Galteemore

They were used all over the system so yes

Could go for a small 0-6-0. The PG class has been successfully made out of a Bachmann SECR C class goods loco on here, by Nelson some years ago.

Fabulous - sorry I’ll miss it!

That’s just beautiful

Very evocative pictures Ernie. Nothing romantic about that !

Now that WAS a railway. So glad I can remember it - so sorry I didn’t enjoy it even more than I did. This will be a great project to see developing.

Should be a great ‘watching the trains go by’ layout, especially if set in 1970s-80s period when so much was loco-hauled. Mosney was also the site of a potential ‘might have been’, if that’s not a tautology. Billy Butlin went through a phase of putting old steam locos in his camps as an attraction and a number of UK locos were so saved, subsequently entering mainstream preservation. Butlin was apparently interested in acquiring a VS for Mosney. Just think what might have been….

Very elegant solution Alan. Agreed - the fore and aft bolts can cause all manner of issues

BUT what does it mean ?

That Sligo one is terrific. Just wish they could have found a clean tender !

That’s looking great Alan, and a nice solution.

Agreed and the PPs would have looked endearingly like Edward the Blue Engine!

S class got it in the 1938-ish rebuilds. The big mystery is why the U class got it (eventually) but the Qs never did!

Wasn’t it 1936 that the blue appeared ? The compounds were black when delivered in 1932.

One of my recent exhibition favourites was an enormous 009 layout which had a number of stations and one could track a train’s progress around it. Fabulous ly entertaining. I suppose the key thing is that elusive ‘atmosphere’. If a layout has that, sometimes even a sparse train service js enough. It’s all about theatre and staging at the end of the day really. Sometimes it needs a full dress cast and stage scenes to get it right - sometimes a bare stage with two actors in black polonecks can achieve the same effect !