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Aire Valley Railway

Hi All. I feel a bit of an idiot as I have another correction to make (what again?).The Rocal loco, it turns out it was a tank engine. The only reason I know this is because after my last blog I dug all my bits and pieces out and there was the Railway Modeller article "Internal combustion on the Aire Valley". Well it was 47 years ago. As mentioned in the article The body was parts of the Airfix Drewery. I guess I may as well continue with the the two pairs of railcars.. No prizes for knowing wh

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Aire Valley Railway

Hi. About more buildings.The last one of any note to be constructed was Danes Crossing Works at Saltaire. As mentioned in the Railway Modeller article of August 1976 the interior of the building was completed after the whole of Saltaire was remodelled. Are interiors of buildings worth doing? I suppose it's up to the builder. I had always wanted to have a go and was pleased I did.Little did I realise then that the works was to be the penultimate article about the Aire Valley. There were couple

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Aire Valley Railway

Hi everyone Thanks for your comments. Sorry to have taken a bit longer than intended getting round to this. I had been down to the Porthmadog Model Railway Show with my latest exhibit. It's called Port Maud and is not really a model railway but a model harbour with real water in which the tide ebbs and flows. The basis of the model is a garden potting tray. There is a small element of a railway in it. It's a simple cable hauled car connecting the harbour to the village. It's a total fun thing a

Aire Valley Railway

Hi. I have been up in the loft today looking for something which I didn't find. However I did find some items of railway interest. First up is the delightful photo of the the last B.R. shunting horse, Charlie and his "workmate" whose name I do not know. The original image was a calender which I received many years ago from a friend who as we can see had exceedingly good tastes in New Year greetings. The title is Working Partners and was done by a professional photographer. Charlie died on

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Aire Valley Railway

Hi again. The layout and buildings. I'm sure it would be just a bit boring to go into a lot of depth on this subject so I have selected items I hope might be of interest. I;think the clinker block works ;might be a good place to start. It's a poor man's crib on John Ahern's brick works. A couple of reasons. One, lack of space for a brick works. Two, it added another dimension to C-Oil. creating further rail traffic between the two works. Construction was a bit odd in using a complete alarm mech

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Aire Valley Railway

Hi After the period of building the Windermere boats and the etching of all those stanchions a change of modelling was needed. Two things came together at this point. A spare bedroom and some passed down 009 locos and rolling stock. This culminated in the infamous episode of bashing a hole through the chimney breast which went up through bedroom to create a tunnel. I would hasten to add the fireplace in the room below was not in use. The bashing through was done when my wife was away for

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Aire Valley Railway

Hi again.   First a correction to my last blog. I got P.D.Hancock's first name wrong. It's Philip not Peter. I played about with standard gauge in the early days as I guess many of us did. My interest in NG took off after reading the late L.T.C. Rolt's "Railway Adventure".It's hard to define why one should take a shine to a particular type of railway. Anyway I constructed 18 inch of 8mm gauge track and an 0-4-0 chassis. None of this was done overnight and I came round to realising that with

Aire Valley Railway

Hi. Bit of a change today.;I'm not sure if you will consider the ;items in this blog to come under models as we normally think of models or a touch of arts and crafts. Read on and see what you think. The items here were constructed between 1996 and 2007. They are miniature walls constructed from real Yorkshire stone. They were tailored for friends and relations who were to receive them. It started when Maudie and I were going to visit some American friends ;who we met up with while we were on a

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Aire Valley Railway

Hi. After the tragic event in Canada of the runaway oil tanker train I was reminded of the oil tanker train derailment in Summit Tunnel in 1984 on the L&Y route between Leeds/Bradford and Manchester. The cause of the the derailment was a sheared axle. Fortunately there was no train running in the opposite direction and the driver of the tanker train escaped along with the locomotive and first four wagons. It must have been really horrendous for him. However, oil escaping from a rupture

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Aire Valley Railway

Hi. This post will be mostly images of the stages in the construction of the Wndermere vessel M.V.Swan.. I mentioned in my posting of 11th June the hull is built on the plank and frame method. I'm guessing most of you will know this method. I will now do one of my digressions.. I see over the next fifteen years all the remaining signal boxes are to be closed and twelve Railway Operating Centres will cover the whole of the system. On the one hand it seems drastic and maybe will on some signa

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Aire Valley Railway

Hi. Having messed about attaching files which I hope I am getting the hang of I thought I thought I had better get on with further etching. Nothing to do with railways I'm afraid. I mentioned the building of the SS Raven which was the the start of my second ship building period. The first was was during the war While the rest of my classmates were into building Spitfires and Hurricanes and the like I was into building British warships. The drawings for these were produced by a firm called Model

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Aire Valley Railway

Hi. Time now to go from the sublime to the ridiculous, "The Liquorice Line". Where on earth did that come from? Rewind to 1995 I was in my second year of retirement and off to Australia with my wife spend a few weeks with her Sister and Brother in law..One of the places we visited was Melaeuca Station. This was part of a Tea Tree Oil Plantation. You boarded a narrow gauge train which took you on a large continiuous circuit. The train stopped at various points and a train crew member explain

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Aire Valley Railway

Hi All. I was exhibiting my latest completed project at the Furness Model Railway Show last weekend 12th and 13th. This was another of my real water models, Hirstwood Lock No 19. Also showing it at the Blackpool Model Boat Show next weekend. This a model of a narrow canal lock..It is one of those models I had to have a go at to see if it could be done. I had originally looked at a broad canal but at the planning stage realised it would have to be narrow canal. I came up with an optimum le

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Aire Valley Railway

Hi all. A couple of postings ago (stone walls) I mentioned having a tour of the Burlington slate Quarries. I had hoped to see the slate crusher in action but it wasn't working that day. This visit was in connection with a new layout I was working on. The Little Langdale Railway. The time was to be the present. I was looking at a Heritage line which would also be used to carry crushed slate from a quarry to a seaport. It was to be situated in Cumbria, Yes, not all slate comes from Wales

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Aire Valley Railway

Hi All.   I am attaching another three drawings.   Did any of you see BBC Breakfast the other morning regarding Yorkshire being the New Hollywood. There was piece on about the making of the Great Train Robbery drama , aired this week.The presenter was on the Keighley and Worth line showing the diesel loco used in the film which he referred to as 105 ton TRUCK. I have just got used to Train Station instead of Railway Station, what next.   Just in case my next post is late.. All the best

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Aire Valley Railway

Hi. Bit of an odd ball posting this time, when are they not? The first three photos go back a considerable period of time. The first one is the cover of the first dedicated railway book I bought. Railways had featured in other books such as the Odhams Press publication How it Works and how it's Done. . but this was my first real railway book. As may be seen from the cover it is the script of a B.B.C. broadcast. On the title page it quotes, A dramatisation of events that occurred at a vital

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Aire Valley Railway

Hi again. Back again after over a month. I am posting the last model railway I constructed. Cranly Lake Railroad. This was only the second 7 mm scale I had built, the other one being the Liquorice Line. I was seduced by the Bachman Shay. Also at the same time my Friend Paul Towers sent me details of a very short line in Canda. " The Portage Railway" which was only one and one eighth miles long with track gauge of 42 inches. It was a tourist line connecting two lakes and had two locos, t

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Aire Valley Railway

Hi All. I am posting pics out of the book Junction X. All I can say is they seem to be a bit of an odd ball mix. Some I would think are pre war photos. Others early to mid war with some of the captions written to suit the time of the broadcast of the drama I will leave you to make your own minds up. Regards Derek

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Aire Valley Railway

Hi All. I am hoping to publish a series of blogs which are not about models. They do however have a tenuous connection to the building of the AVR. When the 44 hour week was introduced on BR it created a bit of a problem regarding signal boxes which were open 24 hours 7 days a week. The solution was to give each signalman one day off every other week though it did not work out at every other week as Rest Days as they became known were not taken on the night shift so as not to disrupt sleep pat

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Aire Valley Railway

Hi Again. I am posting the second of the signal box items. This is Manningham Stn Jcn. mentioned in the last posting. A personal note first ..I first worked at this box as a Train Recorder in 1944, crikey that's 70 years ago. The R.D. relief post was a second bite at the cherry. There was a further bite when I got a permanent position at Manningham. It had a 40 lever frame of which 6 were spares. The sidings off to the top left led to the engine shed. At one time there used to be a signal

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Aire Valley Railway

Hi. Attaching two more box diagrams. Shipley Bradford Jcn and Shipley Bingley Jcn. The former was at the Bradford end of the Shipley triangle. ;As mentioned ;in a previous posting there were some boxes between Manningham Jcn and Shipley for which I don't have drawings. (1) Manningham Sidings.;Spare and summer only coaching stock was stored here. (2) Frizinghall. ;There was a large wool warehouse here served by rail. These two boxes had signals on the passenger lines but no points. ;(3) Shipley

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Aire Valley Railway

Hi All.   Just a quickie. Single attachment showing the latest bit of stock on the Fairfied garden line.. It started off as a toy bendy bus somewhat about the same scale as the two Chad Valley rail vehicles. It was obtained from Pound Stretcher. The power chassis is the IP Engineering budget chassis I picked up at NG North. Somewhere on youtube is a 30 odd second video of it on the move..   See you at York? Cheers Derek

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Aire Valley Railway

Hi again all. First off,Sorry Petetg i have no idea what the diesel unit on you line could have been. I doubt you will ever find out.Second. He's at it again, me that is How is the mineral on the AVR spelt? C-Oil. That's right. Look out for today's error. I think the only item of motive power not looked to date is the steam railcar featured in the Aire Valley steam developments article of February 1970 article in the Railway Modeller. I think I detailed the construction problems. Possibly the

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Aire Valley Railway

Hi all.   After posting the last blog I found a couple of images of a model of Emett's Nellie which I thought I had already posted but looking through my past posting I cannot find them so I'm attaching them today. If I have posted them before my apologies. Nellie is now in the hands of my daughter down in Ellesmere and. is usually kept in a show case and just comes out at Christmas as will be seen in one of the attachments. Also attaching a pic of a model Hiab sea crane. She works in

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