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tramcar trev said:
Very nifti. Of course if I was doing this I would have to have "Malcolm's Tram" on the disused siding....

Cheers Trev - what's Malcolm's Tram like then?
 
Melbourne trams, model trams & music by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra - cringy moments in the plot, but desperately funny to a model tram fan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlaA_TPMXqY

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Dtsteam said:
Melbourne trams, model trams & music by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra - cringy moments in the plot, but desperately funny to a model tram fan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlaA_TPMXqY

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Damn funny, a lovely film with darned good belly laughs. Antipodean filming at its best. Goes in the same section as 'Crocodile Dundee ' (only first one) and 'Priscilla Queen of the Desert'
 
Ill have to get a copy Mike:rolf::rolf: Could do with cheering up.
 
Malcolm has some brilliant scenes, I have seen the Honda they used in the movie, interesting engineering to get it to work.
 
Yes the Honda is at the Film & sound Archive.... Incidentally a great source of material for model research....
I enjoyed the movie and I'd have done the same thing had I been left alone in Preston Workshops.....
Here's a link to some torrent files to download the movie FOR FREE!!!
http://torrentz.eu/d0a8a87e8ee62daf29063d124abfd5699e71db20
 
Thanks Trev - I'll send that link to my son as he has unlimited download!
 
hi tammayo.....i will pm u later on tonite...abt yr work....scatchbuilting,,,,
 
tramcar trev said:
Yes the Honda is at the Film & sound Archive.... Incidentally a great source of material for model research....
I enjoyed the movie and I'd have done the same thing had I been left alone in Preston Workshops.....
Here's a link to some torrent files to download the movie FOR FREE!!!
http://torrentz.eu/d0a8a87e8ee62daf29063d124abfd5699e71db20

My son did manage to download it - took more than 24 hours to do it (whoever was uploading must have been able to peel an orange in his pocket). Look forward to sticking the DVD into the player when I have some spare time!

Thanks again Trev!
 
beavercreek said:
.......... I use cuprinal 5* fluid. It is clear, doesn't affect the nice 'aged' grey patina or stained finish, is spirit based so it soaks in really well and really protects it. .......

Tried to get some Cuprinol 5* - needle in a haystack out in the West (even though Cuprinol is a registered company over here) - ended up with Protim clear. It does the same job (accordinging to its' own promotional blurb) and I used to buy Protimized timber back in the UK as an alternative to Tanalised when needing to preserve the colour of the wood.

Time will tell!
 
Hi Paul - yes (in a word) just downscaling:rolf::rolf:

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Of course I didn't build it all by myself. The trams were never built alas.
 
Its the bottom station of the Shipley Glen Tramway. I had the idea of a connecting line (same gauge as the funicular - 500mm) from the bottom station with the River Aire footbridge crossing from Saltaire - huge tourist potential. I got the new buildings and line through planning but supervening events - end of the £50 Light Railway Orders, road crossing and the Transport & Works Act all meant that things were too difficult for just a few people to cope with.

The depot forecourt has some lines laid, and the Charitable Trust that now runs it, occassionally trundles out a replica 1895 Glen Tramway car that I built. I made the Depot into a Museum (which I had planned to do) to celebrate the centenary in 1995.

All the steel (including the corrugated) is totally recycled material. Happy times.
 
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