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Great Question!.

As a second time around modeller - with less time and not as much free cash as I'd like - gone for visual accuracy and a realistic timetable - without rivets and interlocking signals!!.

I mix and match buildings from smaller suppliers to get a more individual look.

This one is on a Neville Hill job over the Pennines in October '63 - with Class A and B tanks. Normally it would be a double-ended BR Brake or an LMS double-ender - so whilst this is unusual - there is a prototype for everything..! Interesting photo Pete, thanks. Whilst I'd always caveat that 'offi...

There were still GW toads around my neck of the woods on longer distance trains such as the Stanlow oil trains to places like Leeds/Toton etc. This one is on a Neville Hill job over the Pennines in October '63 - with Class A and B tanks. Normally it would be a double-ended BR Brake or an LMS double-...

Those in another place would !
Been pulled up for accepting 11'6 wheelbase for a GW cattle wagon with an actual 11'3 wheelbase....

One simple point is that the railway was hugely busier then - with much less double-ended trains - Multiple Units etc. The pilot engine was much in evidence then - shuttling all over the place - a large through station like Leeds would have pilot engines at both ends - adding coaches and vans and sh...

Some wagons that were built new - with 3 hole discs - such as the 'modern' LMS 16t Minerals could receive a pair of spoked wheels at the time of overhaul - just to complicate it even further...

On the North West Area - GWR Toads common around Chester and Wirral and goods trains to Manchester via Chester. NE brakes - (also Toads) all over the NW including the Cheshire Lines area which was partly supplied with LNER goods stock. BR and LMS brakes the most common as discussed - mainly in the l...

A serious case of Streak-itis !

I only have 2 - both based on the R2784x BR version - but my layout is based in the NW of England ! so it is catching..

Unlike this site topics veer off topic within 3 comments usually - so I'll not rejoin - especially as one 'moderator' offered to come up north and "sort me out" - I said fine, but felt I should mention that I was ex-Forces and rejected by the Para's because ~I was too tall and big - funnil...

Recently had a pre-owned ROD 2-8-0 - described as 'as new' - it is and looks to be unrun - so accurate description certainly. I am also awaiting for spares - 'Class 9F 2-10-0 92166 in BR Black - Pre-owned - noisy runner - worn lining on smoke deflectors - imperfect box' - so will comment on this one...

Some of the Triang and Triang-derived from the 1970's stock had incredibly coarse wheel profiles - such that it was too wide (the wheel profile) to pass through the frog/vee of the points - I remember this particularly on the locos e.g triang hornby Hymek, but also on the stock. Good new you can lik...

I used a Hornby Clee Hill - to have the early underframe (wooden) and the shorter wheelbase required - but not 7ft wheelbase as on the drawing plan...!

Then got busy with the razor saw....

Even (Hush in case RMWEB are spying) Bachmann got a Pannier wrong a few year ago numbering a pannier in the 77xx series (non vacuum braked, round-window) - which sported a 'square windowed' later cab....

ah - the lovely Dean Goods - I have the intermediate Hornby version (renumbered as the last one at Chester) - Oxford's job for me - has the tender as the immediate improvement..

Interesting indeed....
Thanks for the info!