Kelvinbank, a Caledonian Railway project.

I love it. What a great engine and well worth the time and effort. I think you’ve done a brilliant job. 

What a splendid little engine!

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but the end result is a bit of a character and a rather nippy wee engine

 

Certainly is.

40 years ago I was lucky enough to pay an (all too brief) visit to Tony Brenchley's loft, when he was working in Northampton at the same place as my father. It was the first time I had seen such dainty locos, but left an indelible mark on my memory. (Those who know of Tony's interests will realise that the model was of Blairgowrie, in P4, and not actually wired up at that stage!)

 

I feel slightly in lust with them at that point, but having seen that video, it might be full-blown love!

 

So, when do we get to see the other side of it?

Och , I'll run it up to Yoker or Dawsholm and turn it round....

21 minutes ago, Dave John said:

Och , I'll run it up to Yoker or Dawsholm and turn it round....

 

You have lined the other side?

Lovely loco and a very entertaining video. Proper loco chasing, it felt as if I was there - and almost out of breath at one point! 

 

The guard really is a nice touch, adds a bit of life. They were made of stern stuff, those CR men. Especially the driver, running the loco tender first, all on his own, while facing the other way 

 

Edited August 5, 2020 by Mikkel

Loved the video and congratulations on a finishing a superb locomotive.

 

Beautiful bit of modelling

Splendid loco and a great video to show it off.

 

I really do think Caley locos suit the Prussian blue far better than light sky-blue

That is a cracking wee loco. Well modelled

Cheers David

Sunny today, so after a busy week during which N0. 252 got turned at Yoker I thought I would take a couple of pics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Glaswegians might like to play at spotting the anachronism in the third photo. 

Edited August 6, 2022 by Dave John

...and very nice pics they are... and what a marvellous layout it is, you seem to have got it all just right! No 252 is a great new asset.

 

KitPW

 

Swan Hill - https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blogs/blog/2502-swan-hill/

I really like 0-4-2s and that one is a beauty, finished a treat.

 

That is the first model railway I've seen where the backscene continues through the window!

 

Alan

Hi.

 

Found this picture when browsing this photo collection.  A bit late in the day for your model, but thought it might be of some interest.

https://devabob.zenfolio.com/p855931604/hE6748379#he6748379

 

Nice photo 26 power . 

 

Seems to a works photo of as built. 

 

Edited August 26, 2020 by Dave John

It is, presumably, a Dubs works photo - their builder's plate is prominent on the cab side sheet, slightly lower than you've placed the number plate. What was Caledonian policy on builder's plates? There's no sign of the distinctive Dubs diamond on any other photos of 670s I've found online or on your model, though some do have an oval plate on the trailing splasher - is that a St Rollox "rebuilt" plate? The photo is photographic grey. At this period (c. 1870?) it's not unusual for a trade-built engine to display a more ornate livery in the official photo in grey than was actually worn in practice, or for the builders to apply their own interpretation of the company's livery to engines when delivered - by the end of the century, painting specifications supplied with the contract would be tightened up. There's a photo of a Neilson-built Midland Class 1102 0-6-0T, built 1874, with the tank side lined out in three panels - again photographic grey and so almost certainly a Neilson official photo. There's no evidence Derby ever painted lined out a tank loco like that, though scant evidence of how the engines were lined out on entering traffic.

That pic is in the livery book , p227. 

 

I'd agree that it is probably in works grey, but it would have run in black until rebuilt as a mixed traffic engine.

 

I have fitted the little brass works plates to some locos , but I have run out of them. Not sure where I got the original etch from, but some will turn up in time.

 

 

What's the anachronism, Dave.  I thought it must be something to do with the tenements, maybe the shops, but I'm stumped.

 

Alan

There's no "close" at the chemist shop building ?

 

Former Partick Smiddy

It's really the shops Buhar. Mellis the Cheesemonger is actually a modern shop on the Great Western Road, but it has been refurbished in a very traditional style. So I used a photo of it since all the photos from the victorian era are monochrome. 

 

The Chemist is from the south side, but I can't remember where. 

 

Valid point about the close Blk4y. I intend to have a stair from the upper to the lower road in the same manner as Kelvinbridge. The close is on the Great Western Road side, the green painted wall being the basements of the shops on the GWR.  This is how I hope it will turn out. The red door is actually the fire exit from the subway. 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 6, 2022 by Dave John

Some challenging cast iron there!