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Hi brian

Thank you for your response - saved me some time, which I appreciate.

Would drawings for the full size be archived somewhere like the rail museum at York do you think?

Regards

Paul

Hi Jason

Thank you for your response, much appreciated.

I willl see if I can get re-prints of the articles.

Kind regards

Paul

Hi all

Does anyone know if accurate drawings (full size or 5" are available for the Andrew Barclay Sons & Co 040 shunter?

There is one at Chatham Historic Dockyard - WD 70042 - Overlord - which I thought might make a good beginners model in 5" gauge.

I fancy building something but I know nothing about steam so this might fit the bill. Chatham isn't too far from me so an occasional visit would be easy - especially as I was rushed £25 for an 'annual' ticket when I visited recently...

Also does anyone supply castings for the wheels?

Many thanks

Paul

Edited By Paul Stringer 1 on 13/10/2019 12:39:54

Hi Bill and Brian

Thank you for your replies.

I was initially thinking about an loco that would have been around before the first war - however I can see that the J39 is a handsome machine.

Do you know how accurate the plans are? I previously purchased Springbok plans in 5 inch but I discovered that they were not too accurate. I am not obsessive about 'rivet-counting' but I don't want to start a long-term project only to find I am not building a scale model so much as a pastiche of something.

Kind regards

Paul

I have been thinking about building a loco for a few years now. I even went as far as buying drawings and a few castings but the design seemed very ‘semi-scale’ and the castings didn't resemble the drawings or the real thing...

Anyway time has passed - years actually but the idea won’t go away. Coincidentally earlier this year I discovered that my great grandfather and great uncle were both boilermakers at Darlington. Great granddad went on to draw a pension according to my research but his son - Eli Cleminson died on the Somme on 15 September 1916.

So While ruminating about Eli and locomotives I wondered about bringing the two threads together and thought about researching and (perhaps) building something that Eli might have worked on at Darlington before going off to war.

I have a preference for goods loco’s, perhaps 060? I would want to build in one of the larger scales - I am not a watch-maker!

Does anyone know what was being built or refurbished at Darlington pre 1st war for which model drawings exist?

Apologies for such a long post.

Regards Paul