a glass bell jar in the station buffet?

Can't wait to get my hands on the controls next month!

Ian

I've found this site very useful for BR liveries - http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/gansg/6-livy/br/9-br-4864.htm . For unfitted wagons, it is suggested that "Originally the unfitted wooden bodied wagons were unpainted, although the wood had a slightly silver look to it when new due to the use of an...

There is ALWAYS a reason why things fall off. All you have to do is to find the reason and correct it. It may well take a lot of time but it can be done with patience and determination. I find that the biggest problem is baseboard joints. I read in another place that the Mostyn boys think the stabi...