Luke123

Reading this tread I should take out shares in a tin foil hat company

I do love the express blue livery, what paint do you use for yours?

Thanks Rich. I want a good representation of the signalling, but i am happy if it isn't 100% prototypical if it would cause issues. I'll have a think about the movements i want to show and go from there.

I'm happy with the above track plan, so next i've turned my mind to the signalling and this is what i've come up with. I have added the signals for right hand side (off scene) so that i can still add the appropriate point rodding along the station. The goods yard might need some ground signals, i need to have more of a think about which points will be controlled by the signalman and which will be controlled by a ground frame. I keep changing my mind about the far right signal, i think it is needed to protect the down line if something is coming out of the goods yard onto the up line, but i dont know if this could be managed another way.

Not a lot to update you all on, I was finally in a position financially to start working on the garage/ railway room and then we go into lockdown, so i still cant play trains! I have had a play with my station track plan though, and I have come up with this: I dont really want a large layout filled with sidings or an MPD, i'd much rather have a layout where I get to watch trains going by, so I feel this will do that well, with a small goods handling area when i want to get a bit more hands on and shunt with a Jinty or two!

What a brilliant idea, i wish i'd thought of that last time i tried building a station!

Duncan looks fantastic

I always thought it was changes in traffic, as time has gone on STH either put on more services with fewer coaches or there was simply not enough passengers to justify a large rack, so shortened it. Either way it would mean a smaller engine such as James or Henry could mange.

I have a running joke with my friend about my loco fleet, every time I go to a model shop I try to buy 'duplicate' class of engine because (and Ii quote my friend Adam!) "it'll start to look like Thomas the Tank engine if all your locos are different classes and liveries!"

Sorry to hear the original plan has been shelved, but these things happen, hopefully your new project will relight the model fire! Looking forward to seeing it take shape

Great news, thanks.

Is there any issues with roads being closed for the show? I saw a sign on Beverley Road this morning saying Spring Bank was shut from the railway crossing?

How do you go about matching the liveries? Do you literally compare the pics in the books to a colour chart or is there anything that can make a good guide? I like the idea replicating NWR 4 passing though the layout (going foreign!) but I’m not sure on how best to paint it up!

I love the shot of the tender in the last pic, it really does show the subtle weathering

I've never understood the dismissive way everyone talk s about Rosberg. He pushed Lewis time and time again during their time together, far more that Bottas does. (at least in my opinion)

Depending on your time period (i'm not too familiar with the timings of specific events in the books) you could have some wagons from Wales too to bring the coal used for No. 3 'Henry' before the Flying Kipper crash and rebuild.

I'm loving this thread! How many of the roster are you going to try and create? Would the likes of Stepney or the 'one off' diesels like old stuck up make a cameo? Luke

Interesting that it says Ocon has been linked to Haas given that they are Ferrari lite and he is one of Merc's young drivers, so imo dont see it happening ... but then again i've been wrong about these things before!

Who predicted that result?!

I have also been playing around with the track plan. My other half got me several track plan books for my birthday and i saw one called Nelson, the book is called PSL Book of Model Railway Track Plans and is by Cyril Freezer. I have done a crude mock up here as i dont know if i can just add pictures of the plan from the book without seeking permission from the publisher first, so better safe than sorry! I like the overall plan, it includes the features i wanted to add there is just one or two small things to tweak, like an addition of a turntable so that the Jubilee and Patriot can be turned if I want to, but this should be relatively easy to add. I also might have the layout curve somewhat so that i can get some more scenery in to the left hand side before it runs to the fiddle yard, but again, this shouldn't pose too much of a problem to do.

I have decided to rename the layout. It was originally going to be Harrofield as i wanted to give a nod to my home town, but i was never fully satisfied that the name felt like an area of West Yorkshire. It might have just been a case of me over thinking things, but at the end of the day it would have continued to bug me, so i thought it better to take action now rather than months or years into the build. So now i present to you: Holmthorpe Bridge. The line will serve the fictional town of Holmthorpe, a West Riding town that sits between Leeds and Manchester. The station will see trans-Pennine services and local services from the surrounding towns like Halifax and Huddersfield, etc.

The loco fleet has expanded again! Whilst browsing the Hattons website last night i saw a Bachmann Patriot; 45538 'Giggleswick' in BR Green with early emblem on the bargains page. This loco was shedded in Leeds in 1948, so fits nicely with the area and region I plan on modelling without doing anything other than adding a loco crew and some weathering