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THROWBACK MODELLER July/August 2020 Issue 16 the Getting Back to Tradition Edition THROWBACK MODELLER July/August 2020 Issue 16 The getting back to tradition edition A Glut of (old) Garratts - the origin….? Down to the nuts and bolts Moose on the loose 16MM HERITAGE LOCOMOTIVE OWNERS AND OPERATORS Throwback Modeller ASSOCIATION ISSUE 16 JULY/AUGUST 2020 I S S U E 1 6 Welcome to Issue Sixteen Hello everyone. My turn to intention of holding the live open the batting again - even Heritage Auction at the April if you can only watch from a 2021 Show, subject to that safe distance! I am really going ahead. pleased to be able to tell you Nigel and I get a lot of emails that Marc Horovitz will be these days, and thank you all. writing a column in TBM for One recurring theme is to each issue. I will leave him to kindly say that TBM is just introduce himself inside. It getting better with each really adds another issue. Okay, but this can only dimension to the magazine, happen if you send us pieces and for all those queries that anything you want to locate. in. We both love the fact that we keep getting - well Marc one item can network into a My Steamcraft double fairlie will have the answers to so whole chain. Use us please is back from its restoration, many of them. He has for anything heritage that and I am so very pleased with recently completed steaming you want to know, no matter the result. It was done by something different for 75 how brief. With the David Taylor himself, and I consecutive days, leading foregoing, we have again to will cover him in far more Dave Pinniger to suggest the hold over some items until detail in a follow up article. award to him of the OHMS - the next issue. Oh, and if you He offered to do the rebuild Order of Historic Magnificent Cover shot; Derek’s happen to be thinking that as for him it was a very Steamers. We included a bit newly refurbished the magazine is only full of nostalgic trip. For the in Bulletin on this theme - but Steamcraft double trams, fairlies and L&B's (no moment I will tease you with won’t spoil that surprise. fairlie L&B’s this time around Derek, this cover photo. Strange times. As I write all but my other passion might David would love to hear bar the 16mm Association be hinted at - Ed), which we from anyone with one of his Show at Peterborough have both happen to think it is not, locos, and is happy to offer been cancelled. Small socially then the remedy is in your advice on any mechanical distanced gatherings have hands - make suggestions! problems. Contact me first. started to happen, whilst The search for models sold quite a few people have Happy reading, and from on or remembered is spent many days running both of us, please take extra gathering momentum. Nigel everything that they have on care and stay safe and well. Copyright on all for instance has discovered a their roster. I am told that materials in this single b&w photo of the some of the major traders newsletter remains inside of the cab of a have been swamped with DEREK vested in the authors Manning Wardle L&B built by orders for track, so a lot of and editor. David Hick. Currently we can't refettling and line extensions Reproduction of the find out anything more. Do are also happening. If the whole or any part is you know where the loco is Peterborough Show is forbidden without now - it’s driving him nuts! cancelled, then as I write relevant permissions. Just email in the details for Nigel and I have every P A G E 3 IT'S ALL THERE IN BLACK AND WHITE This photo involves four people, and early craft beers. of Peter's clerestory coaches in the in my humble opinion they had rake behind the loco. He was multi- To the right of the three is Jack probably the greatest influence on talented, and you have seen already Wheldon, who should need no our hobby in its early days and as it many of his superb photos in this introduction. To the left of the group gained momentum. I cannot think magazine. is Dave Rowlands, who I continue to that any four would have the same think popularised the hobby among With so little time before getting this effect these days, as the hobby has those who were new with some TBM out, I intend to do a far fuller changed so very much. delightfully written and often very appreciation of Peter in the next Four people? Okay, you can only see humorous articles in the mainstream issue. You are very welcome to three. The photo was taken by Dave model railway press. He and Dave contact me with any memories of Pinniger, whose writing and Pinniger certainly did much to him for me to include. inspirations have kept us so publicise Stewart Browne's Archangel Rest in peace Peter, and thanks for so interested over the years. He products. many memories. mentions that the loco is his Lindale Sadly we now come to the gentleman Caledonia named 'Foxdale', and for in the middle. Sadly because it is the afficionados among you the Peter Dobson, and I have to tell you DEREK bottled beer is Ruddles County, that he passed away at the end of described as one of the best of the July after a protracted illness. It is one P A G E 4 I like mine crispy - the first Throwback cookbook entry commissioned with Stewart in late 2015, 45mm Gauge, meths fired with cross head water pump. Cost was quite pricey as are most of Stewart's late efforts. Loco was delivered mid 2016. The 'infamous ' fire took place in Oct.2019 at a friends garden railway. The loco had been parked after a fine run , fire extinguished & fuel tap turned off - though not completely as it turns out. Whilst we were having lunch inside, my friend's wife happened to look outside & noticed flames leaping from the boxcar so notified us accordingly! I leapt to my feet & rushed outside straight thru' the sliding screen door which I should have opened first! The fire was extinguished & damage surveyed. We thought it may provide a few laughs so we reignited the boxcar ( which was damaged beyond repair anyway ) & took a few photos. The loco only sustained minor damage in that the heat had 'desoldered' the coal boards & burnt the coupler. The boxcar was written off after salvaging the rear bogie. The track sustained some burnt sleepers. So, the lessons learnt are to ensure that the fuel tap is completely closed & use a CO2 ( bike inflator ) to properly extinguish the wicks! We've had many a laugh since at this misadventure. Claus Kleinhapl HOW TO COOK YOUR RHEIDOL AND TRAIN Derek says that there is a lesson in here for anyone running a meths loco. If you are not aware, the loco Rheidol as we know it was originally built as per these photos by W G Bagnall for a customer in Brazil. After the order was cancelled it was sold on to work on the Plynlimon & Hafan Tramway and called Talybont. Finally, after that line closed, it was regauged and sold to the Vale Of Rheidol Railway where it gained the name we now know the loco as. Claus takes up the story: The ARCHANGEL Rheidol 'Treze de Mayo ' was P A G E 5 It is a sad task to write about the loss of a friend, but Roger’s recent passing needs to be Roger Pattie and marked and I think he would have appreciated a piece in TBM. Roger was one of our unsung heroes in 16mm as he Bigglesbahn: really helped to demonstrate the attraction of live steam to a wide audience through his and their drivers and most of least one set of valve gear and exhibition layouts. The name us without radio control opted rods. This was named “Bigglesbahn” shows Roger’s not to make the hair-raising “Ramoth” after one of the fire- dry sense of humour. It was so descent back down to the breathing dragons in Anne nicknamed because Roger flew lower level. One of his very MacCaffrey’s “Dragonflight” for BEA then BA as a early locomotives was a radio series of books and a number commercial pilot before he controlled Merlin Maestro of his other locos, including retired. which remained a favourite another black Fowler “Canth”, and in later years, when Roger also had names of dragons. He joined the 16mm had largely switched to 45mm People who have read the Association in the mid 1980’s gauge, it was often his engine books know why the official and built a railway in his very of choice to take to steam ups name of the “Bigglesbahn” was challenging garden at on other lines. “High Reaches”. Whitchurch on Thames. This had a very steep slope and so Roger had wide interests in Roger took his tracks to many the railway was initially on a narrow gauge and was venues, including Reading and ledge by the back door which particularly fascinated by coal Exeter, but the annual Roger’s veteran Mer- was then extended to a much firing. I think that his John Welshpool and Llanfair Railway lin Maestro visiting higher loop on the top lawn Shawe/Roundhouse coal fired gala was the most successful the AVR [Photo Dave connected by a fearsome Fowler 0-6-2 was probably his venue.
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