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  1. A return to the ECML in Northumberland this afternon. This time we have photos taken at Morpeth and Pegswood, just a few miles further north. Morpeth 03112 up 18th April 85 C6809 Morpeth143001 ecs to platform Feb 89 J9754.jpg Pegswood 43045 up 18th April 85 C6827 Pegswood Class 254 Kings X to Dundee 7th June 86 C7571.jpg Pegswood 47306 down pw 9th Jan 88 C9314. David
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  2. Things are quietening down now, as the dead hour approaches. That means paths through to the Up slow are available, and more coal can be dispatched to Ferme Park. A nearly new 9F sets off with the next consignment. and passes a B1 waiting to go to Grimsby.
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  3. The earlier release the D33 as sides/ends format is the last version from 1927 onwards when the look outs were removed and electricity installed. The new release is the 1908 full third rebuild to remove the centre toilets and composite layout. The Hornby sides are as built and only lasted a short time. The new etch represents the window compartment layout through to the end of the C16 lives, mostly gone by WW2 but it is highly likely a few lasted into he war. Records are incomplete. Thebenefit of the new etch is that there are no roof alterations required unless you are going for the electric light versions. If you want to reduce the work, you can keep the original Hornby ends and not used the supplied etched ones. I will post a complete image when my etches arrive. It gives the opportunity to have relief rather than printed panels. By sanding the Hornby sides flat and cutting away unwanted areas, they can be used as overlays, and they look something like this. Mike Wiltshire
    19 points
  4. Today is a another piece of the jigsaw completed, with the fiddle yard now joined to the scenic section and trains running between them for the first time. This gives a running length of about 400ft end to end in a U shape. Just the curves at the west end and in the middle to complete. Thanks to my IT guru modelling friends the trains are now operated via a Digikeijs & Digitrax set up using Railcom. At the minute this means signals, trains, points can be controlled via a touch screen. With the necessary block sections built in, soon the system will then become automatic (still retaining a manual option) with route setting controlling aforementioned signals & points, sounding horns and working smoke units at preprogrammed time’s. The other benefit is complicated manoeuvres with long heavy freight trains over the crossovers (which would normally need coordination between 3/4 operators) will be done automatically. Colour lights will fade in and out realistically just like the old filament bulbs. HLJ was always going to be a ‘watching the trains go by’ layout so it’s the last step before a complete loop due around the end of March The fiddle yard is beginning to fill up..!
    19 points
  5. Well I have to say I'm sold on 'sculptamold', it's really easy to use. I've finished the land form around the rock cutting south of the viaduct and given the lot a coat of watery brown paint. Once I've painted and ballasted the track I can start ground cover, trees, hedges etc. I'm looking forward to this as progress is rapid and the transformation spectacular but that will have to wait until after the weekend at the earliest. I'm currently suffering with a snotty cold that some kind sole gave me at theSouthampton show and I'm at Yate this weekend. My rock cutting south of the viaduct isn't as spectacular as the prototype but does serve to conceal the point where the line doubles, a good mile or more earlier than it should. Both the cutting and viaduct were modified ready for double track in the late nineteenth century but it was never extended beyond Midford due to the cost of doubling the tunnels. Jerry
    19 points
  6. Ok, I blame everyone on RMWeb that has ever said something along the lines of "Once you've tried O gauge, you'll never go back". You know who you are. Having downsized from a 6 bedroom house to a tiny 2 bedroom cottage, space is very much at a premium, but I still get the urge to dabble. Having next to no spare space, I decide to move up a scale. Bright, huh? I have been taking a break from model railways recently but the editor kindly sent me a freebie copy of Traction magazine recently that features my first layout Croydon North Street. Memories came back, tools were dusted off etc etc etc. Despite many valiant efforts, I don't think I've ever been able to improve on Croydon. Everything just clicked and came together for me and produced a pleasing little layout. I could be really boring and replicate it but that would be too easy. Late 80s/early 90s O gauge in a space of approx 6 feet x 12 inches? Yes, it's pretty much just a siding. Think "Sheringham" on the Bittern Line. Zero operational interest, just a DMU shuttle and maybe an 08 with a couple of wagons. Like Sheringham (in years gone past), the little station is at the end of a triangle which allows, in my head, the occasional interesting loco working that requires turning. No 3rd rail, perhaps West Country this time. This is as far as I've got, which is not far! I miss posting in RMWeb's "Layout Topics" subforum, so indulge me while I make lots of mistakes and offer them here for judgement... More soon. Edit: Oh, and for those that know me, spot the Lego!
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  7. Snowflake charging up the channel at speed! Trying to beat the tides to get in the estuary leading to Little Muddle harbour..... It'll be tight as slack water is nearly over!!! Skipper at the wheel - decided to use the Dart Casting one as I had it... Navigation lights needed, waiting for the missing one to arrive from Cornwall Model Boats. Anchor to fit and the steam winch to built once I've worked out how to build it as I have no drawings, photos or idea at the moment....
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  8. After about two years of planning and procrastinating, I've finally got some modelling done. Hopefully the denizens of this thread won't mind me sharing. It may just be a BR 12 ton van, and is definitely full of mistakes that I (hopefully) won't make on the next one. But as a total novice working in 1:148 scale, I'm very happy that it rolls along the track, looks vaguely like what it's meant to be, and none of my fingers are stuck together.
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  9. It's great to see what 'modellers' have been doing with their cranes, instead of just taking pictures of them fresh out of the box. I'll see your grey one, and raise you a red one!
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  10. The first announcement was usually in Meccano Magazine, with a brief description and a drawing; then as they were released MM has pictures of them in a layout setting, and finally passing the local HD stockist they would be in a display case, usually priced at many weeks pocket money! These were some of the last, and most detailed (expensive) of the Dublo SD6 wagon range. Being a Tri-Ang lad, my dad counselled against purchases of HD wagons because of coupling incompatibility, so I did not buy these at the time. Now, some 50-odd years later, I have tried to bring them up to a (relatively) modern standard. Inspiration came from John Isherwood , cctransuk on here, but whereas John was happy to build new underframes and add etched details, I wished to utilise as much of the original as possible. First, and possibly the most sacrilegious, the Caustic liquor tanker #4685. The model was obtained from Ebay and had been heavily coated in a yellowish varnish. Taken apart, the bogies were removed form the underframe and couplings/wheels removed. Both body and chassis components were stripped in caustic soda. I was concerned to try and find a suitable colour paint for ICI blue, but the body came up beautifully after its bath and only required clear varnish coats prior to transfer application. The underframe/bogies were stripped back to bare metal, a Dave Franks coupling hook added, then primed and recoated using Tamiya spray paints. Ladders, stay wires and end stanchions were also sprayed. Transfers are from john Isherwood's Cambridge range, and finish the model well. My next victim was another favourite of mine from the era, 4679 Traffic Services tank wagon. the tank filler moulding is a tribute to the mould designers art, however, other aspects of the body were improved. Both halves were glued together and the join line filled and smoothed. The large moulded number panel was removed. Body and u/frame again totally stripped back using caustic, and repainted using Tamiya spray. CCT transfers finish the model, I am very pleased with the way a rather battered Ebay purchase has turned out. I have four more to do as time permits, a couple need replacement tank fillers, which are available from Shapeways, to finish an interesting rake. I have tried to envisage where H/D would have gone had they lasted a couple of decades longer..better paint finishes and transfers? we will never know! I hope that the above does not cause too many palpitations..! Cheers from Oz, Peter C.
    14 points
  11. A V2 heads South. All downhill for a while, which must be why the fireman is seated.
    14 points
  12. Phase 4. Flockage 1 Sticky Fingers 10.
    13 points
  13. Eastern modellers have been crying out for a RTR J6 for ages. If anyone does take the plunge, let's hope they do the 3 tender version.
    13 points
  14. Morning Skipper.... Bit of a hurry I see from that wake and smoke?
    13 points
  15. Test run of 1561S and nearly finished support train.
    13 points
  16. Ladas with the 1.20 Leeds is next, though how it got the double chimney many months too early I really don't know. That will be remedied when Tim gets his hands on it, and the paint job will be much improved too. This was a low light day, when this end of the layout is the sensible place to take photos. When was I ever sensible though? Off I went to catch the A3 resting at the platform, with predictable results. Black and white goes some way towards saving it. The poles are nice and sharp though, which is strange, as they usually aren't.
    13 points
  17. Rocks by Rail (the old Rutland Railway Museum) can be found between Cottesmore and Ashwelll Villages in the beautiful County of Rutland. (LE15 7FF if you are more tech-savvy than I am and can use a SatNav, herinafter referred to as 'The Bitch in the Box') 19 acres of spoilt countryside. Actually, just a very small part of what was once a very large tract of spoilt countryside, as millions of tons of Ironstone were extracted form the surrounding area. Over 1 Million tons per year at one stage from Exton Village alone, which all passed through what is now our little museum. Since all that finished over 40 years ago, Rocks by Rail has won a bit of that green & pleasant land back from Mother Nature, to try and recreate just a little bit of the hive of industry. I have been volunteering there for about 18 months, and with our beloved leader His Andy Yorkishness's permission to start a thread, I thought you would all like to know a bit about it. We have a bit of everything to do with ironstone. From the rock itself, through Draglines & Excavators to the wagos & locos used to haul it all away from the tipping dock. Whetted your appetite? Being Rutland ( a bit 'posh' round 'ere), there is no Thomas the Tank Engine. In stead we have Sir Thomas, the Tank Engine. SirThomas Royden, 14" Barclay, no 2088 of 1940 running a passenger train into the main platform. (The ONLY platform!!) Ruston Face Shovel in operation at our Mock Quarry. We are lucky that there is an outcrop of Ironstone in the old empties sidings, which allows us to demonstrate the loading of Ore Trains. In the past, these sidings would have been full of empties awaiting loading at the Tipping Dock. After the loco had filled the sidings with empties in the morning, they would have been run down by gravity to the Tipping Dock, over the weighbridge and on down to the main sidings ready to be marshalled into Block Trains. A 4mm scale model of Sundew, at the time, the largest Dragline in the country. The model measures over 5' from tip of the Jib to rear of the superstructure. Something like 380 feet, full size. The only bit left of the original machine is one of the cabs, which we are restoring on site. If you would like to know more, please see http://www.rocks-by-rail.org/ Or ask away on here and I will do my best to help. If I don't know, I know a man who does, and I'll ask him!! I will be keeping this thread updated from time to time, with News, Running Days, and whatever else I think may be of interest Regards & thanks for reading this far Ian
    12 points
  18. That's a lovely shot, Gilbert, Many thanks. I think the fireman is squatting, unless his seat has collapsed! It could well be he once inhabited a smaller loco's cab, and has had his lower legs amputated! The problem with this view is the right-angle bend taking all the lines to the fiddle yard, beyond the overbridge. It's not visible from normal viewing angles, but it is here.... One dodge I've employed is to hide the curve with a loco, and then do a bit of 'cheating'. As here........... I know you like B17s, but an appearance of one on LB would be very rare.... Does a blackout work? Or is white better? Probably more-natural..... Regards, Tony.
    12 points
  19. Hi Chris. This really made me laugh. I do have a little cupboard full of modeling stuff and projects in the house. Yet find it difficult to just go over there and open the door let alone go upstairs or outside through any snow or worry about the wild life. There's even a cutting mat on the table with a half finished scratch built hopper sitting there but without any mojo it's like going to the fun fair while it's shut. The snow is great the day you wake up to it, my dogs love it too and will play chase in it. I usually end up hiking up the mountain with them. This year we had 3 days of snow ending up with about 10" in total not as much as in previous years. After a few days it starts looking depressing and makes a hell of a mess in the woods which I still need to clear up. A bear was hanging around the neighborhood about two weeks ago and did eat the last dozen apples on the tree just outside our bedroom before the dogs got wind of him and scared him off. We have had many cougar sightings recently and I doubt one would decided to make a meal of me because of the lack of mojo!! The mojo for other non hobby stuff is still flowing nicely however. We went on a 6 mile walk this morning and I'm just off to the woodwork shop to cut 36 tenons and fit them to the 36 mortises I cut yesterday. Having said all that. there is a glimmer of hope. Last night the modeling mojo paid me a visit and we sat down and weathered some hoppers. A pair of wooden types. A Parkside kit of the Hurst Nelson steel kind. Kit bashed Parkside Metro Cammell sort. Not entirely accurate but adds variety. Lastly a detailed Dapol model of the Charles Roberts design with batter plates and utilizing brake gear spares from the Parkside kits. (Brake shoes on other side). This one has a light weathering applied because it will be the newest vehicle in the rake. All have BB pellets glued in for weight and coal loads made from foam board, black roofing sealant dipped in model coal. Three more are planned, one more Dapol, another 20Ton wooden type with unpainted timber and a scratch built smaller 13Ton dia.193 also in wooden finish. Thank you to you all for helping return my mojo.
    12 points
  20. The 9F has been hastened on its way, to allow clear passage for our most prestigious working, seen gliding in from the North.
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  21. 5 of the, modified with a full buffer bean rather than dumb buffers, RT Models tipper wagons that I've built:
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  22. So no progress at all on the layout and in it's current form it's probably at the end of the road, mainly due to the fact we have moved However I suppose moving forwards things have taken a positive turn. One of the bedrooms in the new house was always destined to be a model railway room, but my fiancee and daughter had other ideas and the idea of a shed was mooted Now I resisted for ages until I did a bit of research on here and saw what some people have achieved in sheds, this combined with going to a reputable local shed supplier to find that really there are sheds and then there are insulated workshops just about pursuaded me that maybe this wasn't such a bad idea........ The other major improvement I was offered was space, the result of which is the base has been prepared and I await my 16'x12' insulated workshop to arrive.........
    10 points
  23. Phase three involved making a Gate and fitting the Fencing, Phase four will be some Flockage as Al would say.
    10 points
  24. From privatisation this was not only a problem with drivers. Infrastructure maintenance and projects saw lots of new organisations created all wanting experienced staff . I signal engineering we had a single department for all day-to-day matters and managing the input of established UK cantracors. Overnight we had about 20 organisations all looking for a Head of Signal Engineering. People within Train Operations business units wanting their own Signal Development Engineer, Jarvis, Amey, Balfour Beatty, Tarmac et al running parallel organisations bidding against each other for work and duplicating old BR structures. It is little wonder that costs in infrastructure projects have gone through the roof and timescales stretched massively. We used to call it the Magic Roundabout as staff were continually on the move to whoever offered them the most. Meanwhile the staff who knew what the job was about were all retiring and not being replaced. Several people I was involved in training for BR are still active in Australia, the Far East, Middle East, continental Europe and North America, all lost to our own system. When my own office was split off from BR and became part of an industrial conglomorate the last BR Management Grades vacancy list I received had about 40 jobs in the old BR Grades MS2 and above. Three were for people who knew how to build and run a railway, the rest were for accountants and contract lawyers. Why am I not surprised at the current state of the railway industry.
    10 points
  25. Jesse, Tony, this may possibly solve the issue. 50/50 chance.
    10 points
  26. Very much so! some from last night landor st trafford park nuneaton same again tonight but only from crewe
    10 points
  27. And on shed at Shirebrook. I do believe that locos really come alive when placed in a realistic setting. I am very pleased with these two customised locos, and I hope they will be popular at forth coming shows' Cheers Duncan
    10 points
  28. As it happens, my next effort did have a train coming North, and having seen Tony's solution. I did a bit more shopping too.
    9 points
  29. Next up Phase two, the fitting of the Platform Wall.
    9 points
  30. Not much modelling happening at the moment as I'm having a bit of a health scare and back and for to hospital every day for radiotherapy. The problem has been identified early and prognosis is not bad, but it is a bit onerous for the time being. This has not prevented the Dimbath Valley Railway board of directors giving the procurement committee funding for new stock in the wake of the moderate success of the cattle wagon. An LMS short GUV, Lima, has been purchased from the Bay of e, and will retain it's LMS livery under a bit of weathering as this ticks another livery box for me. Bogies are to be replaced and I've already ordered LMS buffers from Wizard to replace the pathetic Lima plastic mushroomblobs. Lima were not the best in the world below the solebars, and this thing will come complete with completely incorrect BR standard B1 bogies, hence the replacements. Current thinking is either Bachmann or possibly a Kitmaster Stanier donor. But this is not the big news. Cwmdimbath has only one auto fitted loco, 5555, and could do with more (so, I strongly suspect, could the real Tondu shed foreman as photos of the area at my period show that auto trailers hauled by locos without auto gear as ordinary coaches were not uncommon), and the shed did not get any 64xx allocated until after my period. Lord and Butler have been keeping a 4575 for me which I will pay for and pick up tomoz, in BR black and to be numbered as 5524, allox 86F 1953 to take up work connected with the new regular interval timetable; plates already ordered from MMJE. His website says he's behind with orders having been involved in a car crash last month, so I'm not expecting delivery particularly soon; hope he recovers soon and completely! Also ordered were plates for 6624, which will be the new identity of the 56xx that used to be 6602. This has been repainted in a speculative unlined green early 1948 livery with Egyptian Serif BRITISH RAILWAYS lettering. These plates will be red backed, and 5524's will be black backed. It's only now writing this that I've noticed the numerical similarity!
    9 points
  31. About six years ago i got David from Mulberry Modelling Works to build a small GN15 layout for me. I enjoyed building the locos and wagons but eventually I moved scales, sold everything and put the layout into storage. With the heavy rain and wind recently I found it necessary to repair the roof on one of my outbuildings only to discover to my horror the layout has suffered water damage and the fencing broken. I intend to refurbish the layout over the coming months and build up a small collection of rolling stock again. Most of these will be scratch built. Johna
    8 points
  32. Hmmmm must investigate, I’ll try and put them all into one video and post it, hopefully with more success. In the meantime, feast your eyes, I’ve been working on this whilst waiting for the bogies for the luggage brake. I feel like I’m becoming more confident with brass, still need more practice, but she rolls like no tomorrow, far better then anything else I’ve built actually.
    8 points
  33. Pen Y Bryn engine sheds.
    8 points
  34. Photo by Nigel Walls : D5414 at Ketton on a Peterborough - Leicester stopper, 1st January 1966...
    8 points
  35. Back to work on PG this morning, and work has started on the Lane leading to the Provender's Store. Phase one, some support, then card base, then some paint. The Hot Glue Gun was used but NOT harmed in this process.
    8 points
  36. And let's just for a minute consider the logistics of it all - 1. As you say the obvious answer is to call in the rescue loco - there is one in situ manned and ready to go so 'somebody' has clearly taken that precaution. 2. The rescue loco takes time to get to the spot where it has to stop prior to be called forward to the failed train then has to go in at low speed and attach, brakes to be sorted etc So far it is likely to have taken around 45-60 minutes from the time of the failed train coming to a stand, perhaps even longer if the Driver of the failed train first spent some time trying to get it moving on its own. 3. Plan A hasn't worked so - for the sake of argument Plan B would be to evacuate the trains - Stage 1 - find and get to site a sufficient number of PTS qualified staff, time required difficult to estimate but you can probably reckon an hour or more and you will need an absolute minimum of half a dozen people if the dead train is within a couple of hundred yards of a platform and I would actually prefer around 8 or 9. Beyond that you should allow a minimum of 1 extra person per every 50 yards of walking distance. But the big problem will be actually finding sufficient people. Stage 2 - Brief your team and obtain a possession/line block for them to work within. We are now probably over 2 hours since the train came to stand and it could be as much as 3 hours. Stage 3 - (Note possession is now in force) Distribute team to their respective positions, probably take 10 minutes to check they are all in the right places. Stage 4 - Commence disembarkation of passengers and guiding them to the station platform. inevitably there will be some not exactly sprightly, some may have luggage, there might be things like buggies for infants - and you haven't got anybody to help them apart from getting them off the train, and they have to be counted as they get off and counted as they get onto the station platform. 500 hundred people and assuming none of them trip or drop their luggage and the weather is good and the ground conditions are ideal and walking in single file they will go at the pace of the slowest so a good time over one hour to get them all off and probably at least 90 minutes until they are all clear onto a station platform. All lines have so far been closed for 100 minutes. Stage 5. Check the train is empty - 10 minutes to do a thorough check. Stage 6, Recall the safety team and get them to check nothing has been dropped or left behind as they make their way to the station platform - probably around 10-15 minutes. Stage 7. Check all the safety team are clear and give up the possession - which has shut all four running lines for around 2 hours. Now all of this assumes the station to which you are evacuating people has eamps at the platform ends and that those ramps have not be blocked to prevent people using them. If the ramps aren't usable due to ungated fencing or those 'dragon's teeth' things used at many stations where ramps still exist you can go back to the drawing board and forget Plan B. It really would be, as 'Zomboid' said, a plan of last resort and it would not come without risks as anybody who has a walked on a railway will know - tripping is all too easy and ruining shoes is equally easy. Assuming the near impossible task of being able to assemble a sufficient force of PTS qualified staff and a suitable ramped platform to get your passengers clear of the running lines and nobody tripping, or falling, or having a heart attack during the evacuation process I reckon you might have got all the passengers onto a station platform around about 3 hours or a little more after the train came to a stand. You then have to move them on to wherever of course so that means joining a train on the reopened running lines where they have been backed up for 2 hours and are probably full & standing in many cases. And one final point, why do you need so many people - simples, and speaking from experience - because if you don't your disembarked passengers will go all over the place. The best way to move them is in fairly small 'shepherded' groups - which takes even longer or needs even more people to do the job.
    8 points
  37. Waiting on the bogies for the ECJS luggage brake, so I cracked on with the GNR CCT van as the comet w Irons arrived. Getting there.
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  38. Well, it's been a while - quite a while - but I've finally completed mockups of the major buildings at Banff, and am able to put them into situ on the baseboards and have a good hard look at the trackplan. I took much more trouble in making the mockups than many would bother to. I've not built anything like this before, not even when I was in short pants, so I took this as an opportunity to learn from my mistakes on something that I'm destined to throw away anyway. During this process, I managed to pick up a second-hand copy of Paul Bason's Scratch Built Buildings (one of the BRM books), which I would highly recommend to anyone consider building their own. A highly education read. Anyway, the proof is in the photos. I'm delighted with the result: the buildings seem to sit fine and don't overpopulate or overpower the scene; the station platform height looks right; the goods and engine shed openings look about right; and the truncated bothy behind the engine shed is not particularly noticeable. Missing from the mockup are the signal box (SB), water tower (WT) a goods loading platform beside the 5-plank wagon in front of the engine shed, and hills at the back. Others with more experience might see problems where I don't, so do let me know. View from the street frontage (east) of the station, showing the station building and goods shed: Wagons waiting to be unload in the goods shed, while a ex-LMS non-corridor composite awaits at the arrivals platform (not shown): The western and highly photographed end of the station building, with a BR Standard Class 4 Tank 2-6-4T pulling a Thompson brake out of the departures platform ,heading for Tillynaught: Westwards view from the end of the station platform (not shown), towards the engine shed. The signal box and goods loading platform would be on the right: Helicopter view of the station area. The sweeping plywood area will (one day) be a road, while the lower plywood the north sea. Must have been cold on the platforms: Helicopter view of the engine shed: View of the engine shed from the west, with a Ivatt 2MT hanging around: View from the western end of the goods loading platform (not shown), back towards the station building:
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  39. It’s Facebook, so your computer isn’t wrong...
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  40. I'd imagine that this latest batch would have long been complete and already in a shipping container and on the high seas by the time it was realized there would be any issues surrounding axle boxes, liveries or otherwise. Likewise, I cannot imagine for one moment that someone will be sitting there individually unpackaging hundreds of models to inspect each and every axle box once they arrive in the UK either - although I could be wrong of course. We also have to factor in that any delay may well not be due to issues with the models themselves and could realistically be for any other logistical reason. In my own experience of importing/exporting products/shipments many delays are often due to HMRC, who are very much a law unto themselves and answerable to no one, and if not HMRC then any other myriad of logistical mishaps/delays that can, and usually do occur, for any expected/unexpected reason(s). Just my twopence-worth... cheers Al
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  41. Evening, After the wet school run this morning I decided to have a modelling morning. I've been daydreaming about the sidings, and a recent trip over Westbury made me think about a possible use for a pikestuff building I had. I thought it would also add to some interesting movement's and varied wagons.. A bit more ballasting was also done today and a shopping list started.. Not a lot else to report at the moment. Cheers Scott
    7 points
  42. A set of 6 information boards have appeared this week in New St. Station: Looks like they are at last giving the public some up to date information (Sorry about the first one, I didn't realise how fuzzy it was going to be, the light level was a bit low.
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  44. Photo by Neil Ferguson : Manc. Picc. on 14th August 1977...
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  45. Thought you might be interested in a picture of Jeff Day's model of Sandford & Banwell's station master's house which is on his 4mm/ft scale P4 layout based on the station.
    7 points
  46. Good evening Gilbert, I've posted the following two pictures on your thread as well, because I think there's a real interest in model railway photography......... Both attempt to replicate your last image of 60034, but with two different lenses. This one is a 35mm one, with a slight crop. And this one is a 60mm one, with a greater crop. Speaking of stacking (which I haven't a clue how to do!), a chap showed me a Lumix camera at Southampton at the weekend, which, if set, automatically stacks images and processes them itself. The results were amazing. It has a Leica lens. Regards, Tony.
    7 points
  47. I really like those Tony. Full of character. I'm getting further through what I took now, and reached the point where I started to turn the camera to the South. Here's the first one. Nothing moving, which is very fortunate for the photographer. Then another of 60034, where I broke my own rule, which is never to use the zoom feature.
    7 points
  48. It's very interesting seeing the different 'style' of pictures recently of LB. Many visitors take pictures of the railway (I'm delighted they do), and there are many different results. As I've alluded to, my approach to model railway photography is as 'clinical' as possible. I want as much detail to be visible as is there, with really-sharp imagery. To this end I use large (and powerful) cameras with very high-quality lenses. It could well be that my results are less-sympathetic than those of others, but I'll not change my approach. However, I have this morning tried some 'new' angles................ A 'candid' view from the goods yard, peering between elements sees one of Tony Geary's heroically-filthy 'DJH Austerities (I also have another of these superb examples of his work!) plodding southwards on the Up slow through the station. One of PMP's little shunters observers what's going on. A pity about the leaning telegraph pole, though such things were very common. Another 'just-glimpsed' view from a similar position sees a B12/3 (Coopercraft/Wright) about to depart with an Up stopper. Peering through/between other elements certainly gives a different perspective. I love the battered dustbins! And, I've almost got those railings straight. This time we have an A1 (DJH/Wright/Haynes) passing through at speed, while 'I' wait to capture a 'going away' shot. I think this one works better composition-wise (especially as 'I' am now hidden). Ian Wilson's footbridge looks well. Two views I've never tried before, looking from 'inside' Ian Wilson's prototype Prototype Little Bytham goods shed (Ian was the designer/proprietor of Prototype Models). If I take others like this, I'll have to model more of the insides. And one more from the 'far side', this time with no deceased insects present. I believe this viewpoint has potential, but I think I prefer the more 'up close and personal' approach........ An A2/3 (DJH/Rathbone/Wright) passes the northbound 'Tees-Tyne Pullman' headed by A4 60017 SILVER FOX (SEF/Wright/Haynes). Express trains like these are what LB is really all about in my view.
    7 points
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