TheSignalEngineer

Not only Cwmbran. On my old patch the local services and stations on the Tamworth and Nuneaton lines out of New Street were decimated just as Castle Vale was being built to house an extra 10,000 people. Since then there have been many more houses built close to the railways in the area. Redditch services were decimated shortly after it was designated a New Town with the population expanding by 50,000. This was rectified by the Cross City line and subsequent electrification. Bromsgrove suffered a similar fate in the 1960s and although it gained stops in the hourly semi-fasts a few years ago it is only now getting a frequent local service.

Must have gone to the Cartmel School of Ebay Pricing.

Green DMU trimmings seem to be a bigger minefield than unit formations. No lining, Thick top and bottom, Thin top/thick bottom, different shapes of curves round the ends to match different heights. Whiskers meet in the middle or spaced to the width of the buffer beam pipes, finishing short of the corners or continuing round them......... Reminds me of my time on the DC Lines when there were about 12 Class 313 units in NSE livery and Harlequin branding. I logged at least 20 variations in how it was applied.

It took four minutes on a bicycle to get from the police station to my house when we had local policing. If you can get them to turn out these days it takes 40 minutes by car from where most are now based.

What is this thing that builds our dreams,Yet slips away from us? Who wants to live forever?

The LMS used conventional non-corridor coaches, both all third and composites, fitted with additional pipes at each end for the regulator and RCH jumpers for the engine bell. Hornby Period 3 coaches would be suitable almost as they are for renumbering those built after the change from torpedo vents to shell vents, so probably the lots built by the LMS in 1938 and BR in 1949/50. the lots built c1932/34 would need the roof vents changed.

I was expecting them to do the 74xx and late 64xx as a follow up to the early 64xx. It isn't exactly that bad a job to do for the late 64xx, the only really obvious difference is the cab roof and bunker top corner. The 74xx is a bit more complex and would need more part retooling but the design required to get there isn't great. It took me a couple of evenings to do the main changes to the cab roof/bunker area, ATC box change, lever reverse, tank side handrail and remove auto jumper box. I left the brake hangers but did add some missing conduit, lamp irons and running plate handrails,

Not Push-pull on each side, but there's a picture on the Rail-Online site of 41223 leaving New Street propelling the Push-pull vehicles and with a Gresley steel body BG in tow.

Still on course to finish my conversion before Bachmann produce theirs then. Making handrails is the next job. That's another few quid they won't be getting.

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I got all of my switches from Brimal. Quick delivery and good price.

M24460M was converted from 20565 c 1934/5. It had a period 2 roof with torpedo vents and duckets. Some early period 3 coaches also had torpedo vents. Hornby ones are mostly numbered as late versions IIRC.

Some of those were P2 new build and some conversions.

I have used ribbon cable in various strand thicknesses and number of cores sourced by the metre frkm ebay. When it comes to just wanting a couple of power circuits connected across a baseboard join I use computer internal male to female power supply cables cut in half and chocolate block connectors put on the cut ends.

I don't think the Mk1 CCT was built until about 1959/60.

I used to visit York Museum about twice a year but the atmosphere the last time I went was so depressing I gave up. I recently went on the website to see what was on as I had a week free from Grandad duty and found the main attraction was Tim Peake's spaceship. Not quite sure what that has to do with a railway museum, but I suppose someone in the far-off reaches of the SMG management thought it would be a good companion for the Rocket they already have there.

On my line most of the cattle come off the boat at Birkenhead so would need an Irish accent.

There was a lunch time train to Worcester Shrub Hill.

I don't know lf this is an actual rebranding or if it is just a whim of the web designer. The Science Museum Group website still refers to it as the National Railway Museum.

Although main line rather than a branch the Beldray factory at Bilston which made dustbins, incinerators, ironing boards etc sent out a lot of stuff direct to mail order catalogue customers. This was taken to Snow Hill by the local parcels train. Also on the South Staffs line the Dudley parcels could turn up with anything from 12T box vans and a goods brake to a mk1 BG.

That's been done already this week in the 'DPD didn't deliver my Hattons parcel the day before i ordered it' thread

Looking at my workbench it will be either LMS 57' Vestibule stock, I'm currently about to start a rake of brass etch conversions that have been in the 'To Do' box for a while, or it will be the LMS Push-pull of which I am just about to complete Period 2 and Period 3 versions. Freight-wise I think the only thing in the stash which the RTR boys haven't done at the moment is the Catfish and a decent Dancehall Brake. Now if they produced some good GWR non-corridor stock and a decent Collett Auto Coach in early BR livery it may work out a bit expensive for me.

I seem to remember my son telling me about that happening on at least one occasion when he was at Salford University in the mid-1990s.

I've currently got two in progress. The first has a body which is a Period 2 conversion done from a cut'n'shut Airfix body with the end windows cut in situ.Bit of a bu$$er to do but it started as a Brake Third conversion from all that was available when I did it. The second is a Period 3 which is due to have the Hornby end replaced by a Comet one when I get round to finishing it.