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I love this thread.
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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.
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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.
5 hours ago, Jeff Smith said:If you can get hold of a copy of An Approach to Model Railway Layout Design, Finescale in Small Spaces by the late Iain Rice (Wild Swan ISBN 0 906867 85 1) it contains several rural layouts in the 8'x2' range.
Looking at your proposal I would bring the station right into the front left corner and curve around near the backscene to exit at a right angle near the right side to a fold-down or detachable fiddle yard. This would allow you to scenically develop most of your area including a small yard behind the station and maybe even adding the distillery siding in the back right corner.....!
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.
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7 hours ago, SteveyDee68 said:
How long a train do you plan for? That would determine the length of your cassette.
Steve S
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.
1 hour ago, 33C said:Personally, with that kind of space, I would go multi level coal mine. Loaded trucks disappearing behind a washer/sheds, internal loaded wagons discharging via a Triang ore bridge above and a narrow gauge line above that for pit props on a shuttle. All stock would have no more than four wheels and the track would be all but buried! Rusty, wriggly tin everywhere, coal dust and weeds....
You only got 8×2, but the skies the limit
But that's just me!
Or, "Dockers umbrella", or Welsh Slate galleries or Sittingbourne paper Mill style...
Ooh don't tempt me, I choose the 'Dalerb' as a 'keep it simple' approach, this is my first go at building a layout.
2 hours ago, Jeff Smith said:Regarding building the layout, if you haven't got a long term location you might want to consider building modules. This has several advantages - they are easy to work on and can be stood on their side or back to access wiring etc. - you can practice techniques on a small area and if you change your mind make changes, - you can build a bigger layout for occasional running in a larger area, eg garage, etc., or design it such that you can run just a couple of modules on their own.
A very good idea, but then there's the question of where would I store the modules.
ScR
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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
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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.
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4 hours ago, JohnR said:
The current batch are actually already in production. What may happen with future orders is a different matter.
I saw that, still really good news
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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.
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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.
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41 minutes ago, gpplumy said:
has anyone else noticed you can still order the barclays and the p class ?
They are planning on producing them, so for the moment, they are available to order.
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On 27/01/2024 at 22:40, Hacksworth_Sidings said:
Unsure if this is suited for the thread, it isn’t exactly a Pugbash, Nelliebosh, a Desmondification, or a Jintystein (unless you count the use of a few Jinty wheels).
A surplus of spare parts, a hacksaw, a bottle of super glue, and nothing to do with your time does strange things to the mind…
Princess chassis block, Jinty driving wheels (3MT drivers on the centre wheels, as they have the extended crank pins), a rear bogie from a black five, Princess body with the cab snipped off (though I kept the cab floor as to keep the original mounting lug), and the cab & bunker off a damaged 3MT. Half tempted to get a Prairie kit to nick the tanks from… Or maybe Jinty tanks, unsure… Oooh, I have that spare Lima 9400 body with no smokebox…
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.
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12 hours ago, Cunningham Loco & Machine Works said:
Here is a work-in-progress shot of a real hybrid, of which more information probably to follow later. I consider the identity of model locomotives to derive from the chassis, and thus consider it an ongoing rebuild of a Tyco 4-6-0. That said, it presently incorporates: the chassis thereof, body shell from a Wrenn R1 scrapped when her drivers were found to be irreparably damaged, cylinder saddle, crosshead guides and forward main rod sections from scrap Rivarossi “Casey Jones”, handbuilt brass frame extensions and crosshead guide yoke, and incidental scratchbuilt styrene components.
Shades of the Highland Railway Scrap tanks
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1 hour ago, Caledonian said:
Aha!
Casting a spell to encourage an announcement of Caley stock
Mind you, a 439 would be nice
Especially since DJH is allegedly winding up.
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22 minutes ago, bradfordbuffer said:
Cracking shot...what in the heck is a steam tender on a depot in 1984...was it for water supply? And what tender was it from?
Looks like an LNER standard six-wheel. No idea why it was still around.
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2 hours ago, adb968008 said:
I remember the days of “allow 28 days for delivery”… thats after “allowing 10 days for cheques to cash”…
I ordered D824 Highflyer from Railmail, £9.99… thats… wait for Railway Modeller, send a postal order in the post, wait around 60 days and one day a brown parcel was waiting in the rain on the doorstep when I got home from school.
I Still have D824 Highflyer today, 45691 Orion that followed cost me £16.50.
Though in all honesty. I do wonder if we should go back to those days, next day delivery is nice, but where I live it really means next week delivery. In the last year there was only one real occasion where I really needed something delivered as soon as possible.
waiting a month for my books and models, would hardly be the worst thing that could happen to me.
More time to plan and prepare.
ScR
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1 hour ago, AlfaZagato said:
CENR - Central, Eastern and Northern Railway
Bit like CERN, though not sure what particle needs to be accelerated to get to Doncaster on time.
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59 minutes ago, DenysW said:
What would it have been called? The Greatest? The Great Great Railway? The Railway?
The mind boggles.
Clearly the Great North Eastern Railway 😉
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Just to wade in, ‘Low Skilled Worker’ doesn’t mean unintelligent or unimportant work, it refers to the level of training that a job requires. Take engineering for example, that requires years of study and then constant learning and unlearning throughout a career, you can’t just pick up the basics and go. Now with say, cleaning, someone can take around half an hour or maybe that latter part of an afternoon and quickly have someone else broadly up to speed.
Its not the amount of effort required it’s the amount of training and foreknowledge that’s needed.
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Is it bad that I want to cry over a shop?
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'Perchance tis not dead, but sleepth'
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Wait a minute! All is not lost, me granny has sent me forty pounds for New Years! We're saved!
Sorry, Gallows humour.
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I just feel… numb. This is going to leave such a hole in the market. Are we are even going to have a hobby in a few years?
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My ROD example will be getting a Shedmate, they just need a shunting plank to run around on.
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Imaginary Locomotives
in Modelling musings & miscellany
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I remember, I posted it without your permission some years ago, I'm sorry about that. I dunno if these would have gotten names, would the various Merchant Navy companies want their names attached to such a... unique locomotive.