... A1 pacifics, around 1925. One morning, the LNER upper echelons gathered at King's Cross to watch a Castle attempt to haul an express out of the station and up the bank, a notorious task which even Gresley's pacific had big trouble with. Cue much joking as to the eventual outcome amongst watchers. Then silence as Collett's masterpiece glided out of the station and disappeared up the bank with scarcely a hitch! Re 4-4 -0s, here's a snap of a Dukedog 4-4 -0 chassis I built: 528_102003_380000000.jpg It has twin compensation beams on the drivers, and for the bogie a single centre bolt which passes through a slot in the bogie; a nut on the bolt controls the height of the chasses front. Although the bolt can slide in the slot, the friction between nut and bogie helps guide the front around curves. Nigel posted: 11 Oct 2019 03:15 from: Matt M. Hi Howard, The silver carbon pick-up is the idea of Dave Nicholson from the S7 group. Dave migrated from P4 ...