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Perhaps I may join the "party"!

 

I have had an interest in the GE since watching B-1s, Britannia's etc passing through my local station, Ingatestone, in the late 1950s. My Great Grandfather was a porter at the station and I have a couple of photos of him and the other members of staff at the station in GER days.

 

Until 2005 I was the Great Eastern Railway Society Journal Editor and only by giving up the "hobby" of Editor, have I been able to return to the more relaxing hobby of model railways.

 

I'm currently building a model of Colchester loco in 4mm OO gauge in a 20ft x 10ft shed. The model is virtually to scale, using a BR plan of the early 1950s including the country end of the station platforms and all the loco shed roads and sidings.

 

I’ve used SMP plain track and C&L components for the switches/cross overs and the first 8ft of track has been laid and I’m currently (to me) doing boring bit – the wiring up stage! The next 8ft of track is not quite so complex, but does include the double junction linking the up/down Norwich with the up/down Clacton lines.

 

Much of my loco stock dates back to kit building of the 1970s, so I have continued with DC and not “embraced†DCC, but it has resulted in “lots†of isolation switches!

 

If of interest I’ll post a few “progress†photos.

 

Regards

Paul

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Perhaps I may join the "party"!

 

I have had an interest in the GE since watching B-1s, Britannia's etc passing through my local station, Ingatestone, in the late 1950s. My Great Grandfather was a porter at the station and I have a couple of photos of him and the other members of staff at the station in GER days.

 

If of interest I’ll post a few “progress†photos.

 

Regards

Paul

 

Yes, please on the photos! I have been known to have a jar at The Star in Ingatestone...........

 

Best, Pete.

 

 

 

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Sorry posted the pic's but the text seams to have been lost!

 

A few photos of progress on my Colchester layout - The track layout is roughly to scale, the only change is to the platforms will be on a curve - it is not my intention to model all of the station, just the Clacton bay platform for operation interest.

 

All of the shed area will be modelled to scale and one of the reasons for choosing Colchester shed, was the site's long and thin, ideal for a 20ft x 10ft shed.

 

The baseboards are 9mm ply, which I don't intend fixing to the frame until all the wiring is working and tested!

 

Regards

Paul

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Thanks! Look forward to following progress - nice shed btw! I have a basement which is convenient in case of tornados (they said to me "you don't get them in New York area", ###### me a small one went past the first year we were here...scared the crap out of me).

 

 

Any interesting loco's/stock there? Difficult to see.

 

I wonder whether anyone has attempted to model Shenfield? Quite interesting as a junction complete with a duck under loop line to Southend.......

 

Best, Pete.

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Pete

 

Attached are a few photos of some of the locos for the layout.

 

Right up to the end of steam in East Anglia in 1962 there was a very large proportion of former GER locos and rolling stock running and my layout suffers from too high percentage of rtr LNER/BR types.

 

The E-4 2-4-0 and F-5 2-4-2T are Stephen Poole kits and the J-69 a Wills kit, built many years ago and all need a bit of tlc, when time permits.

 

The K-2 was the only member of the class to be painted in LNER green after WW2 and operate on the GE. Unfortunately, the livery was short lived due to an incident at Stratford shed, when the loco ended up in the river. It was sent for repair and returned in black livery.

 

I like researching photos/livery’s hence the B-1 (kit built before the Mainline rtr model became available) in LNER green/BR in full on the tender an E prefix number.

 

The N-7 was built with an EM chassis, which now needs to be replaced as I’ve reverted to 00 gauge. With the other kits I was able just to replace the axles without altering the chassis!

 

Some of the current rtr locos can be "justified" on an East Anglia layout:

 

41200 was loaned from Bangor for the 1949 and 1950 summer services on the Aldeburgh branch after an incident, when the local branch engine set fire to the golf course. Unfortunately the Chairman of the Railway Executive was on the train en-route to play a game of golf! The loco had BR numbers, but still retained LMS on the tank sides. I will "sort" the valve gear, but can’t match the skills of "Coachman", where he has "cut-and-shunt" using a Bachmann Ivatt 2-6-0, which has better boiler fittings etc.

 

Two Class J-72 69012 and 69013 were allocated to Ipswich in 1950 and the Bachmann 2-8-0 was a "must" as it was allocated to Colchester and even came with a Colchester shed plate.

 

Regards

 

Paul

 

 

 

 

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I asked in another thread but I hope no one minds if I ask here.

Did class 45's Peaks ever operate over former GER lines? I'm not well up on diesels I'm afraid..........were any based at Stratford?

 

Best, Pete.

 

 

Pete

 

I also tend to loose interest with diesel motive power after the mid 1960s.

 

From memory ,the GE main line diesel fleet went from Class 40 to Class 47, however, Straford always seamed to be be short of Class 47s and I understand in 1974 it was decided to trial Class 45 45006 Honourable Artillery Company normally based at Tinsley.

 

Dr Ian Allen photographed a trial empty stock train at Diss. "No results were made public and 45006 was required to enter Stratford Works for attention before returning home."

 

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Paul

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Class 45's not used regularly in East Anglia until very late in their lives as nobody was trained to drive them.

 

However, a trawl through the Railway Observer would no doubt find a reference to March drivers learning them (early 80's ?). From then on, they were used on fill-in out and home turns from Whitemoor.

 

HTH

 

Andy

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Further to my last post in August, progress has been somewhat slow on the layout; point building and wiring not my best skills! So a "play" with the Bachmann Craven dmu was in order and attached are few photos of my efforts.

 

I've removed the ohl flashes (using meth's on a cocktail stick wrapped cotton), added a driver and a few passengers - I had to chop their feet off due to the thick floor, which I never feel good about!

 

I close coupled the two vehicles by removing one of the corridor connectors and replacing with a thin rubber section. A dummy screw coupling is used to couple the vehicles and I also connected up the pipes. I'm using large radius Peco points in the fiddle yard and about 4ft radius points on the crossovers on the scenic section and it runs fine.

 

The biggest problem was removing the red tail lights - I ended up covering the LED with black paint - overspill helped to tone down the white light. The red LED is the lower one seen in first photo, but not yet had the application of black paint.

 

The bodies were easy enough to take off, starting from the corridor end with the help of thin offcuts of plasticard to hold the body clear of the clips and the drivers section will come out with a little "force". I was going to change the destination blinds, but as I can't read them at 2 feet away, they can stay as-is!

 

All that is now required is a light weathering, to match the 1957 dated photo by Bernard Walsh taken at Bures on the Stour Valley line; was this the first working of a Craven unit on the Colchester-Cambridge line?

 

Regards

Paul

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Class 37's were also used on GE main lines I believe?

First diesels I remember out at Shenfield were (what we now call) 31's (incl. the two special coloured ones), 37's and slightly later 40's. Funny thing is I got that book "Ilford to Shenfield" and it contains a photo of a green Hymek at Shenfield station! Unheard of!

 

Nice work, Paul G.!

 

Best, Pete.

 

 

 

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I've been redirected here by PaulG and I hope that because I live firmly in LT&SR territory (5 minutes walk from a c2c station) I am not trespassing so to speak.

I love the 'Eastern and Eastern region and am looking forward very much to the forthcoming Hornby (black) L1 and B17. Recently invested in a Cravens as PaulG knows and thanks Paul for the info re close coupling. I think though that I will stick to the Kaydees - I shudder to take a saw to such an exquisite model. My Heljan BTH is also a cracking model in my estimation (see below).

My current layout Hawthorn Town is NER inspired but I am now tempted to change the station signs from tangerine to dark blue so that I can swap rolling stock fleets between the regions - a Jeckyl and Hyde layout with lift off "signature" structures (e.g signal box, etc).

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