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  1. Back to my favourite combo... getting ready to start the day
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  2. Radcliffe on Trent again this afternoon. Radcliffe on Trent Cotgrave branch viaduct Sept 75 J4872.jpg Radcliffe on Trent Class 114 Nottingham to Boston April 80 J6874.jpg Radcliffe on Trent Class 47 Parkestone to Manchester Sept 80 J7247.jpg Radcliffe on Trent Class 101 Derby to Grantham 9th June 89 C11979.jpg Radcliffe on Trent 156429 Parkeston Quay to Liverpool April 90 J10761.jpg David
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  3. I'll look at the 4.4.0. votes in detail shortly, but first your morning photos. First one is from a very high vantage point indeed. The second is the classic view of an A4 approaching rom the south, Lord Faringdon on the Yorkshire Pullman again.
    25 points
  4. Time for tea again. One more look at Lord Faringdon, but this time from up on the bridge.
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  5. With our cup of tea this morning, just another shot of 60034 advancing steadily towards the spotters, who have seen it many times before.
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  6. Put the final touches to the D29 clerestory earlier today. Here are the 'official' photographs. Final jobs today were to touch up the paint here and there ('Oops, there's a bit of Indian Red on the cream - oops, now there's a bit of cream on the brown', etc.), to add the lamp irons (Brassmasters) and to convert the original lavatory droplight to the later pattern fixed unit with an inwardly opening toplight, as per photos in Russell etc. (Done by adding a little piece of microstrip and painting it Indian red.) The very last thing was to snip the now redundant lamp brackets off the Keen Systems gangway end plates - three brackets per coach end seemed a little excessive! Hope the vehicle now looks a bit more 1930s-ish. Currently processing some pictures of it in service on the layout, so a bit more to come about how I got on with this conversion. John C.
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  7. I would certainly go for the first picture Tony as I feel that it gives the best overall impression of the layout. On another note can I say a thank you to Dibateg as he gave me the nudge to fit proper valve gear on my 4F. I made a start on it yesterday and managed to drill a Con Rod big end to take a 14BA bolt, without breaking any drill bits. Various parts of the valve gear are in this photo. I'll now be making some sub assemblies whilst I wait for a 14BA tap to arrive and for our lockdown to be eased so that I can visit a friend who has a 3/16" parallel reamer for the cranks. To fit the existing frames, I've thinned down the crank webs considerably and changed the bearings on this axle from the one on theright to the one to the left of it. Jamie
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  8. I mentioned my Dad's photos earlier. I haven't posted many anywhere before but in view of the recent discussions about 2-8-0s, I dug out one and have scanned that and a couple more. The A4 is 60033 on the Up Talisman on 30th Oct 1959, at Abbot's Ripton. I know where the O2 and the Ivatt 2-6-0 are because he was very good at making notes on the back. Anybody want to guess? A clue, two different locations in the same town. I would add that these have been scanned from tiny "contact prints" of no more than 2 1/2" square, so the quality is not fantastic but they don't look too bad on a big screen!
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  9. Three more views on Sowerby Road M.P.D. 1. Little Engines 04/8 no . 63788 in typical condition on the ash pits . 2. A general view of a rather crowded shed yard . 3. A trio of B.1's are prepared for their next turn . No's 61250 & 61337 are both Nu-Cast kits whilst no 61016 is an early Bachman , which is still , touch wood ,a good runner . That's it for now , though I will show other photos when it contributes to the general thread . Cheers , Ray .
    16 points
  10. I really like the buff livery on oil tankers and have this pair which have the build date of late '20s. So a bit of modelling licence is used to run these. Here is a comparison for weathering purposes as this example was done many years ago by @mattingleycustom.
    16 points
  11. Our Claud is now at rest, and we never miss out on this view. Abbotsford then rolls through with the Queen of Scots, headboard only slightly askew. I'll wait till the morning to see if there are any more developments before closing the 4.4.0. survey.
    15 points
  12. Sorry to hijack your thread Tony - Jamie - the next step is more tricky. This is the crank for my 2P, it involves drilling, pinning and a blowtorch, PM me if you want more information on how I did it:- and the Q1:- Tony Gs comment made me think - it's the low angle, natural viewpoint photos that look so good. One of the reasons I've built my railway quite high... Regards Tony
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  13. First attempt at the lettering without the shading. I tried using a brush first but ended up doing it with a Rotring pen.
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  14. One more for now. No prizes for the loco or the location! The date is 5th June 1950. If Tony W is OK with me putting things like this on, I will add a few more as I find them.
    12 points
  15. Hi everyone, We hope you are enjoying the Bank Holiday and reflecting on VE Day - let’s celebrate and be thankful for the sacrifices made by so many. To add to the celebration, it's time for another PTA/JTA/JUA reveal! Today it is our other British Steel pack, the original and iconic grey and orange livery, synonymous with the triple headed Class 37 and double headed class 56 trains between Port Tolbot and Llanwaren as well as Ravenscraig trains. These have been our most popular sellers of the PTA/JTA/JUA production run so far, and it is easy to see why! We are not sold on the grey, and it is getting tweaked before production. We cant wait to see a recreated 37 triple header! Cheers! Fran
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  16. Good morning Jesse, It is based on a prototype photograph (courtesy of the Willoughby Arms; which captions the photograph as being taken in 1953. This can't be right, and your question for the day is why not?). This, in fact, is the Up 'Tees-Tyne Pullman' ('The Hadrian Bar' can be made out as the fifth car). And my interpretation; this time the Up 'Yorkshire Pullman'. The camera and physics mean I cannot get exactly the same angle, but I think it's near enough. This, of course, to me, is the 'acid test' for railway modelling. That of comparing a picture of the real thing with a picture of the model; something impossible to do with 'made-up' layouts. Regards, Tony.
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  17. More on the D2. Day 14 (2nd May) Continuing on with the tender, and I've gone 'off piste' again. Careful study of reference pictures confirmed a nagging doubt that the front of the tender wasn't quite as depicted in the kit, which seems to be based on original GNR condition. By the 1930s, typical modifications seemed to be to increase capacity by moving the coal plate forward. SO, despite time pressures being on, some modifications were made. Most noticeable is the new coal plate, cut and shaped from a piece of nickel silver. But also, I've added some pieces to the continue the height of the inner tank sides to coincide with the new coal plate; also the front of each leg of the tank top has been cut off and soldered on to the very front of the tanks. This is due to the 'step down' moving forward to coincide with the coal plate - the half etch line for the existing fold will be hidden beneath the repositioned tool boxes. So that was an evening gone. And I'm not even sure if I have it exactly right. The key visual impact though will be the top curve of the coal plate and the repositioned toolboxes - that's what is immediately apparent from looking at pictures. Day 15 (3rd May) - Coalplate, tank top and toolboxes now fitted. Coal rails prepared (extra fill plates added at front of each side to correspond with above modification) and about to be fitted. (Don't seem to have taken a picture with them fitted at this time - but don't worry, you'll be seeing the tender again before long). Day 16 (4th May) - OK, time to tackle the tricky bit - getting it to work! This is what I acquired at the time of original purchase, not so much a two stage gearbox as an extended gear train, to lift the motor clear of the frames / wheels. Just some initial prep this evening, here is the complete gear train first assembled. The bottom half can 'swing' for now (steady!) so as to determine the optimum position. Test assembled in the frames (which have been to the paint shop whilst I was working on the tender). Driving on to the rear axle, with the front axle pivoting on a simple compensation bar. Together with the front of the tender hanging on the cab rear, this is my established formula for a 4-4-0. Day 17 (5th May) - This day was spent testing, cutting and checking the fit over the footplate / cab, clearance beneath the latter being particularly critical. This is why I wanted this superstructure built before finalising the motor-gear configuration. This shows how the cab interior needs to be shaped to give clearance beneath for the main drive gear. Once this shaping was complete then I could shape and fit the inside cab splasher pieces. Like this, it looks like a bit of an intrusion but there is the cab floor to fit yet and the firebox backhead will further minimise the impact. I'm a day or so behind with capturing daily progress so there'll be more to follow shortly.
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  18. Many thanks to everyone who keep giving me praise. I am not sure I deserve a lot of it but I try to do my best. I tried to shade the letters on the Wigan coal wagon and made a pigs ear of it. So I rubbed it off and repainted the white letters. I will let this harden untill tomorrow when I will have another go with a fine paint brush. In the meantime I decided to fit the etch numberplates to some of the LNWR wagons that Chris Brown kindly did the artwork for me. I have fitted the plates to the ballast wagons but there was still about 10 more wagons to do. This is the first of the rest which is a Dia 4 and I have also applied the tare weight and the numbers on the ends. I must thank Chris for providing me with these excellent plates. Going back to this wagon I can see the progression from 4 years ago when I stated to build my present projects. I haven't trimmed the back of the wheels like I do with present builds. I also fix the couplings rather than spring them and other small improvements. I Another couple done with plates.
    11 points
  19. Two more early 1970s a Manchester Victoria.
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  20. I grew up in Manchester and it was 24, 25 and 40's that ruled the North West at the time. A regular run out was to Northenden/Skelton Junction area where the ICI hoppers were still in use. Mike Wiltshire
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  21. Well with less than a week to go now before I lose my Internettie thingie, we are getting towards the end of my previous Layouts in the Blast from the Past. Today I show Kingsmill (Midland Road) TMD. Another small compact Layout, on just one board and easily transportable to Shows. It was sold to a chap in Essex who also later bought my Argyle St Layout. Also showing the Fully Folding Fiddle Yard to allow it to go into the Car easily.
    11 points
  22. First full print and assembly of both halves of the Griddle. This just might work you know! I have a few alterations to make in the CAD for the final version. The body has come out about 1/2 a mm too long so a small slice needs taking out, and the door outlines are still too shallow. I’m going to have to go ‘full Matchbox’ on these I think to get them to appear as per the rest of the Farish mk.1s, but overall I’m pretty pleased with how this has come out! Tom.
    11 points
  23. Hi Folks, A few years ago (probably approaching a decade) i saw an article in MRJ which included a BR MK1 BG with it's doors open and the parcels being taken off. I was so impressed with the creativity of the modeller I vowed i would one day try something like this myself. I was not an active modeller at this time and the MRJ was my Dad's. It was a xmas issue but other than that i cannot remember the issue number or layout name. But, the fact is stuck around in my mind shows how inspired i was. So, fast forward and a layout now exists with an island platform i can park up a semi-static coach. I bought a second hand BG at an exhibition 12 months ago (remember those?) which i intended to add to the fleet but i didn't inspect it closely enough. The previous owner had attempted to weather it by dry brushing brown over the body which i was unable to remove satisfactorily. So it lay around for year without much thought given to it. Naively, I hoped to cut the doors out individually, ruen them around and laminate them with detail. No chance!! So the sides were cut up, removing the doors. Perhaps unnecessary , i clad the other side of the van with scribed plastikard showing the planking and doors. Further to the planking, I added detail in the form of locking bars on the right hand doors. Security bar will be added to the window door later. In anticipation of this project I took a picture of this handily open doored BG at Llangollen in 2016! Never doubt that you will regret not taking that obscure detail pic! You might look strange photographing a rusty stain on a piece of discarded metal...but who cares!! I shaped a piece of 0.5mm plastikard into a curve near to the profile of the MK1. Door shapes were cut, clad with .3mm scribed plastikard, locking bars added and hinges made. The hinges betray a fault in my observations and are just wrong!! A new floor was created and in this shot is still loose. The gap between the tops of the door and the cantrail is made from a slither of .5mm plastikard. l l The guard's compartment was built from plastikard and i don't know whether this is a sin but I consulted the TRAIN SIM WORLD version of a BG as i had no other references!! The Tangled DVD is my daughters...HONEST!!! And up to date. Handles were added to the window doors based on the train sim world reference. Security bars were added using fuse wire and were primed ready for painting. They will remain loose until the vehicle is fully painted and decaled. Bars will be added to the other side. I have ordered some buffers and buckeye coupling casting from MSE and hope to continue with the build at a fair rate. cheers for now.
    10 points
  24. Thanks to some great work by Simon Turner who has been supplying me with excellent masters, I have managed to start to add a few new kits to the range. They’re not ready yet but we’re up to the primer stage with the GNR horsebox, GNR open carriage truck and a general purpose 2 plank wagon by Smith & Willey of Liverpool c. 1845. A London & Birmingham Railway horsebox is in the final stages and I’ve a L&BR ‘break waggon’ to build as well. I have been told that masters for a L&BR open carriage truck will be in the post soon to go with the horsebox. It seems I need to order more rubber...again!
    10 points
  25. I'm posting a lot of my railway photos in my Random pictures thread but have just posted some form a batch that readers of this column who like green engine might appreciate. Taken at Ravenglass in June 75 when a railtour paused en route to Sellafield. Jamie.
    10 points
  26. A couple of pics of 3352 in service on a Newton Abbott - Plymouth stopping train headed by 5975 'Winslow Hall'. Looking at photographs shows up things you hadn't spotted in reality. I noticed that in all my photos of this new coach the body didn't seem to be sitting properly on the underframe. My necessary butchery had removed the spring-loaded plastic tags of the Hornby original and I was relying on a body-to-chassis push-fit. Problem was soon sorted. I'd glued in three 40 thou Plastikard cross pieces - fore, aft & centre - to stop the bodyshell falling too far over the solebars. The middle one was a bit too low, causing the body to rock slightly fore & aft. Bit of plastic carved off and all sorted. I might end up tack-glueing the body down. I'm always reluctant to fix coach bodies to underframes permanently because in my experience the minute you've glued them you see a minute bit of white material that's statically attached itself to the inside of the glazing! John C.
    10 points
  27. Thank you for the comments. The photos are very flattering mind. Two days from completing the loop.. Update next week with the first trains running continuously ..
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  28. Wisbech? They strike quickly, crippling the enemy infantry before wheeling away to safety on their mobility scooters.
    10 points
  29. Station canopy MK3. This features thinner columns and better prints of the canopy valances. I’ve also omitted the central columns as these seemed to be overkill for such a small structure.
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  30. There's also some distortion and flaring out of the windows' top edges. I think getting this profile right, with the curved glass upstairs, is critical to the final appearance of the model. As mentioned, the brass is really hard. I did consider annealing it and I still might try. However, after a lot of bending, rolling and wilful destruction of thumbs, I managed to flatten the bodies out to some degree, then re-instate the curve in the right place. It's not perfect yet by any means, but it's coming along.
    10 points
  31. Been modifying (with a bit of scratch building) a Ratio crane which depicts the nuclear flask loading/unloading crane at Trawsfynydd in the 1980's.Still work in progress...
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  32. Some more from Camrail over the years. John Greenwood's beautiful Wenford Bridge. 2008 included Simon's Pompoules Siding Weston on the WC&P Iain Rice's North Cornwall stock Gerry Beale's Maiden Newton appeared at Larkrail As did a Bristol Lodekka! The late John Spencer's signal box Above are my layout "Chipping Compton" and the late Bob Barlow's incredible Welsh Quayside.
    10 points
  33. It's a great shame it's not happening this year but of course it's the right decision. To me it's by far the most enjoyable exhibition/gathering/social on the modelling calendar and I've enjoyed each one right back from the first held in the station building at Limpley Stoke in (I think) 1996. So here are a few photos from my collection in no particular order...... Camrail in 2009 and whilst I can't include all the layouts present I make no apology for including 3 shots of John Birkett-Smith's wonderful Ashburton. I've no notes but I believe this is Horselunges. Steve Cook's atmospheric diorama (is that Simon's Ruston?). And the man himself... More to follow.....
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  34. Manchester Victoria Circa 1972
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  35. G'Day Folks If you don't mind a couple of my favorites. All taken in South Australia 1968/9. 526 taken at Aldgate, in the Adelaide Hills, and narrow gauge Y class No 97 at Peterborough roundhouse 1968. manna
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  36. Apologies for the false start. I spent most of this afternoon doing little modelling jobs I have been putting off. Including reattaching some cab doors which I had knocked off my Hornby 8F. Not easy to get it to adhere nicely, so I opened the window and reached for the Butanone. I dipped my last-legs cheapo paintbrush into the bottle, got distracted for a moment and when I picked it up it came out minus bristles, ferrule and a significant part of the handle. A cursory tale. The good news is that the doors seem to have been reattached securely, and my first attempt at programming CV values seems to have gone ok. Obviously, I sorted out the CVs before getting on with the glue sniffing.
    9 points
  37. There are some wonderful examples on Grantham..................... French, the signalling engineer on the GN, insisted on sky backgrounds where possible. Regards, Tony.
    9 points
  38. I've managed to get a bit more done today, building up the rough foundation for the landscape using offcuts of plywood. You can begin to get some idea of the contours of the land now. Thanks for looking, Al.
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  39. Here's another example of through traffic being worked - horses! Photos taken by my late stepfather. Leyburn was a centre for horse traffic, being two miles away from the town of Middleham, a traditional centre for horse training and racing (I only know that cos I just Google'd it!). This Garsdale-bound working picked up a horsebox at Leyburn and attached it to the front of its train. Upon arrival at Garsdale, the G5 loco can only have drawn forward out of the branch platform with said horsebox (possibly topping up the water supply at the water column if there was a live nag on board?) before reversing over the south end crossover and attached it straight on the rear of a (conveniently timed) mainline stopping train, heading north. Slick working or what? Loco then pulls away forward again as a direct reverse of the above move. It's none other than 67345, a minor celebrity on the line and remembered to this day at Hawes station through the medium of an industrial tank loco., liveried up as if it were 67345! Now run round its train and preparing to head back down Wensleydale. And proving me wrong from earlier post by working bunker first. The old NER men obviously of a tougher breed than the Midland men! One more coming up for this evening...
    9 points
  40. A few more steps...... Ladders: I use etched ladders, reinforced with 0.4mm N/S wire on the stiles. These are remarkably strong and avoid the "snakes" often seen on layouts where etches have been used without strengthening. The carefully trimmed etch is folded at the end to create the fastening where a ladder will be fixed to a Doll. The N/S wire is attached to the front of each stile, carefully aligning by hand and soldering a few cms at a time. Asbestos fingers are a great help. I use a brass rod of 2mm square section to hold the ladder in the vide without crushing it. (The flat etch is against the rear jaw, the half etch and wire to the front.) A very smooth file is then used to give a flat edge to the stile. Don't file outside the portion supported by the vice. The result. (I can never get a good result with wire thru' hole type ladders) Next the staging..... The horizontal beams represented by 1mm x 0.5mm brass strip. Drilled at each end 0.45mm to take the lace pins I use for the stanchions. The eight beams, the hole centres marked set out with dividers for consistency. Soldered in place. The front top edge of the trimmer was drilled to take the pins, which gives an excellent joint. Time to put a foot down..... Creating the foundations. The signal will stand on a N/S baseplate which will also anchor the lower ladder. To help support the signal, it will be located by a turned brass spigot. This will fit closely within the bottom of the lattice lost, and be hollow to for the optical fibres to pass through. This turning also supports the baseplate which sits on a larger flange. Below this flange a tube extends some distance. (Reason to become apparent). The turning. The baseplate was marked out and drilled for the turning, ladder footings and the operating wires. To locate all this on the layout, the whole is fixed to a 5/8in dia brass tube. (Larger than my usual 1/2in tube because of all the operating wires etc.) The various parts. Soldering the turning to the baseplate, lots of flux and the blowtorch. Similarly for the foundation tube. Those who follow my methods will know I like to give the operating wires a good supportive route to their servo motors. This starts with what I call guide tubes. These are lengths of 1/6th dia brass tube which fit through the baseplate and are supported inside the foundation tube. The operating wires will eventually be secured inside 1.32in tubes which will slide nicely within the guide tubes. This minimises buckling etc. First three guide tubes being fitted. From below. Almost complete. The turning extends slightly beyond the foundation tube - so that it can be used to align the signal. Supported in the lathe, the post is soldered to the baseplate/spigot. Enough for now......................... Steve.
    9 points
  41. R/C construction stuff and R/C tugs is my 'other' thing!
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  42. On at Penzance not long after the 25s started to appear down there.
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  43. Clive, you could always start Cutting and Shutting Valve Gear instead of coaches and DMU’s????? Paul
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  44. I've made a start on a scenic module to extend Ladmanlow, which can act as a scenic fiddleyard, or join up to the previous fiddleyard, or perhaps further scenic sections. It's a 2 foot long module, with a single straight section of track. Here's the beginnings: Here it is attached to the layout: and here with the trackbed in place: The idea is to replicate something like this: with the ground dropping away in the front section, and a farm track leading uphill under a small bridge in a limestone embankment. Again this is an unmistakeable C&HPR scene, I don't think you would see this anywhere else. That's what I want to achieve, not quite sure how to accomplish it yet. Thanks for looking, Al.
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  45. Afternoon tea time, and another look at the Wolf, not quite the same as the last one. Loco and stock were rapidly removed, after all passengers had left, obviously, so that the platform was clear for the arrival of the 5.21 from Cambridge. That shed almost always provides something tasty to look at, and today it is a Claud. No more 4.4.0 nominations? Loads haven't been mentioned yet.
    9 points
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