RMweb Gold Rowsley17D Posted January 26, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 26, 2016 The rectory I shall be moving to in March has a large bedroom 6.1m x 3.8m which we will not be using, so I thought: model railway. I have a developing 4mm scale permanent layout at our "proper" home in N Yorks and want something different for the temporary home. A few years ago I had some baseboards made for a narrow gauge layout, one 1600mm x 600mm and four 1200mm x 400mm. I also built some stock and buildings based on those of the long-gone Leek & Manifold Valley Light Railway. I did not want to copy the L&M per se, so the locomotives do not have the distinctive headlamp and the chimney is moved forward. The carriages are built from Ratio 6-wheeler sides and goods stock is from cut-down Dundas Parkside kits. I also had a go at building a transporter wagon for standard gauge stock. Hulme End, at one end of the L&M, is going to be adopted for the track plan. I outlined this in Templot with turnouts set at 1 in 6.25. These will be hand-built using rail from Peco Crazy track and copper-clad sleepers. Plain track will be Peco 00-9 "Mainline". The track will follow sinuous curves to a fiddle-yard. There will be one river crossing. The track-bed will be on risers above the baseboard level, so that part of the river valley can be modelled. Here is the Templot plan, the fiddle-yard will be more comprehensive. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Rowsley17D Posted January 26, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 26, 2016 I started building stuff for MLR sometime ago. I got the box out of the loft from under Derwent and here are a few photos. Some in need of TLC to bring them up to scratch. The station building, from Plasticard. Just the odd glazing bar missing. The carriage shed from the Ratio kit. The engine shed from same source. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Rowsley17D Posted January 26, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 26, 2016 Now some stock. Carriages are from Ratio 6-wheeler sides on scratch-built chassis with 00-9 gauge bogies. I also have a brake third and another all third. Goods stock was in the process of building when I left-off some three years ago. Most are from cut down Parkside Dundas kits. The covered van was finished. Large open wagon in progress. One plank open. My go at a transporter wagon. And an engine. From a Meridan body kit and a very bashed Backwoods L&B kit for the chassis. A proper valve gear is now available and I might try and get Brian Madge to make me two proper chassis for No 1 and No 2. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted January 26, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 26, 2016 Well what you've got so far looks very nice so I look forward to the layout. The Ratio kits capture the style well and the station building is really nice. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Rowsley17D Posted January 26, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 26, 2016 The L&M had a large loading gauge to accommodate standard gauge wagons, vans and milk tankers on transporters. Calthrop went in for making the stock as large as possible to the maximum of the axle weight so cut down 00 gauge kits seemed ideal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted January 26, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 26, 2016 Yes they were big, a friend does the whole range of stock in O16.5 if your eyesight moves you up a scale later Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 It pays to use 18.83mm gauge on the wagon transporters as it gives more clearance underneath for the bogies to swing. As long as you're not making the interchange station there's no need to build P4 mechs either! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Rowsley17D Posted January 26, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 26, 2016 Yes they were big, a friend does the whole range of stock in O16.5 if your eyesight moves you up a scale later I doubt I will have the funds to go to 7mm to the foot or the space. Rectories are not for life and my 00 gauge layout takes up the available room in the home we own. We can but dream though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold mikes rail Posted January 26, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 26, 2016 I do like your transporter wagon, its something I have been thinking of having a go at myself Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Gold Rowsley17D Posted January 27, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 27, 2016 Thanks Martin. That short film is becoming quite famous. If only the line could have struggled on for a few more years.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Bailey Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 Re the transporter wagon, I've built one and have been trying it for a few months on and off and will shortly be putting it on my layout Avyn-A-Llyin. Like a post mentioned above I've used 18.83mm gauge wheels and motorised the wagon using the High Level shunters kit. I've used inside frame bogies for the transporter wagon with as much side play taken out as possible. This has helped with clearances between the wheel and the inside of teh framework for the transporter wagon. The body is one I've drawn then had 3d printed. a View on You tube is shown during trial Hoping to get it on my layout for the Cotgrave show in April, if not then Perth in June. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
runs as required Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 Congratulations on a wonderful thread. One of my wife's oldest schoolfriend's parents were the licencees of the "Light Railway" in Hulme End, then left to run the Wetton Mill tea rooms - where she and her sister used to help out during the holidays back from College. dh Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ChrisN Posted March 9, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 9, 2016 Jonathan, The delights of narrow gauge, so much fun. A Backwoods Miniatures chassis, now that is some modelling. I look forward to seeing this develop. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Rowsley17D Posted March 26, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 26, 2016 The baseboards have now arrived at the Slaidburn Rectory and are in the large bedroom that will become the railway room. It will all have to wait until we are officially moved in but should not be too long now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Rowsley17D Posted April 9, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 9, 2016 Well, I am officially in the Rectory, so once I have found my feet the baseboards will go up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Rowsley17D Posted April 12, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 12, 2016 A couple of shots of the baseboards. Fiddle yard at this end, but the board will go end-on. There are boxes in the way at the moment - see below. Station at this end. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium DLT Posted April 13, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 13, 2016 An interesting project, I will be following closely. All the best, Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hando Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 Brilliant! (bit of a shame with the rolling stock though oh well.) I look forward to the future! There are some books on the subject, so I think research would be great. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Buttell Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 Good luck with progress on this. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Rowsley17D Posted January 9, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 9, 2017 Not much progress with the layout, but I have begun the second loco. I am using a Bachmann 08 for the chassis and RT Models bits and bobs he produces for the L&M locos. To reduce weight and get it in the right place, I have made the footplate, boiler and side tank tops in 30 thou plasticard. A new footplate was needed as the Meridian one was too short for the RT frames, and it was easier hacking a plastic tube to get it to go over the 08 motor. I built one set of valve gear and it is now in place and works! I have to fabricate a new radius rod as the RT one would not let the footplate sit on the cylinders. The new one is straight. The combination lever would have been better if it had been a little longer too. I'll get some photos up after my post Christmas break. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Rowsley17D Posted January 17, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 17, 2017 I have loaded some photos to Goggle Photos. The first shows the body and its replacement plastic parts. The boiler is a tube split up the middle as it has to go over the 08 motor, so no daylight under the boiler/side tanks I'm afraid. The next shows the brass RT Models' frames fixed to the 30 thou plasticard footplate. The white metal one was a fraction too short. The side tanks are loaded with white metal to bring weight over the driving wheels.Next is the back-head awaiting decoration. No back-head comes with the kit.The next photo shows that valve rod while being accurate would not let the body sit down on top of the cylinders.Fabricating the new rod.New rod completed.Valve gear in place. Okay this is the other side of the loco. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southwold Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 I've tried clicking these new links but get "Error not found" Ken Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted January 17, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 17, 2017 Any chance you can host the photos somewhere you don't need an account to see them All we get are links asking us to sign in. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenrithBeacon Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 This what I got: '404. That’s an error. The requested URL was not found on this server. That’s all we know.' Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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