RMweb Gold BlueLightning Posted September 19, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 19, 2016 (edited) Haywards Heath 175 Yesterday was spent operating the club's n gauge layout Oakley at Haywards Heath 175 with my daughter. It was a very enjoyable day and there was plenty of LB&SCR layouts in attendance. I got some pictures of these as well as some of Oakley. Some of the pictures have some out really poor but I have attached the best ones below. Enjoy. Gary Oakley - n gauge - Uckfield MRC Matthew Cousins - Railway Artist - 0 gauge Pett Marine - 0 gauge Plumpton Green - p4 Edited April 11, 2017 by BlueLightning 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BlueLightning Posted October 4, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 4, 2016 (edited) Well in case you hadn't guessed my mojo has gone walkabouts again. I'm still enjoying railways and spend a lot of time on RMWeb but not really feeling like doing any modelling at the moment. I have tried to do things to get myself interested again but not a lot has happened, in fact I only have 1 picture to show you. I have got some Platform Lamps cheap on eBay and these have been painted to look like LBSCR ones, which I think they do quite nicely. I have also got some Mike Pett figures which include a fireman, a station porter and 2 other figures that I would appreciate if someone could tell me who they are. I also fancy doing something different with one of my terriers if anyone has ideas then please let me know. Thanks for looking, Gary Edited April 11, 2017 by BlueLightning 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
choo1choo Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 HI Gary, Don't worry...your mojo will reappear. Same stuff happens to all of us . In the middle of a house move at the moment...layout dismantled...everything packed away into boxes...yuck! Hopefully in four weeks time the new house will materialise and all my LBSCR toys can rematerialise and the mojo will get into overdrive. The moral is don't give up..fresh inspiration is round the corner...just look at Plumpton....if that doesn't make you drool nothing will. Craig [surrounded by boxes] in deepest Wales. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BlueLightning Posted October 4, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 4, 2016 Thanks for your words Craig, it is much appreciated. Hope the house move goes well, I haven't done that is 10 years and will do everything in my power to not have to do it again, and I'm sure I speak for everyone on here when I say we would love to see your "LBSCR toys" once they rematerialise Gary 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard i Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 Was there not a 2 4 0 version of the terrier, or one that looked like it should have been? Richard 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BlueLightning Posted October 5, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 5, 2016 Your right Richard. 2 were converted to 2-4-0T's in 1905 for working auto trains on the Brighton-Kemp Town and Brighton-Worthing services. This seems like a nice easy project and I may well give it a go, then Ill need to make some appropriate carriages to go with them. Gary 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 Your right Richard. 2 were converted to 2-4-0T's in 1905 for working auto trains on the Brighton-Kemp Town and Brighton-Worthing services. This seems like a nice easy project and I may well give it a go, then Ill need to make some appropriate carriages to go with them. Gary Kemp Town would make a great little layout - as was suggested on the Umber is the New Black topic last year - and was the haunt of both Railmotors and Motortrains. As the Hornby/Dapol Terrier is rear axle driven, the conversion ought to be quite possible. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BlueLightning Posted October 5, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 5, 2016 Yes Kemp town would make a great layout. I would love to give it a go but with me currently having 3 layouts, although 1 is for sale, my son having 1, and me having 2 more planned for the future I think the misses would go mad if I planned another one, although it would be apt as I share a name with a certain 1980's songwriter/guitarist. A nice little project like converting a terrier to a 2-4-0T seems like just the thing to get me going again, does anyone know what diameter the leading wheel set was?? Gary 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
choo1choo Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 Afternoon Gary, Leading Terrier wheel set was 2ft 9ins in old money according to the Brian Haresnape Stroudley Loco Book. It sez here that numbers 81/82 were converted and subsequentl;y in 1913 returned to 0-6-0 configuration. Coupled wheels were 4ft diameter. Hope that helps! Cheers Craig. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BlueLightning Posted October 5, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 5, 2016 Thanks Craig, I have some 12mm 10 spoked wheels so I think these will be close enough, unless someone really wants to argue about .5mm on either side of the axle. Guess Ill have to get the IEG paint out later and see how they look. Gary 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Holliday Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 Thanks Craig, I have some 12mm 10 spoked wheels so I think these will be close enough, unless someone really wants to argue about .5mm on either side of the axle. Guess Ill have to get the IEG paint out later and see how they look. Gary Whilst Boxhill retained some form of Stroudley livery - some sources have claimed it was in Goods Green with passenger lining, but recent debate has dismissed that idea, but the lining was non-standard, with the distinctive re-entrant corners simplified, the other loco, No 81, came out of the works in an early umber livery without name. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BlueLightning Posted October 5, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 5, 2016 Thanks Nick, Don't suppose you know of any pictures of number 81 in the early umber livery ad I would fancy trying that to add something different. Gary Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinWalsh Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 Yes Kemp town would make a great layout. I would love to give it a go but with me currently having 3 layouts, although 1 is for sale, my son having 1, and me having 2 more planned for the future I think the misses would go mad if I planned another one, although it would be apt as I share a name with a certain 1980's songwriter/guitarist. A nice little project like converting a terrier to a 2-4-0T seems like just the thing to get me going again, does anyone know what diameter the leading wheel set was?? Gary Not only that, but there is no way I can build the required supports in for any more layouts on top of the already planned building works Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BlueLightning Posted October 5, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 5, 2016 Not only that, but there is no way I can build the required supports in for any more layouts on top of the already planned building works I'm sure we could squeeze it in, do I really need a kitchen?? I could just have a take away every night! Gary 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Holliday Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 There is currently a photo of Beulah as a 2-4-0T on ebay at http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Railway-Photo-LBSCR-A1-81-Beulah-LB-SCR-Stroudley-2-4-0T-Loco-SR-/142130122943?hash=item21179d90bf:g:OPAAAOSw8gVX6XLp but it is ending within 22 hours! It isn't the clearest view I have seen of this combination, but it is not one I have seen before. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinksparkled Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 I'm sure we could squeeze it in, do I really need a kitchen?? I could just have a take away every night! Gary No just no Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BlueLightning Posted October 5, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 5, 2016 'Twas a joke dear. For anyone wondering Pinksparkled is my darling misses who is very wonderful in every way, and also spies on me on RMWeb for some unknown reason. Its almost as if she thinks I might come up with ideas for more layouts. Gary 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caley Jim Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 ... Its almost as if she thinks I might come up with ideas for more layouts. As if you would! Jim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BlueLightning Posted October 6, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 6, 2016 I would never dream of doing such things, not me. As she likes to tell me I have enough already. I must remember to make statements like this occasionally. I hope she thinks I mean it. Who has ever heard of having enough?? Gary 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 At least Mrs Lightening had the decency to open her own account and intervene whilst flying her own colours, as it were. William Stroudley 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BlueLightning Posted October 6, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 6, 2016 This is very true. I did think of you when I discovered her posting on here. Gary PS. I approve of your choice of CME in that post 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BlueLightning Posted October 7, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 7, 2016 (edited) The misses says you lot are a bad influence on me, if I were you I'd take that as a compliment. That is the same terrier as was in the above shot with the lamp posts. until the 2-4-0T configuration was suggested to me it was Bodiam in K&ESR Blue livery. I think it looks much better in Umber. I have moved the sandboxes that Hornby put on the front backwards and I had put sand pipes on but the one on this side has already fallen off. With it coming off that quick I may not bother to replace it but I am quite happy with how this has come out. Just some transfers and number plates to order now. and evidently I found a nice shot of number 81 on Edwardian's "Umber is the New Black" thread here: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/104321-umber-is-the-new-black/page-11&do=findComment&comment=2187006 Thanks for looking, Gary Edited April 11, 2017 by BlueLightning 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 The misses says you lot are a bad influence on me, if I were you I'd take that as a compliment. We are, and we do! So long as she lets you out to play. Nice work on the Terrier 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BlueLightning Posted October 7, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 7, 2016 Thanks James, I'm sitting on eBay ordering more stuff already. I think it's safe to say that has got the mojo going again. Gary 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ChrisN Posted October 7, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 7, 2016 That was quick! Obviously motoring along now. Looks a nice little loco. I am always amused how small they are compared to the coaches. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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