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  • Ressaldar
    Ressaldar reacted to LarryG's post in the thread 4mm Llanfair with Like Like.
    Rhododendron's....or at least some pretty flowers.... :D One of the small trees was sacrificed by cutting it into slices to form the...
  • Dog Star
    Dog Star reacted to Yorkshire Dave's post in the thread Rivermead Central with Like Like.
    After researching briefly, the term 'coarse' was originally used by the BRMSB in 1941 to classify the track and wheel standards up to...
  • Yorkshire Dave
    Yorkshire Dave replied to the thread Metropolitan Class C OO gauge.
    Prior to electrification condensing locos were almost mandatory for operating in the tunnels. The steam exhaust was re-routed to the...
  • Compton castle
    Compton castle reacted to Scanlon's post in the thread A West Midlands Works with Like Like.
    It has been some time since I last reported on progress with the L1. As usual other modelling issues have slowed progress but I am now...
  • Dan Randall
    Dan Randall reacted to Scanlon's post in the thread A West Midlands Works with Like Like.
    It has been some time since I last reported on progress with the L1. As usual other modelling issues have slowed progress but I am now...
  • Yorkshire Dave
    Yorkshire Dave replied to the thread Metropolitan Class C OO gauge.
    Nice photo - my first guess was Aylesbury. Then I hovered the cursor over the picture :).
  • Yorkshire Dave
    Yorkshire Dave replied to the thread Metropolitan Class C OO gauge.
    It appears your model body shell is as originally built, albeit without the condensing apparatus. When they received the larger boilers...
  • david bigcheeseplant
    david bigcheeseplant replied to the thread Metropolitan Class C OO gauge.
    Here is a C class with condensing pipes stovepipe chimney and Salter safety valves. Other side of the same loco at the same period at...
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  • Yorkshire Dave
    Yorkshire Dave replied to the thread Metropolitan Class C OO gauge.
    They were originally fitted with condensing pipes. This photo (for illustrative purposes) is from the Alon Siton collection here Rail...
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  • Yorkshire Dave
    Yorkshire Dave replied to the thread Metropolitan Class C OO gauge.
    The problem with either using the Rapido Met E or Hornby SECR H chassis is the higher boiler pitch and their mechanisms would have been...
  • Yorkshire Dave
    Yorkshire Dave reacted to 40057's post in the thread Rivermead Central with Like Like.
    In post #620, I promised pictures of C.R. 828 on the layout ‘in due course’. Something else that has taken longer than intended. Anyway...
  • Yorkshire Dave
    Yorkshire Dave replied to the thread Rivermead Central.
    After researching briefly, the term 'coarse' was originally used by the BRMSB in 1941 to classify the track and wheel standards up to...
  • Captain Kernow
    Captain Kernow replied to the thread Metropolitan Class C OO gauge.
    HI John, If the wheelbase matches, then why not use that chassis. What will you use for the bogie? You'll need some nickel silver or...
  • Captain Kernow
    Captain Kernow reacted to Jarmstro's post in the thread Metropolitan Class C OO gauge with Like Like.
    This is the last loco I need to complete my collection. (Then I'll probably start again and try to be better next time because it's been...
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    Captain Kernow reacted to cctransuk's post in the thread 4mm Llanfair with Like Like.
    It would be a very fastidious Stationmaster who had that bit of land regularly cut. Would some low shrubbery be a good way of filling...
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