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Just for completeness' sake, Brian tells me that the building as he's modelled it would have had a tank holding about 45,000 gallons which would give quite a reserve capacity, even if half a dozen locos needed water at once.

Keith

I understand the principle, Andi, and it was pretty much standard that the water to cranes was supplied from a large header tank somewhere nearby. I wondered whether this building housed the header tank for the system following your own musings a few days ago. I have not seen another tank anywhere c...

Out of the blue, this photo was posted on a Facebook group today. The uploader, who took it, says the date is September 1964 and since normal passenger services ended on 7th September it must be one of the very last, timetabled, passenger trains. The interesting thing from Brian and my points of vie...

We genuinely have no idea about the internal arrangements, Andi. It's somewhat unusual, though not unknown, to have the engine and boiler(s) in the same building. It would most likely have been a Watt-type engine and the tank just outside the engine house would have been to supply the separate conde...

The next piece of work to emerge from the Yeomans factory is the beam-engine house for Ilkeston North. It was a pumping engine and drew water from the railway's own borehole and pumped it to a number of water tanks that fed the water cranes in the area. It has not been an easy one to research, we ca...

davejc64 wrote:A couple of questions is the route QD enabled as it not showing up in the QD section of TS1017 also can't find any standard scenarios for the route either were there any included?

There are none with the route download but there are two on Steam for it.

Keith

I'm not sure. I have Mully's milk-bottle replacement installed so I get bright orange cooling towers instead and if they bridge the tracks I usually delete them. I think one was something like goonhilly something or other and another had a weird name like station wooden walkways. Others I checked we...

Granted, gptech, but if assets aren't showing it either means that they're set up in a different folder tree in the Steam version or that there are assets in the Steam version that do not appear in the CR version.

Keith

I have CCFE but the CR version and, unfortunately, the folder ID for the Steam version must be different because I'm getting missing items from the route. It hasn't made an enormous difference so far. It's a decent route that has a lot of potential for scenarios so I'd say to download it anyway. Keith

pauls wrote:As to where Snells Nook itself is - well, I don't know ! - I'

On the 1913 6-in OS map it's on the turnpike near the junction with Snell's Nook Lane.

http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17 ... rs=168&b=1

Keith

Thanks for this link. The LMS Garratts are just what will be needed for the Midland line under Bennerley Viaduct on The Friargate Line. They ran out of Toton towards Chesterfield as well as down to Brent.

Keith

It will be a while before we look towards Derby, Coops. It will be a very complicated thing to do. We have to cross the Midland line to Ambergate and we may have to include St Mary's Goods Station in the distance. The Midland trackwork is enough to make your eyes cross and I don't envy Nick when he ...

This is a screen grab from the National Library of Scotland website, using the 1913 six-inch map with the opacity turned down to show the modern map underneath. I was at the Odeon yesterday to see Rogue One and it is on the line of the embankment, as is Stratstone BMW. Top Lock was where the new lin...

Brian has been very busy over the Christmas break and has created Breadsall Viaduct, which has taken quite a bit of doing because it was curved and has a lattice-girder section over the Little Eaton branch of the Derby Canal. As usual, he's done an outstanding job. Being so big it was a bit tricky t...

I think most would agree that £86 for two versions of the same route isn't value for money or their statement on their web page which is misleading? But, without meaning to sound trite, you choose to pay the asking price or you don't. I would not pay £86 for two routes and I thought the CR pricing ...