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And where is the Imperial gauge of 5'6", or the comfortable 5'3"? Remember how much of both of these was laid in S.America, Oz, the sub-continent and on the west side of the Irish Sea .. the Irish locos and stock have a quite different look due to not having their feet pinched in by the Stephensons'...

The original level crossing system was a drawbridge type affair, with leaves dropping to rail level from both sides .. John There were four accomodation crossing where the track was pivoted similar to Andrew's design with interlocked signals either side, all under the control of a key held by the l...

Here you go, a drawing of the Coffeepot:

Sweet, eh? I have scanned some other drawings if you are interested.

Patrick

Your Da's loco looks very like 'The Coffeepot' (I will scan a drawing when I have time). A case of daydreams (or should I say nightmares?) colliding with reality! I'm afraid all this talk of the Lartigue has left me slightly queezy. I find both the concept and the reality so impractical - bonkers ev...

More photos of No.10 Sir Drefaldwyn would be good .. If they ever "pull it out of the corner" do please take lots of pics. .. SLR no.85 .. however I don't have any drawings and as time is relatively short at the moment I wouldn't want to steal this from anyone else - so If so one else with more tim...

Looking real good there Andrew. The story I like about the line is the way a farmer could send a cow to market. He had to also send two calves. These travelled to market in the other half of the wagon, to balance the weight of the cow. Then on the return journey, one calf rode in each side of the w...

As a regular visitor to Llanfair C, I can take pics of probably most objects (trackside, structures, locos, stock) for anyone who wants to model same. Just let me know what you want imaged, the aspects / elevations required and how you would like the digital images supplied.

Patrick

Very nice! You will have to do the GCR's 5637! :wink: Regards Matthew 'GCR'? 5637 is at the East Somerset Railway where it has been based for some years now. See http://www.eastsomersetrailway.com/stock/stock_view.php?category=Locomotives&number=5637 The model of 6622 is very good - it reminded me ...

This sounds excellent! Can't wait to see it .. I can see Masbury from the baclkof my house and Sunday morning it had about 1" of snow shining in the sun. Oh to see a 7F plodding over the top on a winter's morning with a fitted freight .. good luck with the rest of the route-building!

Patrick

Mark W -

You have a PM which might be of interest ..

Patrick

.. Bringing the train into Limerick Junction is something else.. Would that be before the new and altered crossovers which allow direct access to the Up and Down platforms? (Or should that be the Up and Down sections of the through platform?) See this simplified track diagram: http://www.kinkajou.e...

fadedGlory wrote:It can't go on the Rye & Camber - it is 2ft gauge, not 3ft! ..

Silly me! But then the real W&L is 30", not 36" as in MSTS .. Happy New Year to all.

Patrick

Good to hear it's restarted, Colin. I'm afraid I can't help, but I'm sure others will offer with awakening the L&BR. And now there's a model of Excelsior to help you with construction!

Patrick

Lovely stuff - will look very nice on the Rye & Camber. But I don't think I will punish her with trying to lift a train out of Smithfield Yard on the W&L!

Patrick

A short history of Excelsior, as gleaned from NG&IRM and The Kerry Tramway by D Cox & C Krupa pub. Plateway Press: 1888 : Built Stafford, W G Bagnall Ltd Works No.970 1895 : sold to Nuttall's, contractors for the L&BR, possibly via Bagnall's 1896 - 1897 : Building L&BR c.1900 - 1923 : Bought by F J ...