Heres the next project - Ive started a separate thread in layouts "Sparthbottom PCD" a mid 70s early 80s parcels depot.
Its in P4, viewing from the bottom and is totally ficticious aprt from the name - which is of the area in the centre of Rochdale where it would be if the LNW had built such a line!!
I discovered today that New Hey and myself have been outed as a threat to the nations, and railway modellers in particular, morals
One of the best investigative tools we have ever had is the intranet - its amazing what incriminating things people stick down on it! My colleague and I were doing a bit of experimentation with various search engines using each other as examples when he called me across to look at a web page which featured me !
Now to put this into context I was aware on R
New Heys final completion entered its final phase today with the construction to painting stage of the l 3 remaining signals, the up advance home, up home, and the down home.
All 3 oddball signals no fancy gantry stuff for the signal enthusiasts Im afraid, but they are models of what actually was there - a 45 foot lattice post for the down advance starter, The up advance starter was a tall wooden post, and the up home a stubby little number designed for sighting under Two Bridges Road overbr
Having had a week and a bits recovery time I need to get back to work on the final little bits to absolutely finish the layout off. principaly this means building 3 signals, two ground signals, putting point rodding in and getting the signals to work. I did get the signal parts out last weekend but unfortunately the header tank in the loft overflowed and the bedroom ceiling collapsed so ive been a bit diverted this week
After some big debates around the way to make them operate I think Ive
Having had a week and a bits recovery time I need to get back to work on the final little bits to absolutely finish the layout off. principaly this means building 3 signals, two ground signals, putting point rodding in and getting the signals to work. I did get the signal parts out last weekend but unfortunately the header tank in the loft overflowed and the bedroom ceiling collapsed so ive been a bit diverted this week
After some big debates around the way to make them operate I think Ive
Ive had a query today about when New Hey is next on show - my confirmed invites so far are:
York - Easter 2010
Expo EM Bracknell - May 2010
Expo EM North, Salithwaite - 11 & 12/9/2010
Halifax 25/26 /9/2010
In 2011:
(provisional Normanton - they have taken the info but nothing in writng yet)
Railex, Aylesbury May 2011 confirmed
L and Y DCC show Nov 2011
2012
April ish - Ally Pally.
I have a policy of only doing a max of 4 shows a year with the layout so that it
A very successful weekend for the layout, the operators were buzzing and knocking trains from out the back and onto the boards like it had gone out of fashion. Some excellent running and the trains really look the part now, particularly the Brit on the Wakes ECS train to Oldham mind you I did like the Super D trundling around on the Royton Jct freight as well.
Andy Ys pics in the gallery have caught a lot of the character of the layout and are some of the best ive seen so far - can you come
This afternnon oi mainly been packing stuff ready to go to the Manchester show. Its caused me to reflect just how much gear I actually take with me to shows!
OK the bottle of Bowmore in the infamous "red box" is a little OTT perhaps but the rest of that box is full of sparesm drapes, wiring big tools, clamps. This of course doesnt include the nromal modelling toolbox. And the stock boxes. Put that with the baseboards, legs. lighting units and the support gallows and its a hell of a lot of st
Now the control problems seem to have been resolved by that most simple of expedients, i wanted to do a few of the jobs to get progress back on track to where we should be. One of these is the engineers train - this appears early in the sequence, parks up in east siding (infront of the signal box) and stays there till late in the sequence - in the meantime the engine has detached gone back to the fiddle and appears as an engine and brake van move every so often.
Ive been busy in my hotel roo
Well until ive worked out how to copy across the olf thread heres the link
http://www.rmweb.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=5181
Can anyone point me in the right direction not been able to fing anything in help yet and I do not want to lose what Ive posted so far!!
