Narrow Gauge Jordan

I’ve seen much confusion in this thread between the different varieties of YEC 0-4-0s offered over the years, now the 02 was very different to the industrial locos in many ways, wheelbase, bonnets and other detail differences. I may do a rivett counter thread on the yorkshires in the industrial modelling area. Yorkshire offered their “mid period” (post Paxman “Toblerone and pre late modern styling) 0-4-0s in Diesel Hydraulic (rolls engine and twin disc torque converter) and Diesel Electric (rolls engine and BTH/AEI traction equipment). Externally they were very different as seen below: The standard 220hp 0-4-0DH (my own loco 2679) The standard 220hp 0-4-0DE: and then the BR Class 02: The main external differences between the 3 being the fuel tanks, square and in front of the cab on the standard DH, long and full length on the DE and stepped in front of the cab on the 02. Also the sandboxes on the 02 are in the valance, but on separate fabricated boxes on the DH, and the added handrails inside the shunters step on the 02 which are missing from the DH and DE. Now there were exceptions from the standard, different height cabs were offered, as well as sloped or flat top bonnets, 170hp engines instead of the usual 220hp. Most of the industrial YEC locos you would have seen would have been variations of the standard DE and DH. And PenrithBeacon, YEC never built any Diesel Mechanical locos, only DE and DH. Jordan

Thank you for the information Stanton! That fills in a lot of gaps. It’s nice to see photos of mine in traffic, also gives good details of the livery. No.1 has got it’s tandem equipment now, not sure weather it was reinstated or only had the pipes removed but she has run in tandem on preservation with No.3 afaik. I wonder what happened to No.4 for No.3 to be chosen for preservation instead. Are these photos yours Stanton and may I use them on my page for the locos?

Thanks for the plug! I am the lucky owner of the Thompson Loco Collection and I was fortunately in a position to save these unique beasts. Sadly due to COVID I havent been able to go any further with them but we are hoping to have the first one moved in the next month or so to Darley Dale to join YEC 2679 Ford No.3. It will be a long project as unfortunately 423658 (No.3) has a cracked engine block but a spare was thrown in so it's a case of build up a fresh engine from the 2. 421439 (No.1) will hopefully be more straightforward as she was in use before her engine was stripped to fit new bearing shells which was never completed but should hopefully be in a better position to get running soon. And they will both have the Tandem system reinstated and updated to feature train Air and Vacuum brakes. I'm not too sure of the exact amount but i know Colvilles had at least 4 of the Tandem fitted rustons as C.I.W No.5 as seen in earlier photos doesn't seem to have had the rear pipework fitted and has the larger compressors in the bulges of the bonnets which mine do not feature.

The depot building has now come along massively. The floor has now been painted in Phoenix new concrete. The building is now fitted with its textured walls and the roof glazing and the roof panels painted ready to go on. I’ve also been working on a model scene Leyland National single decker bus for the road at the back of the layout. Painted in a fictional livery of red and white. It’s far from finished and the roof isn’t attached as I’m waiting for the figures to sit inside.

Hi all, a little update on the layout. The depot building now has 4 walls and roof supports! It really is a brilliant kit and goes together really easily, hopefully it looks the part when I’m finished with it. I finally got the baseboards together and laid out where everything was going to go, and it turns out I had more space than I thought! This was the original idea. 2 tracks behind the depot coming to a headshunt where the 2 bolsters were. Very minimalistic and would probably get boring to operate quite soon. So I’ve shuffled a few things around and I’ve managed to get what I think is a nice usable track plan. Now we have 3 loops in the exchange sidings where the BSC locos and BR locos mill about swapping trains. The depot now occupies the space near the throat of the yard. The layouts namesake, Brigg Road, runs behind the 47 leading to an under bridge under the mainline at the back. There will be an ungated crossing here leading to a scrap yard served by the BSC locos, BR engines not being allowed passed the gate. The mainline running across the back is the Doncaster to Cleethorpes line, which will have a small station based on British Steel Redcar Station. This will be on an embankment behind the yard as represented by a collection of Lima boxes! The new plan allows me to run all types of goods in and out of the steelworks as well as internal services to the scrapyard, and also through freights on the mainline alongside my collection of DMUs.

It does seem to be doing the rounds! Just ironic it’s made it’s way back to river don. I do too! This will be my first layout that I’ve built so I’m looking forward to trying everything I’ve learnt out. Hoping to find a knightwing sentinel kit so I can use it as a static model in the workshop, the other idea is an old Mainline 04.

Hi all, I thought I best start a thread for the layout now I’ve made a start. Brigg Road Depot is an internal shed built by British Steel as an outstation to the main site works so locos didn’t have to leave the area for servicing and minor work. It’s located next to the exchange sidings with BR for BSC Ancholme Works. The depot features a small brick built office and a portacabin for a workers welfare. The workshop itself is a modern (for the late 70s) prefabricated Steel building with one track long enough for 2 shunters comfortably or the odd visiting BR diesel. Locos come to the depot for servicing, fuelling and minor repairs, with lifting jacks for changing wheelsets and forklift trucks for moving pallets of spares and barrels around. The layout also includes the headshunt end of one of the exchange loops, allowing the first few wagons of a longer rake to be brought into view, for the BS loco to uncouple and allow the BR engine to take them away, or vice versa. Onto the actual Modelling. This is the main office for the depot, a Railway Laser Lines Toton Fuel depot kit, even featuring British Steel Blue paint on the doors! Fully detailed interior from Scale Model Scenery desk and chairs and cabinets from a Faller office kit. We then move onto the beginning of the workshop, here you can see the base built up around Peco code 75 flexi, with one of my sentinels repainted by Dave of the parish posing. I also ordered a pair of cheap 3D printed forklifts for the layout which came sprayed all over yellow which didn’t show the details very well, so after an hour and various paints, I think they now look more the part. Hopefully have more updates soon!

I will definitely be having a couple of them for my layout! Just a shame they won’t run on the current one, also some of the Hunslet shunters.

Hi all, Welcome to my new blog, I thought this would make more sense than having a separate topic for everything. I think that having all of this time at home over the next few months will give me plenty of time to get some kits built, first of which is the Parkside 12t Goods van. As with all Parkside kits, a dream to put together. I managed to build this one over the afternoon even having time to leave bits to set while I did other jobs. The kit isn’t complete yet, just needs buffers and couplings to finish the build. Then it’ll join the queue for paint with the rest of the kits. I chose this kit as I’m currently working on a 12” to the foot one that was rescued from the sidings at Peterborough station last year.

You say that, I’ve seen sound fitted to the Hornby sentinel, peckett and even the 48DS!

Hi Dave, the Janus used in the recordings for the Golden Valley/Legomanbiffo sound is actually only accurate for one of the models, as built the Janus was fitted with 2x Rolls Royce C6SFL (6 cylinder supercharged engines) other than a handful of prototypes fitted with Cummins NT500 engines. At BSC Scunthorpe in order to reduce the noise from the locos they were re-engined with C6T (turbocharged engines) which drastically changed the tone of them, the loco they recorded for the sound (YE2877 of 1963 Appleby Frodingham No.1, preserved at the AFRPS Scunthorpe) is fitted with the latter. Other than the BSC Janus they released, all of the other models were C6SFL. As for the YEC half Janus, the sound is suitable for anything fitted with a single rolls Royce C6SFL and is diesel electric (although the sound file isn’t the best).

Hi all, been a while since anything has happened with the layout, other than testing new locos on it. BSC River Don Works has had it’s debut at the Yorkshire Wolds railway’s model railway exhibition back on the 16th of March. It went very smoothly with only track cleaning causing any problems. A nice mix of locos from my own collection and others’, everything from a BR (LM) gala with 2 1f 0-6-0Ts and a jinty to a peckett and Barclay, even BR diesels like the 20 and 03. Hopefully more can be attended in the future. Since the exhibition I’ve been busy wagon building, some Parkside 16t minerals and a bogie flat wagon for scrap and steel traffic.

Glad you enjoyed your tour Dave, always try to get a different route on our brake van tours. Let us know when you plan on coming up again!

As the proud new owner of BSC Don Works, I shall be continuing the thread on the layout when I make a start on it, at the moment its awaiting a new controller and some appropriate rolling stock.

Steelworks traffic is a very as and when system, at scunthorpe, as soon as a rake of wagons are emptied or loaded, a loco will appear to take them away. as with the nature of the place its the train will run when its needed and in the case of scunthorpe, whichever route is available too. This can sometimes lead to some sights "mainliners" would be shocked at, such as a fully loaded train following another on the same track yards behind