MrWolf Posted December 2, 2020 Share Posted December 2, 2020 Very nice work, the box brownie strikes again. I have one of those prairies, still in ex factory condition. I will have to get brave and give it and the others a light makeover once the layout is ready. 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cliff park Posted December 2, 2020 Share Posted December 2, 2020 You mentioned using the Lydia Eva as a model for parts of your boats, I was driving through Great Yarmouth this morning and drove past her moored up in the river. Thought you might like these pictures. 11 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted December 2, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 2, 2020 8 minutes ago, cliff park said: You mentioned using the Lydia Eva as a model for parts of your boats, I was driving through Great Yarmouth this morning and drove past her moored up in the river. Thought you might like these pictures. Who's Lyida????? 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ray H Posted December 2, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 2, 2020 16 minutes ago, St Enodoc said: Who's Lyida????? She's in the crate! 1 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cliff park Posted December 2, 2020 Share Posted December 2, 2020 Actually Lydia Eva was the name of the daughter of the guy who had her built. https://www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk/register/43/lydia-eva 1 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted December 2, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 2, 2020 8 hours ago, cliff park said: Actually Lydia Eva was the name of the daughter of the guy who had her built. https://www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk/register/43/lydia-eva I'm sure you're right but it's a shame the bloke who made the banner didn't get it. 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cliff park Posted December 2, 2020 Share Posted December 2, 2020 I totally missed that, wondered what you were on about 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted December 2, 2020 Share Posted December 2, 2020 Maybe the printer who made the banner thought it Lyida was someone's Ukrainian grandmother...? 1 1 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted December 3, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 3, 2020 From a far a train slowly creeps in view. Passing through the station she rumbles on To where No one knows but on, on to her destination! With a chuff, and a clank, and a whistle.. onwards, forever onwards she goes.... 4550 moves with a barely a murmur. Long range shot that somehow seems to make this layout look big! 22 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponthir28 Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 Don’t really care where it’s going but it must be going somewhere . Lovely view as always and it does look huge. 1 4 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 Just out of interest, what is the actual size of the layout? 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mick Bonwick Posted December 3, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 3, 2020 29 minutes ago, MrWolf said: Just out of interest, what is the actual size of the layout? Small. 1 1 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted December 3, 2020 Author Share Posted December 3, 2020 The room measures just over 8ft square, it's our former 4th bedroom so a nice and warm centrally heated room that I don't have to go outdoors to visit.....and all amenities are close to hand as well! This is the plan, not quite right now but was included in the BRM layout article of Oct '17. 9 1 7 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 30 minutes ago, Mick Bonwick said: Small. I was hoping that it was! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mick Bonwick Posted December 3, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 3, 2020 34 minutes ago, Mick Bonwick said: Small. But exquisitely formed. 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted December 3, 2020 Author Share Posted December 3, 2020 With lamp perched high 4550 moves closer 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted December 3, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 3, 2020 and closer 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted December 3, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 3, 2020 and right next to you..... exciting isn't it.... onwards 22 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted December 3, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 3, 2020 39 minutes ago, KNP said: The room measures just over 8ft square, it's our former 4th bedroom so a nice and warm centrally heated room that I don't have to go outdoors to visit.....and all amenities are close to hand as well! This is the plan, not quite right now but was included in the BRM layout article of Oct '17. The lorry with the crate hasn't arrived... 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponthir28 Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 That’s too much excitement for one day. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 (edited) Thanks for the information and especially the scaled plan, it has settled something that has been bothering me about my own layout in progress. I can now see that you have fitted the Little Muddle station area into roughly 5'x2' . As my through station was also based on the Shipston on Stour track plan, I was concerned that I hadn't left enough room for the goods yard because of using long radius points to keep the tracks close together. The main issue was the "back road" I thought was too short compared to the one that you have built, but it seems that your ground level photography is what makes the yard seem huge rather than the same size as I have built. I can get on with my layout now and stop worrying about the proportions. I have nearly dismantled it a couple of times! Edited December 3, 2020 by MrWolf 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted December 3, 2020 Author Share Posted December 3, 2020 3 minutes ago, Worsdell forever said: The lorry with the crate hasn't arrived... The lull before the (slow) storm. Cottages and shops on Cathcott Field are missing to....... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted December 3, 2020 Author Share Posted December 3, 2020 (edited) 13 hours ago, St Enodoc said: I'm sure you're right but it's a shame the bloke who made the banner didn't get it. I have some sympathy for the banner maker. Many, many years ago when I worked as a Building Surveyor with Whitbread's we had a regional team meeting at the Kentish Town depot we where having a coffee break and looking out the first floor window at the road entrance. A large articulated new dray pulled in with nice clean and fresh side screens, no one said any thing until our RM commented is it me or is there something wrong with the side of that dray? Sure enough we all looked again again and sure enough the signwriter had made a error, instead of saying WHITBREAD he had written WIHTBREAD and this lorry had be driving around the area for over a month without anyone spotting it...... So it does happen..... Edited December 3, 2020 by KNP 1 1 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 (edited) I remember reading Red for danger by LTC Rolt when I was a kid and it told of a broad gauge locomotive involved in an accident that wore the nameplate "Goliah" rather than "Goliath" and of another locomotive named "Sampson" rather than "Samson" Edited December 3, 2020 by MrWolf 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mick Bonwick Posted December 3, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 3, 2020 13 hours ago, St Enodoc said: I'm sure you're right but it's a shame the bloke who made the banner didn't get it. 10 minutes ago, KNP said: the signwriter had made a error, instead of saying WHITBREAD he had written WIHTBREAD and this lorry had be driving around the area for over a month without anyone spotting it...... So it does happen..... Was it the person who made/wrote the sign or the person who specified it? 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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