{"id":7120,"date":"2025-06-08T21:48:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T20:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7120"},"modified":"2025-06-08T21:48:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T20:48:25","slug":"a-slight-diversion-blacksmith-lms-long-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7120","title":{"rendered":"A slight diversion &#8211; Blacksmith LMS Long Low"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While searching for something else I came across a kit for an LMS Long Low by the long defunct Blacksmith Models.I had a quick look in the box and was pleasantly surprised to find that it contained a set of wheels presumably added by the previous owner. I bought it along with a number of other kits a few years ago before we move up to North Yorkshire. A closer look also revealed quite an interesting and I suspect quite advanced for its time underframe etch. I didn&#8217;t take photos of it in the flat but I was intrigued as to just how it folded up and couldn&#8217;t resist having a go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1-Blacksmith-LMS-Long-Low-Underframe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"432\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1-Blacksmith-LMS-Long-Low-Underframe-1024x432.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7121\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1-Blacksmith-LMS-Long-Low-Underframe-1024x432.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1-Blacksmith-LMS-Long-Low-Underframe-300x127.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1-Blacksmith-LMS-Long-Low-Underframe-768x324.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1-Blacksmith-LMS-Long-Low-Underframe-500x211.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1-Blacksmith-LMS-Long-Low-Underframe.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Blacksmith Long Low Underframe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is just folded without any solder applied yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While searching for something else I came across a kit for an LMS Long Low by the long defunct Blacksmith Models.I had a quick look in the box and was pleasantly surprised to find that it contained a set of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7120\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blacksmith-lms-long-low"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7122,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7120\/revisions\/7122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}