Horsetan

That looks excellent Are we able to determine exactly what type of large tender is paired with 186? It's very modern for an engine which is fundamentally very old. I thought it was something which might, at one stage, have been paired with a 400/500 class 4-6-0.

It was probably trying to be a GWR Bulldog.

Sure ye'd be like Bertie Ahern or one of those fellas. He didn't have a bank account either, 'cos he could cash a £38,000 cheque at his local bar....

That book is the only place where you'll see a table of all the differences in measurements, grouped together in an easy-to-read format, and much of that is derived from an earlier work by Peter Rowledge (I think)

I'll review the bank statement when the debit is made....

1383 ordered.

Pencil me in for the RPSI Park Royals. Also, will the Commonwealth bogies be available as spares? I have an IFM resin Park Royal here which could do with correct Commonwealths.....

Way above my income bracket

Doesn't everyone start off with big plans?

Six months later, the axles have just arrived...

Some of the drawings used to be available online but, since MMSI became part of the Science Museum group websites, all of the drawings have gone. The only way to get at them is to arrange a personal visit.

Remarkable how crude scratchbuilding can be when you get it under the lights.....

He worked with the late Guy Williams as well

Whatever became of those "pointer light" subsidiary signals? York Road seems to have been the only place they were ever installed....

That's the thing: you think you know people....

I'm just after finding a possible answer to this. Very similar piston valve guides used to be available from Stelfox (now long gone) and were cast in brass for the ex-LNER K3 pattern. These were supplied in a pack of 4. On the outside face, they appear correct, whilst the inside is not. The idea is to graft the outside faces from one pair of castings to form the inside faces of the other pair....

What Waterford could probably benefit from is some high-capacity drainage.....

There's always India.....

They've designed the website to not give you what you want.

Manchester (MMSI as was) is a bit erratic when it comes to retrieving drawings. Their website has gone through so many changes over the last 7 years that it's virtually impossible to find what you want because the website is geared towards the general public, i.e. content-heavy, yet knowledge-lite. When I was trying to help Graham Nicholas with his kit design for the ex-Great Central "B7" 4-6-0, Manchester were able to find the full-fat GA on request. I think they charged me about £80 for a digital copy. I knew also that they had a similar drawing for the "B3" 4-6-0 because it had been published in a book about Great Central locomotives but, when I requested a copy, they were unable to find the drawing. Likewise, they also have a drawing for the GNR(I) S2 4-4-0, but they were unable to find that one as well - strange, given that it was previously available via their archive website.

That's nothing. In Australia, they've been getting up to 40 degrees Celsius....!

That type of thing also reflects the Irish outlook on life - not hidebound by rules or regs or, at best, paying only lip service to them. You couldn't imagine the Swiss doing that.

That reminds me of a massive meringue....

The greater good.

Good, isn't it?