This is the home page.
I model primarily British Railways, 1960s vintage in P4, using a DCC system for control. Some glimpses of my railway can be seen here. I have also an ongoing interest in 3'6" gauge stock from Africa, this one I was looking at 1:87 (H0m) and/or P48scale. However recent arrival of a South African GE diesel sold as H0 but proved by measurement to be modelled accurately to 4mm scale has changed that! To see what spurred this interest have a look at pictures of some African Garratts. Then look at the U20C project page.
The social dimension of my modelling comes from the Scalefour Society and from the Model Electronic Railway Group (MERG).
My odds and ends pages hold a number of items that may be of interest. Usually these have been initiated by discussions on the E-mail lists I take part in.
Rail built buffer stops - August 2008
Scan of an article by Malcolm Cross, from MRC 1968 or thereabouts.
Gatwick Express - March 2008
Keep on top of your liveries with 192.com
Detail photos of a freightliner bogie, a bit rusty but never mind.
Some pictures and data on the couplers used by the LNER, SR and BR on main line corridor coaches.
Wagon Couplings - September 2004
Drawings showing the standard dimensions of British hook and link couplings.
Hornby Pullman Coach - May 2003
Some photos showing P4 conversion for these coaches.
A page showing my trial installation of the new Masokits sprung bogie with pin-point bearings.
A quick hint on P4 conversion of Hornby Stanier bogies.
Discussion of suspension systems for 4 wheel wagons has led to ideas for using narrow packings under each W-iron. This is a return to some of the earliest recommended methods for P4.
Michael Clarks Masokits parts offer an alternative source for wagon
springing and lots
of other bits, download a .zip file of
his September 2009 catalogue here.
Unzip it into a directory of its own then open in your browser
(offline) starting with
index.htm
NB. The Masokits catalogue has now been included fully in the S4 Society hosted traders pages so this copy will not be updated when the 2010 edition is published.
Review of RTR springing unit here.
Elevated Signal Cabins on the Midland.
This one is in response to a request for information in January
1999. As copies of
Precision are not easily found I thought this
photo may be useful.
Please tell me what you think about my webpages and how I might improve them.
Copyright Keith Norgrove.
Last revised: 24 June 2010
