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NorthBritish wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2024 7:49 pm ...I'm interested in pre grouping railways particularly the North British railway...

Fine subject choice, very handsome school of loco design. All the best with it!

...Does anyone know how the cab rain sheets were attached to the tender on these locos?... This is a general question I am kicking myself over. With a relative newly moved to Sheringham, when visiting a month past I naturally walked to the NNR, and during the journey Sheringham to Holt saw that the...

Aha. The person I know who started in 4mm and within five years had 5" gauge live steam in the garden is now considering a couple of real track panels and a vehicle - possibly a horsebox if he can find one - to put on those rails, and if it is the vehicle of choice, to stable the wife's ponies...

These are excellent models of the typical 'maid of all work' 0-6-0s that every steam era layout needs, mine occasionally totters South from LMR onto the ECML and stops exhausted at Hatfield. ...We didn't see pristine LMS locos in 1960, did we? Overpaint it really badly in 'filth' so the original let...

Done a bit more reading on this, this has suggested allowing roughly 10" per 2% gradient change, I have eased slightly to 12" as I think its tidier... Allow as much as possible, I'll not have anything more than 1% change per foot. (I have ten coupled rigid chassis, long bogie frame diesel...

Although it says 'Hornby,' they are NEM standard so will fit any loco or stock with suitable NEM recess including Bachmann. There's a couple of riders to this. The NEM defined dimension parts are compatible-ish between Bachmann and Hornby, bodges such as black tack, nail varnish and other gunks suc...

Of the tank engines, don't expect too much of the J52. The body was one of Hornby's better pre-China efforts, really gets the general appearance of the old 'Humpy'; but the mechanism is weak, elements of its design date back to the 1950s . It can be lightly modified to take a current Bachmann mechan...

...as long as one wants non-automated point control then nothing really beats the stud and probe on a mimic diagram as it is so quick and easy, simple to install and repair and cheap... And intuitive and fun - that 's for the running lines. For yards I use slide swiches and rodding. It isn't possib...

...It would make the family 'work' to access their inheritance. If that's really your objective, leave the wagons alone for any that might appreciate them, instead cancel any will you have made, and die intestate. That's what my parents did by choice (never had wills, just told me what I was to do)...

...Fitting it was fiddly because of the lack of space... The interior of the 57xx is well packed with metal ballast, but it is removeable if prepared to part dismantle the body, this is relatively easy and can be done with no resulting damage visible when reassembled. The panniers are filled with a...

When a few people said "Railway Modelling" is dead after the closure of Hatton's. Many of us said what rubbish, emphatically so !! Well something is wrong in the world, it MUST be, as here we are with no fresh postings in this thread for nigh on a Month... There's always something of an o...

As always, many ways to skin multiple varieties of cats; and you only want those that are of definite value to your particular operation. Mine is unseen derailment (any cause: foreign object, coupler or other vehicle mechanism failure, etc.) to avoid dependence on the mk1 earhole picking up the resu...

Seen spent ballast suggested - credible and logical, but that doesn't = TRUE - but never searched for an authorative opinion as they don't occur at my chosen locations.

I see the Germans have removed the snakes for greater efficiency, none of that backsliding.

...then if its the front or rear tag... its not recognising thats a train, just a series of tags... With locos and dedicated brake end vehicles having a 'start/end of train' bit on the tags, that's a nod to traditional railway practise of 'lamps' at both ends of trains! Enables some 'signalman code...