Robert Shrives

I am also at this stage with mine but stalled on side grills - today contacted John Fowler of A1 models who back in the distant past did a set of Mk3 gen grills...  hoping he can find some or art work - I asked for two sets if he can find them.

Looking at my effort I think I have the angled slow to long and need revisit so the 5.5mm is also useful to my version.

Robert  

Mike,  T

Thanks for message items now shown sold and PM sent 

Only the three Bachmann bogies remain  

Thanks Robert 

That will please the accountants among you and a lucky modeller even more.  I guess three years before batch 2 would be about right to grow a demand of hopefulls !! 

Its all cash flow so down the bar to celebrate with another kind of flow !

Robert 

Mike 

Will say all still available per amended list above .  Good to know your ok as well.

Whizz  

still for sale  open to offers 

Robert 

echo above a lovely job  and looking forward to seeing all done and weathered to the nines!

thanks

Robert  

Castings arrived to day and lovely they are too, crisp and flash free certainly will lift the two fox bodies tohand .

Thanks

I plan to use my two MIR Tara mines wagons as a the basis of the shale conversions to put into the IRM based train. so good to see both in the same rake.

Also lovely pics  the shabby workaday A looks lovely and clearly a good basis for a weathered version -  see mercig`s fine works

Robert   

Hi Thanks for that - I was wondering as it had the spark guard plates and the central yellow line marker  which seemed a "marker" for 47 footers over 42 footers - have to me more careful when looking at photos - and as they say every day a school day thanks .

Robert 

merry experts - 

Were there two or more batches of the 47 footers ? As the bogie to vehicle ends  distance differ in the photos above . 

thanks

Robert 

Nile  has updated RM page with shots of the 47 footer - looking good , got some bogies today ready for it 

Robert

Hi All,

Has anybody got any good side on pics of the early NIR maroon/ blue  Mk2 stock on the Enterprise or similar.  I am looking at getting Steve at Railtec to do some number and crest sets but it would be good to get colour and font . All part of finishing Mk2s to hand. - Just need a red Hunslet...

Cheers 

Robert 

Dunluce Hi , PM sent Thanks. 

I did wonder that but I thought I would put the loads on my MIR/ 3D print/ Triang bash versions and use the super-dooper ones as the empties !  But if you do not have ,like me a pile of waggons in the works then that would be ideal for many .  perhpaps the spoil wagons will be a bit cheaper given the little loads and these sans boxes will give a value for money empty option.  

Will the wagons come with user changeable buffers or have I missed that in all the posts?

Robert  

Hi All following for sale 

SSM kits 

J15 - no wheels, motor ,gearbox, buffers or transfers  £50 swapped. 

E class tank - no wheels, motor ,gearbox or transfers £50 -sold

GSWR 30 foot 6W coach kits -etches and castings only

One all third, one comp  £30 the pairz- sold

GNR 20t brake  etches and castings only £15 - sold 

Bachmann, the three coaches from the train set have been run .

Nos  BTK 1096, compo 2097, all 3rd 1333- bubble wrapped in a stout box not original packaging

£50 for the three.

Ply wood BR van repainted in CIE grey  £8  - loose couplings -sold

Dapol

Two plywood vans in CIE Grey  - no couplings - sold

£8 each . 

All from  a collection of a friend at Warley model club who has decided life not quite long enough to start project. 

Thanks

Robert 

just sent PM 

Robert 

Hi 

yes please to both sets   and many thanks 

Robert   

Hi Eion,

Keiran kindly noted you were the master craftsman with A class bogie side frames - are these currently available - in my quest to finish two I have before IRM beat me too it ! 

regards

Robert  

Well to help along I have got another silver fox A class and C class in a box from a friend last week.... Surely this was sign from "on high" to tempt ... A foretelling perhaps but surely not a warning of a bleak future...

Great images Noel ...

I think Brian was just a naughty boy  or perhaps a class 31 in new money.

Robert   

That looks very good and just proves the point , I have 6 42 foot flats in the works and along come IRM .... Must start several A and C class locos !!  he dreams ... 

Robert 

In the league of fake news - speeded up footage  but at any speed pretty nasty and if one lane clearable why not  two or controlled convoy workings.

Still for those that survive it will be just  a memeory  in a few weeks after all the flooding  and moaning !

Happy modelling to everybody.

Robert  

Hi  If we can order sellouts on the project 42 range then hopefully the cashflow will allow for the wishlist to jump up to reality . 

I look forward  reading of sellouts and the IRM crew reinvesting . 

Robert     

Well gents , What a good series of projects the 42 foot base works in many ways. The ploughs complement  the ballasts.

Thanks for all of these and you will benefit from purchases - I commend rake discounts but I do not have  space with a 6 wagon max limit, such is life.  

Re the weeds train - good works as the tanks can be mounted back on short chassis to back date quite a bit  needing just to bash the spray and Bredin - IIRC from this far away did it not run one season with the EGV conversion and 4 wheel vehicles.

The EGV conversion vehicle a good idea as it will allow backdating to normal status and fit in well with the Cravens and the preserved stocks  So gets my vote to enable the weeds train and facilitate other conversions or hopefully a backdated model.... 

Will continue to offer up gifts for A and C - once your commercial  breath caught with the above projects, Locos are big investment leaps so understand waiting - "all good things ..etc ." 

Robert          

I recall the steam heat tubes on these tanks to keep it warm and reasonable runny to flow. Also recall some fun with flames to do the same thing at a depot in Birmingham on a snowy day - Nannies of the state today would be wet through!!

Good idea for small wagon terminal and ideal for the rural scene.  As ever great pics and thanks for inspirations

Robert

Hi on the other Island much the same  Back in 1948 Railways had over a million employees today at best 120000. There are just not enough boots on the ground to have manual snow clearing - mechanised is fraught with  danger to what you are trying to protect.  

The Army/ governmental agencies offers not enough due to shrinking  sizes. So it is seen  as better to stop to reduce risks to a minimum and take the commerical hit as its a once in a 10 year event.  European cities often "labelled" as doing it well but yes its main routes and folk are prepared for annual events also most have some form of national  service that requires civils to assist- clearly in our nanny states this would be seen as infringing "human rights"- but to generalise these will be the first to moan that they could not get the KFC handouts!!   You are right there needs to be quite a bit of deep thinking by state powers and a social shift away from "number one" selfish thinking.

About to walk to Central Birmingham for a 12 hour control shift - boots and waterproofs but have just seen a bus ploughing the roads  even if council have not even attempted anything - snow not deep enough to plough it has to be said and given state of dirt tracks underneath a plough would do just that and then as the first city of the north in the pothole stakes we would have an unassailable lead, as the roads would just get smashed up.

Have to say yesterday some personal efforts by my train crews to dig out trains and cut into drifts were quite brilliant even though Network rail attempts quite feeble with a   lack of preparedness that was amazing on the Western Zone.

enjoy the snow!

Robert