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This years Newcastle show (11th and 12th November) is likely to be the very last public outing for Blackgill. All of thanks to Eddie Ford for sharing your work with us and young Dr Ford for the wonderful photos here abouts. Final testing underway with a J25 ambling up the colliery exchange sidings…
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Great videos John, what most visitors don’t realise is that every signal (inc ground signals, calling on signals and distance signals) are all working and correctly interlocked…can we have some videos of the signalling please?
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…as usual I built nothing and talked the hind legs off a donkey. Great to be part of this annual tradition, thank you to everyone who came, thank you to all the demonstrators, exhibitors and traders…but the biggest thanks goes to the kitchen crew. (Mr G of North Yorks says the new team in the kitchen were every bit as good as the old team , praise indeed.)
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On 10/10/2023 at 14:34, Porcy Mane said:
Funny looking Lowmacs …
...are you happy now Porcy?
I've not seen the shows cake list yet...probably best to get in early, you know what Mr Gallon's like around cakes.
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1 hour ago, Porcy Mane said:
Yak, yak, rabbit, rabbit... apply solvent... yak, yak, rabbit, rabbit... tell a story... yak, yak, rabbit, rabbit... another tale... yak, yak, rabbit, rabbit... apply rivet... yak, yak, rabbit, rabbit... and repeat...
...you missed out the bit where I drink some tea...
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3 minutes ago, Worsdell forever said:
But will he get anything done?
Hopefully I'll spend all day talking...
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WORKSHOPWISE 2023
Saturday 21st October 2023
10.30am to 4.30pm
A day of practical modelling demonstrations from members of the NE & Borders EMGS Area Group and guests
Layouts
Alston [N], Corrieshalloch [2mfs], Middle Peak [EM] and 2022 Chairman’s Challenge winner West End Drift [EM]
With David Dunn’s slide show ‘Railways of the North East’
Trade Support from EMGS Trade Officer and more…
And not forgetting some rather good catering
Stannington Village Hall
Main Street, Stannington
Morpeth NE61 6EL
All this for only £5.00 admission
(Admission includes a cup of tea or coffee on us)(God willing I'll be there having fun with some wagons - probably some airfix lowmacs)
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On 31/12/2022 at 20:26, D5158 said:
If I recall correctly, Class J21’s were used quite extensively on the coke trains over Stainmore.
Best wishes for 2023.
They shared the freight workings with J25s for many years...and ran the Darlington-Penrith and Kirkby-Tebay passenger trains...Whilst on a Stainmore theme, how about a GER E4 with a Darlington cab option...or a BR 3MT (77000- 77019)
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On 31/12/2022 at 16:20, Pmorgancym said:
I think that's the annoying thing about the steam punk range they could have gone with something more asthetically pleasing say an electric blue Dean goods/ open back pannier with brass dome and splashers, copper smokebox, some sort of riveted brass 'power source in the tender/bunker with a blue led.
...or even Lion with additional copper and brass fittings/lights/generators along with a range of rolling stock with similar additions...the whole point of steam punk was imaging the modern world, but created by Gothicly minded Victorians. Surely, if you were starting a range of steam punk models you would discuss with the steam punk community...weekend in Whitby anyone?
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Whilst riding on the Metro replacement 'bustitution' service to Jarrow, Uncle P and I spotted this crossing in the middle of nowhere...
Britain from Above and the National Library of Scotland confirm it as the line into the 'Bede Metal Works (Copper)' on Wagonway road in Hebburn (South Tyneside).
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1 hour ago, MarkC said:
An unexpected opportunity to go to this show today - 2 1/2 hours each way from Durham, but well worth it.
It must be 44 years since I did the Manchester show last - I was part of the EM group of Merseyside MRS, & we had a layout at the show. (At UMIST(sp), as I recall?).
Good selection of layouts - well done by the organisers
Anyway, a great show, with 2 comments - the preciously mentioned catering, and the lack of a trader selling builders' needs - paint, couplings, wheels etc.
Last time I was here it was 1968 or 69…53 years ago at least! Uncle Porcy went looking for paint and came back empty handed…
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I hope Uncle Pawsea (of this parish)…gets his Q6 coaled and weathered in time for the Manchester Christmas show this year…no pressure Pawsea, but you just have to share the sounds it makes as it slips and slithers it’s way up from South Pelaw…
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I was going to dip my toe in the guessing game Poole, so that’s my cryptic guess…
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6 hours ago, Worsdell forever said:
That shows how tough they were, despite having a 13 tonner landing on top of it. It looks like that poor little P17 has taken the brunt of the rough shunt though.
…those little P17s were robust little hoppers and lasted a lot longer than you’d think…
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On 06/11/2022 at 23:59, Porcy Mane said:
Thanks for the link. They look ok but the distinctive bits appear to be missing. 🙂
It's making up these bits that does my head in. I'm sure accurascales cad boys could manage it.
Meanwhile, in a field, on the Norfolk side of the Suffolk border…a late build, vac fitted Conflat L-
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On 24/10/2022 at 08:28, Johann Marsbar said:
I don't believe the one at Weeting is at the steamable stage yet - It certainly looked a long way off the last time I was there (2017).....
...was there a couple of weeks ago, still the same condition.
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Thank you to Keith Smart for arranging a great day. I understand this was his last and next years show will be under a new stewardship. It’s not a big show but what a room full of talent, thank you Keith for starting this annual event. Also thank you to the ladies in the back room who kept them all refreshed all day…
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From Roger Goodrum's Flickr site...Rochester 1973 and 16tonners from above...
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Its that time of the year again when the Reivers from across the disputed lands get together for a day of model railwaying with a distinct twist towards the finescale...all in a village hall at Stannington, Northumberland.
The North East and Borders section of the EM Gauge Society will be holding their annual Workshop Wise show from 10:30am to 5pm on Saturday 8th October at Stannington Village Hall...
A plethora of quality layouts, including a first outing for part of Richard Nice's 'Barnard Castle' (EM), a trip south for Ray Nolton's 'United Mills' (P4), Graham Hudson's award winning 'West End Drift' (EM) and Mick Simpson's collaboration with Iain Rice, 'Pit Hill' (2mmFS)...are just 4 of the invited layouts.
There will be up to 9 demonstrators on hand working on every aspect of model railways.
Famous local author, Dave Dunn is back this year with a show of railway views from the Armstrong Trust collection.
...and of course the legendary Stannington Bacon Butties (get in early as they have been known to run out in the past).
You can find the show with...NE61 6EL for SATNAV lovers or just off the A1 and behind the Ridley Arms pub for rest of us.
All this entertainment for £4.
https://ukmodelshops.co.uk/event/23822-NorthEastBordersAreaGroupEMGaugeSociety_Exhibition
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11 hours ago, Fat Controller said:
ISTR that Vickers had a testing ground somewhere around here for the products of Scotswood Road, based around an old quarry.
Ridsdale, still in use by BAE (or was last time I drove past)...apparently there are still some rails set in the concrete where the sidings were...
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11 hours ago, Fat Controller said:
I wonder which NATO ally those lorries belonged to, and how the soldiers were meant to get there?
ISTR that Vickers had a testing ground somewhere around here for the products of Scotswood Road, based around an old quarry.
...nicely polished lorries without a scratch on them, they look French to me.
...Otterburn is still in used by foreign armies to train, only they don't come by train any more.
(from the redoubtable Ernie's Railway Archive)
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You could just make the links yourself...this is my standard method, see pic below...the wire is 0.31mm nickel silver tightly wrapped around a 1.5mm x 3.6mm form tool (which comes out at 4.5" x 10.75" - a scale version should be 3" x 10.25")...There is a short length of 0.31mm brass soldered to the top of the tool...you carefully saw through the links using the 0.31mm brass to guide the saw...and hey presto you have a hand full of links in about a minute!
You can make them any size you like, I just find slightly fatter links a lot easier to use and you don't notice the extra girth at normal viewing distances.
Clean up the sawn ends and then link together and close up with some fine pliers.
The hooks come from Ambis (this being an LMS one)...you do have to go at them with a file/wet and dry to get the subtle shape to the hook...always best to refer to a full sized hook...just keep everything rounded so it doesn't snag on the links...also, very slightly countersink the hole in the hook for the links, to prevent them from jamming when you least want them too.
BTW, the 0.31mm brass wire on the form tool is there to give you that extra bit of metal that you lose to the saw cut and ensures the links are a perfect fit when bent up parallel.
The real thing is here...
https://www.cs.rhul.ac.uk/~adrian/steam/RCHWagons/images/rch1007.PDF
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2 hours ago, Porcy Mane said:
After deductions for compensation payments for induced industrial deafness, that leaves you owing me, a balance of 3 bottles of Tormore, 21 pints of Guinness and 77 Airfix brake vans. (Brown plastic moulding please, Dapol unacceptable). The freebee Hornby Trout you gave me last week has been taken into account during these calculations.
P.s. what's it like being a nephew that looks much older than your uncle?
You haven’t taken into consideration my distress at waking up at 2am to find my nearly naked hirsute Uncle leaning over me with a microphone in his hand…and you wonder why I’ve prematurely aged…
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Uncle Percy, I retain the copyright on that soundtrack, so either negotiate the right to use it or desist henceforth from broadcasting it on a public forum,
Your nephew, AB,
ps I accept payment in half pint instalments.
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Workington exhibition 18-19 Nov
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Looking forward to a trip over the Pennines, 1st time Croft has been out in years...can't guarentee a class 25/0 on the day...but you never know what might turn up!