You have a very nice collection of locos and rolling stock and I love your layout! Lots of variety in scenery and it feels very lively with all the figures around, nice work! Also, I really appreciate the very detailed explanation and history in the description box. It gives us a great understanding of what LMS passenger trains looked like and how they changed through nationalization. Thank you so much for taking the time and interest to share with us :)
Hi, thank you for your interest and observations. I' m delighted that you enjoyed the running session and I appreciate that you understand what I'm trying to achieve here. Mine is a niche interest, mainly the final phase of steam on B.R. and the layout is an approximate representation of the railway as I remember it between 1958-68. My memory is backed up by an extensive library of literature on the subject. Cheers! Graeme
@@crewelocoman5b161 That's amazing! It's really helpful for those of us new to the hobby, living outside the UK, and who aren't as familiar with BR history. Like a visual history lesson tied together with your personal memories of the railway :) Cheers! Shaggy
Love the Livery.. But on the proper Mallard in the York museum it looks so much better. I was 8 years old (48 years ago. Standing on that plate as a kid).. I was hooked. Anything Railway gets my attention 😉😜👌
Many thanks for your observation. What do you mean by "the proper Mallard in the York Museum"? My understanding is that "Mallard" is preserved in its original 1938 LNER Garter Blue livery. The liveries displayed by the locomotives in this video are not Garter Blue, but an early BR application approximating to the old Caledonian livery Prussian Blue (possibly a bit darker) but lined out in black and white. There is no lining out on the Garter Blue on LNER locomotives and the blue is quite different. I travelled behind 60007 'Sir Nigel Gresley' a month ago on the 'Welsh Marches Express' and that locomotive was carrying the early BR blue express passenger livery and quite magnificent it looked to. duckduckgo.com/?q=a4+pacific+60007+sir+nigel+gresley&t=chromentp&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fc8.alamy.com%2Fcomp%2FC3WHJA%2Fsteam-locomotive-60007-sir-nigel-gresley-C3WHJA.jpg c8.alamy.com/comp/KW36AT/mallard-an-a4-pacific-class-locomotive-holder-of-the-world-speed-record-KW36AT.jpg
Nice one as usual ! I’m trying to get the make up of the Stanier maroon train . I reckon you have new Hornby, Airfix/Dapol ( the CK) and Bachmann porthole stock all in the same train . Looks effective . Did you upgrade the Airfix coaches at all ? I think I recognise an original Tri-ang RMB on your crimson and cream Mk1s . I have a similar train and the cream of the older Mk is subtlety different . Just for added fun I got told that there were in fact no crimson/ cream RMBs as they were too late for that livery and were originally maroon . I don’t care as I think it looks good. Crimson and cream and a blue pacific . What’s not to like !
Full marks...you have passed the test with flying colours! The Airfix/Dapol is in fact a Mainline production. I never knew they produced them, but it must have been at roughly the same time as Airfix was going belly-up, to be shortly followed by Mainline. I never liked the Airfix and Dapol LMS Stanier coaches as the maroon rendition was so poor. Matt flat brown/mauve colour. The Mainline maroon is far superior, proper maroon with a nice satin sheen and the yellow first class stripe above the window. The crimson/cream is absolutely fine, no worries there. You are right about the Mk.1 RMB. I have full sets of Bachmann and Tri-ang Mk.1s in crimson and cream but I don't mix the 'Tri-ang' Mk.1s with the Bachmanns because of the height and other less noticeable differences. In the video I wanted to run the 'Royal Scot' train and it's only the 'Tri-ang' coaches that have been adorned with headboards (one side only) along with a Brake end with tail end board, so the old Tri-ang RMB it had to be. I modified it with the more accurately detailed roof from the later China re-incarnation and replaced the older bogies with later ones closing the daylight gap. The old Airfix red/cream LMS Staniers haven't been modified at all. It was not my intention to include them with the latest Hornby and Bachmann versions but they didn't detract at all from the look of the formation at all, so included they will be. Hope that clears up a few points for you! Cheers, Graeme
@@privatebribert Wow, having lived next to a four track section for over ten years in Mossley Hill I became aware of the down slow, up slow, down fast, up fast at that time, but do you know what it scarcely made a blind bit of difference to the type of trains that occupied the tracks. This is a model railway and as such an approximation not an attempt at showcasing the operational workings of an exact replication of a working railway.
@@crewelocoman5b161 Not having a dig,I spent loads of my time trying to find out what was prototypical,I couldn't find a definitive answer,that's why I was so interested in your interpretation
You have a very nice collection of locos and rolling stock and I love your layout! Lots of variety in scenery and it feels very lively with all the figures around, nice work!
Also, I really appreciate the very detailed explanation and history in the description box. It gives us a great understanding of what LMS passenger trains looked like and how they changed through nationalization. Thank you so much for taking the time and interest to share with us :)
Hi, thank you for your interest and observations. I' m delighted that you enjoyed the running session and I appreciate that you understand what I'm trying to achieve here. Mine is a niche interest, mainly the final phase of steam on B.R. and the layout is an approximate representation of the railway as I remember it between 1958-68. My memory is backed up by an extensive library of literature on the subject.
Cheers!
Graeme
@@crewelocoman5b161 That's amazing! It's really helpful for those of us new to the hobby, living outside the UK, and who aren't as familiar with BR history. Like a visual history lesson tied together with your personal memories of the railway :)
Cheers!
Shaggy
@@trainfanshaggy You're welcome. Any questions just ask.
😉
Enjoyable and interesting as ever. Thank you.
Many thanks again for your support and interest, I am delighted that you enjoyed the session!👍
Love the Livery.. But on the proper Mallard in the York museum it looks so much better. I was 8 years old (48 years ago. Standing on that plate as a kid).. I was hooked. Anything Railway gets my attention 😉😜👌
Many thanks for your observation. What do you mean by "the proper Mallard in the York Museum"? My understanding is that "Mallard" is preserved in its original 1938 LNER Garter Blue livery. The liveries displayed by the locomotives in this video are not Garter Blue, but an early BR application approximating to the old Caledonian livery Prussian Blue (possibly a bit darker) but lined out in black and white. There is no lining out on the Garter Blue on LNER locomotives and the blue is quite different. I travelled behind 60007 'Sir Nigel Gresley' a month ago on the 'Welsh Marches Express' and that locomotive was carrying the early BR blue express passenger livery and quite magnificent it looked to.
duckduckgo.com/?q=a4+pacific+60007+sir+nigel+gresley&t=chromentp&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fc8.alamy.com%2Fcomp%2FC3WHJA%2Fsteam-locomotive-60007-sir-nigel-gresley-C3WHJA.jpg
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Fabulous running...
Many thanks for your comment. Delighted you enjoyed.
Superb video!
Hi Philip, Good to hear from you again. Many thanks for your appreciation.
Nice one as usual ! I’m trying to get the make up of the Stanier maroon train . I reckon you have new Hornby, Airfix/Dapol ( the CK) and Bachmann porthole stock all in the same train . Looks effective . Did you upgrade the Airfix coaches at all ? I think I recognise an original Tri-ang RMB on your crimson and cream Mk1s . I have a similar train and the cream of the older Mk is subtlety different . Just for added fun I got told that there were in fact no crimson/ cream RMBs as they were too late for that livery and were originally maroon . I don’t care as I think it looks good. Crimson and cream and a blue pacific . What’s not to like !
Full marks...you have passed the test with flying colours! The Airfix/Dapol is in fact a Mainline production. I never knew they produced them, but it must have been at roughly the same time as Airfix was going belly-up, to be shortly followed by Mainline. I never liked the Airfix and Dapol LMS Stanier coaches as the maroon rendition was so poor. Matt flat brown/mauve colour. The Mainline maroon is far superior, proper maroon with a nice satin sheen and the yellow first class stripe above the window. The crimson/cream is absolutely fine, no worries there. You are right about the Mk.1 RMB. I have full sets of Bachmann and Tri-ang Mk.1s in crimson and cream but I don't mix the 'Tri-ang' Mk.1s with the Bachmanns because of the height and other less noticeable differences. In the video I wanted to run the 'Royal Scot' train and it's only the 'Tri-ang' coaches that have been adorned with headboards (one side only) along with a Brake end with tail end board, so the old Tri-ang RMB it had to be. I modified it with the more accurately detailed roof from the later China re-incarnation and replaced the older bogies with later ones closing the daylight gap. The old Airfix red/cream LMS Staniers haven't been modified at all. It was not my intention to include them with the latest Hornby and Bachmann versions but they didn't detract at all from the look of the formation at all, so included they will be. Hope that clears up a few points for you!
Cheers,
Graeme
Interesting.I have my four track main as slow fast up,fast slow down
and...?
@@crewelocoman5b161 you have yours as up down up down.
@@privatebribert Wow, having lived next to a four track section for over ten years in Mossley Hill I became aware of the down slow, up slow, down fast, up fast at that time, but do you know what it scarcely made a blind bit of difference to the type of trains that occupied the tracks. This is a model railway and as such an approximation not an attempt at showcasing the operational workings of an exact replication of a working railway.
@@crewelocoman5b161 Not having a dig,I spent loads of my time trying to find out what was prototypical,I couldn't find a definitive answer,that's why I was so interested in your interpretation
@@privatebribert 👍