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    The "Scottish" ECML of course and the Western region usually, 1945-1980 for the first, 1930-1964 for the second. Authorship and sailing are the next top dogs, even though I do little of the first and vitually none of the second. Explorarion; come on world HIT ME. History, of the Railways... and general things. Dogs, have been in love with them since day one. Cats, in particular our two Mack and Tosh, and DIY; in particular a shed that has been the bane of my career as a Railway Modeller for the last seven years.

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  1. Was anyone here at the Wester Pickston Railway today? Specific in the Perth Model Rail Club house. I've left my grey rucksack there. 

  2. Pre-ordered the four CR ones, the four pre-1936 LMS ones, the RNAD one and the NCB Toolvan. All four of my interests Pre-grouping, early grouping, military and industrial.
  3. Hello again, just to quickly clarify a few points, I live on the South shore of Loch Tay, and I work in Kenmore itself, I've even gone out to Dalerb to take a few photos. As you can see, relatively flat, with Drummond Hill backing the scene, sandwiching it with the Loch. Hi Jeff, I really like this idea, though I think you've confused the distillery location for Kenmore, Dewars is in Aberfeldy, though possibly these could be tracks leading to the Pier instead.
  4. Hi Stevey, since the idea is for this to represent an extension of the Aberfeldy branch line down to Kenmore, I intended the traffic to reflect the traffic seen on that line. So as you can see in this twitter post, a 439 0-4-4T with two suburban brakes. Possibly up to three in the summer months, since a direct rail link would probably more tourism to Kenmore, but no more than that. The Aberfeldy branch also had the operational interest of mixed trains, but I can't imagine much more than a couple of vans and maybe a coal wagon ever heading to Kenmore. I did, and still do have ideas for a route right through Breadalbane all the way down the shore of Loch Tay, but I decided to limit my ambitions and build Dalerb as proof of concept, that I could fit it into the space I have. I choose 8x2 since that was going to the maximum I could squeeze out of my bedroom, which is the biggest room in my house and still only just fits. Hense why the fiddle yard is such a... well fiddle at the moment. As for era, if I had to choose, the transition era of British railways, so the last years of the Branch's operation really. Ooh don't tempt me, I choose the 'Dalerb' as a 'keep it simple' approach, this is my first go at building a layout. A very good idea, but then there's the question of where would I store the modules. ScR
  5. Thank you for getting in touch Dunalastair, it is mostly just figuring out the fiddle yard, and whether or not it would be feasible to hang a cassette off the left hand side, or some other solution. I could shift the backscene and open up a little more space, might need a covering piece though. ScR
  6. Hello all, this is what I've been working on and off for the last year, its a eight by two end to end layout that I intent as a 'what if' terminus of a once mooted extension to the Ballinuig to Aberfeldy line. Originally the station at Aberfeldy was to have been sited at the foot of Chapel Street and the line would've pushed further in to Breadalbane, to Kenmore. No plan of this terminus, but Kenmore is far from substantial, so probably a very small affair. I therefore chose Dalerb, a little spit of land on the northern side of Loch Tay, soon to be home to the New Crannog Centre. Given that its relatively flat and quite close to Kenmore anyway, it seems as good a theoretical location as any for the station. But this thread isn't about the location of the layout, but getting the project restarted as whole. So here's how far I've gotten The foam isn't affixed to the boards, the problem I'm having is the fiddle yard, the constraints of the room mean that the yard will either require the trains to enter via a curve, or it will have to be in a partition on the layout itself. I'm also not really happy with the backscene board, its reduces the space I have and its not really square, I'd like to attach it to the boards proper with bracing. That brings me to the elephant in the room, due to my inexperience and the lack of a dedicated workspace at home, I had to effectively commandeer the living room to build it, the layout is not as square as I would like it, it is, miraculously, level. But you'll see the problem with these cruel close ups. One idea I've had to get around the fiddle yard issue, is to build cassettes that could 'hang' on the left hand side of the layout, in the slot there you see on the third photo down, and then flip the track plan from Left to Right. Incidentally here is the track plan I came up with. So I'm eager to here what your ideas are, the only bad solution is no solution. Yours ScR.
  7. Ah yes, what this hobby, that just lost a major retailer and its most important trade show, needs is three models of the same prototype by three manufacturers at completely different price points. Just for added absurdity the oldest tooling will most likely more expensive than the youngest.
  8. But will Accurascale retool them to their standards or just release the hattons tooling? I won’t mind either way, but a full spec Barclay would be fun.
  9. They are planning on producing them, so for the moment, they are available to order.
  10. It might be worth extending the bunker, it would make it look more balanced, and give it a bit more theoretical coal. Or keep it as a very beefy shunter.
  11. Especially since DJH is allegedly winding up.
  12. Looks like an LNER standard six-wheel. No idea why it was still around.
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