VESPA Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 It was a very very very very very very very long train Sorry if Hornby can't compact links. It really only was a one coach train!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 ish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDS Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 Thank you for this information. It seems to be just what I wanted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDS Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 Unfortunately I do not know the date of the photo. It is pre March 1959 though because that is when he retired. I cannot see the tender crest on the photo as the picture is taken from just forward of the front of the train, looking backwards down the platform. I think you may be correct about the fast Blackpool-London express because I have been told that he did work that route. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDS Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 @Vespa. Reading all this reminded me that I have posted a copy of the picture previously and obtained some very good information, including a lot from yourself. Just search the forum for 46118 to see the thread I raised previously. There is a link to the picture on page 3 of that thread. You need to select the full link, not just click on the underlined portion. It is only about 6 months ago but I am in a far more better position now, than I was then, having obtained R3085. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VESPA Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 Hello RDS,Yes, I remember the photo now. I am looking at the clothing on the females and it looks around the 50's style. The lamps appear to be in LMS red as they show as dk grey in the photo. The first carriage looks like an ex LMS corridor carriage as made by Hornby (when you can get them) The numbers on these would be M********M and by the grey tones the carriage is all maroon. The loco carries express headlamp codes and is possibly one of the London expresses. It is due to leave as the safety valves are lifting and boiler pressure is up. Looking at previous posts it must be 1953 or 1954 for the loco to be carrying the 5A shedplate. In 1957 the crests changed to the later crest. By that deduction the loco in the photo would be carrying the early crest. Again that is easy to change using Modelmaster blanking patches and new earlier crest. If you are not confident to change them yourself Grimey Times will do a full make over for around £30 +P&PAnyone else any thoughts on the deductions made? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cronan Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 Hi allI got the Somerset Belle digital train set. The loco looks good anda very well detailed milk tank with NEM couplings. Need to set it up now. I just come back from N gauge which I was in love with but the detailing and fiddley brake pipes is just a bit too small for my eyes.Any I would of got an e-link train set but I have no laptop so I got this instead.I like all the literature you get with these trainsets.Cronan aka Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDS Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 @VESPA Thank you, that is so informative but can you advise me please, What is the Earlier crest? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graskie Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 I think Vespa is referring to the different early and late British Railways tender crests which were generally changed from 1956/7 onwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VESPA Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 The early crest is on this Patriot loco https://www.hornby.com/locomotives/steam-locomotives/dcc-ready-steam-locomotives/br-4-6-0-sir-herbert-walker-k-c-b-patriot-class-early-br.html and the late crest on this Grange class https://www.hornby.com/locomotives/steam-locomotives/dcc-ready-steam-locomotives/br-4-6-0-paviland-grange-grange-class-late-br-heavily-weathered.html Hope that helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDS Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Thank you for the links. (Sorry to have asked such a basic question). I think I have all I need now to modify my Loco. I will keep an eye out for some suitable coaches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 A good set to start with, but I am sure you will find lots of things to add to it . Welcome back to OO! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingthedog Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Latest acquisition is a set of curved left hand points pco and a small engine shed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graskie Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Have you tried curved points before on your layout, WTD? I have a couple but they don't seem to be too brilliant at times, trains not always wanting to go in the inner direction from the toe end without sometimes derailing. I think it's probably something to do with forward propulsion, or something, a train having to suddenly switch from a large to smaller curve. Or is it something to do with swiftly changing centrifugal forces? The faster the train, the more you can have a problem, it seems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graskie Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 The engine shed might be all right! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingthedog Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 I have four sets at the moment, shortly to be five. Three are on the main lines and one in the sidings. The new one is going in a siding. Never had a problem with them except early on one was troublesome so I changed it for a pco one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graskie Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 I use the same manufacturer, WTD for mine. Perhaps I'm missing something, or, at least my trains sometimes are? What's the secret then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingthedog Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Try making the check rails a bit longer with short pieces of rail to lead the wheels in the right direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graskie Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Thanks for that tip, WTD. I'll try that if ever I get round to it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The son of Triangman Posted July 26, 2014 Author Share Posted July 26, 2014 Latest purchases (Tri-ang) made in 1974 Hornby Red Dock Shunter boxed one of a batch issued in 1974 to use up spare Red bodies at the factory. Two Railroad 0-4-0's for stock, 6 Railroad cranes, 1 railroad car carrier, 1 railroad car loading unit, and a massive pile of dowlais tank engine bodies! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
81F Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 My latest aquisition, a set of Hornby/Triang Cylinders. I now think I have all the bits to restore the third loco I ever bought - a new body, new tender & new piston rods. All I need to do now is find the chassis! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 As I mentioned elsewhere yesterday I bought one of the Railroad Bagnall diesel shunters, a very good little model for the price. Not too sure if has a full sized prototype but it does look the part. (A successor to the Dock Shunter perhaps?)I also treated myself to another SEC 'C' late crest version, which I am currently re-numbering. This has to be my all time favourite class of locomotive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
da4472vid Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 GWR 2-6-2 large tank 5154 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
81F Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 6 Humbrol Aerosols approximately £41 including p&p! These will hopefully allow me to weather some of my kit built wagons which have been packed in the loft for the past 20 years! Funny I remember being able to buy 8 of them for the same price as the paint is now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
da4472vid Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 GWR 2-6-2 tankhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/da4472vid/14749319320/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
81F Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 Three blue S&D four wheeled coaches and one GWR version. I think the S&D ones had been stored in a damp place because the metal tyres had taken on a froste appearence and one of the couplings was rather rusty (Hence the GWR one to donate a new Chassis). However all the bodies were in a good condition and I have some spare silver seal wheels.This now makes up the loco and coaches from the Rural Rambler set I remember wanting in 1976 - only a 38 year waIt!I should also add the ebayer didn't really know what they were since he described them as being from a Caledonian set but they had metal couplings and silver seal wheel so I though this unlikely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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