Bachy Fairburns are go!

Ivatt 2MT tanks were quite common on the Southern region being used as a replacement for aging M7 and O2 tank engines. I think I am right in saying that Fairburn tanks were not uncommon on the Southern prior to the introduction of the standard 4MT tanks. In the final years of steam it became more common for ex LMS engines to be sent to Eastleigh for overhaul as depots closed further north.

Chris Packman

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You do need a 'critical mass' of engines and coaches to model a specific region/period. So once they start on a new one then they need to bang em out as quickly as possible as well as show a commitment to continue. Presumably thats why Hornby try to have a full range from shunter to express passenger for each region.

Was thinking the other day about how early an LMS layout could be with only RTR. Recon around the start of 1930's would be ok.

Cheers, Simon

The WC&PLR handed over two A1X's which became GWR nos 5 & 6 and named Portishead and Clevedon respectively. During WWII both sat in SPM roundhouse and rarely moved.

John, Where did 2-6-4T's run on the GW?

GW panniers worked as far north as BR went!! Perth, Wick Helmsdale etc

I do have photos of same.

Both makers seem to be fixated with pacifics. These were confined to a very small part of the railway system and in any case are unrealistic on a normal layout -- I could not get away with it on mine even though it is larger than some. I have no doubt that John is right in his analysis but minority interests have their rights even if it is 49 varieties of a Bulleid light pacific. (I actually often went up to Bath to see them it being the friendliest MPD in the world!)

"Peter Abraham" wrote

They certainly worked the Dornoch branch - not many M7s up that far though! ;-)

John.

"Peter Abraham" wrote

I've got a couple of photographs of them somewhere, one at Reading I think the other near Acton. I suspect they'd worked in on inter-regional freights.

John.

Nelsons,

region

Someone else who can't understand plain English, what don't you understand about "Other than in special cases / joint systems..."? :~(

Bulleids light Pacifics are the exception to that. It was quite common to see one on a one coach train in the far west on a daily basis. The ACE (a named express from Waterloo) was typically a 3 coach train west of Okehampton in the winter. Both of these scenarios are easily replicated on even a small layout.

Indeed, you cannot accurately recreate the southern west of Salisbury without at least a handfull of the pacifics!

No, but Hornby could easily use the chassis to create some other Drummond 0-4-4 tanks built for the Caley.....

But you can't staff your layout based on interregionals if you are modelleing Acton or Reading you need large numbers of ex-GW engines - but you can add a few ex-LMS or BR standard engines to complete the picture. You could even have a Bulleid Pacific on an interegional working through to Oxford.

"John Ruddy" wrote

I think you'll find that the chassis would not be an exact fit for the Caley

0-4-4Ts, and that they would create a new beast if they decided to go along that route. It certainly wouldn't fit a NER G5 0-4-4T.

John.

John.

"John Ruddy" wrote

I'm not suggesting you should, just that some prototype were found on a daily basis over a wider geographical area than others.

John.

Its my layout and I'll do what I want .... Anyway Royal Scot seen shunting South Derbyshire colliery sidings in 1960's. Then theres the time of bomb damage on WCML .... so expresses round Ashby/Nuneaton railway. Sir Nigel Gresley visits Coalville open day (whoops LNER and streamlined)

Simon

Yes indeed, but some like to re create a chosen area in a realistic manor...

We only have a modest house. Within reason so do I, but then allow bit of imagination and fun with some specials.

Simon

Fair comment!

No need to be so rude, crude and unactractive thank you.