PeterLoader

Someone on youtube suggested I periodically throw a bucket of water over it and then spend a few months repairing it!

Well for something a bit different, here is a tour of my model railway room - should be good for anyone suffering from insomnia if nothing else! Click the link below to view. A tour of my model railway room

Hello all. It's been a little while since I posted although not as long as I had thought. Since the last post I have: adapted a Ratio signal box to fit on Dawlish platform - recent birthday present from my son ballasted the east end of Newton Abbot and completed some scenic work there moved my Z21 controllers to a new hifi rack which has released the old one for storing excess rolling stock (e.g. enabling me to switch between diesel and steam running sessions) In that period, names.co.uk managed to delete the entire content of my DawlishinOO website. Whilst annoying, I've redeveloped it into something (in my opinion) much better and with videos now held on YouTube rather than Vimeo. It seems as though I never posted my drivers eye tour of Dawlish in OO on RMWeb, so here is a link: Drivers eye view tour of Dawlish in OO. And below is the new signal box with a stray class 159 making a foray into Great Western territory, presumably with a train to Brighton. It had come from Newton Abbot, so you can get an idea of some of the scenic developments there from the second photo

Great photo! If you go to http://dawlishinoo.co.uk/?p=323 and watch the video, about 1min 30sec in you go past Dawlish and can see the goods yard on the right! I'll try and do a better photo but working late in advance of a few days off so will be next week probably

Might have refined it a little since I published it but you can see the aforementioned double-slip in Dawlish goods yard is included!

You just cost me £41.90! The Brixham one was just too much to resist and to spread the postage cost I bought the Bristol one too. I thought I had more than one but seems like I only have one plus a GWR ale van - so that makes it 4. Many more than that and I'll have to run two trains as the Dawlish goods yard is so small! Wife was asking re Christmas presents recently - problem with these is she finds out how much they cost! Many thanks for the tip

you can see it here... not got as far with the scenic side at Newton Abbot - there is rather a lot to do! So the blue HST is on what would have been the up fast and in the additional platform. The DMU us in the Teign Valley bay. You can see the two up platforms that existed in reality with a Hall in one of them. Southern trains come in on the Teign Valley line and could use the bay, any of the 3 up platforms or the nearest down platform, but they can't get to other down platform of the fast through line next to it.

Yes it does - so the up fast which in reality didn't have a platform now does

As per early post, my railway assumes that the Southern Railway made some progress from Crediton to Newton Abbot (with a scheme to reach Torbay that in reality failed parliamentary approval). It then secured limited running rights over the South Devon Railway to Paignton and Kingswear in exchange for not building a competitive route which would have been expensive and threatened the profitability of both companies. This will probably mean (when I get to creating that part of the timetable) some local trains from Exmouth, a daily freight from Yeovil and a daily train from London. This will be a pullman (to compete with the Torquay Pullman which extended from its one year due to the competition from the Southern) using the Devon Belle coaches that I happen to have. There is also of course the annual Dawlish beer festival for which various local Devon breweries (as per Dapol limited edition vans that I picked up from an online auction) supply. This requires a dedicated SR train which runs round at Newton Abbot, collects from Pete's brewery and trundles down the line to Dawlish. As a result of all this, Newton Abbot got a slightly bigger station building (looks a bit like Exeter St Davids) and an additional platform on the up side. I'm thinking I might also add a goods shed at the western end of the station as I'm not modelling any of the actual goods shed or sidings.

Who said there aren't many HSTs at Dawlish any more? Saw 3 yesterday...

And if anyone is interested, here is the rest of the timetable Hopefully all the rakes of coaches end up back where they started by the end - guess I'll find out after another 12 hours or so of operating!

Yesterday I ran the first 6 hours of my timetable which is based on the 1932 timetable. I managed to keep up to real time (I started at 13:00 and finished at 19:30 - not 05:00-11:30!) - helped by a few gaps in the schedule for replenishment of beer and sandwiches! As I've not built Kingswear itself yet and the Goodrington sidings are not large enough, I've not added in the SR trains that come on my fictitious line from Crediton to Torbay via Moretonhamstead passing through Newton Abbot, hence the red line for 'SR to Torbay'. I didn't have room for the 10:07 departure for Kingswear either, but I did slot in an early morning departure for Moretonhamstead from the bay platform. The timetable was created before I had added that bay platform - note to self to add in the rest of those trains! 18 trains doesn't look like a huge amount to run in 6 hours but there is a fair bit of forming of trains at Newton Abbot and bringing engines off shed etc. I suspect that once the Moreton and SR trains are added into the timetable, plus the addition of Kingswear then things will get a bit hectic. As it was I was able to move my GoPro around and video several of the trains. The Kingswear Bradford train is shown passing Dawlish hauled by 5076 Drysllwyn Castle. Guess who has discovered that you can crop videos in Vimeo! This means I can exclude the real life giants, their chairs and pictures etc from the video.

No strikes on this railway!

Thanks, Kris

Hello. A further question regarding locos at Kingswear. For example, would the loco for the up Torbay express have been stored at Kingswear overnight? Or would it come from Newton Abbot in the morning and if so, as light engine, attached as a spare to another train or actually hauling a different passenger train? There was no engine shed and it would appear not much space for storing them. If anyone old shed some light on how the locos were managed that would be helpful.