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30541 has come a long way since I took this photo of it at the back of Bristol barrow Road shed in 1965.

This may be of interest regarding the Tewkesbury Brewery premises. https://www.gsia.org.uk/reprints/1980/gi198007.pdf Robin

Hi John, That was good of her but I'm sure they all enjoyed your talk. Did they ask for a running session? Robin

It has been a while since I did any work on the roundhouse roof so I recently added the smoke hood support wires, 4 to each hood, to the 22 that are inside the shed. The roof is entirely scratchbuilt from brass section and nickel silver wire. The smoke hoods are of two types - 3 older wooden types which are ex Midland/LMS in origin which I scratchbuilt from plasticard and brass angle, and 19 'asbestos/concrete' units which are cast in resin by my Friend Morgan from a 3D printed master. Morgan also produced the etched supports on the lower edge of the units. I have used Markits WD handrail knobs - 4 per unit - as hood anchor points for the nickel silver wire supports. Once finished I sprayed the complete roof with Halfords grey primer.

St Philip's Marsh GW steam shed was a two turntable roundhouse on the south side of the Bristol Relief Line and was closed in 1964. The site became the site of Bristol Fruit Market. The HST depot is on the north side towards towards North Somerset junction. Marsh Junction DMU building is on the opposite shed of the line to the HST depot. The GW shed is shown on this map top left corner along with Bath Road GW steam shed and Temple Meads station. https://maps.nls.uk/view/102342929

Nice job on the Pannier. Look forward to seeing it painted - no pressure though:-) Robin

Hi Tricky, I'm not sure I can answer your question but the end elevation of the Borough Mill has what looks like moveable pipework up the side of the building with a box section at the top end. Is this a vacuum unloading arrangement for taking grain off the barges? Robin

Some photos taken of Healings Mill today. The first two photos show the single track rail bridge.

Hi, I am originally from Bristol and am currently building a P4 layout of Bristol Barrow Road with a blog on this website. I have some other photos of the Tewkesbury branch of my own but not of the quay branch. Are you aware of the following? There is also a colour photo of Healing's Mill showing the quayside in Neil Parkhouse's book Vol3 Gloucester and Midland Lines Part 1: North p112. There are a number of photos on Britain from Above but I expect you may have seen these. https://britainfromabove.org.uk/image/EPW023935

As a resident of Tewkesbury I reiterate Killybegs comment. I have some plans of the track pm me if you are interested. The above photo was taken after the track was removed beyond the shed and after the track arrangement was modified slightly.

I've decided not to add any other parts that need soldering so the next task on the roof will be to spray it. The brass, as you know, has started to tarnish.

The roof needs painting and weathering. A busy weekday on shed - all locos are out [ well in the storage sidings:-)

Well spotted Gordon. The Parkside kit still needs sprung buffers to be added whilst most of the rest of the train needs painting and weathering. The train was on test to see if it would successfully negotiate the gradients and curves on the layout. I'm targeting 30g per wagon as previous attempts with 50g wagons was limited to around 20 wagons before the 4F started to struggle. The Bachmann 16T minerals in the video currently weigh 22g, whilst the Parkside kits weigh 13T; 16g for the 21T. Tim, As you say P4 does work. Only the first 6 wagons are compensated using MJT units all the rest are converted to P4 using the Knowle Wagon Works tool to cut into the plastic W irons in order to fit Gibson non waisted bearings and wheels. I'm pleased to say these wagons seem to run well without any compensation.

The weathering is not bad either is it Dave:-) Robin

Thank you John for assistance in the diagnosis:-) Robin

I am continuing the debugging of the track. Following the test of the turnouts from the Up main line into the engine shed with the 3F - shown in the previous videos - testing with my Hornby Black 5 showed that all was not well with the double slip. The Black 5 had an annoying habit of mounting the crossing V at the coaler end of the slip. This double slip was the first 'complicated' piece of track I ever built and has only recently come into full operational use. If you look closely at the slip you will see evidence of a partial rebuild of the slip - new solder - as I re -aligned the far crossing 'V', wing rails, closure rails etc at that end of the slip. The Black 5 now runs through without falling off - result :) . Black 5 '44965' coming of shed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY_ASkofNvk Black 5 '44965 ' entering shed coal road https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-Y9q03CxwU

Hi Dave, Excellent news I look forward to seeing it perform on the layout. Robin

A Bristol Barrow Road engine from 1958 to 1961 along with 45504 and 45519 both of which are likely to have got to Bath.

Thank you Grahame for your kind comments and I'm glad you enjoyed the article in MRJ. Robin

Thank you Phil. I still need to fully test all the newly wired point-work with a variety of different locos. The 0-6-0s are fine but I need to test others with a longer wheel base with bogies and/or pony trucks.

Chris Yates has finished building the 'temporary panel' for Lawrence Hill Junction signal box, another job done for which I am very grateful. I say temporary because it only controls the turnouts at present as I have yet to build the signals. Chris has built in interlocking on the junction using relays with LEDs confirming turnout settings and the junction with entrance and exit to the shed yard is now fully operational. Lawrence Hill Junction Panel Lawrence Hill double junction Lawrence Hill Junction Signal Box and the shed north entrance and exit. Here are a couple of videos of Ex Midland 3F 43712 going on shed - and off shed. I suggest watching with the sound turned of as I forgot I had the radio on!! Landscape mode would have been an improvement:-)

Thanks John. If you put out your second team you get what you deserve.

I am looking forward to bringing Sheep Pasture to the exhibition. It is likely that this will be the last exhibition outing for Sheep Pasture as I am heavily involved with my current project Bristol Barrow Road. If anyone is interested in ownership of this layout please feel free to contact me via this website or at the show. All photos courtesy of Model Rail.

Thanks to you both I'm sure Chris will appreciate your comments. Happy New Year to you both. How is your arm Dave? How soon until you can get back to some modelling? Robin

It's been a while since I updated my blog but we haven't been idle. Chris has made two Power Boxes one for the scenic side and a Booster box for the Storage sidings. Each contain a Maplins X21M Power unit, PSX circuit breakers, a DCC Concepts 12v Power supply PSU2 and NCE Units - a 5amp command unit in the main box and a Booster in the other. They do look rather smart. Main Power Box Booster Box Engine Shed Sidings now has a panel for the turnouts which controls the Fishponds banker siding and the south exit from the engine shed Engine Shed Sidings Panel Chris has done a brilliant job with both Power boxes and the panels and is currently building the Lawrence Hill Junction Panel. When complete and fitted the scenic side of the layout will be fully operational. Both Panels are designed as an interim measure whilst a decision on the design of signalling the layout is made. The track in the storage sidings is now complete with the addition of 16 Peco EM buffer stops on the dead end sidings. Here are a few photos of the completed sidings. My next task is the complete the wiring on the storage boards.