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When I was doing some preliminary research or month or so ago, I found that Faller and the other continental kit makers did some impressive looking MPD kit. It may be a bit too central european for a British layout though. I too could use a concrete coaling tower.

David

 

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I followed up the Walthers lead and found this model on their website. Squinting a little and bearing in mind the small image, it doesn't look a million miles off being suitable for a British model. I'm sorely tempted...

Walthers concrete coaling tower

David

 

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I turned up this page using google.

List of LNER plans available for a fee?

A coaling tower is on the list. The site itself looks like an interesting resource but I have no idea if it is any good or not? Has anybody here used them?

David

 

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I was checking out the times for the forthcoming Model Railway Club exhibition at Alexandra Palace when I noticed that one of their promotional photos is of the coaling tower on "Gresley Beat". If you can't get to the show, check out the photo here:
MRC promo page for 2006 model railway festival

David

 

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>the february issue of british railway modeller
Thanks for the tip.

By the way, I saw the Townstreet coaling tower at Warley. It looks very nice. I think the price was in the £60s.

David

 

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>From your view of it at Warley Dave, roughly how tall is it??
About 5 or 6 inches I think. I didn't think it was as tall as many photos would suggest. I could be way off the mark here. When you see something in isolation in a fairly large space, it can "grow" quite a bit bigger when it comes home.

I mean have you ever seen furniture advertised in the space available in most modern houses?

David

 

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>I would estimate this to be about 7 inches overall.
I wouldn't argue with that.

>Townstreet don't appear to have a website.
I had a look a few months ago and came to the same conclusion. I guess they're too busy to need the exposure. Sometimes you have too many enquiries to deal with.

David

 

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>Height 242mm (9 1/2")
>5 or 6 ins.... I could be way off the mark here. When you see something in isolation in a fairly large space, it can "grow" quite a bit bigger when it comes home.

I plead my "seen out of context" defence

David