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Chris B

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Hi folks
Last friday I managed to shoot a quick film at Raif Copley's superb Coombe Hill Railway. The loco is my old Roundhouse Manning Wardle, re-liveried in the second Lynton & Barnstaple Railway colours, and Raif's rake of coaches are in the later Southern railway livery.

You can see it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jE3RKsm3B4

Cheers
Chris
 
Greetings,

A wonderful looking and sounding train, now onto several questions. First, does this locomotive have a chuffer box in it? Next how accurate are the coaches to what the Barnstable and Lyn actually pulled? What was the open compartment used on the second coach from the front?


Again what a wonderful model and a beautiful out door layout to run it on.
 
Andre - the coaches on the layout are pretty good representations of the real deal - one can be seen on the present reconstructed Lynton & Barnstaple line, and another can be seen on the Ffesitiniog Raolway in North Wales - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynton_and_Barnstaple_Railway

Garden Railway Specialists [google GRS Princes Risborough] here in UK make some [expensive] kits for these coaches - even more expensive if built up. But watch out for good news on the rolling stock front soon!

The open compartment in the centre is an observation facility - there were, I think, two such 3rd Class centre observation coaches on the original railway.

tac
www.ovgrs.org
 
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Thanks for the kind words guys - it was great to try out a new railway (for me) and to have that rake of coaches to haul. In fact that was only some of them - the Baldwin had the rest!

Tac has answered your question about coaches Andre - though one further detail is that I think they are to 1:21.5 ish scale while the loco is 1:19th scale. Not that it matters!

The loco is fitted with one of my standard Summerlands Chuffers which fits entirely in the stack - so there is no "box" as such.
Cheers
Chris
 
Tac,

Don't worry about the misspelling, I did not even notice till you said some thing about getting used to the new key board. A while ago, actually a long while ago there was an article in Model Railroader on decaling railroad names in N scale and the author said as long as you had it right at the beginning of the word and the end of the word most people would not notice because the mind does not really read all of the letters any way, we see what we expect to see.

Thanks for the info on the cars, I noticed when I looked at the video a second time that the last brake wagon has a compartment with windows across the end, I was wondering how common that was and would that have been a first class compartment?
 
Posted By tacfoley on 23 Aug 2011 02:49 PM

The open compartment in the centre is an observation facility - there were, I think, two such 3rd Class centre observation coaches on the original railway.

tac
www.ovgrs.org

Actually Tac, according to my L&B book, there were four of this third class coach, original numbers 7 - 10.
All the best,
David Leech, Delta, Canada
 
Posted By Andre Anderson on 24 Aug 2011 03:30 PM
Tac,


Thanks for the info on the cars, I noticed when I looked at the video a second time that the last brake wagon has a compartment with windows across the end, I was wondering how common that was and would that have been a first class compartment?



Andre,
IF you answer my messages and emails, I will give you an answer to this question.
All the best,
David Leech, Delta, Canada
 
Posted By Andre Anderson on 24 Aug 2011 03:30 PM
Tac,

Thanks for the info on the cars, I noticed when I looked at the video a second time that the last brake wagon has a compartment with windows across the end, I was wondering how common that was and would that have been a first class compartment?



Hi Andre,
Now that our communications are working again, I can answer your question!
The coach in question was the Lynton and Barnstaple number 17, Brake Composite, built in 1903 by Shepherd & Peters (or Shapland & Petters - depending where you find the information) of Barnstaple.
The very end section was First class, with the glassed in end, and from a photo what appears to be just a few seats either side facing inwards for the passengers.
There was an internal sliding door in the centre for access into the rest of the coach.
The next two doors were Third class, then another First class and then one Third class.
I'm not sure what the seating arrangement was in these sections.
The end 1/3 of the coach was for Luggage and the Guard.
It was the only coach built like this for this railway.
All the best,
David Leech, Delta, Canada
 
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