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    7mm scale, narrow & standard gauge, the more esoteric and decrepid the better!

    Like most, my interests have been formed through child hood memories. Whilst the BR sectorisation and sprinters of the 1980s left me cold, the fortnight's holiday in mid Wales each year where we camped alongside the Talyllyn Railway left a lasting impression. The sight of a small tank engine trundling along with a train between two hedgerows will forever be with me.

    Up til now I have mostly built locos and rolling stock to run on our group layout of the 'Henmore Dale Light Railway' http://www.ngtrains.com/Pages/TVG/henmore.htm but now is the time to build a layout of my own. The trick will be deciding which silly idea to actually build!

    I live in Tutbury, Staffordshire. My day job is driving tin rockets and HSTs for CrossCountry. In my free time I enjoy homebrewing and spend large amounts of my spare time driving the antique kettles on the Talyllyn Railway. I also rarely go anywhere without a camera. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pandaonetwofive/

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  1. Andrew Young
    Took some photos and video of the Quarry Hunslet prototypes on the Bachmann stand on Sunday. They’re on my blog alongside my thoughts on it all. https://melynvalleyrailway.blogspot.com/2024/04/Bachmann-quarry-hunslets.html?m=1 Andrew
  2. Andrew Young
    ‘Irish Mail’ by the looks of it. https://www.quarryhunslet.mste.co.uk/public/Irish_Mail.php Though, with the toolbox being on the round cornered bufferbeam model, I suspect that as these are EP’s that not all the parts are in the right order. But they certainly show Bachmann’s intentions.
  3. Andrew Young
    Excellent news. Whilst I don’t need a Quarry Hunslet, I shall still be having one. The couplings interest me too, would be good to have a better looking coupling available. Exciting times, Andrew
  4. Andrew Young
    The only given from the green background and the location of the announcement is that it will be a narrow gauge model….. those of us who don’t model 009 still have an hour and a half of hoping left.
  5. Andrew Young
    Whilst I keep my fingers crossed for an O-16.5 ‘Dorothea’…. If it’s 009, wonder what item of the Statfold collection could be next? Darj B? Not long til we find out 😁 Andrew
  6. Andrew Young
    @PMP99 the buildings look great and sit well along the back. I’ve built a few Petite Properties buildings now. Have found them enjoyable to build and speeds the build up a bit. Cheers, Andrew
  7. Andrew Young
    Looking great. Agree about a platform ramp at the end of the building, unless you keep it so that the station entrance / exit is through the station building? Andrew
  8. Andrew Young
    You weren’t the only one, my late friend Tim Allsopp made this 7mm narrow gauge fireless loco using one for the creamery on our group layout, though think in the end most of the body was discarded. Saw a 2’6” gauge fireless loco working in Cuba back in 2000. The Barclay versions are much prettier than this Baldwin one! This announcement from Rapido has got me wondering about the possibilities of a Barclay narrow gauge version. Andrew
  9. Andrew Young
    Have been busy at the modelling bench recently and there’s not one, but two blog updates to show for it. https://melynvalleyrailway.blogspot.com/2024/03/a-splash-of-colour.html?m=1 https://melynvalleyrailway.blogspot.com/2024/03/to-meander-along-or-rise-to-challenge.html?m=1 Andrew
  10. Andrew Young
    Crews shouldn’t be that hard to sort. There will be some WCRC crews with no work looking for something to do! Given the choice of not getting any work this summer if they stay on a zero hours WCRC contract, or going to work for another operator with their West Highland Route knowledge then I’m pretty certain what would happen.
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    Which makes the position taken by WCRC management to ignore the requirement to fit CDL over many years and at several stages of consultation / litigation all the more disappointing. Their latest stance clearly shows a contempt for the ORR and the legislation they’re required to abide by, a stance of brinkmanship that should never have occurred if WCRC was a professionally run organisation with a robust safety culture. Suspect that if we haven’t already, then we are close to the stage where the cost of CDL would be cheaper than the legal bill run up by WCRC in fighting this case. Or maybe, spend the money on CDL rather than buying steam locos….. Andrew
  12. Andrew Young
    In addition to playing trains, I’ve been getting some modelling done with a couple of small buildings on the workbench. https://melynvalleyrailway.blogspot.com/2024/03/little-and-often.html?m=1 Andrew
  13. Andrew Young
    That’s going to look great with the trains sweeping round the corner under the bridge. Andrew
  14. Andrew Young
    Thank you, yes, wasn’t sure how well she’d remember Neil but I’m pleased that she does. Operating the layouts together was fun and Annabel is starting to be pretty accomplished with the DC control on my ng layout that it wasn’t long before I was just telling her which points to operate. Reckon she will soon be on to the DCC Powercab and mastering that. Cheers, Andrew
  15. Andrew Young
    The Mickleover modelling day has proved a welcome boost to productivity and my modelling mojo. My attic space has had a long overdue good tidy up and sort out plus the first visit from the Hoover in a fair while! Elsbridge is once more set up, albeit in a different place in the attic to where it was before, complete with the proper ETC stock on it and can be operated with the flick of a couple of switches with some more detail on my blog: https://melynvalleyrailway.blogspot.com/2024/02/attic-life.html?m=1 Going from none to two layouts available to play with is quite an improvement and have been enjoying doing some modelling and then running just the one or trains on the layout as part of this. Andrew
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