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New Eastleigh 22nd June 1934
Restaurant Car 7998 received an Olive-livery repaint 27th April
1939 thence Malachite-livery 30th January 1947. Diag.2655 car
S7998S was outshopped CLC-livery 16th March 1956 and is believed
to have received BR(S) Green-livery during an A2 plus damage repair 11th
November 1957. S7998S was found on hand at Clapham Jct. 1st
March 1961 with cooking stove broken in several places and displaced. End
vestibule standing pillar displaced, End vestibule ceiling ply broken and
roof framing suspected fracture. Saloon cross seats – legs adrift. Damage
repaired Lancing 6th June 1961. Car withdrawn 1st
December 1961. © BloodandCustard |
On BloodandCustard
Getting help with Model Railways
Model Railway Fault
Finding and Servicing
(by LC&DR)
An informative guide to those who
are having running /electrical problems
with their models and need help in order to try and solve them.
Wheel-Rail Interface
(Back-to-backs) (by T.L.
Wainscott)
An informative guide to those who
are having derailment problems
with their models and need help in order to try and solve them.
Replacing fluorescent lighting with
LEDs (by East Sussex Finescale)
Lighting in your Track Room
LED fluorescent tube replacement and how the re-wiring circuitry works!
Useful Notes for Modellers – Couplings (by T.L. Wainscott)
Buckeye couplings on Bachmann stock
Opening Child Proof Caps (External Link)
Having struggled found this useful
link for those who struggle to open child-proof caps.
Please make sure such modified caps are not accessible to children.
Link to 12”=1’ pages
BloodandCustard’s railway pages
Modelling information on Blood and Custard
Coaches (PCC & NPCC)
Removing
the bodies on Hornby’s
Brighton Belle (5 BEL) units
Removing
the bodies on Hornby’s Pullman Cars
Bulleid’s 59’ Coaches & Hornby’s models (‘multidoor’
mainline stock)
Bulleid’s 64’
Coaches &
Bachmann’s models (‘saloon’ mainline stock)
SECR Birdcage sets & Bachmann’s models
Hornby’s Maunsell
48’ ex.LSWR Rebuilds
Hornby’s Maunsell
Restaurant Cars
Replica’s BR(S) Non-corridor
Stock
Engineering and Freight
Cowans Sheldon 15-ton Steam Cranes
(inc. Oxford Rail’s 2020 model)
Ransomes & Rapier
45-ton Steam Breakdown Cranes
(inc. Bachmann’s 2019 model)
SECR Diag. 1424 Covered
Goods Wagon
(Rails’ SECR 16T Covered Goods Wagon)
BR Plate & Bolster
wagons
(The Model Centre’s wagons and bespoke loads)
BMW Isetta
(as built at Brighton’s (former) locomotive works)
Southern
Electric Units
Modelling BR(S) 2 HAP units by
Dave Deadman & Colin Watts
Improving the Hornby 2 BIL (including conversion to P4) by Ian
Sneyd
Hornby 2 BIL
& 2 HAL creating a hybrid
unit by Colin Watts
Merchant Navy class
Air-smoothed Merchant Navy
Variations
Hornby’s
Rebuilt Merchant Navy Locomotives
and their Tenders
LB&SCR E2 class
Modelling notes on the E2
class 1913 - 1963
Fish by Rail and the Blue Spot Vans
BR Blue Spot Fish Vans
(overview of East Coast fish traffic and these
vans)
Southern
4mm layouts (East Sussex Finescale modelling group)
Redhill -
July 1938 (P4) - Structures
Redhill –
July 930 (P4) - Locomotives
Apothecary
Street Junction - c.1959 (00)
Modelling Galleries on Blood and Custard
Southern and related 4mm Models
Kernow’s Bulleid Diesels
10201, 10202 & 10203
Selection of BR (S)
Multiple-unit Models
00 Works manufactures small
production runs of ready-to-run (mainly) locomotives.
Previously located in Hastings they are now based in Robertsbridge.
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Links to Model Railway Shops &
Specialist Suppliers
(with whom I have first-hand
/robust knowledge).
Compass Models (Rotherfield, East Sussex)
Arcadia Models (Shaw, Lancashire)
Kernow Model Centre (Cornwall & Surrey)
Debris of War (scenic supplier - Kent)
Model Scenery Supplies (Cromer, Norfolk)
Morris Models (Lancing – shop now closed)
ASIS3D (manufacturer of gears and otheru
seful 3D printed products)
OO Works (locomotive
manufacturer based in Robertsbridge)
Ultrascale (suppliers of finescale locomotive
wheelsets and gearing)
Mousa Models
(made to order rolling stock kits)
Ashford International Model Railway Education Centre
Link to East Sussex Finescale modelling group
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Expertly weathered and renumbered by The Model Centre, a pair of Bachmann’s 2 COM units very much look the part running
on the ‘Ewhurst Green’ model railway. The 2 COM units were redesignated 2 EPB
units which included a red cantrail band to denote the compartments. © BloodandCustard |
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