75A

Looking very good, Is this 00 or 0?

 

I wish you all the best with your build. Keep us updated with the progress.

Acc +Ess sounds cool, could you use it with a dcc or dc layout as well?

 

Regards,

 

Owen

Hi Owen.. many thanks for your good wishes. Whenever one embarks on a new layout, be ready for the long haul! The layout is P4, the loco fleet so far numbering 3 locos, with another 17 kits sitting on the shelf!

I should declare my commercial interest in Acc+Ess as its founder, but 75A is very much my sons' and my own personal hobby. Yes, Acc+Ess Protocab fitted locos can work on dc or DCC but have to be controlled from an Acc+Ess Protocab controller for the moment.

 

Today's progress on the layout is to realise that I hadn't had enough time with Chris to find out from him his baseboard building plan, so I have cut out the two side inner members for the first board (the buffer stop end of East sidings). I shall cut the inner members of the ends next and then the outer members of all four sides before laminating them and joining them together.

 

Regards

Tony Hagon

I am very intrigued to see someone attempting anything Brightoian, as my great, great grandfather was a signal man at Brighton for most of his life.

I found 6mm ply is too thin for a baseboard top  unless you aim to cross brace every 4 inches or so.

Base boards can be made to fit together by tacking on one extra end frame to one end and setting the other back, kind of male and female. It's easy to do, makes for simple assembly of layouts at exhibitions and does away with the need for alignment  fixings.

 

Regards Shaun.

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Now THAT's an interesting thought, Shaun... will experiment. Regarding 6mm being too thin, I queried this with Chris at Wakefield but he showed me that the Barrow Road boards not being too big in width and length don't deflect the 6mm top to any extent. However, the sceptic in me says that my long and thin boards may need a thicker top so I haven't been too worried about sacrificing the first efforts (see later blog entries), as I can use them to strengthen the tops if need be.

When was your granddad at Brighton? I worked there from 1969 - 72 and visited the signalbox often. It was quite a hairy walking route, off the end of #4 platform across D,E and F sections and alongside Montpelier sidings. I always thought that the footbridge to the box was going to collapse at any time but it never did!

Thanks for your comments

Regards

Tony

The last layout sagged but lucky I'm a cabinet maker and can over come this problem.

My gt.gt.grandfather's sir name was Law I believe, that would have been my grans grandfather on her fathers side. Definately Southern days but I've no idea which box.

Might have been found trainspotting in the yard entrance near the top of Lovers walk myself in the late seventies.  

We've a Brighton here in Oregon, it's so small you could fit it under Brighton station roof!! 

 

Regards Shaun.