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Post by arun on Oct 18, 2014 16:57:59 GMT
top looks like Lots Road
Arun
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Post by arun on Oct 17, 2014 22:29:31 GMT
Before we get too carried away by diversions into DM to T conversions, I feel it necess. to point out that it isn't the trailer [inter-car connecting] door that is shown as having a curved top. The photo shows a guards panel - i.e., that particular photographed door is a trailing end door on a DM. 1938 trailers may or may not have had this type of door but clearly some DMs did.
Arun
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Post by arun on Oct 17, 2014 13:51:26 GMT
Apropos of nothing whatsoever, this is a pic. of the new 1938 cab from Radley Models currently under development - Obviously it needs the roof vent adding but it does also show that the two lateral cab front windows are angled backwards. Oddly enough, the roof line at the front is a continuous curve so that if you look at where the top of the centre door approaches the roof there is a chord-shaped overhang. I think it's that which gives the 1938TS its very distinctive appearance. This cab, together with the forward body section, will be on display at the Langley show Sunday 26 Oct. Arun
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Post by arun on Oct 13, 2014 16:41:47 GMT
Inset 3 looks like one of the old LT country area octagonal concrete bus stops. The only one I can think of that is still around is the one outside the London Bus Museum at Brooklands.
Arun
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Post by arun on Oct 6, 2014 10:50:55 GMT
There was a copy of Underground News a year or two ago which had a several page colour spread of the Heathrow tracks. I can't track down the copy just yet but the pics might have been taken by Kim Rennie?
Arun
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Post by arun on Oct 6, 2014 10:46:19 GMT
The inset looks awfully like Haweswater - or in pre-1936 times, Mardale village
Arun
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Post by arun on Apr 29, 2014 16:55:17 GMT
The Buckinghamshire Railway Centre is having an event this Bank Holiday weekend coming which includes an LT/MET modelling element. I'll be there on Sunday on the Radley Models stand with some new 7mm rolling stock - to include the Class 487 W&C DMBSO [now packaged ready for sale!] and FB578, the converted 10T continuous welded rail train brake van. This latter model will be on its very first public outing.
Arun
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Post by arun on Apr 27, 2014 16:40:51 GMT
Phil Radley and I have hunted around for years for an 0gauge version of a SPUD/Black beetle type generic motorised bogie where you just have to change the wheel dimensions and/or move the wheelsets further apart to adjust the wheel base. However, no joy so we use a finely detailed outer cosmetic bogie frame and, clipped within that, a generic motorised chassis of the appropriate WB. This is OK for battery locos, 1905 District Rly locos, standard stock, L8/9, L11, class 487 W&C line stock where the vertical motor [usually a 16xx] is inside a contactor compartment and thus invisible. For 1935/8/49 stock with its much smaller wheel diameter what is required is a small motor [12xx or 14xx] mounted parallel to the axles and driving an axle via a spur gear system. Bespoke versions of these can be readily [and are] manufactured as one-offs by ABC gears but are made to order only. The critical measurements are the distance from the axle to the centre negative return rail as that dictates the max. gearwheel diameter and whether the motor is contained wholly within the bogie frame envelope as that dictates how the bogie is pivoted and whether the motor is likely to protrude into the passenger compartment.
All of the above directly influences which stocks I design in 0gauge. Fortunately my long term love affair with Standard stock is entirely compatible with that.
It is entirely possible that sooner or later I will think about designing such a motor bogie since it will work just as well under any DMU/Diesel and/or electric loco as LT stock.
Arun
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Post by arun on Apr 11, 2014 16:15:32 GMT
Whoops I forgot the text! This is the 3D Autodesk Inventor screenshot of the 1931 trailer - well, half of it anyway. Apart from the seats which shouldn't take very long, and the floor needing to be raised to clear the wheels, it is more or less ready to go off down the phone line to the 3D printers.
Arun
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Post by arun on Apr 11, 2014 16:12:55 GMT
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Post by arun on Apr 10, 2014 21:52:40 GMT
Following occasional requests for a 7mm trailer to go with the 1925CL DM, I've just completed the trailing ends of the 1931 Standard Stock trailer. The body sides should take very little time to do and of course the bogies are common or garden, V2 types as on the DM. Hopefully that will be available via Phil Radley sometime around the Telford show in early Sep. I would have done the 1923CL trailer but I think the surviving one at Acton has had all of its rather distinctive bodyside rivet heads sanded off so some more photographic evidence is needed before I do that one.
Arun
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Post by arun on Mar 25, 2014 23:07:13 GMT
I think the Aldenham bus overhaul documentary you mention might well be from the BTF film set "London on the Move" which is a two DVD set with disc 2 having the 17 minute film "Overhaul" [1957]. The DVD set is Vol.10 in the BTF collection and is available from Amazon or the London Bus Museum at Brooklands - LBM has a shop website. Loads of other tube stuff on the two discs as well.
The other well-known film with Aldenham [and Chiswick] in it is of course "Summer Holiday" starring that well known son of a railwayman, Cliff Richards!
Hope that helps.
Arun
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Post by arun on Mar 22, 2014 12:56:52 GMT
This is the completed test build although I haven't put the unit letter or car number on it yet. Some photographs also show a ?orange cantrail line on these cars which seems a little strange but was presumably an OHL warning should they have ended up at Hither Green sidings unexpectedly back when the class 70/71s were lurking around. The 0gauge resin kit should hopefully be available from Radley Models sometime in the next two weeks.
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Post by arun on Feb 12, 2014 23:43:03 GMT
the inset looks like King Harold's grave at Waltham Abbey
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Post by arun on Feb 7, 2014 12:08:07 GMT
Thank you for that Revupminster - Does that mean, in your opinion, that sufficient of the Heathfield to Exeter trackbed exists for it to be rebuilt as a railway?
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Post by arun on Feb 7, 2014 0:36:32 GMT
Quote - "There is a good road A38/A380 for replacement buses." The reason that road exists as a new dual carriageway is because it was rebuilt on the trackbed of the old inland diversion route between Exeter and Newton Abbot which used to run [until late '60s] through Longdown, Christow and Heathfield where it joined the line from Moretonhampstead to Newton Abbot! Arun
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Post by arun on Jan 11, 2014 17:35:27 GMT
Thank you all for those erudite responses. Clearly there is much more to this transport planning business than first appears. Is there a perceived difference [from a planning point of view then] between people milling around an interchange underground and people leaving a station to go up to street level? Clearly escalator capacity is less important if you're not leaving the station but platform capacity becomes more important and that relates to tph presumably?
Arun
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Post by arun on Jan 8, 2014 16:58:10 GMT
Concept of Crossrail? Some few years ago I attended a LURS evening meeting when Ken livingstone's then American[?] Tfl director was giving a presentation on Crossrail. He made the point that the idea of CR was not just to get people from one side of London to the other. I questioned him on this having said that surely what was needed to avoid clogging up London mainline termini and LT/NR interchanges was to have an orbital rail version of the M25 so that anyone wanting to go from say, Oxford to Dover [or East Anglia etc] would not have to disembark and trudge across London and add to the transitee mass in central London but could go via a fast orbital route. He laughed and stated that the point of Crossrail was to get people into central london where they would spend money on food, magazines, taxis etc., whilst waiting for the train to take them on the next part of the journey. It was not being built to make the journey easier/quicker for people who needed to transit London! The question then arises, "Do we need to have so many CR stations in Central London when there would be less congestion if the stations were only built at NR interchanges?"
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Post by arun on Jan 5, 2014 18:54:33 GMT
I gather that the reason why the last episode of "Routemaster" hasn't been shown is that it includes a bit where a lady cyclist has an unequal argument with a bus and this is all caught by the TV crew and since there is a legal element, that [apparently very interesting] part of the film has temp.become sub-judice.
Arun
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Post by arun on Dec 15, 2013 23:48:36 GMT
Good to meet you all and to put names to faces. Especial thanks to Dstock7082 for answering a couple of trainstop/engineering possession queries that seem to have been bugging me for years. No doubt will see you at the LT in Mini annual event at Acton. Will be on the Radley Models stand as usual.
Arun
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Post by arun on Dec 6, 2013 0:01:47 GMT
HI - Yes, it is open to anyone who can pay the small admission fee! Location is: The Rivermead Leisure Complex, Richfield Avenue, Reading, RG1-8EQ and doors open at 1000. Show is Saturday 7th Dec only.
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Post by arun on Dec 5, 2013 18:02:53 GMT
I think there might be a problem with non Gauge 0 Guild members accessing the gallery so here is the class487DM. Like WPW100 this will also be vis. at the 0gauge show at Reading this weekend.
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Post by arun on Dec 5, 2013 17:57:32 GMT
The test build of 0gauge WPW1000 is finished though, as we speak, the model is rather cleaner than the prototype today. Picture attached of a newly painted well wagon sandwiched between the LTM's L35 and B584. The model gets its first outing this Saturday at the 0gauge show at Reading.
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Post by arun on Nov 16, 2013 12:42:42 GMT
cross rail tunnel segment factory outside Paddington for the bigger of the two pictures.
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Post by arun on Oct 22, 2013 15:35:07 GMT
When the Museum of British Transport at Clapham closed on the opening of the NRM at York. The Science Museum and the NRM were all part of the same organisation - The National Museum of Science and Industry. The BR exhibits at Clapham and the Science Museum went to York/Swindon and the LT bits went into store at Acton and on public display at Syon Park prior to the eventual opening of the LTM at Covent Garden. If I had to choose a date I would say, 1971.
Hope that helps.
Arun
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Post by arun on Oct 11, 2013 16:45:19 GMT
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Post by arun on Oct 10, 2013 12:50:52 GMT
Photos of some of the model parts cabs and the various compressors, grids, tanks etc., underneath can be found in the Members Gallery [open to non-members to peruse] at www.gauge0guild.com. Arun
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Post by arun on Oct 9, 2013 15:56:01 GMT
Very interesting Bruce - Chris Thorpe gave a very interesting talk at the Pendon Museum in Oxfordshire on this a few nights ago and will be running a series of 3D measuring, drawing and printing classes there in November - Details on the Pendon website.
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Post by arun on Oct 9, 2013 15:55:51 GMT
Very interesting Bruce - Chris Thorpe gave a very interesting talk at the Pendon Museum in Oxfordshire on this a few nights ago and will be running a series of 3D measuring, drawing and printing classes there in November - Details on the Pendon website.
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Post by arun on Sept 26, 2013 23:00:57 GMT
Another modelling "heads up" - 0gauge masters for a 1940 type double-ended DM [as per the LT Museum Depot's S61] have been completed. These will be on display at the 0gauge show at Reading in December and then sent off for resin duplication into a limited edition [ie., small numbers] kit - again sold by those nice people at Radley Models www.radleymodels.co.uk sometime around the LT in Miniature Depot Open Day in March/April. Hopefully it might be possible to telescope this time frame slightly idc. The 00gauge version of this kit was completed some months ago and enquiries should be directed to www.electrifyingtrains.co.uk . There is also a trailer car available in 00gauge from them should anyone want to have the full five car rush hour "consist".
Arun
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