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TrevorP1

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    On the WM & CQ
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    Most things that are loud and fast.

    Railway wise... the west country, Scotland's class 37s, the products of Swindon - steam or diesel, Maybach music. Deltics are cool too. I admire designs that stood the test of time, for instance GW Castles, Gresley Pacifics and HSTs.

    I like some American stuff, especially E and F units...

    Other things. Motorsport - especially rallying, animals, beer, photography, cars, live music, travel. Too much really!

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  1. Please may I ask for everyone's forbearance for posting this on here. A new version one of Mark Knopfler's most popular pieces of music with the work of a huge line up of some of the most famous guitarists in the world. For the benefit of The Teenage Cancer Trust and Teen Cancer America. Think of it as a cancer version of 'Band Aid'. Available on everything from download to vinyl. Thank you Tony and mods. Going Home
  2. Thanks Rick, I’ll be careful where I say it! 😀
  3. 'Moryongoos'. I'd love to know how to pronounce that! Anyway, back to Pendoggett Road where there are no emmets, incomers or second home owners - except perhaps the dog! I'm not suggesting an exact location for the station, if only because I'm reusing the backscene from Burngullow Lane - which layout, to answer John's question, has been dismantled. In my head it's somewhere between St Kew Highway and roughly Camelford or Otterham. Off scene, a short distance away from the station is a quarry. At Port Isaac Road there was Tregildrans Quarry not forgetting the moonscape at Delabole. Although complete trains from other periods are/will be run I've set the date as 1946 - 1950. If only so that I can run Malachite green Bulleid Pacifics - yes I've gone quite mad... I don't have any yet and I must admit to hoping that one is going to turn up from our friends across the Irish Sea or possibly the North Atlantic... The point of the quarry is to add a little extra interest as wagons are tripped by the resident shunter to be picked up from the goods yard by a through working. I purchased a Planet Industrials Victory for this which has been turned out as 30948 the East Kent loco which apparently was allocated a BR number but never carried it. In my alternative world it was sent west for use at the quarry. 30948 carries a Wadebridge shed plate. I must say it is very smooth slow runner - well done to PI. The station is the standard NCR single track with passing loop, headhunt, loading dock and goods shed. I've used Finetrax kits for the pointwork. This is because the layout is all sweeping curves and I didn't want to ruin them with ready made items. Finetrax is an excellent product and the kits lend themselves to easily producing curved pointwork. There is only one short length of straight track on scenic side and that is on a point in the goods yard. Perhaps I should have put that on a curve as well! I'll end this post with a picture of some of the pointwork taken some time back. More soon.
  4. No problem Rick. All good stuff relating to Cornwall. 👍 Where I was brought up in Hampshire ants were often referred to as emmets.
  5. Interesting comments on here - and on PMs received - regarding life in Cornwall. Both Carol and I have known Cornwall since we were children and have spent time there both separately and then together in adulthood. We're well aware of the second home issue. I've learned from Chamby of this parish that the part time occupiers are known by some as 'Remmits' . For what it's worth, on my Mother's side I'm descended from a family of miners who lived in Mithian, near St Agnes. Believe it or not we do take holidays in other parts of the country but our knowledge of the Cornish situation leads us to always stay in holiday accommodation which could only be just that. As a matter of principle we never use Air BnB.
  6. We missed the boat I’m afraid when house prices were more sensible. Unfortunately it’s too late for us to get involved in mortgages again. In our experience I can well appreciate the agreeable life you must be living. Good luck to you and long may it last. As a regular visitor I’ve never experienced any animosity from a Cornishman. Usually quite the reverse. Our spirits lift every time we cross the Tamar!
  7. Yes, that's when competition is irritating! 🙂 I'm just hoping Ireland or Canada is going to produce an original Bulleid Pacific fit for the 21st Century. Yes I know there's the PDK kit but I only have one pair of hands!
  8. So, briefly(!), the reasons for the above woffle. Around November/December of 2022 we began to consider moving to Cornwall. This was something that we had never dreamed we’d want to do but we had to scratch the itch and make a firm decision one way or the other. Naturally there was little point in doing anything on Burngullow Lane because it was never intended to be transportable. Over the next few months it became abundantly clear that an average sized house in our part of North Wales does not come near to financing even a small property in Cornwall. Quite honestly, even if we could have financed a move to a smaller house there, our consciences would not have allowed us due to the difficulties being encountered by local folk trying to get on the property ladder. Indeed we personally know people in Cornwall who are experiencing housing difficulties. We were prepared to be ‘incomers’ but not the local pariahs! While all this was happening I completely lost the mojo about Burngullow Lane, partly because I had been considering future projects and ideas but also because I realised I had so much stock in cassettes or boxes I only saw, let alone used, now and again. What was the point of it all? The proof of this was last May when a pal visited for a running session after 50 odd coaches and several engines had been boxed up ready to sell. He had no idea and we had a brilliant running session. I’ve kept everything that has a personal connection, a few favourites and the goods stock but the rest has gone. The long and the short is we are still in North Wales, still visiting The Duchy as much as possible but I have a new project with several lessons learned. The main one being, ‘small(er) is beautiful’. And yes, I have gone to the 'dark side' but not entirely… So here is Pendoggett Road, loosley based on Port Isaac Road but somewhere between between Camelford and St Kew Highway. I resisted the idea of calling it Portwenn Road even though the good lady says I would make a good stand in for the legendary Doc! Pendoggett is a wonderfully named hamlet not far from Port Isaac. More soon.
  9. Seems to be a common problem across most manufacturers these days. My Warwells happened to be on my desk for weathering. A Stanley knife and a bottle of superglue are your friends. The bar of the TL is only just proud of the buffers. There is no buffer locking even on the 24” radius curves in my fiddle yard. The actual couplings are from my bits box. They are shorter than the supplied versions.
  10. The cost of everything to do with model making is increasing. North of a fiver for decent epoxy for instance. I recently purchased a small pot of fibre paste and a small bottle of matt medium and found myself almost £30 the poorer.
  11. Fertile mind - the good lady calls it a head full of useless information! 🙂 The story is a mixture of fact and fiction, with a little of the fiction inspired by @St Enodoc ! More very soon with the whys and wherefores, more thoughts and very importantly, practical progress. Suffice, for now, to say that it all started with a potential house move that never came off.
  12. Time for a spring flight of fancy with another version of the history of the railways of Cornwall in a parallel universe... 🤔 In 1894, with progress made on finishing the North Cornwall Railway, a parliamentary notice was issued for a line from Padstow to Newquay and Truro, with running powers over the GWR to Falmouth and Penzance. There were plans for stations at St Eval, Mawgan (for Newquay) and St Newlyn. The GWR objected fiercely to the proposals and years were lost in argument. Inevitably the great and good of the area lost their appetite for what would have been an expensive project. Plans were finally killed off by the events of 1914 - 18. After the hostilities there was renewed interest in connecting Padstow and Wadebridge direct to Truro. Col. Holman Stevens was working on the nearby North Devon and Cornwall Light Railway and his advice was sought. Eventually the decision was made to extend the Ruthern Bridge branch to what was planned as a small terminus in Truro. The line was to be known as the Wadebridge and Truro Railway. The GWR saw the advantage for them in having a potential shorter direct route from Truro to the north coast. An agreement was soon reached for them to build a connection to the new line at Truro. The LSWR protested but as the GWR had access to Wadebridge via Bodmin since 1883 this was to little avail. From the outset the W&TR was operated by the Great Western and with only months of independent operation the line was completely absorbed into the Swindon empire at the grouping. War came again in 1939 with a huge rise in traffic for the several airfields in North Cornwall. When the D Day preparations began it was immediately realised that Cornwall with it's many embarkation points and bases, not to mention Falmouth Docks, could be almost cut off by bombing in the Plymouth area or worse, the loss of the Royal Albert Bridge. The importance of W&TR line was obvious. American engineers (and dollars!) were employed on a project to upgrade the W&TR, plus the Southern Railway north Cornwall route, to GWR red restriction so that the biggest engines could be employed when needed. The Americans also built a chord outside Wadebridge creating a triangular junction so that through traffic would not need to reverse in the station area. A new physical connection was built at Launceston. There were a few speed restrictions for the heaviest engines but this mattered little compared to the alternative. After nationalisation the line became part of Western Region and a service from Truro direct to Launceston was started. However, to serve Wadebridge station a reversal and run round was still required. The journey was tedious and the trains never well patronised. Even with the coming of DMUs and an easy reversal at Wadebridge it was debatable whether the workings covered costs even in summertime. Nevertheless, the connection built at Wadebridge had proved its worth during the war. Further, peacetime through goods trains such as the Wenford Bridge to Fremington china clay workings could avoid Wadebridge. It was still a useful diversionary route and on several occasions named Western Region Expresses were seen to pass through Pendoggett Road and Delabole…
  13. Must appreciated and looking forward to more. The replacement plank effect on the 2024 release of PO wagons looks interesting and opens up a lot of possibilities. Most of my wagons are weathered and with much practice I'm happier with the results and less apprehensive about attacking something straight out of the box. However, replacement plank effects are very difficult to do convincingly, especially where strapping etc is involved. I'm wondering if the planks are given a similar effect on the inside of the wagon or is that not possible?
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