Gravy Train

Garsdale Water Tank, 7mm scale. quite a few years now since this was built., it was shipped to Canada.

Quorn & Woodhouse, GCR Goods Shed, Delph Goods shed, Berwick Station. constructed 20+ years ago in 4mm scale. slightly crude by today’s methods.

Lovely piece of work there, Tony Peter

Very nice is that Westerner, works well too in B&W

Hi Jol, thanks for the kind comments, I’m trying to work out what 2rd shed that may be, don’t think you will regret building your own and look forward to seeing the new layout develop. Peter

I find that EM is the perfect compromise, in all it is only the width of the top of bullhead rail when you look at it. If your exhibiting, EM is much more forgiving, P4/S4 are much finer tolerances and less forgiving and everything has to be absolutely bang on. If you have exhibited a layout in EM and an onlooker asks ‘ is it EM or P4, you start to ask yourself questions and the first one that comes to light is, ‘How come they didn’t know’ Peter A L

Delph LNWR in BR days

A Great thread and very intresting, I remember London Rd back in its infancy, lovely layout. Peter A L

Some nice shots of one and half sets of MRJ mags in the background on the last 3 pics ha ha.

Some pics, different angles.

Hi Dave, yes the layout looks to be developing nicely, I have to admit that I had never heard of Basford North until recently, there is a New Basford but that is a typical GCR affair. This prototype is no longer with us, closed completely by 1967. I am currently building the station Building for it.

Hi Dave, lovely to here from you, we are in strange times for sure, I hope you are progressing with ‘Holt’ would love to see some progress photos of how it has developed. I think the last time we spoke, you couldn’t decide on wether or not it was a good idea to have the big Mill behind the station platform ha ha. The house I constructed here, was how it looked around 1962 but it has since been developed in later times, extensions and the like. Peter

(Who did what in the build so far) My mate Harry Crossley designed the track plan after looking at many variations, this one was the one that gave us a more practical, for operating movements. I laid all the track, Peco fine, 10 yr old ‘Megan’ did all the ballasting, except near the point switches. Lillie may 8 yr, did the cobbled yard, helped with ground scenery, static grass etc. ‘Max’ 6 yr, did the majority of the ground cover, static grass as did ‘Jackson’ 5 yr, static grass. Megan constructed the Tree, using the tried method of wire, woodland scenic, following the guide of Barry Normans Scenic Modelling book. I constructed all the buildings, in quick manner using plasticard and embossed sheets from Wills, Slaters, Southeastern Finecast, windows are a mix of a wills and scratch built with microstrip. figures are Bachman. I have for this layout made use of the Kadees with permanent magnets strategically placed but had to resort to having checks n the stock axels to prevent them running on over the magnets, it’s work very well. On my EM layouts I use Sprat Winkle hook and bar with great success but thought to experiment with the Kadees for this venture. Power source is a hand built power box built by Harry Crossley, Electronic engineers by profession. it comprises a T1 Gaugemaster transformer and couple of other gadgets housed therin. we also make use of the trusty AMR handheld feedback controller. lighting was done on the cheap at £8 reeled daylight plug in and go ribbon, doubled up and gives a great natural light. stock is all the latest out the box excellence from Hornby, Bachmann and a scratchbuilt deasil shunter from plastic sheet and Black Beetle power.

Hi Jayne, that’s great that your enthusiastic, when I do Demonstrations at shows, I tell people not to fall into the trap of laminating as an aid to bracing. There are issues with laminating, a highly respected modeller once did a scientific experiment to find out why plastic sheets laminated together, warped. he was told that there is a grain in plastic sheet and it can’t be seen unlike with wood, so when you fit 3,4,5 sheets of say 40 thou together they will bend because you can’t define were the grain is. I use mostly 40 thou plastic sheet and make up a shell with two pieces of plastic facing each other with microstrip forming the cladding in between, making sure that you drill out tiny holes n the inside to let the solvent fumes escape. I find this to be very successful in aiding a straight robust wall section.

Hi Papyrus, thanks for your kind comments. Peter

Hi David, thanks for the kind comments peter

Hi, I thought that this little layout is probably more suited here on this thread, it’s more of a cameo/Diorama style layout, it being only 5ft long by 18”. its sort of still in development and although I model EM LYR, this was built with and for the Grandchildren ‘ to get them off the I pad ‘. It is also an excuse to get the Iain Rice thing out of my system, I have grown to like the GER, ever since the writings of a Barlow & Rice back in the day ‘East Suffolk Light’ and all else that followed thereafter. I would love to here your comments and ideas as to how I might develop this area. the scene is very loosely 1970 ishhh. I’m also using Kdees permanent magnets, AMR handheld controller through a home made power box contains a Gaugemaster transformer. for interest, I have uploaded photos from its beginnings, to we’re are now. Pete the 2 photos below show the first stages of the build process, with the decision made on a workable track plan. we are looking into moving point operating to the rear, ideally it would be a good idea to be able to operate both front and rear for exhibition purposes. this would mean a scenic piece at the front to hide the operating point switches.

Done & dusted the lack of a wide angled lens makes the stacks look uneven but in reality they are perfectly straight.