Horsetan

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?

I imagine there wouldn't be much change out of £150,000 for a model like that.

I've never seen fully working Caprotti valve gear in miniature before.... ....and virtually everything just...works!

CSET 0-4-0Ts

Only if there's a plurality involved.

It probably self-identifies as maroon.

Meanwhile, Lough Erne has spent a longer period "out of use" than "working".... - shame she couldn't go on loan to Downpatrick, as she'd have a better chance of doing some work there if restored to steam. Incidentally, the RPSI page for "Erne" says she was the only one of the two 0-6-4Ts to carry red nameplates and then only after 1959. The photo of "Melvin" above suggests otherwise....

Cabra sez No.

That's a write-off, then. Would be good source of spares, though.....