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The Scottish Local History Forum published a four page article on Grant's visit to Scotland - issue 87, pp. 41-4. It's available on the website as a back number for £6.00

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The only thing I know about this, Howard, was that Grant inspected the first Tay Bridge just before its opening and made the perceptive remark that it was a big bridge. I'm sure that the details of his trip were well documented at the time.

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Ross, I've just looked at the photo of your runner wagon again. You need to reduce the depth of the axleboxes. Part of the journal was inside the w-iron - see the end elevation and photos of the 7-ton bogie on pp. 86-7 of the wagon book. Your arrangement probably does funny things to the footboards ...

It would take the identity of the crane, Ross. The number of the wagon in the photo is single digit, so in this case it would be 3 or 4 since both cranes were on the scene.

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Great stuff Ross. In the enlargement of the St. Rollox picture on p. 279, the packing wagon is almost certainly lettered MOTHERWELL STEAM CRANE No. X. Crucially, the exhaust from crane No.4 just fogs it slightly.

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Can't be done I'm afraid Graham. Theyre 1 1/2 inch to the foot!

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According to the SRX register drawing 8670 was dated 01/11/1897

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I have GAs for the Diagram 71 and 72 vans, Peter. Sir Eric did a drawing in the Railway Modeller of the Diagram 71 van and as is often the case, got it wrong.

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Don't know if you've seen this - from the Carluke History website. I feel a diversionary thread on bunnets coming on..........

http://www.carlukehistory.co.uk/stories ... nstaff.jpg
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I've just been looking at the original scan of the 4-wheel carriage that Jim showed earlier. There's a line of script just below the line of the metal strip tying the two axle guards together which reads "gas cylinders, fittings &c shown in blue." These are the feint lines referred to and is only a ...

I've never heard of them being used for empty casks, Allan. Are you confusing them with the Diagram 12 barrel trucks that were built between 1885 and 1893? They too were built on old carriage underframes. The 4-wheeled milk vans were Westinghouse fitted to run on passenger trains according to the 19...

Hello David The register of carriages and non-passenger rolling stock describes them as "milk truck covered." The 1921 list of coaching vehciles (appendix 1 in the carriage book) descibers them as "milk vans." There is a discrepancy between the two records. The Register says that there were 3 4-whee...

I downloaded Microsoft Office 2010 as a separate file a few years back and it works fine.

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Thanks John I agree with Jim, it's ballast. I hadn't seen this picture before and it's fascinating. It looks to have been taken in the immediate pre-WW1 period. Have you any clue as to its origin or date? the fountain is playing, either because a train is expected, or for the photographer's benefit ...

As a sort of answer to David's question about the date that the foot crossing was introduced at Strathyre, the furthest back I can take it is the Lens of Sutton photo in Fryer's book, which was taken in "The Thirties." Perhaps it was one of the wondrous innovations introduced at the Grouping by the ...

Why isn't it there, Michael? Did you buy it?

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South end of Balquhidder from Fryer's book. I reckon the J Watt calculation is right.

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Which begs the obvious question, Jim, "how wide is a barrow?" There seems to be a quite inexplicable lack of photographs of crossings taken from directly above. The nearest I've found is this scan from a MRN front cover of the north end of Strathyre, which looks to be about 6ft. There are several ob...

Yes, it certainly does match the sketch in Hunter's book where it's described as type A. There doesn't appear to be a photograph, but the later, larger HR van has the same sort of panelling. A further question: who produced the etch in the first place?

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I'm baffled by this one. It's not Caley Diagram 8 or 9, and I've looked through Peter Tatlow's NPCS book and it isn't there.

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Hello all As I can't get to the Archive, has anyone copies of the Working Timetables for 1896 and 1900 to hand? I know that, by the 1907 WTT, the modified Diagram 15 wagons were in traffic, but I'm trying to nail down when they were put in service. The place to look is in the Supplementary Appendix ...

There are a couple of pictures of one built by Jim Summers on the Caley Coaches website, Mike, plus a link to download the kit instructions.

https://caley.com/class670.php

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The Caley used this style too, Scott - see Wagon Book p.51, Plate 3.10

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Len should be credited for the basic bodywork of the Diagram 22 and 46 mineral wagons, which he sent me at Tony's request, complete with sketches of how it all fitted together. The texture he achieved to represent wood is excellent. All I did was add the ironwork and the bolt heads.

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Tony, it's the longer wheelbase version to drawing 1659, photo on p.145. The standard single lever brake etching won't be long enough. If anyone wants t ouse the original style buffer they cost £7.50 for four at https://emardee.org.uk/product/wagon-buffers-2/

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