Thanks John, Adam... guys!
I have been in contact with John Cruxon, the Foremarke Hall Locomotive Manager and he says he'll have a look for details. Cripes! Reversing thing yup! Pipework along boiler is "the exhaust pipe from the Vacuum Ejector" for the brakes! (I type this trying to sound like I understand!)
Anyway, what really works is photos.
The way it works is that people (me too) take pictures of steam trains, but... a lot of those pictures are understandably at a distance, front angle, nice steam.... and why not !???
Uuuuunfortunately for me these lack the detail for the "fiddley" bits! (And yes, at some point in the new year perhaps I should get off my dot dot dot and go and look at a real modified Hall ! I think I shall.)
What's needed then is what my friend (who
is a train buff, unlike me) called "Train Porn" - naughty close-up pictures taken "under the skirts" and of all the nice curvey bits and pipes! the sexy little details...
What "porn" I can find is still a bit blurry and if we're talking "under skirt" stuff, it's usually a bit dark and mysterious.
If you have any such detailed photos of 6960 Raveningham, 6984 Owsden, 6989 Wrightwick, 6990 Witherslack, 6998 Burton Agnes, 7903 Foremarke or even 7927 Willington... Halls, I'd love to see them.
Any closeups of the more intricate areas, and even bits on benches! This may be sacreligeous but, the less actual steam in the photos the... er...
My email if you want to send anything is
crayons(at)twoflower(dot)fsnet(dot)co(dot)uk
just use the real symbols for at and dot. If you could put something like "Train Photos" in the subject line I can see it among all the spam!
As I mentioned, when finished I will post the code somewhere or send it to anyone interested. I publish under GNU licensing so it's free, and so is the software I use for rendering the image (see
www.povray.org).
I suspect you guys prefer oily metal to pixels but...
cheers!
Olly