RMweb Premium Northroader Posted December 10, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 10, 2017 Nifty station, too, when twinned with Sandford: 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted December 10, 2017 Author Share Posted December 10, 2017 Nifty station, too, when twinned with Sandford:032DD027-5094-423F-BD93-5287A028DE15.jpeg Are you sure that's wise? Yarp! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted December 10, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 10, 2017 (edited) Are you sure that's wise? Yarp! I tell you, things are getting tough in the queue for RailWells... Edited December 10, 2017 by Regularity Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted December 10, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 10, 2017 It's in Banwell. Corner of West Street (A371) and Church St. Must have been a quiet day!https://goo.gl/maps/uxQQHh7XTiF2It's so quiet since they closed RAF Locking 2 miles away, where there used to be a Model Railway club. Now how do I know that 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Donw Posted December 10, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 10, 2017 Banwell was stil pretty busy when the Locking was only a shadow of its former self there used to be a lot of local traffic out to the A38 or down to Cheddar etc. an the A371 perhaps everyone got fed up with the delays through Banwell and found other routes. Don Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium nick_bastable Posted December 10, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 10, 2017 I only read this topic to see the fillies and yet people keep hijacking this to talk about Railways and heaven forbid now roads Nick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Andy Kirkham Posted December 10, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 10, 2017 (edited) Nifty station, too, when twinned with Sandford:032DD027-5094-423F-BD93-5287A028DE15.jpeg An interesting story about Sandford & Banwell in Steaming through the Cheddar Valley by Derek Phillips Approximately three years before the closure of the Cheddar Valley line, three loaded wagons of ballast ran away from the quarry, down through the good shed and smashed the lamp hut on the platform. Under the original deeds of the line with the Bishopric of Bath and Wells, the lamp hut was completely rebuilt to the original 1860s plans, including the intricate bargeboards, roof ends and finials. The lamp hut is substantial masonry structure in the same style as the rest of the station. I would love this to be true, but I have never seen any corroboration of that story. I know Richard Harman, author of the Lightmoor history of the Cheddar Valley, and he says he has never heard of it. Edited December 10, 2017 by Andy Kirkham 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wagonman Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 It's so quiet since they closed RAF Locking 2 miles away, where there used to be a Model Railway club. Now how do I know that Did you know John Charman while he was there? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted December 11, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 11, 2017 (edited) Did you know John Charman while he was there? It's not a name I recognise, but there were several thousand there most of the time. I was there 1976- early 1978, late 1978 to early 1979, Early 1986. (I also have a very bad memory for names which is embarrasing as everyone rmembers my odd name..) Edited December 11, 2017 by TheQ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium corneliuslundie Posted December 11, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 11, 2017 Yes but I assume that the reference is to THE John Charman of Charford fame, one of the layouts (and modelling philosophies) which had a big effect on my own approach. And, vide Traeth Mawr and other layouts, had through workings to another layout. Jonathan 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted December 11, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 11, 2017 It's not a name I recognise, but there were several thousand there most of the time. I was there 1976- early 1978, late 1978 to early 1979, Early 1986. (I also have a very bad memory for names which is embarrasing as everyone rmembers my odd name..) Yes but I assume that the reference is to THE John Charman of Charford fame, one of the layouts (and modelling philosophies) which had a big effect on my own approach. And, vide Traeth Mawr and other layouts, had through workings to another layout. Jonathan From those dates, I suspect that TheQ served at RAF Locking many years after John Charman. I agree regarding the inspirational nature of Charford - not least in operating to a timetable. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Rixon Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 Are you sure that's wise? Yarp! Increased security for RailWells this year? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted December 11, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 11, 2017 (edited) Increased security for RailWells this year? Do keep up, old chap. Edited December 11, 2017 by Regularity Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
runs as required Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 (edited) A 'Johnny Come (Again) Lately' to this model railway business. these references to the decades I've overflown mean nothing. My helpmate Google has found this John Chairman and Charmouth - which appears to be somewhere south of Ahrons but perhaps at a higher altitude (per ardua...) I've always enjoyed the caravan based layouts in RMweb and the like.Are there railway based lased layouts e.g. one in a Queen Mary or a Toad? It would remind me of Camp Coffee graphics - if you look carefully at the label there is a tiny bottle of Camp Coffee on the tray - on which there must be an even tinier bottle of.... dh Edited December 13, 2017 by runs as required 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Donw Posted December 13, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 13, 2017 The very first copy of Railway Modeller I bought and read featured the first part of his article on timetable operation I was hooked on 'proper' railway modelling from then on. Don 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted December 13, 2017 Author Share Posted December 13, 2017 Camp Coffee graphics - if you look carefully at the label there is a tiny bottle of Camp Coffee on the tray - on which there must be an even tinier bottle of.... dh That way madness lies ... !" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted December 13, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 13, 2017 (edited) A 'Johnny Come (Again) Lately' to this model railway business. these references to the decades I've overflown mean nothing. My helpmate Google has found this John Chairman and Charmouth - which appears to be somewhere south of Ahrons but perhaps at a higher altitude (per ardua...) I've always enjoyed the caravan based layouts in RMweb and the like. Are there railway based lased layouts e.g. one in a Queen Mary or a Toad? It would remind me of Camp Coffee graphics - if you look carefully at the label there is a tiny bottle of Camp Coffee on the tray - on which there must be an even tinier bottle of.... dh The Scottish railway preservation society have an O gauge layout in two Norwegian carriages. http://www.srps.org.uk/railway/stations.htm Edited December 13, 2017 by TheQ 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted December 13, 2017 Author Share Posted December 13, 2017 (edited) A 'Johnny Come (Again) Lately' to this model railway business. these references to the decades I've overflown mean nothing. My helpmate Google has found this John Chairman and Charmouth - which appears to be somewhere south of Ahrons but perhaps at a higher altitude (per ardua...) dh Thank you for that link, I very much enjoyed that trip down memory lane. The Scottish railway preservation society have an O gauge layout in two Norwegian carriages. http://www.srps.org.uk/railway/stations.htm Funnily enough, this comment only showed up, for me at least, in this reply. I shall now be able to follow your link! I once saw a train And I should say, It was O Gauge They showed me a coach Isn't it good Norwegian wood Edited December 13, 2017 by Edwardian 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Branwell Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 The Scottish railway preservation society have an O gauge layout in two Norwegian carriages. http://www.srps.org.uk/railway/stations.htm Wooden ones presumably. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted December 13, 2017 Author Share Posted December 13, 2017 Wooden ones presumably. Snap! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 The "invent your own extra bit of geography, build a layout based on it, and operate it to a timetable" school of railway modelling seems to have gone a bit out of fashion (hopefully not in West Norfolk) since the "Rice-Cameo and photo-realism" school went into the ascendant, but the redoubtable Mr John Flann of Hintock has a good article about that sort of thing in RM for January, which should remind everyone of its virtues. And, the camp coffee thing has made me remember how I used to be fascinated by a book-jacket illustration of that kind when I was small. Perhaps I will include a 1:43 model of my layout, in a house on the layout, and in a house on that layout a 1:1849 scale model of the layout, and ......actually, perhaps not. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted December 13, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 13, 2017 camp coffee thing Julian and Sandy working as baristas in “Bona Beans”? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Branwell Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 Snap! Only if it's dry and brittle. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Branwell Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 (edited) And, the camp coffee thing has made me remember how I used to be fascinated by a book-jacket illustration of that kind when I was small. Perhaps I will include a 1:43 model of my layout, in a house on the layout, and in a house on that layout a 1:1849 scale model of the layout, and ......actually, perhaps not. There was a Blue Peter annual that had a photo on the front cover of the then presenters holding a photo of them holding a photo of them holding a photo ... of them holding a photo. Found it! Edited December 13, 2017 by Branwell 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 There was a Blue Peter annual that had a photo on the front cover of the then presenters holding a photo of them holding a photo of them holding a photo ... of them holding a photo. Found it! I wonder what the other hands are doing? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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