KNP Posted September 25, 2021 Author Share Posted September 25, 2021 2 hours ago, Neal Ball said: Lovely photo Kevin. Strangely I don’t have any loco coal wagons, is it a kit? Thanks. Thanks Dapol RTR wagon 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted September 25, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 25, 2021 On 23/09/2021 at 06:42, KNP said: Whilst standing on the occupation bridge with Tommy and Tony we spied the Dukedog heading our way Please note the very difficultly modelled cobweb in the trees! And I am experimenting with an old face mask fibres for scale cobwebs in my 7/8ths workshop, and you go an do it in 4mm .... 1 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted September 25, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 25, 2021 4 hours ago, Gedward said: Same. Reminds me of the harbour buildings on Brixham harbour. Know it well might pop over there as the sun is breaking through, and Mrs B wants some fresh air 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted September 26, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted September 26, 2021 (edited) Local passenger train arriving at Encombe Town, looks like a busy day as the service has been beefed up with an old clerestory coach. Edited March 30 by KNP 38 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Mikkel Posted September 26, 2021 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted September 26, 2021 Consider all the agonizing about minute errors in the latest RTR products. Then consider that photo. Food for thought. 3 20 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gopher Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 On 24/09/2021 at 11:24, The Stationmaster said: Any closer and that thing might have knocked the shed door(s) off Conversation overheard at the recent army manoeuvres "Sir" "Yes Sergeant" "I have to report we've blown the b***** doors off the engine shed" "No it's O.K sergeant - not our doing. We've had an observation post at Little Muddle for the past 9 months. Those chaps over there have been discussing how to repair the engine shed doors. It seems a very long conversation and nothing has happened so far. We'd better keep them under observation" "Yes Sir" 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted September 26, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 26, 2021 My late grandfather commanded the Home Guard in Hereford during WW2. Whilst training in a part of town known locally as "The Quarry" they managed to "slightly graze" the corner of a house with a PIAT training round... 11 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted September 26, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 26, 2021 9 minutes ago, Graham T said: My late grandfather commanded the Home Guard in Hereford during WW2. Whilst training in a part of town known locally as "The Quarry" they managed to "slightly graze" the corner of a house with a PIAT training round... It's only a flesh wound... 2 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted September 27, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted September 27, 2021 (edited) Swooping low over the town, our favourite Squadron Leader fires of the camera for this aerial shot. Edited March 30 by KNP 35 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted September 27, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 27, 2021 Lovely! The variation in the coach roof colours catches the eye, that's something I need to do on Chuffnell R. Along with about a million other things, that is... 1 1 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted September 28, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted September 28, 2021 (edited) 3203 heads off west Edited March 30 by KNP 29 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Harlequin Posted September 28, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 28, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, KNP said: 3203 heads off west West? I always imagined that end headed East! (Because the sun always seems to be on this side of the tracks...) Edited September 28, 2021 by Harlequin 3 1 2 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted September 28, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 28, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, Harlequin said: West? I always imagined that end headed East! (Because the sun always seems to be on this side of the tracks...) So did I always thought West was to the left and East as in Bristol was right... Just checking on my Sat Nav and now no idea which way to turn back onto the M5 to go home to Paignton.... I is confuddled Edited September 28, 2021 by John Besley . 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponthir28 Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 So did I. Maybe it’s because looking at maps west is on the left. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponthir28 Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 This may get confusing if little Muddle is on North Somerset coast isn’t the branch line heading North not South? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted September 28, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 28, 2021 And for our Australian readers ... 1 5 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Harlequin Posted September 28, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 28, 2021 (edited) Of course we're all forgetting about the famous Doddlecombe Levels to the north east of Encombe, where the river Mudd rises. Brunel laid out the line with the intention of directly crossing this few square miles of marshy ground, remarking it was but a trifling inconvenience. He first laid rafts of willow to support the tracks but they quickly rotted away and the track sank without trace. He then tried inflated cow skins held in place by huge stakes driven deep into the mire on either side. Unfortunately the great flood of '67 (1867) saw the entire line levitated and carried off into the mists. His next attempt to conquer the bog was to build a massive viaduct across the area but excavation for the foundations did not go well. When the navvies were 100ft down without hitting solid rock the enterprise was abandoned. In the meantime, Encombe station had been built in the full expectation that the Levels would be successfully crossed. Thus came about the famous Encombe Twist, where the mainline from Bristol circumnavigates the Levels and enters Encombe from the west. Then after leaving the east end of the station the line turns sharply north west following the course of the ill-fated Muddhead, Yeodown and Port Bindlewurdle Railway before turning again and finally heading westwards. :-) Edited September 28, 2021 by Harlequin 3 1 4 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted September 28, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 28, 2021 4 minutes ago, Harlequin said: Of course we're all forgetting about the famous Doddlecombe Levels to the north east of Encombe, where the river Mudd rises. Brunel laid out the line with the intention of directly crossing this few square miles of marshy ground, casually remarking it was but a trifling inconvenience. He first laid rafts of willow to support the tracks but they quickly rotted away and the track sank without trace. He then tried inflated cow skins held in place by huge stakes driven deep into the mire on either side. Unfortunately the great flood of '67 (1867) saw the entire line levitated and carried off into the mists. His next attempt to conquer the bog was to build a massive viaduct across the area but excavation for the foundations did not go well. When the navvies were 100ft down without hitting solid rock the enterprise was abandoned. In the meantime, Encombe station had been built in the full expectation that the Levels would be successfully crossed. Thus came about the famous Doddlecombe Twist, where the mainline from Bristol circumnavigates the Levels and enters Encombe from the west, then turns sharply north west following the line of the ill-fated Muddhead, Yeodown and Bindlewurdle Light Railway before turning again and finally heading westwards. :-) Mornington Crescent. 2 3 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted September 28, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 28, 2021 9 hours ago, Harlequin said: West? I always imagined that end headed East! (Because the sun always seems to be on this side of the tracks...) 'West' was of course a relative term on the GWR and didn't necessarily describe a relationship to the points of the compass as it was usually related to the general direction taken by the route teh signal box was on. For example Bristol Temple Meads East Signal Box was almost exactly due north of Bristol Temple Meads West Signal Box and similarly at Exeter St Davids West Signal Box was due south of St Davids East signal box. Elsewhere Leamington Spa North signal Box was almost due west of Leamington Spa South Signal box and similarly with Hatton North & South But just to be different Frome North Signal Box was actually very nearly due north of Frome South Signal Box so the normal logic of GWR naming had clearly not applied on the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth which of course basically ran from north to south(ish) and the same applied to Westbury North and Westbury South 'boxes. 3 1 6 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted September 28, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 28, 2021 8 hours ago, Harlequin said: Of course we're all forgetting about the famous Doddlecombe Levels to the north east of Encombe, where the river Mudd rises. Brunel laid out the line with the intention of directly crossing this few square miles of marshy ground, remarking it was but a trifling inconvenience. He first laid rafts of willow to support the tracks but they quickly rotted away and the track sank without trace. He then tried inflated cow skins held in place by huge stakes driven deep into the mire on either side. Unfortunately the great flood of '67 (1867) saw the entire line levitated and carried off into the mists. His next attempt to conquer the bog was to build a massive viaduct across the area but excavation for the foundations did not go well. When the navvies were 100ft down without hitting solid rock the enterprise was abandoned. In the meantime, Encombe station had been built in the full expectation that the Levels would be successfully crossed. Thus came about the famous Encombe Twist, where the mainline from Bristol circumnavigates the Levels and enters Encombe from the west. Then after leaving the east end of the station the line turns sharply north west following the course of the ill-fated Muddhead, Yeodown and Port Bindlewurdle Railway before turning again and finally heading westwards. :-) Interesting to get the potted history of the area, was the ever any plans to go beyond Little Muddle? I've often wondered about the hamlets of Great Boozing and Little Snooring not to mention Great Burping 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted September 29, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted September 29, 2021 (edited) Passenger service in full flight, heading onwards in both directions......(for the actual direction please see previous comments that fully describe the route and history - even I learnt something!!!) Edited March 30 by KNP 25 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neal Ball Posted September 29, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 29, 2021 Not to worry Kevin, one train will be going Up and the other Down! 5 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aardvark Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 1 hour ago, Neal Ball said: Not to worry Kevin, one train will be going Up and the other Down! While I would normally have given your observation a "Like", after Harlequin's epistle, I'm not so sure that both trains might not be Up, or Down, or perhaps a third as-yet-unnamed direction. Maybe one is going Hokey and the other Cokey, which is, after all, what it's all about. 1 1 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 5BarVT Posted September 29, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 29, 2021 25 minutes ago, aardvark said: I'm not so sure that both trains might not be Up, or Down I don’t think Encombe is another Ramsgate*. So I’m voting for one Up and one Down but him hedging my bets as to which is which! * It’s Up in both directions departing Ramsgate. Directions change in the centre of the platforms. Paul. 5 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cliff park Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 17 hours ago, John Besley said: Interesting to get the potted history of the area, was the ever any plans to go beyond Little Muddle? I've often wondered about the hamlets of Great Boozing and Little Snooring not to mention Great Burping Little Snoring is actually a village in Norfolk, about 2 miles East of Fakenham. 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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