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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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Brunel Gauge Workshop/Showcase

"Rover Class"

Today's blog entry features one of the most, if not, the most beautiful and very much popular broad gauge locomotives of the Great Western, the Rover (Or Alma) Class!   From Wikipedia     The prototype locomotive, Great Western, was built as a 2-2-2 locomotive in April 1846, but was soon converted to a 4-2-2 arrangement, with the leading wheels set rigidly within the sandwich framing, rather than in a separate bogie. The remainder of the class entered service between Apr
isambird

isambird in Great Western Railway

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Oxendale

Diesel locomotives

Class 04 11226 (Bachmann) 11226 is my most recent purchase. It was brought from the model shop opposite Grosmont level crossing in September this year.     Class 20 D8156 (Bachmann)     Class 24 D5061 (Bachmann) The real D5061 is part of the NYMR fleet and is currently stored awaiting overhaul at Grosmont MPD.
Stevethomas6444's modelling blog.

Running in

I've made a start in running the fleet using DCC Concepts rolling road which I've had for a while. Space constraints makes this a very useful tool for running in.    First up were the two latest additions, 60015 and 4308 then slowly going through the older stuff which haven't been out of the box in three years. So far so good!    I am impressed by the Hornby class 60 with the level of detail and the weight is quite something! One day I would love to run this on a layout with
Stevethomas6444

Stevethomas6444 in Stock

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Sixties Snapshots - 00 scale

GWR - the Great Way Round – the construction

Recapping from my last Post, some fifteen years ago when the layout was conceived there was a Mainline Terminus and a high level Branch Terminus, both constructed up against the plasterboard enclosure housing the Aga flue.  It was not long before the Mainline Terminus was converted to a through station with the running lines skirting the outside of the plasterboard enclosure.  This provided for a dumbbell shaped layout with reversing loops and storage sidings at both ends.  Most importantly it a
Silver Sidelines

Silver Sidelines in Blog Post

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Coppenhall Good's

Coppenhall Good's

Well where to begin, 1964 ish My grandad was a guard on the railway and one of these people who knew everyone, I was about 4 and he would take me on his crossbar seat off to places (The station, Crewe works offices, depot's and coal yard) I can't remember for how long and why it stopped I must have been 10 or 11. This of course got me into Railways. When I was 11 We had a big car crash and my sister and me had to live at Gran and Grandads for about 3 weeks at this time I started building Airfix
TomCrewe

TomCrewe in Coppenhall Good's

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Jim Champ's "Introduction to Great Western Locomotive Development"

2-4-0s, and the Armstrong era in particular

When I wrote the first book I was rather guilty of somewhat glossing over the 2-4-0s in the Armstrong and Dean eras. There were so many of them, they were rebuilt so much and I just found them confusing and, dare I say it, not that interesting. I'm paying for it now! Working up my experimental chronologically based GWR locomotive history I'm in into the late 1860s, early 1870s, and they are becoming impossible to avoid! I have to wonder, incidentally, why, with standard goods engines and standar
JimC

JimC in Miscellaneous Musings

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Brunel Gauge Workshop/Showcase

"Heron"

An interesting locomotive today, "Heron" from the Carmarthen & Cardigan Railway (C&CR)   A Map of the Carmarthen & Cardigan Railway line   From Wikipedia   Heron (1861–1872) Magpie (1861–1872) The first two locomotives for the Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway were 4-4-0T locomotives with straight side tanks, built by Sharp Stewart and Company in 1861. After the line was converted to standard gauge in 1872, they were sold to the South
Jim Champ's "Introduction to Great Western Locomotive Development"

First use of injectors?

RCTS states "Up to 1865 the general practice was to use crosshead driven pumps... At that date the Giffard injector (invented in 1859) was introduced on the GWR.". Which begs the question, what classes, were they rapidly retrofitted etc etc.  Does anyone know any more?   There's a photo in RCTS (Part 4 D113) of a 322 (Beyer) no 334 "as built by Beyer Peacock in 1864" which would appear to have an injector fitted. Similarly D119 shows a 360 class with injector, but the caption ma
JimC

JimC in Information required

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MikeOxon's Pre-Grouping Blog

GWR ‘Sir Daniel’

A comment on my recent post about modelling Rocket reminded me that my first scratch-built locomotive was an Armstrong 2-2-2 that I constructed 10 years ago and described in ‘Railway Modeller’, July 2014 , as ‘Simply Victorian’. I explained in that article that I was encouraged by a drawing of one of these engines in Russell’s ‘A Pictorial Record of Great Western Engines’ with the caption comment that: "The utter simplicity of these early engines can be seen." The idea of ‘simplicity’ appealed t
MikeOxon

MikeOxon in general

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pheaton's Blog

Keeping 26043 Alive...How it works, the locomotive Part 1 Field Diversion

A bit of a change, i wanted to make sure that people were not getting tired by me just showing photos of metal being bashed, those blogs will continue as there seems to be a lot of interest in it.  However in the last blog i invited some questions that people might have had about how things work in a Diesel Electric locomotive like the class 26, however all of the first generation diesel electrics work on pretty much the same principles so its very relevant across the fleet.   @37114 a
pheaton

pheaton in Preservation

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My version of Boscarne Junction

Temporary work bench and preparation for SolRail 23

I'm still waiting for power to be installed in the Log Cabin. The house rewiring took longer than expected, and we decided to postpone connecting the log cabin until other outside work is completed in order to finally get the interior signed off. In the meantime, I've recently negotiated a small area in the snug at which I can work on a few projects. I'll have to see if the better half will allow me to solder, but for the moment I've been working on the 1/8th scale model of my proposed Bosc
Yan

Yan in Planning

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Jim Champ's "Introduction to Great Western Locomotive Development"

GWR 111 Class (1863-1866)

Anyone following this will gather that I'm currently working on very early Wolverhampton classes. The 111 Class was the first real class to be designed and built by Joseph Armstrong at Wolverhampton, but to my mind its very much a development of the earlier singles I've previously sketched here.    The first six were built in 1863/4 under Joseph Armstrong. They had outside plate frames with the footplate rising in curves to clear the coupling rods, 6ft0in driving wheels and 16x24in cyli
JimC

JimC in GWR Locomotive Sketches

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Disused and Misused

The Hebridean Light Railway Company

Yet another PBNB (proposed-but-never-built railway).   In six parts 1 – Introduction  2 – Isleornsay 3 – Isleornsay to Broadford 4 – Broadford to Portree 5 – Portree to Uig 6 – Branch to Dunvegan   Part 1 - the Introduction   In 1898 it was:   Ref : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebridean_Light_Railway_Company   The main stations would have been at Isleornsay, Broadford, Portree and Uig. With various halts in betwe
Treviscoe

Back on track…

Evening all,   4 years on from my first post on this, the project got delayed due to various family issues however having got Wenford Dries to where I wanted it to be (bar tweaking and some minor additions) it was time to resurrect this project. After all, we all need a new project now those Winter nights are coming to us.   The mock up model from the first post had since been binned and the 2mmFS 60th show been and gone however I always liked this project and had even made t
bcnPete

bcnPete in General

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Kit-built stock for Henley-on-Thames

E112/E111 70ft carriages build

These 70ft carriages were built in 1923/4 for Great Western services to South Wales, they soon moved from these services throughout the GWR system.      I doubt whether they would have made it to Henley-on-Thames, but they will add variety to my train composition .     The aim of this blog is to run through the build of the carriages and hope to inspire others to pick up a Comet kit and build it yourself. Firstly, I would suggest that this Comet
Brunel Gauge Workshop/Showcase

"Snake"

A locomotive I've built for quite sometime now, before I had my own blog. But here it is now! The peculiar-looking 2-2-2ST locomotive "Snake", once a tender engine, converted to a tank engine. Here's the rest of the detailed information from Wikipedia.    "Snake and Viper were built at the Haigh Foundry and delivered in September 1838. They had 14.75 in × 18 in (375 mm × 457 mm) cylinders and the driving wheels geared 2:3 to keep the cylinder stroke speed low while allowing h
isambird

isambird in Great Western Railway

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Jim Champ's "Introduction to Great Western Locomotive Development"

GWR No 7 (1859) and 110 (1862)

Two very early ones. This is GWR No 7 from 1859, Wolverhampton works no 1, and the first Joseph Armstrong design for the GWR. Holcroft tells us that Armstrong, very much a member of the Northumberland school, was much associated with George Gray. Gray's designs for the Hull & Selby and LBSCR had the same feature of inside frames on the driving wheels and outside on leading and trailing wheels. They were also the inspiration for the well known Jenny Lind type. My sources are quiet on what mot
JimC

JimC in GWR Locomotive Sketches

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pheaton's Blog

Keeping 26043 alive.....No1 end.....you get the picture

When you do the amount of bodywork we are doing, you almost go back through a locomotives history, like rings on a tree....and its interesting when the casual observer thinks something is a lot better than it really is.     043 on the turntable at minehead, everything you have seen....looks alright doesn't it...doesn't seem to show anything untoward with the bodywork.....everything you have seen....is there....everything your about to see.....is there....waiting to be discov
pheaton

pheaton in Preservation

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Saxon's 3D models

Accurate German tracks

This is a 3D model of a DR track segment! They have S49 rail profiles and K rail fasteners. Here's a close-up of the rail fastener. It's classified as "K", and it was commonly used in Germany and many other European countries.     And here's the rail. It's an S49 profile, also commonly used in Germany and in other European countries.       It also has some other details, like accurate fishplates and bevelled sleeper  
Rospeath Lane - BR(WR) Engine Shed

1/8th Scale model of the revised layout

Well.. it's a little rough, but it's helped with a few construction ideas.   Stage left   Stage right   Complete frontal view   There still needs a few of the ancillary buildings to add (sand house, lamp store, etc.) and I might add a bit more detail on the buildings (like the openings to the running shed). I can also continue to play around with the sighting of trees in the background as well as the front. The single tree in the front is
Yan

Yan in Planning

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Brunel Gauge Workshop/Showcase

A Lack of Diagrams

Today's blog post features my first post about rolling stock so hooray! This carriage is my first 'convertible', being a bogied coach. And this post also features my inability to find "good" enough diagrams that feature a side and front elevation, especially for later convertible locomotives and carriages.   As of right now, I only have access to pre-convertible carriage/freight stock diagrams that have a side and front drawing, the earliest being from the 1830s till the 1860s (I'
isambird

isambird in Great Western Railway

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MikeOxon's Pre-Grouping Blog

25 years later - ‘Rocket’

Having gone right back to 1804 with Trevithick’s locomotives, I decided to start moving forward again - to Stephenson’s famous ‘Rocket’, which was to put passenger-carrying railways firmly on the map.   When I built my Trevithick model, I wanted to put it alongside a model of ‘Rocket’ to illustrate the progress made over 25 years but, although I know I have a 4 mm scale model built from an Airfix kit, ‘somewhere’, I couldn’t find it!   I did find however that there is a 3D pr
MikeOxon

MikeOxon in general

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On Ravensers Bookcase

Loco Hauled Substitute 3 - First Class Hornby?

As I've mentioned before, in my teens a CJ Freezer article turned me into a modern image modeller , and I attempted a layout set in contemporary Lincolnshire: Ghosts opf Flaxboro'   Eventually the project foundered under many problems, but I hung onto the stock and over the years I've slowly been recycling the stuff as reasonable scale models.   In the photo contained therein, you can see an Airfix 31 heading two blue/grey vehicles entirely washed out by the flash awaiting de
Ravenser

Ravenser in Constructional

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