The Farthing layouts

16 hours ago, Mikkel said:

LNWR 20 ton wagon 20?89. 

 

Found it! Tucked away in P. Ellis, LNWR Wagons Supplement No. 1 (L&NWRS, 2011) and not the main three volumes. No. 20289 was a 20 ton platform trolley to D74, built in May 1870 at a cost of £86/8/11* - one of ten that Earlestown built in odd moments between 1869 and 1882. It was replaced in 1908 by a 40 ton trolley to D97. It was a 6-wheeler, 24 ft over headstocks, 9 ft + 9 ft wheelbase. No known photo. 

 

*£10,500 in modern money.

Edited March 7, 2021 by Compound2632

8 hours ago, Compound2632 said:

Maybe the Cambrian worked differently but usually the rule was no promotion without relocation.

 

He worked his way up at other Stations and became a Station Master at Fordep.  He then moved to Traeth Mawr, which is where he had been born, when there was a vacancy.

That is amazing! The modelling is some of the best I've seen, very clever use of military figures, salt and blue tack! Stunning 

19 hours ago, Barry Ten said:

Ian Holmes kindly showed me around that museum while I was in the Twin Cities. I don't remember the circus scene but the big O gauge layout was very impressive.

 

I was trying to work out from the video what size the layout is, it must be huge. The circus train is described on their webpage as a "special event" in October last year. I thought the colours on the models looked a little gaudy and unrealistic, but a search for videos of the Circus World Museum train shows they've got it right.

 

Joe Kaspar did an HO scale model of a Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey train, featuring 108 wagons! 

 

 

19 hours ago, Phil Bullock said:

Wonderful modelling! In the modern era the gulls would have a field day....

 

Many thanks Phil. Good point about the gulls, that would have made for a nice alternative plot at the end 

 

 

4 hours ago, MikeOxon said:

I'm surprised to notice that I do not appear to have commented - I must have got so engrossed in this story that I forgot!  I especially like the structure of this post, with its gradually build up via making all the props.  We all enter a fantasy world through railway modelling, so it's great to see a tale like this presented so well

 

Mike

 

Thanks Mike. I tried to leave out words altogether, but it's hard. I can't imagine the difficulties encountered by the silent film makers.  Of course they did use words too...

 

 

 

1 hour ago, sb67 said:

That is amazing! The modelling is some of the best I've seen, very clever use of military figures, salt and blue tack! Stunning 

 

Many thanks Steve. I enjoyed making the props, the only problem is that I can't see any further use for them, especially the eels!

 

Edited March 7, 2021 by Mikkel

Googling "eel recipes" returns this:- "About 1,860,000 results (0.62 seconds)"... that should do it.

Kit PW

16 hours ago, ChrisN said:

 

Mikkel,

I am not sure, without looking, how senior a Class 4 Station Master is.  Mr Price is a Silver Band Station Master, and there are only gold bands above him.  He also has a house, a very nice one, er, when I get round to building it.  Also, he joined the railway so that he could be station master at Traeth Mawr, and this was in 1864, three years before there was a Traeth Mawr station so I doubt he will want to move.

 

Thank you for keeping him in mind though.  

 

Your Mr Price really is a formidable character. I don't think there is any other figure on RMweb with such a carefully detailed background description. I have sympathy for his son though, he's a tough act to follow!

 

 

5 hours ago, Northroader said:

I notice on the correspondence on the heavy LNWR wagon, that Crudgington station is involved, a small country station just north of Wellington, Salop, on the Crewe line.

 

One thing I don't understand about that correspondence is that I thought the RCH handled the clearing up of such matters. Tony Atkins has a long description of how the RCH worked in GWR Goods Services Vol 1, and if I read it correctly then any erroneous reporting of wagons on foreign lines was done by them. But maybe I have misunderstood. He does in passing mention that there were certain "special arrangements" between the companies.

 

 

3 hours ago, Compound2632 said:

 

Found it! Tucked away in P. Ellis, LNWR Wagons Supplement No. 1 (L&NWRS, 2011) and not the main three volumes. No. 20289 was a 20 ton platform trolley to D74, built in May 1870 at a cost of £86/8/11* - one of ten that Earlestown built in odd moments between 1869 and 1882. It was replaced in 1908 by a 40 ton trolley to D97. It was a 6-wheeler, 24 ft over headstocks, 9 ft + 9 ft wheelbase. No known photo. 

 

*£10,500 in modern money.

 

Nice bit of research Stephen, many thanks. I'm off to find out what such a vehicle would have been used for.

R'eely, r'eely excellent Mikkel. Quite inspirational as always, spurs me on to keep on improving my own modelling and to look for unusual cameos to introduce into a scene.

Many thanks. A spider's web in your greenhouse maybe!

Mikkel,

Just seen last Friday's World of Railways Newsletter, and this blog was in it!  Just followed the link and here I am.

 

Well done!!!!!

Thanks for the tip Chris. I hadn't noticed, but did wonder how new visitors were finding their way here. 

 

Many thanks to the BRM team 

Brilliant little tale and great use of the Airfix soldiers.  That brought back memories when me and my two best friends played war games using Airfix 1/76th kits in our early teens (gosh - what a long time ago that was now).  We each had a very eclectic collection of figures and tanks and it seemed not to matter if we had US Paratroopers fighting alongside German units etc.  However, to distinguish each other’s armies we’d have our own paint scheme and my friend, Roy, painted his stuff up in white and black to represent snow troops.  Simply because his favorite was the German Mountain Troop pack.  So Thank you for that pleasant trip down memory lane, Mikkel.  

Sounds like great memories, Mike. The German Mountain Troop pack were among my favourites too. I liked the horses and how you could fit packs to their sides. My favourites were the Gurkha's though, not sure why as they weren't the best modelled - could be their secretive knife-wielding reputation that appealed!

 

I wonder how the Airfix figures are considered by today's military modellers. Some of the better packs in the range were fairly good, I think.