treggyman Posted January 29, 2018 Author Share Posted January 29, 2018 Hi Tony Thanks for posting the link....Some great footage....... Sadly now history.... Not done much to the layout....Started another one....Hendra.....Another China Clay layout.... As far as exhibitions go only one pretty definite in November & one possible in June for Hayden Gurney...... The problem has been that SWMBO has been ill & I don't want to overcommit & let people down..... Thanks again Cheers Bill 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
treggyman Posted January 29, 2018 Author Share Posted January 29, 2018 Lots of useful stuff for making realistic train formation there, even if they don't look realistic. Hi Indeed a lot of useful info.... A train of horseboxes.....I wonder where they were going as the only racecourse I can think of in the area was Wincanton & I didn't think that was rail connected.... Cheers Bill Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JZ Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 Hi Indeed a lot of useful info.... A train of horseboxes.....I wonder where they were going as the only racecourse I can think of in the area was Wincanton & I didn't think that was rail connected.... Cheers Bill I have a few horseboxes and run race specials. An interesting mix in that train, a few vans, then some horseboxes and did I see a 'Beetle'? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium AdeMoore Posted August 10, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 10, 2018 Read those 8 pages enjoying a bit of S&D. Captured it rather well, on home turf for me I'm currently at lunch in work and located about 500yards from where the layout is set. Lived in Gurney Slade in the late 80s so much to like with your modelling and setting. My layout when it comes to fruition (if I ever get Jane finished!) will be S&D currently Masbury is my favoured location but we will see. Nice work Bill looking forward to the next update. Cheers Ade 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
treggyman Posted August 10, 2018 Author Share Posted August 10, 2018 Hi Ade Thanks for the above comment.....And all the likes...... Look forward to following your layout when you get started.... Cheers Bill Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold slow8dirty Posted September 17, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 17, 2018 Bill, in the time mine has been gathering dust you've gone and built all this! Very enjoyable catch up over the last eight pages, particularly like the signal box build. Will keep an eye out for this on the South West exhibition circuit hopefully. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted August 20, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 20, 2020 Very nice S&DJR feel to this layout. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
treggyman Posted October 2, 2020 Author Share Posted October 2, 2020 On 20/08/2020 at 20:08, Captain Kernow said: Very nice S&DJR feel to this layout. Hi Thanks for the complement....Greatly appreciated.... Apologies for not responding sooner but for some reason I only saw your post today... Cheers Bill 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
treggyman Posted December 16, 2021 Author Share Posted December 16, 2021 Hi Got Haydon Gurney down from it's shelf late last month....... Following Creedyford's outing in November I had enjoyed running a roundy roundy so much I thought I'd seen how Haydon Gurney would run...... Not only is it a roundy roundy but there's lot's of shunting potential....Much more so than Creedyford. I also thought What If....... The S & D hadn't closed in March '66 but had stayed open....... The collieries had shut but a good source of stone had been found to exploit...... For some reason it had become useful alternative/diversionary route so other freight & passenger operators also use the line..... This being the case the current operator would have been GWR with the stone being hauled....in my scenario....by Freightliner.....( I already had 2 Freightliner 66's )... Any way I set it up & after a good clean had a Play....... One or two minor tweaks & the mainline ran fine as did running into & out of the yard...... But....... Like with other layouts I built it on trestles & had assumed the floor was level when I built it.....I now know it isn't an now build on two lengths of straight 50x100 timber set on trestles & levelled.... The problem was that I had ended up with ski jumps over the baseboards...... This didn't cause derailments but bogie wagons uncoupled themselves as they went over the baseboard joins......The short wheelbase wagons I'd been using before had been fine but the extra length of the bogie wagons caused the issue.... Also the 66's derailed going into the sidings (but rerailed coming out) So major digging up of track occurred & touch wood all is now fine...... I shan't reballast until I'm happy all is hunky dory though...... You can see the large gap in the track joins caused by the layout baseboards now being level...... The other area that needs major attention is the spinney at the layout front....... There's obviously been a major storm.... The other issue is that as I had anticipated building end to end layouts I have put a row of kitchen unit bases against the wall for storage & it is on these that I have started to build Condurrow (at present progress stalled for various reasons) Operationally it doesn't matter as the layout is operated from inside but it will limit photo opportunities I think. Anyway.....Hopefully I can have some fun operating/upgrading it & hopefully making it dual era...... I had considered Westernising it & turning it into a China Clay layout but as stations are being done up these days they are sometimes repainted into their original colour schemes ( Crediton ) for example I thought that it might work here..... Well thats all for now but I shall update as & when progress is made.... Thanks for looking in.... Cheers Bill 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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