RMweb Gold CHAZ D Posted May 21, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 21, 2020 7 hours ago, St Enodoc said: Hold your horses! That's a Type 3. We're still on Type 2s. Just a type 2 with a bigger engine and no steam heating???? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 21, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 21, 2020 That wasn't easy. So many very detailed responses to consider. In the end, the stand out was Brush type 2, Class 31 with 6 votes. It also had one for the skinhead version only, and another for the full headcode box type only, so I gave those two half a point each, making seven. Class 26 got 4, and Class 27 3, so if you put those two together there would be a tie, but there were objections when it was suggested that should happen. Class 24 and 25 together got 4, and others a bit less. What shall we do today? Class 3? Not many classes, but I think quite a lot of variations within them, particularly Class 37. How about allowing specific sub classes, so say, Class 37/5, but not "the ones with the little plate covering the whatsit" if you see what I mean? Please let's clarify that before we get under way. I need help here from people who know lots more than I do about diesels. Clive! Where are you? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 21, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 21, 2020 15 minutes ago, CHAZ D said: Just a type 2 with a bigger engine and no steam heating???? No worry, Type 3 poll today anyway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Taz Posted May 21, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 21, 2020 Type 3 = Hymek. Maybe not the most successful but definitely the best looking. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieR4489 Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 37/0. Looks and sounds great. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold jollysmart Posted May 21, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 21, 2020 Scruffy split head code 37 in BR blue. Got to be the one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted May 21, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 21, 2020 Choices are quite limited when it comes to Type 3s, a bagpipe Crompton, or a split headcode D67xx or the GwR thingy? What about the Ivatt Co-Co pair, 10000 and 10001. That will do me. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Taz Posted May 21, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 21, 2020 Gilbert, can I ask what sort of detail you put on your slides? Presumably it details the prototype train and formation? How to make it up from the fiddleyard and or cassettes? Suitable motive power? Anything else? Thanks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNERandBR Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 Has to be a Class 37 for me. If we're going for sub classes then it'll be the heavyweight 37/7 with the flush front: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 31A Posted May 21, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 21, 2020 Type 3? English Electric Type 3. Gilbert, I think your pictures this morning with the 'fading light' effect work very well. 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 3rd Rail Exile Posted May 21, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 21, 2020 Crompton for me - specifically Bagpipe if we're doing sub-classes 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 Class 37/0 Blue, central headcode, bufferbeam cowls intact covered in Welsh coal or in a triple hauling a certain South Wales ore train Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted May 21, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 21, 2020 BRCW Type 3, aka Crompton or, if you must, Class 33. Mainstay of Southern's diesel era, really. The Slimline version, specifically able to traverse the narrow-minded railway between Tonbridge and Bo-Peep Junction, added a certain quirkiness. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted May 21, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 21, 2020 Hymek please. A Tri-ang one, preferably. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigwordsmith Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 Class 33 - BRCW Type 3 whatever - commuted behind them from EastGrinstead for a few years! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 21, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 21, 2020 20 minutes ago, Taz said: Gilbert, can I ask what sort of detail you put on your slides? Presumably it details the prototype train and formation? How to make it up from the fiddleyard and or cassettes? Suitable motive power? Anything else? Thanks. I found that what was needed depended on whether it was just going to be a prompt for me, or a guide for visitors who like operating the layout themselves. If the latter, lots more information needed. No vistors for the foreseeable future of course, and 99% of the time it will be just me, so it comes down to:- Sequence number Locomotive number - all locos are in "sheds" and individuallly identified, so I can put my hand straight on the one I need. Origin of train ie fiddle yard number. Destination, which will again usually be a FY road. Make up of train, if not a fixed formation in the FY. So, if cassettes needed, identified by "CP". If no such prefix, it will be from loose stock stored in drawers, but again I know exactly where to find it. So it might read. CP2 CP4 RF SO CP11 BSK. Route and signals to be set. I use NCE macros, so simple numbers suffice. Up main would be 66. 1 .23. for example. If an individual point is involved, Acc** is shown. Signals also have accessory numbers. Brief move description, eg "runs non stop via down main", or "runs to Platform 2 and stops". Train description eg 1000 KX- Edinburgh The Flying Scotsman. Time. 1115 for the example above. It all sounds complicated, but actually goes comfortably onto one slide. 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted May 21, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 21, 2020 13 hours ago, great northern said: Getting late here now, as it was at PN all those years ago. The last but one train of the sequence was the 1002 arrival from Grantham, the light having miraculously held out so that we can see the arrival of Knight of Thistle. The line of vans in the Midland sidings was not intentional, but I think it does a lot for both of these images. Just ties everyhting together nicely, if you see what I mean. Just to show that I am paying attention: those vans are on the Down Goods 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manna Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 G'day Folks Class 33 with a 4 TC or two, on a trip to Weymouth.......Lovely manna 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 Hymek. I had a Triang one. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TrevorP1 Posted May 21, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 21, 2020 I will go for a 37/4 like this: As used in Cornwall and Scotland, two of my favourite places. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
37Oban Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 37/4. Had many enjoyable runs behind one between Oban and Glasgow. Roja 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarrMan Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 Type 3? Has to be a Hymek. Lovely shape. Lloyd 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 21, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 21, 2020 1 hour ago, 3rd Rail Exile said: Crompton for me - specifically Bagpipe if we're doing sub-classes Vos is zis Bagpipe, please? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 21, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 21, 2020 25 minutes ago, Joseph_Pestell said: Just to show that I am paying attention: those vans are on the Down Goods Indeed they are. I forgot there was a trip working waiting there. That's why it looked better . Dammit, can't reproduce that all the time, can I? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 21, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 21, 2020 Late tea break today. Our first sightof the new day at PN is of a B17 in the bay, waiting for the Glasgow-Colchester. The driver has parked further back than usual for some reason. So, off we go again. The sun has risen in the west again, by the way, but the residents of Peterborough have got used to that by now. 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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