Little Muddle

[Simond]

3 hours ago, Mick Bonwick said:

 

 

 

Thanks Mick, I missed that, but it doesn’t explain the tender.  

 

Atb

Simon

[Mick Bonwick]

2 hours ago, Simond said:

Thanks Mick, I missed that, but it doesn’t explain the tender.  

 

 

 

It doesn't explain Kevin, either. 

[The Johnster]

On 27/10/2019 at 17:10, Simond said:

Why didn’t you tell her the time of the train back to your home?  It would have answered her question honestly, if unhelpfully.

 

then again she might have been on it with you...

 

atb

Simon

Good lord no; I didn’t want her anywhere near my place!

[The Johnster]

On 27/10/2019 at 20:07, Northroader said:

Talking about directions from folk up the valleys, I was asking how to get to some place from the chargehand at Rhymney. Now, he’d come to BR from being a leccy at NCB, quite an ebullient, talkative guy, and, being Welsh, knowing that self improvement shouldn’t stop when you leave school. “Well,” he says, “you come up the road from Caerphilly, then when you reach the alluvial plateau...”

Wasn’t Tommy ‘Horizontal’ Rees, who demolished the NCB loco shed at Nantgarw with a Hunslet 18”, by any chance, was it?

 

[The Johnster]

8 hours ago, Simond said:

Kevin

 

is it a little bit too high?

 

Answering my own question. Looked back at the “delivery” photos, and the buffers don’t line up, so I suspect both loco and tender are showing giraffe-like tendencies

 

atb

Simon

This might be an issue, as Triang Hornby stock of a certain vintage does ride about 2mm too high at the buffers.  This was deliberate and something to with coupling performance or clearance on setrack curve I believe.

 

It can usually be rectified be taking metal off the chassis block so that the body moulding sits correctly, but loco and tender have to he done, and you may run into internal clearance issues but this should not be a problem with a loco that is going to be a non runner with the motor removed. 

[Northroader]

8 hours ago, The Johnster said:

Wasn’t Tommy ‘Horizontal’ Rees, who demolished the NCB loco shed at Nantgarw with a Hunslet 18”, by any chance, was it?

 

Fraid not, guy was Kieth Harries, usually we referred to him as “Butt”, as he’d called everybody that, but as you’d know, everybody up the valleys called everyone else “Butt”, as in Butty, or mate. He was one of the most talkative, outgoing guys I ever met.

[The Johnster]

Tommy was a loco fitter rather than a leccy, so it couldn't have been him.  He'd been on nights and attended to something on one of Nantgarw's Hunslets, leaving the loco in light steam and reverse gear, handbrake not fully screwed down.  He put a couple of rounds in the box to keep the fire going for the morning, then retired to the cabin to get his head down, a habit which was the genesis of his nickname.  Pressure rose until the loco moved off against the handbrake, demolishing the brick back wall of the shed; nobody was hurt fortunately.  Management did not see the funny side, so this was the end of Tommy's NCB career and he went to work for the Post Office, where I knew him.

[KNP]

Quiet day down on the farm

 

Railcar ambling past on its way to Little Muddle.

 

Still no sign of those pigs (I've put them in a safe place.....! somewhere.....?)

 

 

 

 

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[KNP]

The old sea dog is still regaling his tales to Dan the man.

Will he ever finish?

 

 

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[KNP]

Just fishing......

 

 

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[Siberian Snooper]

5 hours ago, KNP said:

Quiet day down on the farm

 

Railcar ambling past on its way to Little Muddle.

 

Still no sign of those pigs (I've put them in a safe place.....! somewhere.....?)

 

 

 

 

A bacon butty, perchance?

 

 

[KNP]

41 minutes ago, Siberian Snooper said:

 

A bacon butty, perchance?

 

 

 

Don't mention that in front of my youngest granddaughter, she likes Peppa Pig.....

a few weeks ago they where having dinner here of bacon, egg and chips and her elder sister turned and said you do realise you are eating 'George'.....!

 

Well that was an interesting evening that was trying to calm her down, so from here on in we refer to it as ham and she seems to be happy with that.....

It is not the same in the eyes of a 4 year old....

Edited November 2, 2019 by KNP

[KNP]

I think one of the workmen has got so fed up try to get this crate off that he decided to lie down and have a sleep behind the lorry

 

 

 

Sometimes Tacky Wax seems to loose its tacky after a while, a few of my figures have been on the 'falling down water'....

Rest easy, he is up again and full of vigor for the task in hand....

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[KNP]

Middle Farm

 

 

 

 

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[KNP]

No one home....

 

 

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[KNP]

When's the next train please?

 

 

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[Limpley Stoker]

18 hours ago, KNP said:

 

Don't mention that in front of my youngest granddaughter, she likes Peppa Pig.....

a few weeks ago they where having dinner here of bacon, egg and chips and her elder sister turned and said you do realise you are eating 'George'.....!

Personally I think George needs eating-  he alone has taught my grandchildren that they can get out of anything by saying    No!

[KNP]

The saga of Kneller Hall has been absent for a few days as I have been working on another project.

Nothing to do with railways but a lot to do with scenery.

 

I received a request to build a model for my Granddaughter over the half term so she could take it in at the end of this week to do a 'show and tell' lesson on the Stone Age and where they live.

Well there's a challenge, not for the first time I might add because my grandchildren have taken to their local Primary School, Glory Farm, various models over the last few years of a back garden, Pyramid, working volcano and a Roman villa, now add a Stone Age settlement.....

 

Might have gone a bit overboard but the other ones get used again and again as props for lessons.

 

So here it is and reason why 5934 has taken a back seat.

 

 

 

Work on 5934 will be resuming.....

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[90rob]

'The Stone Age Railway' ....... something for next years 'Great Model Railway Challenge'.....

[Alister_G]

Aren't Cakebox challanges suppose to include 2 items of railway origin? I can see the coal, but not sure about the other one?

 

 

Al.

[Simond]

The poles at the rear are the structure for the soon-to-be-built signal box...

Edited November 3, 2019 by Simond

[KNP]

10 minutes ago, Alister_G said:

Aren't Cakebox challanges suppose to include 2 items of railway origin? I can see the coal, but not sure about the other one?

 

 

Al.

I can always fix Duncan Bisketts walking down a path!!!

[NHY 581]

Looks a lot like Milton Keynes. 

 

Rob. 

[KNP]

5934 update.

 

Black areas painted Black/Grey.

Name fitted in place with some blue tac and it looks much better for all the effort of removing the original cast in one.

 

When starting this three main things where noted as being visually important to changing the appearance of this old loco.

1. new boiler handrail in place of the original moulded one.

2. removal of moulded name and splasher detail.

3. replace valve and cylinder gear.

 

First two done, can't find anybody stocking x6641 (Hornby spares) so item 3 will have to wait until I do, but I will paint it so it doesn't look so prominent 

 

 

 

Next item is to finish the front bogie with detailing.

Edited March 24 by KNP

[KNP]

Nobody about!

 

Trying to find a casually dressed person reading a paper that I can seat at the patio table.

No luck at the moment, did think about seeing Alan at Modelu and have another version of me sitting there......frightening

 

 

 

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