Edgware GN. What next.

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Re: Edgware GN. Scenery to the fore.

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G'Day Gents

Thank you Horsetan, yes, the area has changed a great deal, from mainly rural, with a few scattered houses, to mainly suburban, with a few scattered open spaces.

Here are a couple of pictures of what it used to look like.

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Re: Edgware GN. Scenery to the fore.

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Second pic above must be the last few years before closure, as The Hale had been cleared by then, leaving only the short LT concrete platform section in place under the arch of Bunns Lane. It remained there for decades until the arches were bricked up.

I think LT even managed to double the line before the extension works were suspended prior to final abandonment.
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Re: Edgware GN. Scenery to the fore.

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Awfully big crocodile seems to have escaped from the zoo.... :shock: (image on previous page)

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Re: Edgware GN. Scenery to the fore.

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G'day Gents

Horsetan, Yep the concrete bit was done by LT but I mucked up and built it like that on the layout, to late now to change it as it's part of the bridge support, so it'll have to stay wrong.

nzpaul, no your eyes do not deceive you, it;s a large Saltwater Croc, I have a couple of exotic animals scattered about the layout.
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Yesterday I refitted the motor in the Robinson B1, I used the hot glue gun, it has worked out OK, but you have to work very very fast, I ended up with a slightly wonky motor but it works OK. I soldered the pick ups direct to the wheels just to get it moving, surprisingly it runs quite well, but I'll fit a couple of extra pick ups in the future. The front bogie wheels touch the cylinders, it stop's the loco on some of the bends.

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Re: Edgware GN. Scenery to the fore.

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G'Day Gents

Received a parcel from England, which happens every so often, this time it restocked my draw with handrail knobs, crack pins a couple of loco's a kit streamlined B17 and a chassis, give me something to do for a while. We were planning a caravan holiday in Queensland again, which has knocked on the head.

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Re: Edgware GN. Scenery to the fore.

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Is that a Golden Arrow B17/5 kit or one of the hard to get Dean Sidings?

Look forward to watching its build

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Re: Edgware GN. Scenery to the fore.

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Never thought of glueing motors to chassis before interesting stuff.
Keep it up Manna and take care.
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Re: Edgware GN. Scenery to the fore.

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G'day Gents

The B17/5 is a Golden Arrow kit, I spent an hour out in the shed cleaning the flash up, looks better already.

I've been gluing motors into loco's for a few years now, very few have fallen off, but that was the first where I have used a Hot Glue Gun, the B1 has probably had an hour of run time (on and off) No problems so far.

We aren't in lock down yet, but we have been 'Advised' by the Government to stay at home, I take that as Good advice.


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Re: Edgware GN. Scenery to the fore.

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G'Day Gents

Progress on the B17/5, she's had a coat of undercoat, followed by Black and Green, but only the first coat on the green. The body is screwed to the chassis and has a run on the layout, I think it's a fraction on the 'Tubby' side as it touches the platform at Mill Hill, no other loco or coach does.
I also had an air bubble in the chimney, so I replaced it with a metal one that has been sitting in my bits draw for 35 years plus.

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Re: Edgware GN. B17/5

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Looking good Manna, I always fancied a B17/5, even though I'm a north eastern sort of person.
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Re: Edgware GN. B17/5

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G'Day Gents

Dave, B17/5, could be on a Running in turn from Doncaster, brand new ?? rule No 1

The B17/5 has had a couple of coats of Apple Green, and that's where is been left, haven't even taken a picture of it.

I've as usual, whizzed off in a different direction, I bought a couple of etched chassis, for J50's off of Dave S, in early 2019, being the standard wheel base of a lot of GN/LNER loco's I thought I could adapt them for other locos, mainly a J6, as the Ex Airfix unit I had used on my J6 hasn't worked very well, the tender drive being absolutely useless, it runs but is very jerky, so this is my solution, a powered chassis and the motor removed from the tender.

The chassis was bent up by hand with a bit of MDF as a guide, wheels where fitted after reaming out the holes and after a slight twisting of the chassis it rolls, it's been finger pushed around the whole layout, no derailments, the soldering was an anti-climax as it took me all of three minutes to solder it up, next it was to fit the body to the chassis, this took some time as the body wasn't meant for this chassis, a bit of hacking to both has happened, there is still a ways to go until I'm happy. This is where I'm at at the moment

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Re: Edgware GN. B17/5

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Sounds like that fold-up chassis didn't really hurt at all. Are the coupling rods from Dave S too?

If I ever want to evict the Bachmann K3 lump from under my J2, in order to get full daylight under the boiler, that chassis looks like a good option.
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Re: Edgware GN. B17/5

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Wrong wheelbase for a K3.
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Re: Edgware GN. B17/5

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G'Day Gents

Atlantic, yes that would be a good idea, I have another one, I'm wondering what to make with it, the J5 I have is using a very wrong Dublo/Wrenn chassis, that's the way I'm leaning. And yes the chassis was very easy to solder up.

The coupling rods are a pair I had spare in the bits box, there's a couple of pairs on the etch.

Pebbles. Atlantic has a K3 chassis, sitting under a J2, this chassis is the correct wheelbase for a J2.

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It's good too wizz of in another direction, I do it all the time.
All looking good as usual.

Yes a running in turn from Doncaster solves lots of things.
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