There are currently signs at Fosdyke, just north of Saracen's Head on the A17, saying that the bridge will be closed from 19th July for 9 weeks, from 1900 until 0600, presumably every night. I have been unable to find confirmation on the internet though.

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Further to the above...

15xx for sale, complete except for bar for the smokebox dart. No paperwork. £5k or offers. Contact Victoria on 07713 085 657

Be aware that the Y6 and carriages advertised above probably don't conform to our code of practice and may therefore not be suitable to run at a GL5 event. For your own private garden railway, they should be fine.

Something a bit unusual this, but some of you will remember Ted Goode, a long-standing member of GL5 who passed away a couple of months ago. The Goode family are holding a commemorative event at the Cambridge MES track on Sunday 29th July. This is an invitation only event, but Kathy would be pleased...

Yorkshire Wagon Co is probably your best bet for castings. Slaters do nice ones, but they have nylon wheels (steel tyre) so may not be suitable for passenger carrying.

For those of you who (quite understandably) don't use Facebook, some details of the AGM, This is just a polite note to ask any members who are wanting to attend the AGM and run their locos, please could you fill in the booking form on the events page located on the GL5 Website. This is to give us an...

From what I can gather they had the standard lining of black, cream and grey on tanks and cabsides. According to Haresnape, 1/4" red, 1" black, 1/8" cream, 5/8" grey, the latter to the outside, and 4ins radius to it's outside. Boiler bands and cylinders, two red lines, but I don't know the separatio...

Thanks for going down the rabbit hole Matt, good bit of searching, and interesting result.

John Catt says he remembers these, not as a fitted head, but as complete trains from the docks to Smithfield. At the tail was a small brake van, which he has modelled, photo in the latest Turnout, page 34

Ben would have a better idea than me of how many are finished, but we made a dozen kits and only have one left. Mine is nowhere near finished, and one has gone to Australia, so potentially 9 running here now.

Martin, I don't supply ratchet style brake lever guards, however I should have some laser cut bits for the pin style. You'd need to bend and solder them together, not a difficult job.
Dave Noble.

Does anyone know how strong our couplings are, or how strong they should be? I've just been testing some shackles which started to distort at about 380lbs. They distorted more with greater load, but held 540lbs which is when I ran out of bags of cement. The eyes showed no damage or distortion. Any t...

There are drawings on the internet illustrating the principle of operation, or, why not contact Doug himself, his address is on the internet, look for 'the-hewsons'
Dave.

It would be difficult to give a sensible answer without knowing how much sideplay there is on all the axles.
The GL5 portable track is 35' radius, and so far everything which has turned up has run on it without problem, so far as I know.
It would be interesting to know why you need to know the radius.

Dave, In reverse order, there is nothing wrong with overwide wheels except that, apart from looking wrong, I doubt they would help much. To carry the load more effectively onto the wing rail, wouldn't they need to be cylindrical, and we don't want that. Although noses do eventually wear, I doubt you...

David, I strongly suggest not butting the rails up tightly to each other. It will depend to some extent on how you lay the track, whether there is any give in it. The track at Gilling is screwed to a concrete base, and even though they were very careful building it, it still buckled a few years ago ...

Hi David, and welcome. Hopefully someone else will answer the rail question, but regarding the back to back, the figure quoted in our standards (4 11/16) is the required dimension for new construction, but our track will accept wheelsets with a back to back of 4 5/8, though this is an absolute minim...

The bank has now changed it's mind, they have decided that they will not allow the use of symbols, so for bank transfers you must now use the title Ground Level 5 Gauge Main Line Association I know, it's not our name, but that is all they'll accept. Oddly, they will accept cheques made out to GL5MLA...