Oldworseandworse Posted April 23, 2016 Author Share Posted April 23, 2016 Hello again. Thanks again for the positive comments. it is always nice to know that what you are doing is appreciated. One or two of you, specifically two tone green and leopardml2341, asked for more pics like the last lot, so here are a few more. 12t shock van 'Ban the Bomb' and vanwide sit at the back of the yard waiting to be unloaded. View from behind the layout - New Rd end. Class 116 on the down. Tysley Unit enters Dudley Tunnel South Portal. 20019 stands out well in poor light. 47499 enters yard with a train of 'cripples'. 37029 draws train into the yard. 47575 in early RES livery exits Dudley Tunnel. This selection consists mainly of locos with a couple of shots of the 116 and a couple showing some of the stock. I am planning to take more shots of the stock in the near future so that I can feature individual items of rolling stock in future posts. I hope you like this little lot. Cheers for now, Bill. 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
two tone green Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 Superb. Thanks for posting more. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandyWales Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 (edited) Hi Bill... I remember searching high and low for more photos on the internet when you appeared as Guest Layout on EMgauge70’s a while back....thanks for posting it up for us RMwebbers to enjoy...ticks all the right boxes for me. I hope you get many invites. Love the shots of the multiple unit... Do you run Mk1 passenger or any parcels stock? What length of train can you accomodate in the fiddle yards? Randall Edited April 23, 2016 by RandyWales Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sp1 Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 More great photos- and believe it or not, I am sitting in a pub at the top of Blowers Green Road looking at them! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldworseandworse Posted April 24, 2016 Author Share Posted April 24, 2016 Hi Bill... I remember searching high and low for more photos on the internet when you appeared as Guest Layout on EMgauge70’s a while back....thanks for posting it up for us RMwebbers to enjoy...ticks all the right boxes for me. I hope you get many invites. Love the shots of the multiple unit... Do you run Mk1 passenger or any parcels stock? What length of train can you accomodate in the fiddle yards? Randall Hi Randall, Thanks for the thumbs up. The answer to your last question probably answers the Mk1/parcels stock one. The layout is operated using a cassette system on 1.4m long fiddleyard boards; there are two lengths of cassette, one long enough to take a loco and the other long enough to take 6 standard wagon lengths, each cassette doubles as a stock carrier. When I built the DMU I had to make a pair of cassettes specifically for the Tysley set. This is also designed to act as the unit's carry case. It would in theory be possible to run a loco hauled suburban or short parcels but at present I am sticking with the wagon repair theme and mostly running short wheel base wagons. Longer wheel base wagons just look wrong on what is, for 7mm, a relatively small space, as do longer trains on the mainline. I do plan to build a class 122 to go with the 116 but I am making no promises about a date for it's debut!! Hope this answers your questions. Cheers' Bill. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Pike Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Any updates Guy's ?, superb modelling. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Swindon 123 Posted August 12, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted August 12, 2016 Any updates Guy's ?, superb modelling. Hello Richard, Unfortunately time has been a precious commodity for Bill (Oldworseandworse), whose layout it is, and myself (who just takes the odd piccie) and things haven't really moved on much recently. We have been trying to design some new electrical control panels for the layout. The existing central one has proven a bit inflexible at the exhibitions the layout has attended, so a more decentralised system is in the pipeline, but Bill and myself have been like ships in the night, and are never in the same place long enough to discuss and finalise things. However back in April I did manage to take some photos of the layout and some of its stock, which I have posted below. 08555 on a trip working from Bescot approaches Blowers Green on the up line. Having crossed over onto the down line, 08555 waits to enter the yard. 08555 engages in a spot of shunting as 25213 looks on. 08555 shunting wagons. 25213 backed on to the whats left of the train 08555 brought in to work it forward. With 25213 departed and all shunting finished (for now), 08555 retires to its parking spot whilst the driver makes a brew. All yard pilots had their parking spots when not in use. Generally as near to the shunters cabin door as you could get it. At the other end of the yard, 03382 has emerged from its hiding place to sit on the works headshunt. The section of track it sits on is isolated from the rest, and acts as a headshunt for an adjacent works, or preservation site, depending on what Bill wants to run? I hope to have some more photos to post in the near future, if mine and Bills diaries put us in the same place long enough to do so. If you wish to see it in the flesh, Blowers Green will be appearing at the Monmouth Show in Feb 2017. More details as and when we get then nearer the time. Paul J. 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamperman36 Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 fantastic looking layout keep up the good work Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold bcnPete Posted September 4, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 4, 2016 Just found this thread - staying tuned Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swindon 123 Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 The Gods have been kind at the start of 2017 as Bill and myself have finally managed to find time to get together so I could take some photos of Blowers Green. Bill has spent his somewhat limited spare time recently putting the finishing touches to a rake of 16T mineral wagons. The appearance of the Dapol 08 diverted his attention long enough for him to detail and renumber one example for running on Blowers Green. The timing is also good as it allows me to shamelessly plug Blowers Green's appearance at the Monmouth Exhibition on the 12th February. More details can be found at this link. https://www.rotary-ribi.org/clubs/page.php?PgID=327038&ClubID=635 . Plug over, now on to the photos. Bill renumbered his Dapol 08 to 08111, that loco having been allocated to Worcester for two spells in the 1970's, and the best one for the variant of 08 Dapol produced that would have got near the Blowers Green area. (Lots of modellers licence with that one). I also had a couple of photos of the loco in my collection that Bill could work off. The Dapol model was appropriately modified, loosing its bonnet ladders and the small vertical handrails on the bonnet doors. A couple of photos of the finished and weathered model below. The other subject of bills attention over the past months has been a fleet of 16t mineral wagons. I am not sure of their origins, but I'm sure bill will be able to answer and questions about them you might have. They have all been weathered and detailed based on photos from my own collection, or from the web, the 16t Mineral Wagon Thread in the Modelling and Musings section of RM-web here. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/36891-16t-minerals/ A selection of photos below show off the result Bills work with both the 08 and the 16T minerals. If you like what you see, come and see us at work at Monmouth on Feb 12th. Paul J. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
danstercivicman Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 Haven't noticed this layout before. It about half a mile from my old house and looketh incredible . The old blowers green is still there (bits of it) but new houses have now sprung up above it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sp1 Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 (edited) Haven't noticed this layout before. It about half a mile from my old house and looketh incredible . The old blowers green is still there (bits of it) but new houses have now sprung up above it.I'm about half a mile from it ! Edited January 19, 2017 by sp1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
danstercivicman Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 (edited) I used to up until Christmas bike over the thin (narrowed) bridge by the disused station building, there is still some track down there and Duncan Edwards road bridge goes over it all Edited January 19, 2017 by danstercivicman Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sp1 Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 I used to up until Christmas bike over the thin (narrowed) bridge by the disused station building, there is still some track down there and Duncan Edwards road bridge goes over it allAs I live right by the cemetery I'm about 200 yards from Duncan Edwards' grave. When I was at school we used to see the Manchester United coaches pull up on Stourbridge Road - they visited the grave whenever they played locally - don't know if they still do it: but I have seen Bobby Charlon, and probably other famous players, more than once. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swindon 123 Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 Preparations for the Monmouth Show appearance a week Sunday have given me the opportunity to take a few photos of Blowers Green and some of Bill extensive stock to put on here. If you like what you see, come and see it for real at Monmouth. (Or invite it to a your own show). 08111 shuffling wagons in the yard. 37029 makes its way into the yard with some fresh stock. 47575 hides out of the way of the yard activity. Waiting for attention, Trestrol EA B920059. Paul J. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy stroud Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 That trackwork is lovely and looks so real. Mind you, so do all the wagons and locos! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
danstercivicman Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 It is a stunning layout! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swindon 123 Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Blowers Green has now returned to its nest after a very successful exhibition at Monmouth last weekend. The layout ran well, an electrical gremlin that had plagued the layout last time it was out, had flown the nest, and all the locos ran superbly, especially the Dapol 08, which was a joy to shunt with. I realised that I have never posted any photos of the layout set up in it's full format. It is just not possible at its normal resting place. So here are a couple taken after the initial set up during electrical testing. Blowers Green looking towards the Dudley tunnel end of the layout. Now looking the other way. The exhibition set up also allowed me to take some shots from the back of the layout, especially the Dudley Tunnel end, which is not possible normally. Here are a selection of them. Blowers Green from the back, looking towards the (relatively new) Dudley Tunnel end. Now some of the buildings, that are based on those at Duddeston C&W Depot, from the normally unseen back of the layout. Looking towards the road bridge at Blowers Green. Looking down from said road bridge. Normally an impossible shot to get. The layout is now due to appear at the Swansea show later on in the year, and has had a couple of other possible invites. So it may well appear at a venue near you, sometime in the future. Paul J. 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sp1 Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Blowers Green has now returned to its nest after a very successful exhibition at Monmouth last weekend. The layout ran well, an electrical gremlin that had plagued the layout last time it was out, had flown the nest, and all the locos ran superbly, especially the Dapol 08, which was a joy to shunt with. I realised that I have never posted any photos of the layout set up in it's full format. It is just not possible at its normal resting place. So here are a couple taken after the initial set up during electrical testing. Blowers Green looking towards the Dudley tunnel end of the layout. Monmouth set up 2017.jpg Now looking the other way. Monmouth set up 2017b.jpg The exhibition set up also allowed me to take some shots from the back of the layout, especially the Dudley Tunnel end, which is not possible normally. Here are a selection of them. Blowers Green from the back, looking towards the (relatively new) Dudley Tunnel end. Blowers green (Dudley tunnel end)..jpg Now some of the buildings, that are based on those at Duddeston C&W Depot, from the normally unseen back of the layout. Blowers Green buildings.jpg Looking towards the road bridge at Blowers Green. Blowers Green sidings..jpg Looking down from said road bridge. Normally an impossible shot to get. Looking down from the road bridge..jpg The layout is now due to appear at the Swansea show later on in the year, and has had a couple of other possible invites. So it may well appear at a venue near you, sometime in the future. Paul J. Some nice pictures - any chance of this appearing anywhere near Dudley? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldworseandworse Posted March 7, 2017 Author Share Posted March 7, 2017 Hello All, Here are some more images taken at Monmouth Show. The colour ones were taken by Zac Payne and the Black and white ones by my eldest son, Stephen. An atmospheric view of the yard Class 116 cab view of Dudley Tunnel Fuel oil by rail, lubricating oil by road vehicles pass on New Road Bridge 03382 shunting the general yard 08111 shunts more cripples Class 33 6518 on a down goods 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldworseandworse Posted March 8, 2017 Author Share Posted March 8, 2017 Sp1 asked if there was any chance of seeing the layout at an exhibition near to Dudley; sadly there have been no invitations to any shows in the Black Country. Perhaps some of you good folks can persuade an exhibition manager near you to check out this thread and my entry in Exhibition Layouts and get in touch. in the meantime you may be interested to know that Blowers Green is invited to the following exhibitions in 2017:- Ross on Wye 19th & 20th August 2017 Swansea 7th & 8th October 2017 Burnham and District 25th & 26th November 2017 perhaps with some help from those of you that like Blowers Green we will get some Black Country invitations for 2018. Cheers for now, Bill. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonas Posted March 8, 2017 Share Posted March 8, 2017 What a superb layout, dripping in atmosphere. Glad to see it on here after I saw it at Monmouth show last year. Missed this year's show so glad it's coming to Ross - 5 minutes from my house! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 96701 Posted October 1, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 1, 2017 What a superb layout, dripping in atmosphere. Glad to see it on here after I saw it at Monmouth show last year. Missed this year's show so glad it's coming to Ross - 5 minutes from my house! I too live in Ross and went to see it and photographed it and would urge anybody who lives within striking distance of Swansea to go and see the layout. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayne 37901 Posted October 8, 2017 Share Posted October 8, 2017 Hello, I'd just like to thank the Blowers Green guys for putting on a good show in Swansea today, I have to say it was my favourite layout and is tempting me to have a small dabble in O gauge. I hope you won't mind me posting up some photo's I took? Cheers Wayne Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swindon 123 Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 (edited) Hello, I'd just like to thank the Blowers Green guys for putting on a good show in Swansea today, I have to say it was my favourite layout and is tempting me to have a small dabble in O gauge. I hope you won't mind me posting up some photo's I took? Cheers Wayne Feel free to post some Wayne. It's always nice to see other peoples take on a layout. Meanwhile here are some I managed to take during the odd 5 mins away from operating whilst at the Swansea Exhibition. First up a couple of shots taken perched up on the hill, through which Dudley Tunnel was driven. View of the Blackcountry Industrial Lubricants Limited compound, with Blowers Green sidings below, in the background. Moving around to the other side of the Warehouse, another view of the sidings from "the grassy knoll". Taken off the overbridge at the opposite end to the tunnel, 31193 waits for its train to be formed up. Silly hour at the end of Sunday, saw Heljans latest offering tested out. The hill the "grassy knoll" photo was taken from, can be seen top right. Finally 08083 takes a breather from shunting. (I have tried to loose the background Leisure Center wall in this shot. With mixed success). Hope the above photos do justice to Bills layout. It ran extremely well, and went up and came down easily as well. Practice makes perfect. Paul J. Edited to put a photo in its right place, after background Leisure Center wall had been photo shopped out by Mr Wibble during my lesson on how to do it. Edited October 17, 2017 by Swindon 123 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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