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  1. Never seen this before. Thought this might be an appropriate place to post it knowing Tim will probably See it.. P
    26 points
  2. Still feeing like some sea air, and it is a nice day, so I shall head for the coast shortly, though I haven't decided on an exact destination yet. Probably somewhere with childhood memories, but not Skeggy. Photos before I go, featuring the same two locos as last night. and a B1.
    23 points
  3. A couple of locations on the County Durham coast today. One location in bright sunshine which is typical of the area and the other on the same day when there was a very rare overcast dull dismal spell. Hartlepool 37503 down vans 14th Feb 89 C11625.jpg Hartlepool 142025 Newcastle to Middlesbrough 14th Feb 89 C11631.jpg Hartlepool 143006 Middlesbrough to Newcastle 14th Feb 89 C11633.jpg Easington 14th Feb 89 C11641.jpg Easington Class 143 Middlesbrough to Newcastle 14th Feb 89 C11644.jpg David
    21 points
  4. Hi all, Not a huge amount to report from WW recently. The sound upgrade to WW's Bachmann 47s is now complete and GW Green 47500 and InterCity Swallow 47834 are now nearing completion, so I hope to post some pics of those soon. I have squeezed in a couple of running sessions recently though, so I thought I'd post a few pics... 47710 arrives at Waverley from Glasgow Queen Street... ...and then departs not long after... ...followed by a 4-car DMU lash-up bound for Fife... A sunny day by the riverside... Meanwhile, 47001 is in for attention over at Haymarket MPD... ...as is 37692... I have a fair few more to post, but I've reached the upload limit now, so I'll be back! Cheers for now, Dave
    17 points
  5. A quiet morning in the valley at Cwm Bach after Guildex.
    17 points
  6. I'm just half way through a van building program at the moment. Here's the present lot, the front line and one or two on the back line ready for the weathering paint shop.... The front three are old Airfix vans with a new chassis, most of the rest are Parkside.
    17 points
  7. This loco has been in my collection for a quite a while after I purchased it secondhand of flea bay. It started it's life as 1420 which is way to out of era even for me plus it had GWR writing on the tank. So the other day I fancied working on it so now it has reverted back to its original number of 4820 and with the nice GWR monogram. Here it is after a few days work, still needs a bit more... Hang on, the driver is shouting something to me 'w......ic...d...h...ass...umb...pl...e' What, speak up I can't hear you! 'Who's nicked the brass number plate?' No one, its still in the post....don't worry about it they will be fitted once it arrives.... The other thing is the driver face looks a bit featureless, better get the makeup out ready for the next photo shoot. Funny what you don't see until you take some pictures. General question For all my locos I have been using Fox transfers for the buffer beam numbers but they look a little large to me on this loco and had to be spaced very tightly to get them to fit. Has anybody else had this problem and if so what transfers do you use. All answers appreciated
    15 points
  8. Then I must be in the minority! At 34 years of age I can see a lot of potential in even the most moth eaten of models. I have over the past few years have picked up kit built wagons cheaply from Ellis Clark Trains ( other traders are available) at a few of the bigger shows, often they have damaged brake gear or are fitted with unusual couplings. I buy them, strip them, replace any couplings with three link couplings (if not already fitted), repair any damage ( usually having to scratch build missing gear from plastic strip), paint, transfer and varnish. The attached picture shows my workbench of organised chaos. All but three of these box vans are rescue kits, the rest having been built by me from new PECO Parkside kits. Why do I rescue these kits? Because I can get them cheap and I know I can do them justice, I get immense pleasure from seeing something battered returned to its former glory or in most cases better than they’ve ever been.
    15 points
  9. Today I have done nearly all of the things I planned to do, which is not bad. I have also identified a sudden desire to go to the seaside, so I intend to do that tomorrow. This golf free thing seems to be working well. Tonight's pictures then. Another WD on the way to Ferme Park, and more lighting experiments. Coming Down, the White Rose is diesel hauled again today.
    15 points
  10. 14 points
  11. Some from last night, donny to Toton with a stud farm train new units in donny and my train in Doncaster VQ ready to pull out and run up to st caths to run round and head back to Toton, last minute loco swap as when I prepped the loco in down decoy the GSM radio handset wasn’t working on 66745 so I couldn’t take it and swapped to 66766 rugby to craven arms tonight
    14 points
  12. Grandad has been a very naughty boy. He was aloud out to go to Telford for the weekend provided he was back by 13.00 hours on Sunday and he came back with this.
    13 points
  13. Wanting to run a Bachmann Baldwin and my other 009 layout not suitable I acquired an old ammunition box and built a small WW1 themed inglenook layout designed to be housed in and displayed on the box. Only done a couple of exhibitions but it's been well received so far.
    12 points
  14. Do I qualify? To level with you although I made them in the 40s-50s, these examples are from some card sets I found much later on in life, so slightly more carefully built. You can still find them as downloads, or on eBay.
    12 points
  15. I have to say thanks to every one for assistance with the get the dome for my Jinty. There is per my previous post on it, it was presented by a friend to me saying just finish it I won't. Unfortunately the person passed away 18months ago and with all my time committments (well work, family etc) I have finnally managed to get it almost complete! A couple of things to finish off (paint the piano front, wheels, and break gear, number plate to the smoke box door). As Tony says just build things! Also recently, after about a 5 year rest in the box, I have decided that it is time to finish the following D17. Still a list of things to finish off but I am happy (though the photo is too dark) that this has finally reaching completion. This is the first time I have used lining transfers, Not the best but for a loco that will be weathered in the future I think they will work out OK. I have realised that the number of kits I have started over the years and not finished it is now time to finish as many as I can. One of the things I have started to do is place each distinct kit which is part built into a take away container. The reason for this is things have got mixed up on the work desk so as I sorted them I placed them in a box (or common items such as open wagons, I have 2 NER 5 planks which inhabit a common box). Once all the bits are together I find that the kit seems to practically fall together and be completed! After last year where I targeted a kit complete a month which I just about did...year was to finish old kits... I will have to count them up once done at the end of the year I bet it will be about the 12! This will be a bit easy as I have 7 NER 20 Ton hoppers to finish along with these 2 locos! My challange continues!
    12 points
  16. Yesterday I was able to see a little more of the exhibition .... Above we see Halesworth South, a Suffolk might have been, which assumes the GER took over the Southwold Railway (and we see the SR house style in the station buildings) and met and extended Mid-Suffolk. It was voted best layout by a Darlington MRC member by the visiting exhibitors.
    11 points
  17. I'm pretty sure I've shown this prototype shot before, courtesy of peterboroughimages.co.uk But as I now have a New England J6 with a tablet catcher, I though I'd have a go at it in model form. Not even a very near miss, but never mind.
    11 points
  18. Here are some more piccies as promised... Out in the countryside... ...while life goes on over at Haymarket... Cheers Dave
    10 points
  19. This morning I've fitted the two Sound Chips I got re blown at DigiTrains yesterday, one for the Railfreight 47, and one for the 56. Then after Lunch and a knap I've dressed the RES 47, The covered Wagon in the photo is a Lima HO one as when I first moved to Burton in 2005 there was a Train about 8am each morning with 5 French Canvas Steel Wagons came up from the South and then backed across all the Main Lines into Dixies Sidings for unloading. Sorry about the quality, I didn't use the Tripod, it was just hand held.
    10 points
  20. Thanks Tony and Saxo, for the nice comments, I did look at an O Gauge 60 in three tone grey yesterday, but kept my wallet in my pocket. but here is the 00 version working through New Mills on a Trafford Park to Bescot Load.
    10 points
  21. Little "black & white" theme from Banks road station...
    10 points
  22. I've found this pic of Wymondham with a cement train in the loop. And I came across some other locations Dereham in the late 70s 1982 JCB shunting Fakenham 1980 1973
    9 points
  23. For inspiration, a couple more, same day. Colour one taken on a different date.
    9 points
  24. Hearty congratulations for best in show for Crinan at Darlington this weekend. We hope you enjoyed it; we very much enjoyed having you. All in all a great weekend.
    9 points
  25. And some more GBRf locos at various spot around the country. 66712 "Peterborough Power Signalbox" + 66729 "Derby County" - Shawford - 6M26 Eastleigh East Yard to Mountsorrel - 26.02.2019 66771 - Clay Mills - 6Z32 Tinsley to Coton Hill - 29.05.2015 66772 - Easenhall - 4M23 Felixstowe to Hams Hall - 02.06.2016 66774 - Bedwyn - 6V30 Grain Thamesport to Margam TC - 19.09.2018 66778 - Banbury - 6M40 Westbury to Stud Farm - 06.01.2017 Andy.
    9 points
  26. I must be doing something very wrong. I have been tinkering with some cheap secondhand Airfix LMS coaches. An articulated twin dia D1965 BSO+SO A dia D1948 Buffet Car A period II dia D 1807 SO, I cut away the Airfix top of the coach sides and have added my own from plastic card, sort semi scratchbuilt than a conversion. There is still loads to do to these, my LNER cut and shuts and the BR Mk1s I have been chopping about. My plan is to get them all running well before detailing and painting. I am in no rush, my aim is to have a working scenic layout with a selection reliable running "modelled" stock by the time I am 70, only 7 3/4 years to go. This year is a stock building and running year.
    9 points
  27. We are talking model railways, NOT an essential like food and water. No-one is forced to buy any particular model. Presumably, you think Ferrari should stop making cars because some can't afford them? The only person who loses out if they misjudge the market is the person taking the risk by funding the project. My guess is that in this case, they know the market well enough to know if will sell.
    9 points
  28. The August Bank Holiday weekend saw Blowers Green make its second appearance at Burnham on Sea exhibition for Sedgemoor Rail 2019 exhibition. A good weekend was had by the team, with Blowers Green performing faultlessly. Only the operarators causing the problems. A good position facing the halls windows meant that I could get some half decent photos of the layout. The layout seemed to create a lot of interest, especially the opreation of the fiddle yards at each end. It was also nice to meet and talk to fellow RM-webber Rivercider again. Here are a few photos of the layout itself for those of you who have not seen it before. Firstly the initial set-up of the layout. One of the new additions to the layout has been a station building added to the New Road end of the layout, to try and give the layout a more balanced look, as the Dudley Tunnel end did dominate a bit. We think it has worked. This view of the station building is onlt obtainable when the layout is at an exhibition. The Dudley Tunnel end of the layout also saw an addition. This new signal has been added as it was realised one was required. This partially replicates one that stood in front of the tunnel mouth when the real Blowers Green signal box existed, only it was a GWR LQ example. In later years it was replaced by an UQ distant signal, fixed in later years. We have added a shunt ahead arm to the new signal to help signal shunting trains into and out of the yard. It wasn't actually working for the exhibition, hence the "X" on the home and shunt arms. The distant arm is fixed, hence no green glass in the arm. Getting the signal operational is work in progress. The view of the new signal from the track. in reality the view of the home arm is blocked by the large pipe across the line, so a good excuse for a Banner Repeater to be installed. Finally a view looking along the layout from the hill above Dudley Tunnel, looking to the new station building on New Road. That's all for this post. I took more photos when the exhibition was up and running of locos and stock, which will appear in due course. Paul J.
    8 points
  29. Well, in which case I hope I can be indulged in posting another couple .... I've left No.1's motion towering in the background
    8 points
  30. 13309. When the X was a real station, the air was filthy and the entertainment at such a place provided hours and hours of fun and education. One of the best little piece of 50's film I have seen for a long time; such great detail if you watch and watch. Almost Huntly (and the other chap that still does it....name has gone from my remaining brain cell) standard; I can hear their introductions, interjections and summaries. Thank you for around 9 minutes of pure pleasure. Having said all that, is it not now a huge pleasure to be able to see the magnificence of the face of both the X and St. P after the extensive rebuilding locally; a hugely vibrant and pleasurable place to take a stroll or sit and watch the world passing by? The interiors are, sadly, modern and clinical and rather boring train wise. P
    8 points
  31. Then he would be wrong - anyone can build locos, if you are prepared to serve the 50+ year apprenticeship that I and many others have undertaken. I couldn't have built GT3 when I started, but so many people "want it now" and, if it isn't already available RTR, then they must consider the gamble that is crowd-funding. As I said, faith does not come into it. Regards, John Isherwood.
    8 points
  32. Further to the Bradford Exchange comments I like the way these two images compare.
    8 points
  33. Delighted to see the King's Cross film, many thanks for making it visible for all. I'm sympathetic to the railway content of course, but the film [rather like modelling] is able to communicate the whole scene and the spirit of the area. My father had lived close by up to the early 50s, in the Buildings between KX and St Pancras that are just visible in the distance at about 2:36. A small remnant of those Buildings still stands among the modern developments along with the truncated German Gymnasium building just North of the Great Northern Hotel. I was brought up with visits and stories of the area and can just remember the array of buildings in front of the station before Victoria Line construction swept them away. It's nice to see it all recorded on film, especially the people, vehicles and presence of trolleybus overhead. There's one excellent, unusual, rare view at 1:22 of a small house close to the corner of Pancras Road, which I believe was built as a show house in the 1920s. I shall watch a few more times - definitely more detail to be discovered.
    8 points
  34. Ballasting work continued this evening. A combination of using 2mm ballast and the track being the thin sleeper C&L flexitrack means that ballasting has been a bit more challenging than i was anticipating. There’s only a thin layer of small material, which seems to make the required capillary action harder to achieve and ballast ends up going all over the track and sleepers. I’ve tried using the traditional PVA, water, washing up liquid combo as well as ballast bond, but the same result occurs and it’s a real pain scrapping ballast from the track sides and sleepers once it’s set. To negate this i’ve decided to just paint some PVA in between the sleepers and then sprinkle ballast on top, which gives a thin base layer i can then, once set, add more ballast to and use more traditional methods to fix in place. The thin base later seems to promote capillary action. I’ve then filled in any remaining gaps with painted PVA and sprinkled chinchilla dust. I think end result looks pretty good so far and the finer chinchilla dust offers some natural variation. Lots of additional track and ballast weathering to crack on with once we get the ballasting completed. It takes a little longer this way, but I think the end result will be worth it. 55xx sits over the ballasted area with a local service. An 8F sits in the loop siding waiting for a clear road to proceed towards Oxley sidings with a small freight - looking quite sorry for itself.
    8 points
  35. Been doing some of that modelling malarkey....again. The articulated pair. The roofs need trimming back a bit. Something I have noticed with the Airfix roofs they seem to hog (bow upwards) when not clipped to the glazing.......I need to work out how to prevent that from happening. The BSO from the pair I didn't have enough window sections so I used two windows from the period II SO left over bits, with lower parts from other left over bobs. The SO end The underframes on these coaches was centrally trussed, like a Mk1 so there is loads of work still to do. The Buffet, the LMS only built 5 buffets and only 4 to this design. Later on some 12 wheeler restaurant cars were converted to buffets. The kitchen and counter side. The corridor side. Finding out what was on the underframe is going to be fun, I have only ever seen one photo of these coaches and that is not overly clear as what gubbins was between the bogies. These photos were taken by our intrepid photographer and some other geezer on the other side as the Blackpool special left behind a black five. The Manchester train (LMS train one) was being hauled by a Stanier Mogul. To see both trains running and knowing only two coaches are as they came out the factory is quite nice. It has taken 5 BSks and 8 Cks Airfix models to produce both these trains, and loads of enjoyment doing in so.
    8 points
  36. For once I actually did what I planned, and after a nice quiet journey I finished up at Anderby Creek, which, fifty years ago, was a haven of peace and tranquility compared with Skeggy Mabelthorpe and Sutton. Even then, caravan sites were springing up nearby, and today there are even more, but on arrival the small and free car park was not even half full, and the beach almost empty. My back didn't much like trudging through soft sand, so I finished up on the coastal path, where I saw more butterflies, and of more varieties, than I've seen in years. Absolutely lovely, and well worth a seventy mile drive. The next trip though will be railway related. Back to PN, and the 7.43 Up York has its normal badly run down A2/3. Look at them lattices! Lighting is getting better, but I think something more permanent is called for.
    7 points
  37. And another from my collection of last week.
    7 points
  38. The log cabin arrived about 10.30am and has taken a few hours to unload and stack around the garden. All sheeted over now ready for the weekend. Cheers, Ade.
    7 points
  39. Yes, it was interesting to discover that a Darlington member was a Great Eastern man. He now knows he is not alone! I think he was as surprised as I was. Well, anything to oblige a lady ..... The layout is set 1945-1948, but you'll notice a Buckjumper in ultramarine on the bridge where the GER line crosses the line. Interestingly, he has built the Scalescenes church, using the flint option, which i have also purchased with a view to plundering for St Tabitha's. Next door is that very attractive Petit Properties cottage. There is a lot of Suffolk/East Anglian flavour to the layout. It is always important to capture 'place', and this layout very much does so to my mind.
    7 points
  40. Hi Guys, had a very nice time yesterday at the show. Andy and I had a leisurely drive down and breakfast on the way. Met up with George, Ian, Martin and Dave. Picked up two more wagons for the layout, a ready built Siphon Milk wagon (ex Slaters kit) which is a good a anything I could built and a credit to whoever made it. Also got a brass kit for a Cordon Gas wagon. I have also ordered my first brass loco kit, a 517 class 0-4-2 tank engine which were the staple loco's on the Malmesbury line until replaced by the 14xx's in the 1930's. Thanks to Dave for help with a flat tyre when we left the show. Just tracking the progress of the van with the cabin. Cheers, Ade.
    7 points
  41. And one from my Collection, taken on Tony's suggestion from when Tony visited on Saturday.
    7 points
  42. Hi, I couldn't find the 47 you mentioned, I did ask on the Heljan Stand, but the guy said he didn't have any 47's with them, and couldn't see any Cab's. But here are a few pics that I did get, nothing very exciting, The background lighting was very blue on this Layout.
    7 points
  43. Something I didn't mean to start, or at least, not just yet. Cambrian's kit for the first of the distinctive 'Southern' vans with their loading gauge-filling domed roof. I've built examples of most of the major variations, less the plywood and banana versions but this is the progenitor of the breed, with a 9' 6" wheelbase, lifting link brake, and a bottom flap door. This is about as close to building something out of the packet as I get; I've replaced buffers, axleboxes and brake levers but that's it. The lever guides are from the Scalefour Society and the levers from Masokits. I've even painted it, though just the first pass as you can see, I've missed the odd bit. Adam
    7 points
  44. Some of the current stock, mainly GWR 57s, HSTS, 150s and 153s, an 800 and a few 66s with large rakes of JIAs and CDAs
    7 points
  45. I've never like lwb two axle freight wagons, so here are a couple for my 'improved' speedlink network...
    6 points
  46. The crossover in the station is now finished and painted as is the holding siding area. Th a loco shed is also coming along but I still need to do the roof. Cheers Peter.
    6 points
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