Biased turkey Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 From Wikipedia : The Tramways vicinaux or Buurtspoorwegen were a system of narrow gauge tramways or local railways in Belgium, which covered the whole country and had a greater route length than the mainline railway system. They were 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) gauge (metre gauge) and included electrified city lines and rural lines using steam locomotives and diesel railcars Picture of the prototype ( therev was also a small passenger traffic ) Jacques 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biased turkey Posted October 16, 2016 Author Share Posted October 16, 2016 I'm modelling the type 18 bicabine . 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
£1.38 Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 Is this a kit you are building? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biased turkey Posted October 16, 2016 Author Share Posted October 16, 2016 Thank you &1.38 ( sorry no pound sign on my keyboard ) and Dutch_Master for taking some of your valuable time to reply. &1.38 , this is not a kit. The scale is TTm ( 1/120 scale , metric gauge 9mm N scale track ). The belgian company Jocadis used to sell SNCV/NMVB bicabine kits but they were HOm ( HO scale on TT 12mm track ) As far as I know we are 2 on earth to model the SNCV/NMVB in TTm scale so we have to scratchbuild everything. Dutch_Master , Thank you for those extra informations . Interestingly there was a line Maaseik (Belgium)-Weert (Netherlands) .Two Garratts ran occasionally on that NMVB tramway line. Interesting link: http://www.modelrailroading.nl/Articulation/pages/netherlands/NMVB%20850-851.htm The bicabine chassis is a Bachmann N scale Plymouth 3 axles diesel engine and the body is 3D printed . The high sided wagon ( wagon a haussettes ) chasis is from Fleischmann and the body is 3D printed. Here they are on the diorama. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biased turkey Posted October 18, 2016 Author Share Posted October 18, 2016 2 high sided wagons , the left one is 3D printed and the right one was built the classical way using the good ol' Xacto no. 11 knive for cutting the styrene sheet, Plastruct T and L shapes . Jacques 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted October 18, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 18, 2016 The Garratts on that link look like something out of Warhammer! My sons used to make up their heavy armour kits and modify standard tank kits with extra exotic weapons and armour. The Garratts look like a railway version of that! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biased turkey Posted October 18, 2016 Author Share Posted October 18, 2016 Unpainted closed wagon 3D printed using the Frosted Extreme Detail material 16 micron layers 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
roythebus Posted November 11, 2016 Share Posted November 11, 2016 Have a look at www.tta.be That is the site for the Tramway Touristique d'Aine. I help out on there. I'm trying to upload some pics for you but the system says files are too big to load. there's also a thread on here about the TTA, possibly in the narrow gauge section or european railways section. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dava Posted November 11, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 11, 2016 Great, love the models and the gauge/scale combination. Do you plan to model one of the diesel rail cars? Would run on the Kato chassis. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASVi_museum#/media/File%3AMoterwagen_Asvi_3.JPG http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/gallery/image/53465-ar-93/ This one is at the Liege tramway museum. Some had Sherman tank engines! Dava Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biased turkey Posted January 30, 2017 Author Share Posted January 30, 2017 I build a paper engine shed and a paper version of the steam tramway. Jacques 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
roythebus Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Interesting video, I'll watch all of it one day! Where is this line? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzie Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 (edited) Lovely video. Must have been filmed between before 1992, because at the end it shows the unfinished tunnel section to Charleroi that opened in 1992. It is a lovely demonstration of why we don't have trams in the UK - it is very reliant on there being no traffic on the roads! The extensive amount of wrong-way running on the roads must be quite scary for most. I loved the bit where the shopkeeper comes out to remove his advertising board from the track! Edited February 3, 2017 by Suzie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoingUnderground Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 (edited) Lovely video. Must have been filmed between before 1992, because at the end it shows the unfinished tunnel section to Charleroi that opened in 1992. It is a lovely demonstration of why we don't have trams in the UK - it is very reliant on there being no traffic on the roads! The extensive amount of wrong-way running on the roads must be quite scary for most. I loved the bit where the shopkeeper comes out to remove his advertising board from the track! I totally agree with you about the video. But I'm not sure that I agree with your analysis of why trams were scrapped in the UK, especially now that there has been, admittedly, some minimal reintroductions with street running. Those of us who have learned to drive in the UK, and I include myself in this, find contraflow running scary because we have never come across it in the UK, and don't know how to deal with it. But there is no reason why street running and contraflow running should be scary or a be a problem provided drivers are taught how to deal with it as part of learning to drive. Edited February 5, 2017 by GoingUnderground Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 31A Posted February 5, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 5, 2017 (edited) What a fascinating film! I spent a day last summer riding on the remaining lines of this fascinating system, but very sadly the route shown in the beginning of the film no longer exists (despite the modern-looking overhead line equipment); the Charleroi-Anderlues line now terminates at Anderlues Monument, which is the stop seen at about 41 minutes on the film. For some reason, cars run forward empty beyond the terminus into reversing sidings on the stub of the La Louviere line - the buffer stop of one can be seen in the film to the right of the car before it arrives at the stop. It looks as though the film was made from a special working as it doesn't stop for passengers at the halts, and in a couple of places line side photographers can be seen. I wondered whether the 'surprised' driving by some car drivers might indicate that it was filmed after normal service on the line had ceased, but it does cross normal trams in a couple of places. Of the remaining routes, the Charleroi-Anderlues line retains a lot of Vicinal 'character' as per the film, whereas the line to Gosselies, whilst impressive, has been extensively 'upgraded' with new track and modern stations, quite resembling parts of the Nottingham system or the Eccles route in Manchester for example - I believe this line had been closed, and was re-opened in 2013. The central 'Metro' section is also well worth a ride, especially the underground reversing loop traversed by cars in passenger service at Waterloo station! I didn't get many pictures, as the day was mainly spent riding, but here is one of the cars drawing forward beyond the present terminus at Anderlues onto the reversing stub of the La Louviere line - the catenary can be seen curving to the left beyond the "Intermarché" advertisement: And here is a car in advertising livery outside Charleroi SNCB station: Edit: I've just watched the rest of the film, from 41 minutes onwards, and nowadays after leaving the present Anderlues terminus the route takes the fork to the right rather than continuing straight on as per the film, and re-joins the route at the junction underneath the motorway bridge (at about 45 mins), which may explain why the shopkeeper has to retrieve his 'A' board from the right of way - perhaps that section wasn't in regular use, even then! Edited February 5, 2017 by 31A 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoingUnderground Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 There seem to be several Belgian Tram videos on YouTube. Here's another, taken in Charleroi, again in the 1990s. Very reminiscent of the images from the Anderlues-Charleroi video previously. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY3cldYxFkQ#t=1396.3783246 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 31A Posted February 7, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 7, 2017 From Wikipedia etc., the La Louviere-Anderlues section seen in the first part of the cab ride film closed as recently as 1993, but following some of it's course beyond the present terminus in Anderlues on Google Maps and Street View it is now well and truly 'dismantled', very sadly! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biased turkey Posted May 19, 2017 Author Share Posted May 19, 2017 Testing the tracks layout ( peco N scale setrack ) Jacques 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biased turkey Posted May 21, 2017 Author Share Posted May 21, 2017 Another picture: front-left: steam tramway shed rear-left : tunnel leading to the rest of the world front-right : Montfort brewery rear-right: pub " café du tram " ( it is not a real vicinal layout if there is no café du tram ) and exit to the future 2nd module The module is on an Ikea ... modular shelf Jacques 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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