TRAIN ORDERS – XTRA September 2019

CALDER NORTHERN GROUP

                                            XtraTRAIN ORDERS September 2019                           

 

 

CALDER NORTHER FREIGHT CAR DECALS                                                  

 

Hi everyone,

 

Further to the information given in the last Train Orders concerning Calder Northern decals we are now in a position to give much more details for these items.

 

Alf Milliken has kindly produced decal sheets showing the Calder Northern wording and logo for affixing to freight cars. These will be available in two sizes These decals are being produced with the kind permission of Steve Park who held the IPR for the decals. The permission given by Steve and the efforts of Alf in making these available to members is much appreciated. Thank you, gentlemen!

Alf brought along the early samples of the decals to show members at our Group Meet on Saturday just gone and these decals included those showing the Calder Northern name and car numbers which can be printed in white or black or even in a range of other colours should they be required. The sheet containing the double rose logo will be available as a separate sheet.

 

Alf has provided a pricing structure for these items and all orders should be sent to him by email or accepted in person in the Clubroom. Email contact details are in the Directory.

 

Pricing is as follows: –

• Normal black printed decals – HO or N scale – £3 per sheet (A4 size sheet with enough decals for both sides of 5 vehicles)
• White printed decals or any special decals printed on white decal paper (double rose logo etc) – HO or N scale – £5 per A4 sheet as above.

 

Please note that if you request postage of your order, decals will not be sent folded and therefore a fixed price postal rate based on Royal Mail ‘Large letter rate’ of £2 first class or £1.80 second class will be charged for orders up to a dozen sheets.

Decals delivered for collection at Crewe Heritage Centre will be delivered free of charge.

 

Currently available are:

• Data/Build Year data sheets (essentially blocks of numbers from 0-12 representing inches/months and 0-99 representing feet/years) in either Railroad Roman or Railroad Gothic, these being the two most common fonts for this.
• Random car numbers in the 1000-100000 range.
• Calder Northern wording and CNOR reporting number decals.
• Locomotive warning marks such as “fire extinguisher”, “600 Volts” etc.
• County flags of the 4 counties that make up the Calder Northern Group – Cheshire, Cumberland, Lancashire and Westmorland (no wording on these just the logo).

 

If anyone wants a specific car number or simple text/logo I will do that FOC as I have a couple of part-used decal sheets that can be used. Anyone with specific artwork is welcome to supply me with a copy and I will try to replicate it, although there may be an additional cost involved.

Details given above have been provided by Alf. He also says he can provide decals in ‘O’ scale if required but prices will be quoted for any requirements.

 

If anyone has any questions or suggestions concerning the decals then please communicate directly with Alf Milliken but include c.c. to me so that your committee are also aware of your thoughts and suggestions. Thank you.