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A few pictures taken this morning on the 2ft gauge North Hampshire Minerals and Forestry line near Andover.

Diesel No. 2 is seen forming up the train before departure with No. 143. Finally currently out of use No.7 was dragged from the shed for a photograph (shortly to be rebuilt).

Oooohhhh... nice Garratt!

Can I ask:
- Where did you get/how did you make the brass plate on the lubricator "box"?
- Where did you get/how did you make the skull and cross bones warning labels?

Excellent pics , they look real, stunning shots!

wow, great pics, and i love the weathering!
must try that on my l&b guards wagon

Thought they were real pictures at 1st.
There really good.

90733 wrote:Thought they were real pictures at 1st.
There really good.

So did I,really good pics and lovely Garrat

Great pics

will you be coming to the track on the 6th?

will

Some proper lovely grime there.

Oh excellent, someone else who believes locos and stock should be grimy- sometimes I think it's just me! Wonderful photos- more please!

What are the hoppers? I'm guessing commercial G scale, Bachmann? They look great with the Garratt anyway.

Thanks for your comments. I could probably have kept the resolution a little higher perhaps.

Tony - The brass plates are paper painted with humbrol enamel of a suitable colour after gluing on. They've survived ok for nearly a year now. The overhead line warning plate was printed on ordinary inkjet photo paper and is from a photograph I took of the plate on the tender of NG15 147 which is plinthed at Avontuur. The file is available on the 16mmngm yahoo group (look in photos; SAR NG15), or I can email the file at a size ready to print to anyone who wants one.

Will - I hope to be there on 6th, but I work a lot of weekends and will be abroad 4th and 5th, and that may run over to the 6th unfortunately. If I have time I might go to Wherwell tomorrow morning though if it isn't pouring...

The line doesn't actually go very far at the moment (only about 4 or 5 train lengths!), but will be extended in the near future. I'd like to have some informal running sessions eventually, though probably on weekdays.

Ian

Very Impressive.

Matt, the hoppers are Bachmann East Broad Top 1:20.3 scale, 45mm gauge, but fitted with 32mm gauge replacement wheels. They will go happily round 4'6" radius curves on 32mm. They have a central (metal) spine which the wheels run ouside of so bogie swivelling is limited.

The East Broad Top Railroad is interesting in itself: http://www.spikesys.com/EBT/

Theres also some youtube clips of it.

Coor, I was wondering- why have they taken a NGG16 garrat to Andover when I saw the first picture... Looks really really great and realistic!
Brill!

wow i thought it was real at first too! fantastic pics and great weathering!

Well, i'm just going to repeat what everyone else has just said:

Bl00dy Brilliant photos there!

Ta for the info on the hoppers- they look a lot better than most I've seen. Like it a lot- would love to visit someday. What are the future plans?

To sum my thoughts up:

Absolutley amazing!!!! it took me 5mins to realise it was a 16mm/ft lol!

So realistic and nice Photography skills =]