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a Great Western line up outside a Great Western shed



the next photo will have something modern passing something old

The Turbomotive DID have connecting rods ( I have a book of Eric tracy photographs and there is a picture of it in there)

Link to webpage on the turbomotive : http://www.aqpl43.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/ ... turbom.htm

very interesting to look at

Cheers

Stu

The green is certainly GWR as its the same shade as my King and Castle that are from Hornby but its the lining around the cab that gets me... its the one detail that lets down the model I'll have a look for my book GWR liveries 1923-1948 by Brian Haresnape (very old book covers everything from loco...

hi Tony I found this on Ebay tonight, don't know if it's what you are looking for, but this place does headboards and coach destination boards: http://shop.ebay.co.uk/lhpmedia/m.html?_trkparms=65%253A12%257C66%253A2%257C39%253A1%257C72%253A4908&rt=nc&_trksid=p3911.c0.m14.l1513&_pgn=1 Hop...

Sorry Tony :oops: Mind you, I've been just as bad, had to dismantle the layout so some work could be carried out in the loft about six months ago ............. and it's still in bits, but I'll make a start in the next week or so, I'm missing running trains!! Cheers Stu Mod Edit: Misuse of Quote Butt...

Well Stu - here's the compromise : the font sizes and markings are substantially different I'm afraid. Re-badging via Pressfix sheets would be an option if you could either invisibly remove the originals or find a paint that matched each of the sides exactly. Or, of course, you could just run 'em a...

they are very nice looking coaches, a vast improvement the run of the mill composites hornby have been churning out for years,

I have a rake of Bachmann Collett coaches, and the Hawksworths would look good mixed in to the rake

Cheers

Stu

I know the Severn Valley Railway use treated water in their locomotives after several of their locomotives suffered tube failiures in the early 2000's, from what I remember they have water treatment plants at kidderminster, bridgnorth and bewdly, King Edward 1 has been running with "porta treat...

7715 while shunting 6024 in the yard at Quainton,
and 6024 on the demonstration line on it's re-launch in 1989

I was only young at the time, so I was just a passenger

Cheers

Stu

Anything Built at Swindon

Cheers

Stu

It's nothing to do with the holes in back of the chinmey, if you look at the A4 from the side, the boiler cladding behind the chimney (up to the first set of boiler lining) is lower than the rest of the cladding, the rest of the boiler is level with the top of the chimney, it's this dip that helps t...

it certainly was...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqWmzCgGqsI

Cheers

Stu

apparently 6023 has joined 6000 & 24 in loosing it's safety valve cover.... unfortunatly it was on it's way to the mid norfolk railway and said safety valve cover is now on the missing list (it is running with one "borrowed" from another of Didcot's locos), hope it gets found soon Chee...

If you look closely, there's a slight dip in the boiler cladding behind the chimney, according to the British Steam railways magazine (the ones from a few years ago with acompanying DVD) on Mallard, it was an accidental thumb print in a clay model placed in a wind tunnel that caused the indentation ...

At 10:7 the narrator says that the boiler put back need not be the one that was taken off. So even in those days a loco soon had parts that weren't original. This was general practace at all the workshops of the big 4 and during BR days, if you ever go to any of the preserved railways have a look a...