Watkin's Wharf

a man after my own heart

 

sound like my lash up good luck with the move hope too see more soon

Hi Nick,

 

Thanks.... a lash up indeed! I've now constructed a gallery for images....

 

 

Cheers

 

Jan

Well the track construction isn't lacking looking at that checked outside slip! I presume this is all inlaid track though so no chairs needed on the copperclad?

 

Any details on where its set and what you'd run?

Jan it's great to see something from you on here again

Thanks Chaps,

 

 

Hi Craig,

 

Yes...it's all inlaid (and PLEASE don't ask me why I went to all the trouble of putting in EVERY sleeper....). The Wharf is actually an extrapolation of the London & Blackwall in the Limehouse Dock/Regents Canal area. The idea was to fill the area between the viaduct and the Basin - the quay behind the girt big boat in this picture . I'm hoping to have a line of 16T minerals on top of the viaduct for scrap traffic (there's a photo online somewhere).

 

I have done a LOT of research in and around this area (being an ex-secondhand bookseller definitely helps!) but still need to get the dimensions of the "signature item" of the hydraulic accumulator tower. i intend to try some of Andy Y's methodology for infilling the track.

 

The layout actually has another board. But it won't fit in the current plans - which is why I have had to "rejig" the trackwork. The diagonal from under the bridge is intended to run from Regent's Canal (woodyards and light engineering) carry on to Norway Wharf, and thence (using skyhooks, passing pies in the sky and other cerebral fixings ) up Limehouse Cut to the Back of Devon's Road shed. (Did it exist? Of course! ("Look into my eyes, look into my eyes, the eyes, the eyes, not around the eyes, don't look around my eyes, look into my eyes, you're under..")

 

Motive power will be the usual East London malarkey: a 15-spoke J67, a 3F from Devons Road, an Impetus Hunslet (as a nod to the PLA), possibly an NLR Park 0-6-0 and so forth. I'd LIKE a Class 15.... I'm HOPING that the nice man at Karlgarin will release a Y4 before I'm dust.... I have the drawings (GER Society), but fettling the motion is not going to be easy for me. I WAS tempted to try for a "one-piece" resin body moulding... but fiscal freedom has been significantly diminished of late..

 

I can supply a library list on request..... Oh.....can I Just say that your modelling skills make me sick? Excellent work.

 

James,

 

Thanks! If it ever gets built, I will allow running rights to that cracking MSC loco of yours

 

Cheers

 

Jan

An interesting mixture Jan and very much my cup of tea; dock railways (the more clapped out the better) and London Docklands to boot! I can just picture the J67 shuffling around with a rake of clanking 16t wagons and the sound of travelling cranes hard at work. Nice one.

 

Simon

So this is what you've been up to, hey, Jan?

 

Just cast a cursory glance over this as I'm knackered, but will do it justice by reading in full tomorrow; I can see already though that you're a proper modeller. Respect (as they say these days).

 

Just before I go: I've no doubt you're familiar with this: http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/b/blackwall/index9.shtml

 

I'll say no more!!

 

Regards,

 

Jonte.