Sebastopol, an F7, S7 interlude

Out of your comfort zone! That’s amazing invisible solder you must be using! Never seen joints so clean!
Great work that.
Watched thread with interest.
Cheers

 

Very imposing for a tender chassis !

JB.

 

That really is very nice
John

 

Perhaps the trickiest bit was forming the 2 davits and adding the section of tube at the top. If those aren't the most vulnerable pieces I've ever seen........

Looking nice Richard, I need to add some photos of mine for comparison!

Regards those pesky davits, I've drilled two small holes and soldered some micro tube in so when it's painted I can glue them in after Warren has spattered it in his thick paint he uses.......

 

Superbly built, as always, but what are the davits for?

 

Back in ye olde worlde days, horseless carriages did not have brakes, only the engine.

So, to alert the driver of an emergency a rope was passed along the carriages and linked to the engine....externally.

The tender support posts lifted the rope clear of the coal space.

Communication Cord by Steve, on Flickr

 

Thanks Richard and Mick.

 

Not if you put a lifeboat on the davits!

 

It is, but I suspect the clearance is to load 'under' it from a staging; anyway, that's what I read somewhere, could also be a load of horlicks

 

Isn’t it arranged so the wire on the tender stays in line with the chain on the coaches?

I suppose the logic of that depends on where the bell is mounted?

Atb
Simon

 

Actually not too far back into ye olde world. The topic of when the "new" system was fitted cropped up in the Caledonian Railway Association forum some years ago. At the time I had just got some drawings of their 48ft coaches from the NRM Microfiche archive and I happened to notice that the old system only was shown on one set of drawings from 1899 and the new system was shown on another set of drawings dated 1900. The Caledonian were quite good at implementing new features so this is probably a good pointer for the changeover to the new coach emergency brake system. The old system might have carried on for a while into the Edwardian period. Here's the pointer into the thread

Passenger cord communication - Caledonian Railway Association Forum

Jim.

 

The emergency pull rope thing is something I’ve studiously ignored on the BG coaches I’ve built. I cite lack of clear references to understand how it was fitted, and happily the client doesn’t seem too bothered by the lack.

Following this build fairly closely, as one of these beggars is sitting on the shelf waiting for some love. I’m not sure I really want to tackle it, despite the comprehensive instructions.

 

Lovely tender but I am surprised to see the spring hanger stirrup irons cast as solid lumps instead of open below the end of the spring. Looks a bit chunky, unlike the rest of the model.