Hi all My first post to introduce myself as a new member. I have been narrow gauge modelling for 3 years and have an exhibition layout in a smaller scale, but...
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gchalmers1@...
Feb 24, 2008 2:46 pm
Gentlemen In recent months there have been a number of enquires regarding publicity material for use at shows. We are currently revamping the various that go...
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Peter Cairncross
pjc223
Feb 24, 2008 11:27 pm
Ian, Thanks for the link, just what I was looking for. regards Pete...
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Howard Clarke
clarke@...
Feb 25, 2008 11:25 am
Yes, Graham, please keep me on the list. My next exhibition will be the Macclesfield show on 8/9 March Exhibiting with part-built new Club 0n30 layout. See you...
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Taylor, David
daveandbec2001
Feb 25, 2008 4:47 pm
Hi Peter, Are you the same Peter Hingley who operated Charmouth many years ago, at the Chatham show possibly? And produced those excellent laminated ...
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Brian Rumary
purnellsuk
Feb 25, 2008 5:39 pm
... Actually all the *modern* "druidic rituals" were invented by a 19th nutter and fantasist. Nobody really knows much about the *real* druidic religion; the...
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stephen griffiths
oxyphenbutazone
Feb 25, 2008 6:12 pm
When John Ellerton took over the Fairbourne Railway, one of the halts was given the contrived name of: ...
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Frank Sharp
robertfairlie
Feb 25, 2008 9:59 pm
Gee, that would have gone half way across Barmouth bridge. Do we have a translation? Just out of interest, I'd always believed that Llanfair..was the brain...
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stephen griffiths
oxyphenbutazone
Feb 25, 2008 10:12 pm
The Mawddach Station with its dragon's teeth on the northerly Penrhyn drive on the golden beach of Cardigan Bay - at least that's what the 'Visit Mid Wales'...
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Frank Sharp
robertfairlie
Feb 26, 2008 1:20 am
Thankfully, I don't need to put that into my SatNav to find it. Frank _____ From: 7mmnga@yahoogroups.com [mailto:7mmnga@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of stephen...
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Peter Hingley
pdh@...
Feb 26, 2008 10:24 am
Rather like the so called ancient rituals, tartans etc of the Scots were largely invented in the nineteenth Century to please Queen Victoria ! As I...
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Peter Hingley
pdh@...
Feb 26, 2008 10:35 am
Dear David, Many thanks for your most welcome message and yes, indeed , it is I ! How very nice to hear from you again. I am delighted and astonished...
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ianathompson
Feb 26, 2008 4:17 pm
Some of you may have noticed a slight discrepancy between the text of AFK article ix and the photos and diagrams ilustrated in NL 168. Unfortunately the photos...
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Brian Rumary
purnellsuk
Feb 27, 2008 12:54 am
... Actually a bit pre-Victoria (1820s), as a result of the "Highland Revival" created by the Waverley novels of Sir Walter Scot. Of course Scot's novels...
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Peter Hingley
pdh@...
Feb 27, 2008 8:29 am
Yes, and what glorious resounding names they are ! If I ever build a Great Western straight framed 'Saint' ('narrow gauge' to us Broad Gauge types .......
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Andrew Young
andrew428423
Feb 27, 2008 11:25 am
... The North British Railway, they later became LNER D29 class, see- http://www.lner.info/locos/D/d29.shtml Quite like 'Madge Wildfire' for a name, think it...
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stephen griffiths
oxyphenbutazone
Feb 27, 2008 5:20 pm
The D11/2s ('Scottish Directors') had great names too: e.g. 'LUCKIE MUCKLEBACKIT' , 'LAIRD OF BALMAWHAPPLE' or 'BAILIE MACWHEEBLE' Steve G ... [Non-text...
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Brian Millar
comeng1955
Feb 28, 2008 1:26 pm
Hi All, Thanks for having me aboard, I have been modelling on and off in 1/38th scale now for over 20 yrs. Mostly building models of cane locos [2ft. gauge] I...
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geoffloynes
Feb 28, 2008 2:54 pm
There was a GWR loco (an Atlantic?) that carried the intriging name of 'Lalla Rookh'.................. Geoff...
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narolines
Feb 28, 2008 7:45 pm
... Lalla Rookh is the heroine of an 1817 poem by Sir Thomas Moore, the story of a Mogul princess and her love for a poor poet. And they say there's no...
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Brian Rumary
purnellsuk
Feb 29, 2008 1:09 pm
... I think that these were also from Scott's novels. Brian Rumary, England www.rumary.co.uk...
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Frank Sharp
robertfairlie
Feb 29, 2008 2:01 pm
Just to get back to narrow gauge, there were various sources, family names, usually daughters were popular, though at Dinorwic many gave way to racehorses,...
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adriangrayfr
Feb 29, 2008 5:23 pm
... family names, ... much good. I ... was sold ... There were others, Indian Runner springs to mind, for which plates were cast but the nags proved to be such...
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stephen griffiths
oxyphenbutazone
Feb 29, 2008 7:20 pm
Sir, you do them a disservice!! In http://www.racingbetter.co.uk/races/grand_national/winners.html you will find the following entries 1913 Covertcoat Percy...
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Marc Witten
marc133858
Feb 29, 2008 8:45 pm
Hi everyone posted some pics in aNew Album Marc's Trackwork,showing two points first are a pair of 13.3 Feldbahn german railway points Oe and 1:45 scale,second...
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dan razauskas
d_razauskas
Feb 29, 2008 9:41 pm
In the late (19)60's or early 70's, some model company made four different plastic kits for steam engines; a vertical cylinder walking beam engine, a...
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Trevor Shaw
trevor_shaw6985
Feb 29, 2008 11:22 pm
Hi Dan, I can just remember building a plastic kit of a steam engine around that time. I think it was an Airfix kit and was moulded in dark green polystyrene....
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Brian Millar
comeng1955
Feb 29, 2008 11:29 pm
If you are interested in powering scenery items or sawmill equipment then maybe you might like some of the items on this page. ...
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adriangrayfr
Feb 29, 2008 11:43 pm
... http://www.racingbetter.co.uk/races/grand_national/winners.html you ... Smith 100/9 ... 4/1Jt F ... the ... Steve, You've found the four winners - I think...
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stephen griffiths
oxyphenbutazone
Mar 1, 2008 7:08 am
Agreed they are the only 'classic' winners, but is it recorded anywhere how many times one of their horses won the '2.30 at Kempton', or other run of the mill...
