talbotsteve Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 Thought as I have very few posts I'd come on with some photos of my old railway based on a reopened Tintern station, and as it holds a special place for me I put Parkend on the other side of the room. I sold the railway a couple of years ago unfinished mores the pity as we thought we had sold our house. Long story short we hadn't and I miss this railway immensely. I really had the opportunity to run what I wanted and had a glorious collection of Locos. Any way on with the pics. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
talbotsteve Posted November 17, 2012 Author Share Posted November 17, 2012 Here are a few of Parkend. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted November 19, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 19, 2012 Nice use of contemporary views for the backscene! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
talbotsteve Posted November 19, 2012 Author Share Posted November 19, 2012 Thanks, just wish I'd taken them further around for better forest shots. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 Re Parkend, certainly unmistakable - I like the Goods Shed, and the branch to Marsh Sidings - it couldn't be anywhere else!! Nice one!! Nice use of contemporary views for the backscene! I agree, it portrays the contemporary scene at Parkend certainly, as the Signal Box is in the current DFR position, instead of across the road as in S&W and BR days. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
talbotsteve Posted November 24, 2012 Author Share Posted November 24, 2012 Thanks for the reply buddy, if I wasn't having another crack at 3rd rail Southern I'd have just built this again, loved every minute of using it!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
talbotsteve Posted May 3, 2013 Author Share Posted May 3, 2013 Well, the 3rd rail has been binned and now 3 weeks in I am back in the Forest!! The question of how to get from Parkend to Tintern has another answer too, how? Well you now go via Titfield!!! I had the good fortune to book a cheap week with the family in feb at whitemead park in Parkend, highly recommended!! And got into photographing Parkend and Tintern in detail, pics below. The Titfield angle is my massive love of both this film and the 14xx tanks, so decided the dead section at one end would be a loose representation of Titfield station with the run round and the "engine/carraige shed" location. So I now have tintern, out via the river bridge into tintern tunnel, which then comes out into trees round a bend into Parkend. Then leaving Parkend round a corner into a very small (and not very prototypical I might add) version of Titfield, which then leads round another bend through an interpretation of Brockwier bridge and back into Tintern. So some photos of the real thing and some of the railway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
talbotsteve Posted May 3, 2013 Author Share Posted May 3, 2013 And now the Layout, I'm not happy with the Wye river bridge, I had used the Peco plate girder sides but am now looking out for some Hornby elevated track sidewalls. Parkend first. The Wye bridge. And Tintern. Pictures of Titfield to follow. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
talbotsteve Posted May 3, 2013 Author Share Posted May 3, 2013 Titfield, now I know the track plan isn't correct, this is due to two reasons, one is that I don't have the space, and two, if any railway was to replicate Titfield they may have the same issue and this is how it could/may be done. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
talbotsteve Posted May 4, 2013 Author Share Posted May 4, 2013 Overall view of the room, the Wye bridge is in the foreground, Tintern on the left, Parkend on the right, and Titfield in the distance. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Prism Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 Why the dark mushroom body colour on the buildings at Parkend and Tintern? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
talbotsteve Posted May 4, 2013 Author Share Posted May 4, 2013 Colours of the Severn and Wye Railway Company, the company that built/ran the Lydney to Coleford and Chepstow to Monmouth railways. Steve. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
talbotsteve Posted May 6, 2013 Author Share Posted May 6, 2013 Got round to laying the yard at Tintern now, so ballasting will start very soon!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted May 9, 2013 Share Posted May 9, 2013 Why the dark mushroom body colour on the buildings at Parkend and Tintern? Apparently the colour used on the current DFR isn't exactly correct to what the S&WJR used.... there was/is a locked Thread in this Section from someone who seemed most upset about it and viewed it as reason enough to boycott the DFR entirely IIRC. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
talbotsteve Posted May 9, 2013 Author Share Posted May 9, 2013 Whilst its the colour they use now, then its the colour l will use too. If it changes then heck l may change too..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 Whilst its the colour they use now, then its the colour l will use too. ...and why not? It's an attractive enough combination, to my eyes, even if it isn't (allegedly!) exactly correct.... The Pre-Grouping era is, after all, now at least 90 years ago, so there can't be many alive now who would have seen it first-hand, anyway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Gordon A Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 Did you go to Redbrook where the Monmouth line railway lattice bridge still crosses the Wye with a bolt on footbridge to the side which gives you access to the Boat Inn? Images from Google pictures - Redbrook. Gordon A Bristol Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
talbotsteve Posted May 23, 2013 Author Share Posted May 23, 2013 Yep pretty much been all over the branch but the sissy in me would not let me cross the bridge, heights and water, either or, for me don't mix!!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
talbotsteve Posted May 23, 2013 Author Share Posted May 23, 2013 Some up to date pictures, some of my newest purchase a 2 car 108 in green with whiskers a'la the unit on the Dean Forest railway, and some of my local user wagons. [/u Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 Very nice indeed, Steve, especially the 'Bug'. Is it DCC?. I never took much notice of DMUs back in my 'spotting days, but reading about the DFR's DMU vehicles in the old "Forest Venturer" DFR Magazine was always interesting. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
talbotsteve Posted May 24, 2013 Author Share Posted May 24, 2013 DCC ready only, I do hope to go DCC sound with everything eventually! Money permitting. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted May 24, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 24, 2013 I do like the girder bridge over the river! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
talbotsteve Posted June 30, 2013 Author Share Posted June 30, 2013 First off a few updates, the Wye Valley Railway has won Lottery funding to upgrade the Wye river bridge at Tintern to accept higher axle loads, to cater for visiting locos and possible quarry traffic. So the bridge has had a bit of a refurb. This has allowed visiting locos to the line, but two of these is not likely??? I bought two as they were non runners and also just toooo cheap, so one has been re-engineered to be loco powered and the other has been fixed so can be sold on. The one I'm keeping has had deflectors and head plate fitted. Also started on the station area at Parkend, grassed now so I can start on fencing and building location. And finally what was to be "Titfield Halt for Brockweir", I have decided for it to be "Titfield Halt for Redbrook", this is mainly as Redbrook clearly had more space, and I fancy putting a spur line on to a board down the middle of the room for a shed area which could be on scrub land in Redbrook, though I'm not going to model the bridge here, one is enough. Hope you enjoy the update, Cheers Steve. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
talbotsteve Posted June 30, 2013 Author Share Posted June 30, 2013 Titfield Halt for Redbrook, from the crossing. The Wye bridge at Tintern. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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