Deliberately Old-Fashioned 0 Scale - Chapter 1

[brianusa]

Looks more like Corfe Castle!

     Brian

[Nearholmer]

Intriguing.

 

My, admittedly vague, recollection of the plot is that (a) the dreamer was female; and (b) Manderley was in North Cornwall (or at least somewhere on the SW coast of England), whereas this suggests a chap in The Tyrol.

 

“Letzte Nacht habe ich geträumt ich bin wieder zu Manderley gegangen.”

 

Very nice track-work. Is it your own handiwork?

 

 

Edited August 13, 2019 by Nearholmer

[brianusa]

With GW  vans laden with churns, 4560 full of coal from St Blazey shunts the creamery siding past the station.

      Brian

[Northroader]

It’s the Carinthian Manderley, but they can’t spell it right and I can’t pronounce it right, but it is pukka “tinplate” from that nice Mr. ETS, and track from Marcway bits and pieces, and the ballast is “gneiss” which should be suitable?

[Nearholmer]

That explains everything.

 

Yes, the ballast is gneiss, very gneiss indeed.

[St Enodoc]

On 13/08/2019 at 01:49, Joseph_Pestell said:

 

Fat chance! My mother used to have it on her Cornflakes.

I was the only one in our house who liked the skin off the custard. Mmm...

[St Enodoc]

On 13/08/2019 at 04:38, Northroader said:

Yeah, I’m coming over all soppy..

What a tit...

[brianusa]

Here we are again.  4560T still at work shunting the milk vans in hopefully better lighting conditions.  The PC picked the wrong picture before!

     Brian.

[woodenhead]

17 minutes ago, St Enodoc said:

I was the only one in our house who liked the skin off the custard. Mmm...

The only thing worse than the skin on the custard was the skin on rice pudding.

 

People today have it easy with ready made custards and puddings using refined milk

[St Enodoc]

3 hours ago, woodenhead said:

The only thing worse than the skin on the custard was the skin on rice pudding.

 

People today have it easy with ready made custards and puddings using refined milk

Ah, I had to fight my Dad for the rice pudding skin (and to scrape the skin off the bowl too)!

[woodenhead]

8 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

Ah, I had to fight my Dad for the rice pudding skin (and to scrape the skin off the bowl too)!

Nooooooooooooooooo

[2750Papyrus]

14 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

Ah, I had to fight my Dad for the rice pudding skin (and to scrape the skin off the bowl too)!

 

Mum used to very carefully cut it in half and share it between Dad and I!

[Nearholmer]

Can I make a plea that discussion of rice-pudding and custard skins should cease?

 

i don’t want this thread to fall foul of the obscene publications act.

 

 

[brianusa]

And I was about to comment on a GW served facility at Lifton who makes certain unmentionable milk products.

     Brian.

[uax6]

Regarding milk......

 

I have always had a doorstep delivery, as a child from the CO-OP dairies in Kings Lynn, and now from Dairy crest from Thetford. The colours of full fat have always been silver top, semi-skimmed silver /red stripes and skimmed silver blue stripes. They have always been in the modern short fat dumped bottles.

Now I had an Aunt who lived in Huddersfield, who until her death (in 2002) also had a doorstep delivery, but from a local farmer. They used the old fashioned tall narrow bottles and delivered green top milk, which I had never seen before. It was full cream un-pasteurised  milk, and tasted completely different to the silver top that we got at home! (They may have even used Jersey cows, not the Friesians that presumably were used by Dairy Crest).

 

I have found that milk in bottles lasts just as long as the supermarket stuff if you have your fridge set correctly. Having a fridge thermometer and setting to about 5-7 degrees C seems to be about right (The thermometer we have says the fridge should be 0-5*C but everything comes out almost frozen, where 5-7*C seems right to me).

 

Andy G

[Simond]

Some 25 years ago, in Central France, I purchased a bottle of unpasteurised milk.  Thoroughly enjoyed it on Cornflakes, in coffee and just to drink.  Noticeably different flavour (and more of it!).

 

I seem to have survived, though it’s sure that there was a considerable risk years back, without refrigeration, and without routine testing of herds.

 

Lots of unpasteurised cheese available in France too.  

 

atb

simon

[GRASinBothell]

Like the milk train, Brian. Your Hornby GW collection has been coming along by leaps and bounds since I last saw it.

Interestingly, in "Great Western Album" by RC Riley, there's a photo of a Saint with a train consisting of two 6-wheel tanks and a clerestory-roofed bogie brake van. Perhaps an excuse to use County of Bedford with a really short train!

Gordon

[brianusa]

Gordon, you're right, I've gone all milk trains recently. Got enough for a short train of tankers along with several Milk Vans for churn traffic.  Wish Hornby made a passenger full length Brake though!

          Brian.

[Nearholmer]

That really looks the business and, as I've pointed out before, a 4W brake is perfectly in-keeping. https://www.warwickshirerailways.com/gwr/gwrsrh281a.htm

 

The wonderful things about milk trains is that they look interesting, and are interesting to operate, especially if, like me, you enjoy a spot of shunting.

 

I really must get on and turn the pile of bits of wood in the corner of my layout into something that, at least from a distance, looks plausibly like a rural tank-loading facility, with a big sign saying "Birlstone Model Dairies" on top.

Edited August 15, 2019 by Nearholmer

[GRASinBothell]

I agree. That train definitely looks the part - very much in keeping with both the photo Kevin posted and the one in the book.

Of course, if you really, really wanted a bogie full brake, you could expand your collection to include the Bing shorty coaches...

Gordon

[rockershovel]

On 12/08/2019 at 14:38, Nearholmer said:

Full cream (not homogenised) was silver where we lived, and the sterilised stuff was so utterly disgusting that even cats wouldn’t drink it!

 

Cats wouldn’t drink it, but my Gran did! Revolting stuff. 

[rockershovel]

On 30/07/2019 at 13:51, Nearholmer said:

Re milk maids: somehow, I wish I'd never mentioned them.

 

[rockershovel]

On 26/07/2019 at 20:55, Nearholmer said:

Now, this is even less connected with the topic than plateways, but by golly is it old-fashioned cool: a 1940s lunar suit.

 

Background https://www.bis-space.com/2019/07/18/22738/the-bis-lunar-spacesuit-national-space-centre

 

Fits In well with the Eagle theme that somehow emerged in Martin’s thread.

 

Notice Army Surplus camp bed in space ship!

 

 

 

 

 

The hull appears to be constructed of surplus cast-Iron tunnel segments from the Northern Line! 

 

The Soviets produced this little gem, which seems to have had a second career in Lancashire..

 

Edited August 19, 2019 by rockershovel

[Nearholmer]

For the first time in ages, The Birlstone Broadcasting Corporation brings you an Outside Broadcast Report.

 

Northants and Rutland 0 Gaugers met today with the overlapping themes of “holidays” and “clockwork”.

 

One of our conveners got into the spirit ..... i’ll spare his blushes only slightly:

 

 

There was a model of what holidays will look like again post-B****t.

 

 

There were lots of 1930s holiday handbooks published by various of The Big Four, making roughly the same point:

 

 

There was a notice from W J Bassett-Lowke, a noted internationalist in outlook, who clearly sometimes felt the need to defend himself from accusations of collaborating with Europeans:

 

 

There were a lot of very posh long-distance holiday expresses, with big engines and fancy coaches on the electric tracks, but I spent most of my time with the naughty boys seeing how fast, and how far, we could get our wind-up engines to go:

 

 

 

There was an exciting forthcoming product announcement:

 

 

Have a sunny holiday!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 19, 2019 by Nearholmer

[brianusa]

A 'bathing beauties' wouldn't be amiss!

      Brian.