Model Railway - What's your latest acquisition?

The son of Triangman

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Posted at 07:59:15 Tue 19 Mar 2013

What's your latest aquisition?

Here's my latest purchase, a Tri-ang-Hornby R.754 M7 in BR Black livery.

The box was tatty, crew were missing and the BR totem transfers on the tank sides were part missing as per normal.

The model is slowly being restored, a fresh box mint was found on ebay with incorrect labels (the one on the right) and I have crew and original totem transfers a plenty in stock, I will post stages of the restoration at intervals for all my friends on here to see as they take place.

Here's the loco pre-restoration but with nice new original 40+ BR Totem transfers put on the side tanks, a packet of the original transfers is posed by the loco for reference.

Hope all at Hornby like what I am doing to their old locos.

Enjoy!

http://s157.photobucket.com/user/thetriangman/media/DSCF0063_zps3ff63c6a.jpg.html

http://s157.photobucket.com/user/thetriangman/media/DSCF0064_zps634965e3.jpg.html

http://s157.photobucket.com/user/thetriangman/media/DSCF0065_zpse2948e27.jpg.html

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81F

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Posted at 23:58:11 Thu 5 Dec 2013

Latest Acquisition is yet another Dean Standard Goods

I seemed to have ruined one by trying to put the DCC chip in the body - it seems to just stop due to very poor current collection especially on curves. Tried replacing the chassis twice but to

no avail so I am wondering if it is the lack of weight in the body that is causing the problem.

Before I ruin the latest one has anyone got any tips - I am thinking of getting a GM very small chip and trying to fit it in the tender after hacking a lump

off the tender weight.

Modelling a combined 00 and 009 gauge Layout (GWR/GVT) mostly

Posted 23:58:11 Thu 5 Dec 2013

Graskie

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Posted at 00:03:56 Fri 6 Dec 2013

I remember when my older brother and I, at the tender ages of no more than about 8 and 6 respectively, had to walk miles in the early fifties and also early winter mornings with an old pram to fetch coke dispensed from a wagon at the local Gas House. Loads

of other kids used to have to do it as well. It was often so bitterly cold at times that our hands stuck to the pram handle (sob). Can't beat the good old days, can you?

Posted 00:03:56 Fri 6 Dec 2013

LC&DR

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Posted at 05:17:58 Fri 6 Dec 2013

It was indeed possible to order coal from a colliery and have it delivered by the railway in one of their wagons. Coal was no different to any other commodity, and much goods passed in railway owned trucks. The cost of transport would of course include

the hire of the wagon, and woe betide you if you didn't unload it promptly as you got charged for detention over and above the allotted time to empty it.

5 tons is a modest amount as most coal wagons were rated at ten tons. If you look at pictures of

collieries you will often see railway owned wagons in the sidings. The Southern Railway and the North Eastern division of the LNER actively discouraged the use of private wagons for originating traffic. The Kent Collieries were provided with a dedicated fleet

of SR owned mineral wagons to despatch coal. The LNER made extensive use of bottom discharge wagons and coal cells or drops which required specialist railway owned vehicles in their territory. There is a good example of this arrangement preserved at Goathland

NYMR.

81F said:

Sorry - the relevance of my story to this tread is that I think the wagons may have been railway (GWR) owned rather than PO wagons

Posted 05:17:58 Fri 6 Dec 2013

the ferret

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Posted at 22:54:34 Fri 6 Dec 2013

Graskie said:

I remember when my older brother and I, at the tender ages of no more than about 8 and 6 respectively, had to walk miles in the early fifties and also early winter mornings with an old pram to fetch coke dispensed from a wagon

at the local Gas House. Loads of other kids used to have to do it as well. It was often so bitterly cold at times that our hands stuck to the pram handle (sob). Can't beat the good old days, can you?

Gad, Sir, I should say not. Neeeeaaghh!!

Posted 22:54:34 Fri 6 Dec 2013

the ferret

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Posted at 23:02:25 Fri 6 Dec 2013

I certainly remember the kids (and Mums) pushing their old prams down Gasworks Road, Reading. There was one with a squeaky wheel that always raised a laugh!

We had an open lounge fire that burnt coal but an anthracite stove in the kitchen.

In

the Arctic Winter of 1947 you could not get any sort of coal at all. All that was available was so-called "Nutty Slack" that was mainly dust with a few tiny pieces of coal in it.

Posted 23:02:25 Fri 6 Dec 2013

LC&DR

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Posted at 06:08:41 Sat 7 Dec 2013

We always had our coal and coke delivered by cart (horse at first and then motor lorry). The coal was brought from the merchant at the local station, and ordered from a shop on the high street. During the early 1950s to economise my Dad purchased old creosoted

wood blocks removed from London streets following the discontinuation of the trams, instead of coal. Despite the best efforts of my Dad, there were still tiny stones still embedded in the tar. The stones exploded in the fire but fortunately there was a fire

guard which caught all but the smallest of sparks. This initiative was not a long lived one.

Coal fires were not usually lit in our bedrooms, instead we had a paraffin heater which sat on the landing and made strange light patterns reflected on the

ceiling. Our house had some interesting smells, paraffin, St. Bruno pipe tobacco, and boiled cabbage being the most memorable!

Open fires were still the norm until the mid-1960s when the 'Clean Air Acts' forced Dad to install gas fires. When they moved

from Kent to Westmoreland in 1976 my parents reverted to using coal fires once again, and my brother who still lives in the house continues to use coal.

the ferret said:

I certainly remember the kids (and Mums) pushing their old prams

down Gasworks Road, Reading. There was one with a squeaky wheel that always raised a laugh!

We had an open lounge fire that burnt coal but an anthracite stove in the kitchen.

In the Arctic Winter of 1947 you could not get any sort of coal at

all. All that was available was so-called "Nutty Slack" that was mainly dust with a few tiny pieces of coal in it.

Posted 06:08:41 Sat 7 Dec 2013

walkingthedog

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Posted at 07:17:22 Sat 7 Dec 2013

We had a paraffin stove burning pink paraffin. SWMBO had to be rescued by the fire brigade when she was nine, the paraffin stove set fire to the curtains at about 2 in the morning and gutted the upstairs of the house. Nasty.

Posted 07:17:22 Sat 7 Dec 2013

LC&DR

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Posted at 10:24:38 Sat 7 Dec 2013

She was one of the lucky ones. Paraffin stoves were responsible for many hundreds of fatal fires in the 50s and 60s. Later ones had a device that smothered the burner if it was tilted, but the earlier ones would spill fuel if a child knocked it over and

it was almost a certainty that the fuel would then ignite. All kinds of portable heaters have been responsible for igniting soft furnishings (curtains, sofas, bed linen etc.), we had an incident with a sleeping bag our children were using in the attic where

our train layout was located. One of my sons fell asleep on the floor next to a radiant electric heater, and although the fabric did not touch the fire it started smouldering. Fortunately we smelled it and was able to effect a rescue!

walkingthedog

said:

We had a paraffin stove burning pink paraffin. SWMBO had to be rescued by the fire brigade when she was nine, the paraffin stove set fire to the curtains at about 2 in the morning and gutted the upstairs of the house. Nasty.

Posted 10:24:38 Sat 7 Dec 2013

Graskie

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Posted at 16:46:14 Sat 7 Dec 2013

It's extremely rare I come across smoking chimneys nowadays. I remember one on a house fairly recently, close by Llangollen Station and, my goodness, it was really noticeable. Moreover, not that pleasant a smell either, a bit acrid. I'm someone, though,

who, as a young child in a house backing onto a steam railway shunt, could hardly see my way to school some days, especially when combined with fog (smog). Funny how I always managed to get back home, though, possibly much to the disappointment of our parents!

We thought nothing of it then, simply because we never knew any different, but it would be awful to go back to those "good old days."

Posted 16:46:14 Sat 7 Dec 2013

LC&DR

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Posted at 19:34:54 Sat 7 Dec 2013

Growing up in the Thames Valley east of London in the 50s we got used to Autumn and Winter fogs and smogs. I remember the smell of smog, which thankfully is rarely experienced nowadays. In my brother's village where most homes still burn wood or coal the

aroma of these fires is still a feature, but it is not the same as I remember from smogs.

Graskie said:

It's extremely rare I come across smoking chimneys nowadays. I remember one on a house fairly recently, close by Llangollen Station

and, my goodness, it was really noticeable. Moreover, not that pleasant a smell either, a bit acrid. I'm someone, though, who, as a young child in a house backing onto a steam railway shunt, could hardly see my way to school some days, especially when combined

with fog (smog). Funny how I always managed to get back home, though, possibly much to the disappointment of our parents! We thought nothing of it then, simply because we never knew any different, but it would be awful to go back to those "good old days."

Posted 19:34:54 Sat 7 Dec 2013

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