Hello Eddie, I have the green RCTS book and I have picked up the details of five different B1 tenders (at least!) from that, but, the one in the yard at Doncaster certainly has twin vacuum cylinders just behind the front axle so what I was trying to find out was did it have both steam and vacuum as ...

Hello Dave, Yes, thanks for that. I have the green RCTS book and have identified at least five dirfferent tenders and I have included all of them on my new drawing. However, the tender in the yard at Doncaster came from a B1and it certainly has a pair of vcauum cylinders just behind the front axle b...

Hello Folks, I have a new project and this is to design a new 5" gauge (Proper) LNER B1. Geoff Moore very kindly supplied my with his works drawings which have been a great help including some tender drawings with the GA. However, the tender GA only shows the steam brake and no vacuum cylinder(s). A...

Hello Keith, The whole lot is slotted and tabbed together and the tabs go through the floor by about 1.5mm and they can be twisted the other side to hold everything solidly whilst soldering. did what Richard I did and silver soldered the corers from the top down as far as the heat would run and then...

Hello Folks, I thought you might likle to see this. Over the past two years the LMS (Lindsey Model Society) have been building the Ex AM tank wagons as a club project. We have now come to the end of that project having built 15 of them so the next project we decided on was to build a batch of BR wel...