DJM Dave Posted June 7, 2017 Share Posted June 7, 2017 Hi everyone, I'm away at the moment but wondered if any of you knew about the railtour to Deepcar next Wednesday 14th June? It's called the great central lament, and will be T&T by 2 x dbs locomotives. Run by U.K. Railtours it also does the private test brach to high marnham, and also goes through Toton on at least 1 interesting route. I'm booked on it so if any of you are around taking pics, especially on the victoria-deepcar bit I'd appreciate a copy please. Cheers Dave Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJM Dave Posted June 10, 2017 Author Share Posted June 10, 2017 Just as a thought guys, if anyone wants to get the train on the tuxford test track or at deepcar / Victoria, let me know if it's any use and I'll put live timings here of places the train passes......for example.....tuxford, I'd post shirebrook xx.xx time Or deepcar I'd post Meadowhall xx.xx time Let me know and i'll gladly do it, and save you standing around etc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted June 10, 2017 Share Posted June 10, 2017 Timings are on Realtimetrains if it's any help: http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U53470/2017/06/14/advanced http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U53471/2017/06/14/advanced http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U53472/2017/06/14/advanced Will try for a photo, but I'll have family staying. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJM Dave Posted June 15, 2017 Author Share Posted June 15, 2017 Well I'm back. What a trip. I had a smile on all the way up to deepcar and all the way back. Hanging out the window on the Victoria side going, and hill side back. I didn't know so much infrastructure still existed. From the platform at Victoria, the Wordsley Bridge platform with building, but the other side (station building side) has got 24ft of platform including the ramp, under bridge 'V' wire hangers, linesdide troughs still with sand, lots of posts cut through at acute angles, to gantry bases of all shapes, and 1 with about a foot of lattice sticking out, the gents toilet on one platform (walk in /walk out design), and even saw about 5 foot of gantry in some undergrowth about 20ft back from the ballast still in grey paint, then some more about the same length closer to the ballast but mangled. Amazing! And I've got the MSW bug even more ingrained in my blood now. No doubt this is all well catalogued, so if so, I apologise. However, unless told otherwise, I'll post pics here over the next few days in a new thread. So let's buy a coach that can be converted to a 1500dc output generator coach, snaffle 26020 from the NRM one night 'titfield thunderbolt' style and run up and down to deepcar one evening............with the EM2 on the other end ;-) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 Or Dave you could create your own MSW in N 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted June 16, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 16, 2017 Please do a decent EM1 & EM2 in 4mm if you've got the bug. Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
great central Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 (edited) Please do a decent EM1 & EM2 in 4mm if you've got the bug. Mike. Doubt that's likely to happen, there's not exactly been a lot of Woodhead based layouts since the Olivia's/Heljan ones were released and still available I believe?. I know they're not perfect but still shows it to be a fairly specialised interest. I've got 13 completed DC kits 76s as well as several Triang EM2s, given the price of new stuff nowadays I've no intention of replacing them. In fact my modelling over the last few years entails precisely zero in useable results, simply not got the interest I once had. Edited June 19, 2017 by great central Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
28XX Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 I don't entirely agree. There is growing interest in Woodhead, but, the main problem is space for most modellers. Snippets of cramped bits of Manchester are do-able, but the glory of Woodhead is the wide open moorlands. Outdoor OLE anyone? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
great central Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 Over the 36(!) years since Woodhead closed, it's just about possible to count on one hand the number of exhibition layouts. I'm a helper on Graham Clark's 7 mm Netherwood Sidings and he gets very few invites, nothing this year after Stevenage in January, a possible late next year and then one I believe for 2019. Deepcar hasn't had an invite since Quorn 3 years ago and I don't recall having seen the N gauge Woodhead or mini NSW for a couple of years either. All of which proves absolutely nothing of course but does point to there being less interest than some of us might like? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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