RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted October 7, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 7, 2017 One of my all time favourite layouts, CK. Truly captures the look and feel of the 'Northern' end of the dear old S&D. Inspirational. Norman speaks very fondly of his visits there and still chuckles as he relates the story of his 'narrow squeak' with an adder on the embankment.....Didn't see it so absorbed was he in the approaching 7F Rob. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted October 7, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 7, 2017 What an outstanding layout! Yet another inspirational piece of work. Thank you for sharing. I don't ghink we'd tire of photos of this; any chance of a video? Unfortunately, I don't think I've ever taken any video of the layout, unless someone took some at a show sometime. I will look up some more photos when I get a chance, though, if you like. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim V Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 Found some of my pictures Captain. A rare derailment! The lack of backscene detracts - maybe a future improvement? 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim V Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 Video? A simple search of Youtube: 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted October 7, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 7, 2017 Found some of my pictures Captain. A rare derailment! Engine Wood (2).JPG Oh dear, that was unfortunate, especially with that loco. I can't remember that particular incident, but a derailment of that nature, with that particular loco, was actually pretty rare. Clearly replacement buses would have had to have been laid on for the rest of that day, whilst the Bath Road breakdown vans attended the site (having to run to site via Mangotsfield, Bath Green Park (reverse), Midford, Radstock (to run round) and Midford South Jct, all due to not being able to access the site of the derailment via the direct route via Hallatrow and Camerton, due to the rest of 53804's train occupying the tunnel. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted October 7, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 7, 2017 Video? A simple search of Youtube: Thanks, I do recall that being posted there, but had forgotten about it. I must point out that the sequence involving the very clean 08 represents 'the staff' being naughty whilst 'the management' was away on lunch. Despite having been given extensive and detailed training in the use of proper (3 link) couplings, one or two of them actually smuggled their own stock (with tension lock couplings) into the show and whipped them out whilst I had popped off in search of a pasty. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted October 7, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 7, 2017 The lack of backscene detracts - maybe a future improvement? I quite agree, and a few years ago I did start the process of producing one, but the project stalled quite early on and other priorities took over. I did get as far as going to the area around Engine Wood to take some views of the Cam Valley, upon which to base the backscene. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim V Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 Another picture from the same show. I liked this view up the lane 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted October 7, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 7, 2017 Another picture from the same show. Looks like TrainWest at Melksham, I think, about five years ago? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim V Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 Pictures dated April 2012 - could be Trainwest. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Captain Kernow Posted October 11, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted October 11, 2017 'Engine Wood' was also featured in BRM a few years ago, with some excellent photos taken by Andy York. My thanks to Andy for sending me a fresh set of the photos that he took, as I must have mislaid my original copies. Here are some of those images. 82044, the last BR Standard Class 3 tank, and then based at Bristol Barrow Road, peeps out from behind the yard offices, waiting for the 'Right Away' on a local stopper to Templecombe: It's Friday 4th March 1966 and 48706, one of the last remaining operational 8Fs at Bath Green Park shed, arrives at Engine Wood with it's brake van, ready to take one of the last trains of loaded coal wagons from the local colliery to Portishead Power station. The loco is a Comet kit, which consisted of the old Hornby body with Comet detailing etches, Comet chassis and tender: More photos in due course. 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted October 11, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 11, 2017 (edited) 'Engine Wood' was also featured in BRM a few years ago, with some excellent photos taken by Andy York. My thanks to Andy for sending me a fresh set of the photos that he took, as I must have mislaid my original copies. Here are some of those images. 82044, the last BR Standard Class 3 tank, and then based at Bristol Barrow Road, peeps out from behind the yard offices, waiting for the 'Right Away' on a local stopper to Templecombe: It's Friday 4th March 1966 and 48706, one of the last remaining operational 8Fs at Bath Green Park shed, arrives at Engine Wood with it's brake van, ready to take one of the last trains of loaded coal wagons from the local colliery to Portishead Power station. The loco is a Comet kit, which consisted of the old Hornby body with Comet detailing etches, Comet chassis and tender: More photos in due course. Edit - sorry for duplication - clumsy fingers I suspect! Edited October 12, 2017 by Captain Kernow 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted October 11, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 11, 2017 An 8F really does not offend at all........mmmmm...sure I can squeeze one in at Sheep Lane.. Rob. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Tim Dubya Posted October 11, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 11, 2017 'Engine Wood' was also featured in BRM a few years ago, with some excellent photos taken by Andy York. This edition of BRM led a to discussion in certain bookshop about a signal box built by a contractor from Bath whose name escapes me... I can't remember if I made a purchase that day but I'm sure I may have received biscuits in any case. Absolutely stunning pictures by Andy of a brilliant creation. Can't wait for the next installment. Thank you for sharing Captain. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Tim Dubya Posted October 11, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 11, 2017 An 8F really does not offend at all........mmmmm...sure I can squeeze one in at Sheep Lane.. Rob. Course you can Malcolm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Captain Kernow Posted October 12, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted October 12, 2017 (edited) Here are a few more of Andy Y's photos. 82044 is framed by the road bridge as she arrives at Engine Wood with a Down stopper. The loco has a Bachmann body, with modified livery to reflect the fact that 82044 didn't have lining on the bunker and had the number on the cab side rather than the bunker, and has a modified Comet 76XXX chassis, which I had to build in the end, as I couldn't get the Bachmann chassis to run smoothly: A bit later in the day, 73051 arrives with a Down semi-fast from Bristol TM to Bournemouth, next booked stop Radstock. She hasn't got the road ahead to Midford South Jct yet, however, due to a late-running Up train: An Andrew Barclay 0-4-0ST emerges from Engine Wood Tunnel with a train of loaded mineral wagons from the local colliery, to be berthed in the Exchange Siding at Engine Wood, prior to being worked forward by a BR loco. Due to the poor condition of the track in the colliery, BR locos were not allowed in there, so the resident NCB locos were 'plated' to run over BR metals between the colliery and Engine Wood: Edited October 12, 2017 by Captain Kernow 26 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr2 Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 Beautiful photos of a beautiful layout - wish I'd got to see this one, other than in BRM - & on screen! Wouldn't it be marvellous if we could get 4mm loco's to produce 'in scale' smoke like that - especially if it smelt right too...!! Keith Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
caradoc Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 Never mind an 8F and 16T mineral wagons, how about a Western and MGR hoppers as per Writhlington Colliery in 1973 ?! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Tim Dubya Posted October 12, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 12, 2017 Never mind an 8F and 16T mineral wagons, how about a Western and MGR hoppers as per Writhlington Colliery in 1973 ?! Ooooo fablos ideawl Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leeb Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 Nice detail love it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted October 12, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 12, 2017 (edited) how about a Western and MGR hoppers as per Writhlington Colliery in 1973 ?! Oh yes, I do remember Radstock during the period of the early 1970s. This was mainly going to the S&D Trust's open days there (or were they still the S&D Circle in those days?). There was usually an 08 diesel shunter in the loco shed, alongside 53808, which at the time seemed like an almost impossible restoration task to my uninitiated eyes, despite the seemingly prevailing optimism back then. I never saw any rakes of MGR wagons, though, although I've since seen published photos. Together with local friends, who included Not Jeremy and Tim V of this forum, we explored what was left of the S&D during those years, right up until the line was lifted in 1976, together with what was left of the adjacent GWR station and goods yard. I don't have any BR blue era stock in OO, nor do I have any MGR wagons, but a few years ago, John F (Re6/6) did come round with his green 'Western', plus a few other items, and we ran a few hydraulics: My Constructeon Class 14 poses next to a then-new Hattons/Heljan example: I had recently purchased this Silver Fox Class 22 from a chap at the Exeter show who was thinning out his collection: There was another occasion when John came round with some even more modern motive power, from the privatisation era, so I'll dig some of those photos out later. Edited October 12, 2017 by Captain Kernow 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted October 12, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 12, 2017 (edited) Apologies, another duplicate post due to clumsy fingers. Edited October 12, 2017 by Captain Kernow Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Tim Dubya Posted October 12, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 12, 2017 Together with local friends, who included Not Jeremy and Tim V of this forum, we explored what was left of the S&D during those years, right up until the line was lifted in 1976, together with what was left of the adjacent GWR station and goods yard. I do remember a Circle event over a weekend where a whole cow was spit roasted over a fire, viewing this from the rather delightful Exmouth Junction built concrete footbridge. Seemed special to me at the time, not knowing that it was in fact just bog standard Radstock fast food. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Captain Kernow Posted October 13, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted October 13, 2017 Pending the retrieval of the privatisation era photos alluded to earlier, here are a couple more of Andy York's photos. One thing that I like, apart from the realistic-looking exhaust from the steam locos, is the grey, leaden sky, which adds to the atmosphere of the S&D in decline, in my opinion. Ivan Petersfield and his chum Norman Lockhart were at Engine Wood when 73051 of Bath Green Park shed passed through with a semi-fast. Ivan, of course, was standing on the nice, dry lane that crosses the railway by the station for this photo: Given that Ivan had the car (a rather fetching Rolls Royce in British Racing Green, no less), and that Norman relied on him for a lift, he had Norman clamber down the embankment for this shot. Norman later said in his memoirs that it was just as well that he worked in a chemist's shop, as he needed a lot of cream to rub into the scratches he got from all the brambles at the bottom of the bank: 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted October 13, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 13, 2017 Lovely shots Tim, I saw it at Trainwest and thought it caught the unhurried charm of a country branch beautifully, plus your co-operators performance drawing a raised eyebrow for some novel shunts Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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