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    Coastguard Creek - 15 months of planning!

    By SouthernRegionSteam

    Hold on to your socks - this is going to be a lengthy one! (In fact it's so long, I've now split it into 2 separate posts - the next will be up soon...)   I think it's fair to say that you are all long overdue an update on Coastguard Creek. Due to other commitments, no real progress has been made since the last post way back in March 2021; almost 15 months ago! If anything, things went backwards for quite a while, as I kept finding more and more inspiring locations that I really wanted
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Right Side Motion

Well, after a bit of a panic when the eccentric rod bearing cover decided to hide in the carpet for 24 hours, the right hand side motion is done     Still got some detailing to do, slide/lubricator supports to fabricate and the counterbalance spring housing for the RHS. I think I will also make a representation of the lever that connects the LHS lifting arm to the the screw adjuster from the cab.   But it all works and run in okay.   Next job is to fit the Loksound decoder and speaker r

RedgateModels

RedgateModels

Melbourne Ales and Pointlessness...............

As I mentioned in a previous entry, I wanted some 'Leeds specific' side adverts for the Grime Street fleet, to my mind it sets the scene nicely.   The obvious one was Melbourne Ales, a brewery long since vanished into the Tetley's empire, in the period modelled, looking at pictures, it seems that half the Leeds fleet was emblazoned with the brand and its bowing courtesan trademark.   Anyway, the first of a batch of home (computer) poduced water slide side ads, shown on a blue Horsfield  

Red Devil

Red Devil

Calshot MkII - Building a control panel + track laying shenanigans!

After a completely naff start to the day with trying to amending mistakes that I made last week (which I again made the same mistakes today!) I decided to leave the 009 point giving me grief and complete about 70% of the NG track. Just got the rest to lay tonight and then the four feeds to add before John comes tomorrow to kindly finish off all the wiring.   This photo should explain the point predicament (and this is after supposedly realigning the the point and motor!):     The realign

SouthernRegionSteam

SouthernRegionSteam

I've been going Scottish lately

I've done some modelling recently and here's some of my output:   1. Rail blue Bachmann 47 no. 47 701 Saint Andrew, as originally running in 1979, re-numbered and modified from 47 035 and fitted with a Bachmann sound chip. I own some Jouef Mk3s and a recently purchased DBSO to accompany the loco. I wanted a companion to my identical sound-fitted Bachmann 47 470 Glenloy which was unofficially named in Oct. 1979 for only a few weeks, the only proof of its existence is a close up shot of its nam

gc4946

gc4946

Wetlands Light Railway - more progress...

Currently, I'm sorting out the loco fleet which now comprises of four locos pictured below: Front left: 'Mordred' - A Pepper7 Centre Cab Diesel 9mm gauge, the design based on the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railways home built internal combustion locos. Built in the 1920's these locos featured Lanchester or Model T Ford engines. It is fitted with the recommended N gauge Bachmann Brill Trolley. Pepper7 can be found at www.pepper7.co.uk Front Right: 4 wheel diesel, based on a prototype loco (whi

narrowman

narrowman

Train accident on the Frankfurt-Paris ICE line near Lambrecht

An ICE set on its way from Frankfurt to Paris was involved in an accident near the town of Lambrecht in Rhineland-Palatinate which occurred around 10.15 am today. A refuse collection vehicle had come off a narrow road which ran parallel to the rail line and plunged onto the tracks. Fifteen persons were injured; the lorry was destroyed and the train heavily damaged.   Spiegel Online photo strip

NGT6 1315

NGT6 1315

Theory Becomes Reality

Finally some progress!   If you cast your minds back to my last post, I was trying to overcome the issue of short switch blades in 2FS using Easitrac components. Thanks to all your feedback, I now have a half built prototype.   Code 40 switch rail with a solid brass dress makers pin attached. The rail was notched out using the trusty piercing saw.   The above switch blade sitting in it's drilled out top hat bearing pivot point.   Two down, two to go! Then it's the "simple" matter of

Bryn

Bryn

Various stock additions including a B4'd TPO!

An aside from my Mainline Charter Train. The advantages of jetlag and waking up at stupidly early hours is the ability to play without guilt! Such was the situation this morning, when having arrived back home after two months, and catching up from a 22 hour journey and 9hr time difference, I took the opportunity to explore the goodies that had accumulated during my absence (From a railway perspective, this absence was poorly timed; Not only did I miss Bluebell 50, but various long awaited model

G-BOAF

G-BOAF

From: Take one Kitmaster Austerity...

The [almost] completion of a project which I started on the old forum and which has been continued over here, but now has a coat of paint. Obviously, it's a bit clean at the moment and the (prototypical) livery is somewhat garish but some work-in-progress shots are probably overdue.       The weathering has commenced but will stop short of the condition the prototype ended up in:   http://www.flickr.com/photos/52467480@N08/6454506387/in/set-72157628278328931/lightbox/   You'd never k

Adam

Adam

That's funny, the damage doesn't look as bad from out here...

Bolstered by a cup of coffee, I thought it was better to attack the single slip before I chickened out. Inspecting Man was less than impressed:     I should point out the rationale for doing this - the single slip really doesn't make much sense for the layout as it is, and if I'm going to be operating it on my own for a two day show I think it's worth some pain and delay now to make the operation as simple and sensible as possible. With a double slip, I can bring trains in on the correct li

Will Vale

Will Vale

Depot floor looking better

After much sanding etc and the beginning of some weathering things are beginning to look better. Much happier with this than what was there before. took the opportunity to change the lights inside two of the sheds as well. The interior lighting shows up the inspection pits better. they are now ready for internal detailing when funds allow.

Tay Bridge

Tay Bridge

4. The Carriage Shop - More Prototype Photo's

Work progresses slowly on the main baseboard, with the track cut to (rough) size - waiting a decision on the traverser! All of the baseboard surrounding the track and pits has been raised to (almost) rail level using 3.5mm cork. Pictures later in the week once I've more "features" to point out however in the interim; The following couple of photographs were obtained from the original photographer (with thanks to Mr Barr) and were of particular interest to me having been taken around my time

Bob Reid

Bob Reid

A Dip into the Archives

Tracklaying is progressing very slowly at the moment (too many distractions on my part rather than any fault of the Easitrac system), so rather than boring everyone with even more photos of half-finished turnouts, I thought I'd find something else to blog.   Having a tidy-up of my folders and files on the computer at the weekend, I came across a photo of a North Eastern Railway brake van that I took a few years ago. The van is one of the very few wagons I can claim to have finished, and I was

2mm Andy

2mm Andy

Is this a valid excuse not to model?

Hello The summer holiday away from my modelling desk has caught up with me and although I have finally sorted the front windows (hopefully!) things have slowed down to a very very slow pace.   I do have one excuse though, it all happened yesterday and I am still smiling because of it.....   Some of you might be aware of THIS POST I made a (short) while ago. This was the result of myself and a friend going over to the railway to see a pannier tank being 'delivered', we were kindly invited o

-missy-

-missy-

track plan and more history

In the 1800's the midland saw a chance for some well earned custom with a feeder line from the small market town of Grandbrough to Rugby an act of Parly was passed and the line build .a couple of years later the GWR got together with the Midland to travel the opposite way. After a few back handers The GWR was allowed to make use of the bay platform to the south of the Midland station .    

nigelb

nigelb

in the begining

After many years away from rail way modelling, and now having space for a simple N guage terminus layout in my ' compact flat in W London' a start was made. After a few weeks of on off work the un scale ness of code 80 track became aparent!! ALLLLL Stop an investment in Templot soft ware http://www.templot.com/ was made and a disign started.   The layout will be 2mm fine scale branch line terminus '' some where in South Warwickshire'' and be a LMS station with a GWR branch to add s

nigelb

nigelb

Kidmore Yard Micro N

Additional pictures have now been added on the construction of my current N Gauge layout, Kidmore Yard. These ,& other N Gauge micro layouts, may be seen at Kidmorengauge.weebly.com

noctilux2

noctilux2

Fueling point

Hello, Its been a few weeks so i thought i would give a small update, Had a clear out of some of my older locos which dont quite fit in the era i am modelling, but in doing so i bought two new ones whilst using a well known auction site. first off is 66200 in EWS and then 60006 in British steel blue, got the pair for a 100 quid, very pleased with both. The fueling point is pretty much complete now, needs a few more people, vans etc and some weathering but i'm quite pleased with the overall r

shanks522

shanks522

JMA's & KIA's in OO - some progress

The JMA's i've been working on for some time on and off have reached this stage. This wagon still needs three thin vertical stripes of blue adding, where it was welded and repainted along the lines of the hopper partitions, the NP logos have been painted out, with little care, as per the prototype. They also need some weathering, though not too much as the prototype seems to stay fairly clean. These wagons have hit the buffers at the mo, the bogies, which in look are a reasonable represent

chriswild

chriswild

Hythe Parkway - In Railway Modeller

Hi,   Not much of a entry I'm afraid   As some of you may know Hythe Parkway is currently featured in the current issue (September 2010) of Railway Modeller. [plug mode on] It now on sale [plug mode off]   (In my best monty python voice) Now for something completely different!:   We have made 3 out of the 4 points to work, this is using a manual system instead of point motors.   This works by a dowel going from the point and the baseboard edge with a knob on the end with a wire going

St. Simon

St. Simon

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    • Very neat. And exclusive - mahogany sleepers are new to me! Is that a traditional approach or are you innovating as usual? 
    • Well I thought I'd finished the PWA, but as I was fitting the excellent railtec transfers, using Humbrol DecalFix (which is a first for me and found it much easier), using the reference pictures on @hmrspaul superb site, I realised the underframe has plates over some of the gaps.  Just contemplating to try and use painted inkjet acetate sheets.... The bogies supplied seemed to be too narrow so have used English Steel ESC-1 from the N gauge society - which I don't think are 100% correct, but
    • I agree, it is very hard to produce anything other than an 'outline' from those drawings.  Beware, I have also found several inaccuracies in those drawings, many of which emanate from 'The Locomotive Magazine'.   I also find it difficult to interpret more detailed drawings, mainly in trying to work out how various parts were orientated in three dimensions.  The underside is proving particularly difficult.
    • Mike, having read your latest, and referred back to my “primitive “ efforts of 4 years ago, I can plainly see why your approach of “Research first” speeds up modelling with accuracy! My model was based almost entirely on the side elevation in Mike Sharman’s book.  Your cross section drawings have clearly demonstrated the deficiencies in this method!   So, back to the CAD.  Fortunately I keep stl files of all components, but it’s still a lot of interesting work - already started, at the
    • Very informative, Mike. I find these early engines quite instructive, because they show off more clearly the fundamentals of a locomotive.   And I like those external suspension arms, very stylish actually - especially in your rendering. 
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