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Pete Kelly Editor

’m sure that many of us stick doggedly to a favourite theme throughout our modelling careers, whether it be one of the ‘Big Four’ railway companies that preceded the 1948 nationalisation, early British Railways, the early diesel and ‘Rail Blue’ eras, BR sectorisation or today’s world of privatisation.

Maybe it’s true that, in general, modellers wish to re-create only the railways they actually know or remember, but this presumption can be quite fallacious, for many students of railway history might wish to travel back in time and model the colourful pre-grouping days.

What must it have been like to witness the comings and goings of trains at stations like Carlisle or Peterborough back then, when the locomotive and coach liveries of companies such as the London & North Western, Glasgow & South Western, Caledonian, Great Eastern, Midland, Great Northern and others came together in a colourful and undoubtedly smart clash?

Not only that, but consider the rural and industrial landscapes the trains ran through, with horses working agricultural implements in the fields and forests of factory chimneys blackening the sky in industrial towns. What an invitation for the imaginative modeller!

Since first becoming involved with this publication well over a year ago now, I’ve been heartened by the number of locomotive models, both current and forthcoming, from that long-lost era. They include Great Northern Railway and London, Brighton & South Coast Railway Atlantics, Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway 2-4-2 radial tanks, A1 and A1X ‘Terrier’ 0-6-0 tanks and 0-6-0 tender engines from the Caledonian, North British and South Eastern & Chatham Railways.

Whether these tempting little jewels ever run on a layout or are destined to spend their days on static display might depend on factors such as the period rolling

stock available (or not, as the case may be) although goods engines will perhaps get away with private-owner wagons and other modified or scratch-built vehicles.

Whatever the case, one of the best sources of historical information is the pre-grouping railway societies, and this month we are pleased to publish an absorbing feature about the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Society and the railway itself from membership officer and trustee Ken Carter.

If you mistakenly consider the Lancashire & Yorkshire to have been a fairly small and unimportant railway, then think again, for as Ken writes, it was one of the busiest and most complex of all the pre-grouping companies, ranking fifth in overall size and stretching across England from Liverpool and Fleetwood in the west to Goole in the east, and serving a greater population per route mile than several other major lines.

In my mind’s eye I always associate L&Y locomotives with the cotton and woollen mills of their major constituent counties, where somehow the profiles of its famous 0-6-0 and 0-8-0 goods locomotives and equally celebrated 2-4-2 radial tanks looked just right.

During a visit to the East Lancashire Railway a few years ago, however, I came across a superb large-scale model of one of the iconic Aspinall Atlantic express passenger locomotives which, with their 7ft 3in driving wheels, high-mounted large boilers and Belpaire fireboxes, became known as ‘Highflyers’. It presented such a picture of stark majesty that I couldn’t take my eyes off it!

In his Pocket Encyclopaedia of British Steam Railways & Locomotives, the late Ossie Nock wrote: “When these Atlantics first appeared in 1899, locomotive enthusiasts and railwaymen alike were positively staggered by the size of them, and their running, particularly on the Liverpool and Manchester service, was at times

breathtaking, not only in the maximum speeds attained but in their acceleration from rest. With them it was nothing to pass Salford, a mere three-quarters of a mile out of Manchester, at over 50mph.

“On a trial run from Liverpool to Southport in 1899, with a five-coach train, one of them is reported to have attained a speed of almost 100mph. Forty of them passed into LMSR ownership, and the last of them was not scrapped until October 1933.”

We hope you enjoy Ken’s highly enlightening feature about the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Society on pages 12 and 13.

After reading the archive feature about the Robinson O4 2-8-0s in a recent issue of RMM, contributor Ian Lamb emailed me to say, ‘Be sure your sins will find you out’. He’d just turned up a picture of a slightly youngerlooking me posing with Craig Stinchcombe at the Great Central Railway before setting off on my fifth ‘End-to-End’ cycle ride, this time to raise funds for the 63601 Class O4 Appeal of more than 22 years ago. My old Derbybuilt Mercian lightweight bicycle, which completed the long journey five times in all, is still in my garage, but unless I can find a trailer for my rescue dog Elsa, or somehow fasten her to the crossbar, I’m afraid it will have to remain there for the time being!

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September 2019

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OO-gauge SR/BR Bulleid suburban stock new to marke et Nigel Burkin reviews Hornby’s brand new model releases of the 59ft Bulleid suburban coaches featuring a high level of detail and finish.

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he Bulleid 57-foot suburban coaches were constructed in 1945 and 1946, consisting of a Brake Third Corridor (BTK) and Composite Corridor (CK) coach, primarily intended for outer suburban services on Waterloo-West of England routes.

They were allocated coach numbers 5709-5726 for the CK and Nos. 28412876 to the BTK according to published records. The numbers were retained by BR, with the addition of the letter ‘S’ as a prefix and suffix.

Bulleid suburban coaches of this type were marshalled as permanent threecoach sets comprising BTK-CK-BTK with set numbers allocated to each threecoach set, and the numbers applied to the brake ends of the BTK coaches.

Numbers allocated to the sets ranged from No. 963 to No. 980, with the coaches allocated in number order (it is interesting to note that the SR applied the same set numbers to earlier stock formations).

Th Thee stock is fi fittted with gangwa ways, and has a curved body profile with exposed

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solebar and full-length foot boards common to multi-door suburban stock.

On the compartment side, a door opened into each compartment, while the corridor side has larger windows and fewer doors. Lavatories were provided in both coach types.

Hornby has produced enough models with the correct running numbers to make up two three-coach sets for the Southern Railway and two for BR (SR) operations, both finished in green livery with yellow markings. Care must be taken to choose the right coaches for the set end numbers on the BTKs, because they are sold separately and not as packs of three coaches.

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Coach numbers Sets finished in green produced by Hornby include the following:Southern Railway: Set 965: BTK No. 2845, CK No. 5711, BTK No. 2846.

Set 973: BTK No. 2861, CK No. 5719, BTK No. 2862.

BR South hern Region: Set 968: BTK No. S2851S, CK No. S5714S, BTK No. S2852S. Set 972: BTK No. S2859S, CK No. S5718S, BTK No. S2860S.

Coach bodies A single-piece injection-moulded body shell of the correct shape and proportions is fitted out with a variety of small details including torpedo roof vents, wire water tank filler pipes and moulded plastic commode handles which are very nicely produced. The overall impression is of coach models that surpass anything that could be constructed in brass, with the coaches capturing the character of Bulleid stock well when comparison is made of photographs of the full-sized coaches.

Separate components also include the end gangways and flush glazing, which is clear enough to view the detailed interior with its compartments and seating. A slight hint of prismatic edging around the glazing pieces is apparent in the compartment windows when viewed from certain angles.

A high level of detail is applied to the models, including accurately moulded commode handles and hand rails. Note the set number applied to the end panels.

Separately applied footsteps and sprung buffers are fitted to all of the models.

Detail incorporated in the body shelll moulding includes panel lines, subttle door lines and neatly tooled door hingges, with a suggestion that the top and bottom hinges are slightly taller than n the middle one per door, which is coorrect to accommodate the curve of th he body. End panel detail includes rooff foot steps and bolt positions where theyy have been removed from certain coacches. In addition, the end grab rails of the BTK coaches are com mposed of wire.

Southern Railway CK No. 5711 is photographed from the compartment side. Note the flush glazed windows decorated with the correct window labels and the seat numb bers to the riigh ht off each h door.

Und derframe A on ne-piece floor has been built up with h a variety of separate fittings for the long foot boards, trussing, battery boxes and brake equipment. Each moulding is beautifully represented with crisp

This side shot of BTK No. S2852S shows the compartment side of the model.

This side view of BTK No. S2860S shows the corridor side of the model.

This picture is taken from the corridor side of CK No. 5711.

king att the comparttmentt siide off CK No. 5711.

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Getting down to the details As RMM’s N-scale ‘St Ann’s Cove’ project approaches its final stages (if indeed any layout ever does!) we start to think about those odd corners that can be treated as mini-dioramas in themselves.

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here are many elements to our ‘St Ann’s Cove’, each one of them very different in character.

■ The track itself, which was up and running before a single scenic detail had been applied, still needs its semaphore signalling, trackside signs and other essential details.

■ The hills, with their farm, camp site, streams and waterfall.

■ The town, with its church, houses, hotel and shops, monuments, road signs, telephone boxes and, of course, people.

■ The harbour complex, with its small fishing operation, harbourside clutter and visitor facilities.

■The beach, with its lapping sea, rocks and pools, deck chairs, beach games, paddlers and swimmers.

Now that all of these elements have been roughly shaped, we decided to make a start on the detailing with this issue, beginning up in the hills with the farmhouse and outbuildings that had simply been placed on the scatter material with no real thoughts about cohesion.

Ann joined me on the afternoon

before we went to press to work her magic, positioning the buildings in a logical order, fencing them off from the farm track leading up from the High Street, creating a properly walled field for the cows and adding several more landscaping touches.

Also up in the hills, with a little cottage from Edinburgh’s Harburn Hamlet N-scale range at the back, is Ann’s camp site, for which she crafted the two tiny tents herself. The caravans and camper (actually a Crosville minibus from Oxford Die-Cast!) complete the picture so far, and one of the old-fashioned caravans will be painted in a different colour.

After hacking out the course of the waterfall that will spill into the inner harbour, we decided it was high time to create the white-water effect itself, so taking a sheet of baking paper and using one of Woodland Scenics’ special watereffect products, she shaped the material (which then had to be left to harden for 24 hours) on the flat.

When ready, it will be bent appropriately and carefully pushed into position, but of course we’ll have

Complete with tiny tents crafted by Ann, the camp site is coming together nicely.

to wait until next month to show you the result.

Down at seaThe h ffarm ttakes k proper shape h on th the hill hillside id -- and d th thatt N-scale l catt iis still till sitting itti on th the llean-to t roof! f! level, where the ‘Little l Man of Hoy’ still stands proud, the beach has been sanded over and Ann has been making rock pools and shaping some smaller rocks. We’ll finally be completing that picture next month.

One of my small jobs was to clean up the road, pavements and buildings near the church. The new paving sections still have to be lifted to a uniform level – a quick and easy job – and the bare area of baseboard behind the Mermaid Fish Bar in front of the cliff edge will now become a copse of trees.

Built from parts of a Metcalfe factory kit for a previous layout, the ‘Collett Castle Hotel’ has now been renamed the ‘St Ann’s Cove Hotel’, and it now fits snugly into a section that has been cut from the background scenery (as With a sheet of baking paper as the base, the photo shows, the building still the waterfall is roughly formed using one needs pushing completely down). of Woodland Scenics’ speciality water Down on the beach, the ‘Little Man of Hoy’ Ann has created a relaxing little corner products. still stands proud. on the left.

What a difference some people and traffic will make! The roads and pavements by the church have now been roughly shaped, and by next month the void behind the buildings at the back will have become a woodland copse.

The newly named ‘St Ann’s Cove Hotel’ still needs pushing down a little as it sits snugly between the rocks -- note the relaxing little corner.

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