<p>There’s been a bit of a break in work on Bohemian Saxony. But today we starting working again. First up was getting the shuttle on the mine line to work.</p> <p>Can’t post videos here so YouTube will have to suffice. <a href="
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There is nowhere quite like the Norfolk Broads. Lying between Stalham in the North and Beccles in the South, Norwich in the West and Great Yarmouth in the East this is a land of waterways and ‘broads’, reedbed and grazing marsh. It is flat. Very flat. The skies are vast; stretching from horizon to horizon, punctuated by few trees and the remains of numerous wind drainage pumps.
The Broads themselves are mediaevil peat diggings which flooded resulting in shallow lakes seldom more than 4 metres d
<p>There is nowhere quite like the Norfolk Broads. Lying between Stalham in the North and Beccles in the South, Norwich in the West and Great Yarmouth in the East this is a land of waterways and ‘broads’, reedbed and grazing marsh. It is flat. Very flat. The skies are vast; stretching from horizon to horizon, punctuated by few trees and the remains of numerous wind drainage pumps.</p> <p>The Broads themselves are mediaevil peat diggings which flooded resulting in shallow lakes
Oby was mentioned in the Doomsday Book but is now classed as lost village. Look on a map of Norfolk and you’ll find the parish of Ashby and Oby lying east of the River Thurne and south of Potter Heigham.
Of course the railway never served Oby. Why would it? Apart from Oby Dyke – Norfolk Broad speak for a short waterway usually serving a village ‘staithe’- and Oby Mill there wasn’t much there.
Ideal then for a ficticious little railway. The M&GN of course served Potter Heigham on the line f
<p>Oby was mentioned in the Doomsday Book but is now classed as lost village. Look on a map of Norfolk and you’ll find the parish of Ashby and Oby lying east of the River Thurne and south of Potter Heigham.</p> <p>Of course the railway never served Oby. Why would it? Apart from Oby Dyke – Norfolk Broad speak for a short waterway usually serving a village ‘staithe’- and Oby Mill there wasn’t much there.</p> <p>Ideal then for a ficticious little railway. The M&GN
The layout I have had in mind for some time was to be based upon the Bodmin and Wadebridge – in all probability Boscarne Junction which I find quite an interesting place. This remains my overall ambition
I had almost settled on producing the track in 4-SF (OOSF) that is to say EM-2. This gives a track gauge of 16.2 mm, a check gauge of 15.2mm and flangeways of 1mm. For details of 4-SF see “4SF on the Web” at http://4-sf.uk/
The stated advantage of 4-SF is that rolling stock of standard OO 16
<p>The layout I have had in mind for some time was to be based upon the Bodmin and Wadebridge – in all probability Boscarne Junction which I find quite an interesting place. This remains my overall ambition</p> <p>I had almost settled on producing the track in 4-SF (OOSF) that is to say EM-2. This gives a track gauge of 16.2 mm, a check gauge of 15.2mm and flangeways of 1mm. For details of 4-SF see “4SF on the Web” at http://4-sf.uk/</p> <p>The stated advantage of
Well after a year of my garage being occupied by ‘that tram layout’ the space is now clear again and ready to be recolonised by my own projects – more of which anon.
The ‘trams’ have moved back to the premises of Train Terrain Ltd for the scenery work to begin. The electrics have been installed and are working 95% with only a couple of minor issues to be resolved. Although we have fitted the automatic block working equipment this has yet to be commissioned fully. This will be done after the sce
<p>Well after a year of my garage being occupied by ‘that tram layout’ the space is now clear again and ready to be recolonised by my own projects – more of which anon.</p> <p>The ‘trams’ have moved back to the premises of Train Terrain Ltd for the scenery work to begin. The electrics have been installed and are working 95% with only a couple of minor issues to be resolved. Although we have fitted the automatic block working equipment this has yet to be commissioned fully. This
Well progress is now relentless. All 4 tram lines running and both NG lines too. Buildings placed to see what it starts look like.
Here’s the link to You tube for the video proof!
<p>Well progress is now relentless. All 4 tram lines running and both NG lines too. Buildings placed to see what it starts look like.</p> <p>Here’s the link to You tube for the video proof!</p> <div class="jetpack-video-wrapper"><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text/html' width='700' height='424' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/n9Esk3SBWNU?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparen
4 trams running. Apologies for quality This was the first test with 4 trams running. Went reasonably well More to do. https://www.youtube.com/embed/8ZueI1ojze0?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent'
<p>Progress with the trams is now more rapid. Here’s a video of two trams running!</p> <div class="jetpack-video-wrapper"><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text/html' width='700' height='424' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/8ykVzg4VFJI?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent'frameborder='0' allowfullscreen='true'&g
<p>At last, some movement. All systems go now!</p>
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<p>There we were driving along the country lane between Wighton and Walsingham in North Norfolk. A bright February afternoon. A partridge runs along the road in front of us before hopping into the verge. And lying in the road a short distance further on a bird has been hit by a vehicle</p>
<p>“That looked like an owl” says Dawn; and a look in the rear view finder confirms this.</p>
<p>“Looked pretty recent” I stop the car, “think I’ll check it’</p>
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<p>Since I last wrote about Bohemian Saxony much has happened although to look at the layout you would be hard pressed to know that much had changed.</p>
<p>In the early Autumn the layout was moved lock stock and barrel from the premises where construction had been taking place to my garage. Not so bad as it sounds. By moving, the team building it immediately had more frequent access and virtually all the necessary tools and materials to hand. All factors lacking at the previo
<p>It’s been a while since I updated TheRSR with news of progress on Bohemian Saxony. That, you will recall is the continental tram layout I am helping to build for a chap in Hertfordshire.</p>
<p>The last few weeks have seen some considerable advances with the landscape and the infrastructure. Although surface dressing has yet to take place we have coloured the ‘under-wear’ – plaster etc. which starts to bring the model to life.</p>
<p>We have to start addressing
<p>Norwich Model Railway Club hold their annual exhibition on April the 11th at Hellesdon High School on the outskirts of the city.</p>
<p>This show is a family friendly event with exhibits in all scales with a good selection of traders. I shall be helping on the Train Terrain Models stall. Also present will be Great Eastern Models, Bure Valley Railway Models, Bob Pearmain Books and several others.</p>
<p>All the show details can be found at:</p>
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<p>After 4 days of trying, at last TheRSR is linked to RMweb.</p>
<p>Set up in WordPress.com, the link just wouldn’t work, whatever I tried, new themes, changes to various elements, nothing.</p>
<p>Eventually, with the help of a Happiness Engineer at WordPress the link has been established by running it through ‘Feedburner’ from Google.</p>
<p>I haven’t got a clue how it all works but it seems to.</p>
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Here are the four boards I have constructed for the storage section of TheRSR. Each is 1220mm long and 660mm wide. Overall height is 100mm. Sides and top are 6mm ply and ends 12mm. These will be strengthened and braced. Each end has alignment dowels and T nuts for bolt fixings and the whole can be made as a three board or four board structure.
My precision drilling mentioned in an earlier post was not quite precision enough in a couple of places and I had to modify the locations of some fixings
I visited the London Festival of Model Railways held at the Alexandra Palace on Sunday 30th March and among the many fine layouts on show one in particular took my fancy. This was Sandford and Banwell, an oval Great Western line featuring a junction and modelled in P4. See these links for some pictures of the layout
https://www.flickr.com/photos/richardjslipper/sets/72157651653968411/ http://www.scalefour.org/scaleforum/2014/sandfordandbanwell/
One aspect of this model was the use of plastic d
Limited as I am for space and being confined to the garage, shed and my Railway Parlour (part of the garage) activity in the build of The RSR has been very slow during the winter. But now that there have been some tentative flashes of more benign spring weather my activity has again remerged from it’s hibernation. Any similarity to a dormouse is purely coincidental.
Over the dark and cold months I have not been idle but have been doing much planning and design. So it was that after obtaining so
The trams on Bohemian Saxony primarily run through an urban environment comprising an ‘older’ town, a more modern area and an industrial zone. But around the edges we need some scenery.
The future owner’s design has crammed so much into the available space that the scenic elements are not great. What scenery we can fit in is a bit ‘vertical’ – no room for rolling hills. This presents a problem in that the owner has an aversion to rocks. Careful shaping has minimised the rocks but there will be
Another friend of our group is building his first model railway and opted for American HO. He is not a purist and just wants a nice layout. He is using a lot of Woodland Scenics products. I have been helping him with ideas and showing him some techniques but he is proving to be a good modeller. This picture of his ‘tunnel’ – a long story – and the lake area shows Earth dyes being used to colour rocks.
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There has been much progress on Bohemian Saxony since the new year and the layout is really coming together at long last. Here’s some pictures of various bits.
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