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  1. Ah, I'd thought of the river flow as into the operating well. Probably wasn't paying attention when I was catching up... Thanks Dave
  2. As a longtime lunester lurker, I feel I can chuck in a few silly ideas. I'm another who has been thinking about the landforms, and drawing contours, and this is my interpretation. Whether it's helpful or not remains to be seen. What I've done is to straighten out the layout, and the landscape, and gone a bit beyond the modelled area to try to justify things... I haven't given any thought of whether the contours are at regular intervals, or what their separations are, (so far). I started with a landscape, with a road between two villages, on the assumption that a station wouldn't be built without some road access. Then I added the railway, looking at how the land would be altered. The access road comes down steeply from the existing road, into the station yard (scribble). The grassy knoll comes about fairly naturally. This doesn't quite work for me yet, as there seems to be more excavated ground than built up in the area levelled for the station. Also at the botton right the third contour up should swing away from the track to make sense of a tunnel. Then of course the whole thing has to be bent round so that the ends meet up in the fiddle yard. Thanks Dave
  3. A few pictures taken at Aristotle lane crossing in 1965 The second may be a parcels working, with a lot of vans up front. I've a few more taken at Walton Well Rd bridge, if they would be any use. Thanks Dave
  4. scan by unravelled, on Flickr That's me on the left, in about 1964. School railway society trip. Black blazers with red piping, caps probably in pockets for safety. Note daring use of non white shirt on the right. Thanks Dave
  5. There appear to be some tools behind the men. I had thought they were maintaining the point/signal works, but I think they might be stopped there for a break at a suitable seat. Perhaps they flagged the driver down for some boining water! The line behind them is partially laid with concrete block sleepers, and although I can't absolutely date these films, I think it was relaid with wooden sleepers in 1965. One of the other curious things in this photo is the regular patches of fresh ballast between the tracks, which show up over quite a few films. Thanks Dave
  6. A pair from Oxford North Junction/Walton Well Rd bridge, 1964. Workers wait for passing trains. I think in the second, the driver has stopped well in advance of the signal, so that the wagons will not obstruct the workers. Not that they seem to be taking advantage of the fact... Thanks Dave
  7. These are some of the larger items. The cast iron sign came from Chalford after closure, along with afew other door signs. The Brockley (my local station) collection are a result of the overground branding a year or so ago. The platform signs are the temporary ones there until the proper roundel ones were installed. They are in fact the Southern signs, with overground vinyls applied. At some point I may strip back one or two to the southern form. One of the underlying signs is a platform end one including the Southern branding, the others are station name only. There was also an overlay screwed to the station sign, with joint overground/double arrow branding, which is hanging indoors. Thanks Dave
  8. Fibre optic strands fading between red and white at the edge of the burned area, and a smoke unit below. It has to be done... There may have been less litter, but there was a lot more trespass! It's a shame that I didn't buy enough film to record more. Dave
  9. Thanks, it's good to see them enjoyed. Many of my negatives had been unseen until I scannned them last year. In time they will be on Flickr, but I have a lot of work to tag and caption them to make them useful. I'm using Picasa to do the cataloguing, but it will take time. In the meantime I'll post odd photos to RMweb where useful. Once I start posting significant sets on Flickr I'll let people know on here. Unfortunately I foolishly cut up many of my 120 negs into individual frames many years ago, so resorting them into chronological(ish) order is taking some time. Dave
  10. The black and white pics are from August 1966. These are as scanned, so probably capable of a bit of improvement... As well as better hands on maintenance, I guess that more aggressive weedkillers could be used in those days. I've always wondered how much effect the heat fom a steam loco's ashpan would have on keeping vegetation down. Another trackside feature some of the pics show is the height of signal wire run, perhaps to keep it above normal snow levels? Thanks Dave
  11. I hope there are some identifiable vehicles in these 60s pics There was a regular early evening parcels train through Oxford which for a while was a Castle turn. This is 5063 in mid 1964 This was an interesting vehicle W2W (a generator van?) in the train around the same date This is at Chalford soon before closure. The Brimscome banker (4100) piloting a Hymek From early 1975 75055 approaches Aristotle lane crossing from Bicester or beyond And on 5/9/65 at Didcot Thanks Dave
  12. Sorry about delayed reply, and untidy scribbles on your plan, but this is what I was suggesting. I didn't make it even messier by altering the spacing of the lines past the bridge, though that would need to be a sloping single line each side of the double track. As I said, i don't know if the ruling curves would allow this, and what effect it would have on the planned carriage sidings. Thanks Dave
  13. I think the extra junction to separate the loop is a real winner, but have to mention another possibility for the older plan. The main issue is whether it would compromise curve radii, but how about making the bridge single track, and keeping the up line inside the loop. This would save a diamond at the junction, and allow the 4 track section in front of the fiddle yard to be a scenic flying junction approach. Thanks Dave
  14. With the baseboards, have you considered making some bespoke panels yourself so that the framing misses point motors etc.? Just a few panels with extra slots to add flexibility to the positioning. Thanks Dave
  15. The steel windows (Crittall?) would make a good dimensional reference for the Decoish Tennants building. Dave
  16. There's always the "living in sin" option. It works for us, and so far for our daughter... To get back to topic, looking forward to further developments, this is always a favourite thread. Thanks Dave
  17. An alternative to the Arduino might be the Picaxe system, which uses a higher level programming language, easy to learn if you've used BASIC. http://www.picaxe.com/ Dave
  18. I've recently been scanning in long unseen negatives, and found this. Shap 1966. Dave
  19. Maplin sell a one with heater and a 264mm x 164mm x 80mm tank size for £100. http://www.maplin.co.uk/professional-ultrasonic-cleaner-8050-h-261248. I think it has been on an offer price recently. That would be OK for most 00 needs. Slightly off topic, but I was impressed when British Gas turned up with an ultrasonic cleaner to sort out a central heating problem. After about 3 hours treatment, the heat exchanger was working as good as new. That used citric acid poured into the heat exchanger as cleaner, with hot water in the bath. Dave
  20. If there are any specific DLR station detail photos you need, let me know, and I'll try to get them on my travels. Dave
  21. I've ended up assembling and dismantling these kits a few times, trying to get it right. Changing the tabs on the window sections so that the roof fitted the right way was fairly easy. A bit of scrap glued to the top and shaped when set, using the opposite side to get the locations right. The original tabs were removed after the new ones were done. While I'm not too worried about the appearance of the windows, I do find that they cause the sides to bow out in the centre. I haven't worked out how best to thin things down to solve this. Flush glazing is an option, but I'll see what I can do with the originals first. I might end up just glueing a panel in to pull the sides together. Thanks Dave
  22. There are some underground sequences, and scenes on the roof at the Grand Midland hotel, in Neverwhere. Dave
  23. Thanks for the confirmation.Now to see whether there's an easy way to reverse the roof, possibly by creating new tabs on the glazing. It looks as if it won't be quite as quick a build as I'd hoped. But at those prices I won't complain. I'd much rather have a wrong roof rather than no kit in the case of the brake. Dave
  24. I have just bought some of these, and have a question about the composite, C95C. To my eye, the roof vents would match up with the internals better if the roof was reversed. Built to the instructions, 3 of the vents coincide with internal partitions, whch seems odd to me. Have just spotted that the brake (C96C) roof is the same moulding, so I guess it's a generic moulding, matching neither. Perhaps a bit of research, filling and drilling is required... Thanks Dave
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