Criccieth Castle

pitleyfalley · Post by **pitleyfalley** » Tue Dec 17, 2002 7:09 pm

The names match up: Ie:

No.1 Skarloey = No.1 Talyllyn
No.2 Rheneas = No.2 Dolgoch
No.3 Sir Handel = No.3 Sir Haydn
No.4 Peter Sam = No.4 Edward Thomas
No.5 Rusty = No.5 Midlander
No.6 Duncan = No.6 Douglas
No.7 Ivo Hugh = No.7 Tom Rolt

The Thomas engines all had generic names 1 and 2 are meant to sound Welsh but dont mean anything. (Talyllyn is the parish the railway ends in, and Dolgoch was the only intermediate station when the line opened) No.3 and 4 just sound similar. No.5 is a play on the fact that diesel 5 is . and doesnt work very well. No.6 Duncan parodies No.6 douglas who was donted by Mr Douglas Abelson... a contractor. And No.7 is named after Tom Rolt, other names being considered were: Cader Idris, Bryneglewys (thankfull not named that (imagine the amount of time to polish the nameplates!) and Tom Rolt.

Christian

sillyevan27 · Post by **sillyevan27** » Tue Dec 17, 2002 8:31 pm

Yah they should change 'Midlander' to 'Rusty' for good

I saw on the Talyllyn website that it just had it's whole engine revamped...
...the thing should be Rusty on Thomas Days too.
(or is it Duncan Days?)

Oh well same thing

But you still didn't tell us how/why Edward Thomas got the Giesl Ejector?
And two more things...
Did the Talyllyn Rly really get coaches like Ada, Jane, and Mabel?
Did one of your engines REALLY get hit by a steam roller?!?!

selsig · Post by **selsig** » Tue Dec 17, 2002 8:45 pm

sillyevan27 wrote:And two more things...
Did the Talyllyn Rly really get coaches like Ada, Jane, and Mabel?
Did one of your engines REALLY get hit by a steam roller?!?!

I know for a fact that all the coaches on the SR are based on real coaches that are ore once were on the TR. The open coaches (I forget which ones they were without the books for reference) are based on the ex-Penrhyn Quarry coaches, suitably regauged and (IIRC) doubled up on bogie underframes which (again IIRC) are still in service underneath newer bodies.

One other point, not to be snidey intentionally or anything, but if you have to post in multicolour, could you please do it in ones you can see (i.e. not yellow) or ones that don't give you a headache looking at them. Sorry

John, needing

selsig · Post by **selsig** » Tue Dec 17, 2002 8:47 pm

And also, moving this topic out of Criccieth Castle, who doesn't really deserve talk of little steamers, respectable diseasel that he is, and into the new Skarloey Railway topic set up for this discussion, I don't know about Steam Rollers interfering with TR trains.

John

sillyevan27 · Post by **sillyevan27** » Tue Dec 17, 2002 9:05 pm

hmmm..............

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...................neat!

MikeM7044T · Post by **MikeM7044T** » Mon Dec 23, 2002 6:40 pm

rwaceyw wrote:Any chance of a reskin into Peter Sam?

Do you mean reskin Criccieth Castle into Peter Sam?

sillyevan27 · Post by **sillyevan27** » Mon Dec 23, 2002 6:51 pm

Mike check out the "The Skarloey Railway" topic and you'll see what that was about

And no!

David wants to reskin Edward Thomas into Peter Sam, and I want to reskin Corris #4 into Stuart

SILLY!

sillyevan27 · Post by **sillyevan27** » Mon Dec 23, 2002 7:15 pm

kevmt wrote:I've decided to do the Corris railway no 4 loco first. (early WIP below)

Then I will rebuild the neccesary parts to turn it into Edward Thomas (as did the Talyllyn railway). This shouldn't actually delay the release of ET much...

Cheers
Kevin

See Mike. That's going to be Corris #4, then Edward Thomas, then Stuart, and finally Peter Sam!

That was a mouthful!

See if that helps you any

BTW...Kevin. Those pistons look awfully small to be used on an engine!

Does ET really have pistons THAT small?

(scale wise...) It doesn't look like those little things could rotate the wheels

selsig · Post by **selsig** » Mon Dec 23, 2002 9:01 pm

[quote="sillyevan27
BTW...Kevin. Those pistons look awfully small to be used on an engine!

Does ET really have pistons THAT small?

(scale wise...) It doesn't look like those little things could rotate the wheels

[/quote]

Looks odd doesn't it. However, if you take a look at

http://www.corris.co.uk/images/tattoo%2 ... image5.jpg

you will see that the pistons really *are* that small.

btw, this photo is of the new Corris' new Tattoo class locomotive - its not ET.

John

rwaceyw · Post by **rwaceyw** » Mon Dec 23, 2002 9:40 pm

What are they going to call that? Corris Railway number 5? They can't call it No.4 because that already exists! Its like having two Mallards, One in BR Green and One as 4468! ( Actually that's not a bad idea! )

sillyevan27 · Post by **sillyevan27** » Mon Dec 23, 2002 10:08 pm

Don't get David started!

David I guess they would call it Corris #5, but what if they already have more than 5 engines

Thanks for the picture

I guess looks can be decieving

I see u.

selsig · Post by **selsig** » Mon Dec 23, 2002 10:28 pm

Actually Corris No. 5 is a diesel called something like "Alf Marsden" (not sure OTOH) and No. 6 is a diesel as well. The new Tattoo will be CR No. 7. As stated CR No.s 3 and 4 both still exist, 1 and 2 were of the same design as 3 (leaving gaps for replicas of the unrebuilt and rebuilt versions I would guess) so 7 is the logical next progression.

hth,

John

sillyevan27 · Post by **sillyevan27** » Mon Dec 23, 2002 10:38 pm

huh???
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So when do you think Corris #7 will be done? (not MSTS)

selsig · Post by **selsig** » Mon Dec 23, 2002 10:44 pm

No idea. I think the aim is something like 2004.

To reduce and summarise my last post with lass big words:

CR #1: Scrapped - possible replica of unrebuilt Falcon type engine

#2: Scrapped - possible replica of rebuilt Falcon type engine

#3: Still extant on Talyllyn Railway (rebuilt Falcon type engine)

#4: Still extant on Talyllyn Railway (Kerr Stuart "Tattoo" class)

#5: Diesel on preserved Corris Railway

#6: Diesel on preserved Corris Railway

#7: Replica of #4.

hth

John (also note where the names of #3 and #4 on Duke's railway came from)

sillyevan27 · Post by **sillyevan27** » Mon Dec 23, 2002 11:36 pm

oh...ok