The Pre-Grouping Modelling Showcase.

[Mikkel]

Some GW wagons for your perusal.

 

First, a Coopercraft 4 Plank wagon and 2 David Geen 3 plank ones.   

 

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And here are some modified Coopercraft 4 plank wagons as seen in the Nov 2016 Railway Modeller.

 

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Then there is this D & S double bolster wagon - very nice and easy to build and still nominally available through the the ABS brand (although with Adrian's illness he isn't in business at the moment it seems.)

 

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Now a couple of cattle wagons.  First an ABS W2 medium cattle wagon modified to have grease axleboxes and awaiting the final detailing the of interior (straw) and then the roof can be added.

 

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And here is a Ratio/Shire Scenes collaboration to produce the one off iron cattle wagon.  I have done it as built, so again grease axle boxes. (And it is resisting all attempts to get it the right way up on here)

 

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Something in grey this time, the prototype Mink D, a modified Parkside Mink D kit with new ends and a longer wheelbase, as seen in June 2017 Railway Modeller.

 

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Finally, rake of red wagons with an outside framed brake van (D & S).  The wagons are Ratio and Coopercraft (and modified too).

 

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Great stuff, I really like the chalk markings.

 

Don't think I have seen the bolster kit in red before before, lovely vehicle.

Edited May 5, 2018 by Mikkel

[drduncan]

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Thanks!

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[drduncan]

Great stuff, I really like the chalk markings.

 

Don't think I have seen the bolster kit in red before before, lovely vehicle.

Hi Mikkel,

 

Thanks. The chalk markings were done with a cocktail stick and white acrylic or a 4 O brush for the ‘words’ - which are really just the capital letter and a squiggle and the odd loop for a y or an l and it’s amazing what the eye will see.

 

D

[Ruston]

Another one for my fictional Coal & Clay Company mineral railway. This time a Kitson long boiler type pannier tank.

[Edwardian]

Stunning model, and I love long boilers.  Hope you have some chaldrons to go with it.

[Iain Popplewell]

Bags of character there Ruston. Kitson tanks they're just great aren't they.

[drduncan]

Here is a GWR Dean Goods in Pre WW1 condition.

 

The basic body is mainline, with new chimney, dome and safety valve cover as well as a new smoke box door assembly from Quarryscape's (of this parish) Coast Line Models Range.  Then it was just a reprint and lined with HMRS pressfix GWR loco lining.  Underneath both loco and tender are High Level Kits chassis kits, which, to be frank, are superb.  IN the tender is the DCC Zimo sound chip (I'm using a YouChoos Collett Goods sound fileas there isn't a Dean Goods available at the moment).

 

[ossy5190]

Here is a couple of models I've recently been working on. The Caledonian Class 918 is from an old DJH kit I bought second hand. I repainted in from early LMS black and added a few details. The North British coal wagon is a 51L 'jubilee' type marked up for use by James Nimmo and Company. The lettering was from the HMRS Scottish pre-grouping wagon sheets modified to suit. The 'J' was made from a 'B' and the '&' was modified from a G&SW letter.

 

Ross 

[Coal Tank]

Hi I have shown this photo before the coach was painted following Jol Wilkinsons article in MRJ some years ago the jumbo is currently under construction

John

[LNWR18901910]

At long last, the loco that kickstarted my interest in Pre-Grouping Steam is complete!

The L&YR Class 25 0-6-0 No. 957 as preserved on the K&WVR later found fame as The Green Dragon in the 1970 film The Railway Children. This loco along with repainted clerestory coaches to nicely compliment it took two years to make and complete. The numberplates were exclusively made and the loco was converted from a Bachmann C Class 0-6-0 with exchanged parts and decalsof said-company which are extremely rare nowadays but I was lucky to get ahold of some.

 

Anyway, this was the first one to be completed alongside my MR 2511 Class 2-6-0 which is next and my LNWR 19" Goods Class 4-6-0 is next in line.

[Ruston]

Passengers wait to board the 08:00 to Elland at Brookfoot on the Calder Vale Mineral & Light Railway circa 1900.

 

[CF MRC]

My iPad desktop picture (courtesy RM, Craig Tiley).

 

Tim

Edited March 28, 2019 by CF MRC

[Dave Hunt]

That is one stunning picture Tim.

 

Dave

[Mrkirtley800]

I can't really match that last entry, beautiful picture, was it anything to do with the 'Plant Centenarian' run to celebrate the centenary of Doncaster works.  If I am way out on that, well, I am a Midland man.

Here are a few pics of locomotives visiting Kirkby Malham during February and March.  Some of the photos I have used before.  I find it difficult to take new photos since I cannot stand very well and the camera is waving all over the place.  However, these are some of the passenger locomotives being used of late.

 

The Kirtley well tank was built in 1966 so is a grand old 53 years of age.  I saw a photograph of one of these engines modelled in EM gauge by Frank Roomes on his Lutton layout on the front cover of the Model Railway News in about 1953, and lusted after it.  It wasn't until I was married and bought a house that I could even think about doing anything about it.  J.N.Maskelyne, editor of the Model Railway News did line drawings of many pre group engines, and I found he had done one of these old 0-4-4s. The drawing was to 10mm/foot scale, so was easy to scale down to 4mm.

 Originally it was powered by a Triang XT60 motor, which lasted for many years before giving up the ghost and was replaced by a Mashima.  It is now used for the all stations local train between Skipton and Kirkby Malham.  This is a six trains a day service with seven trips on Friday.  Skipton market is open Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, but Friday is the busiest (so I am told) so the additional round trip is on Fridays.

 

The Kirtley 2-4-0, 800 class was built in about 1972/3.  I wanted an '800' class after seeing the picture on the dust cover of the book on the Midland Railway by Hamilton Ellis.  Again I turned to Maskelynes drawings, but this one was at a scale of about 8.25 mm/foot.  So out came my slide rule (no electronic calculators in those days).

The engine started off with a K's mark 2 motor, but was after some time replaced by a better motor and gearbox.  Used on the service to Bradford (Market Street)

 

The final one of the trio is a 2183 class (AKA class L) Johnson slim boilered 4-4-0, a very attractive looking engine.  It was built during the later part of the 1990's, so was fitted with a good quality motor and gearbox from the start.

All these locomotives were painted by my good friend (Coachman) Larry Goddard.

Derek

Edited April 5, 2019 by Mrkirtley800
Bad spelling

[CarriageShed]

As someone who is attempting to model the S&DJR around Bournemouth West, I can sympathise with a liking for Midland locos. Those look absolutely lovely. Mind you, so does the layout...

[Argos]

3 hours ago, Mrkirtley800 said:

I can't really match that last entry

 

Yes you can! simply stunning (as is Copenhagen Fields mind, I just wouldn't like to choose between the two!) 

Edited April 5, 2019 by Argos

[LNWR18901910]

Speaking of Midland, here's something I completed recently!

Next is the LNWR 19" Goods 4-6-0 and that's past the halfway mark.

[Ruston]

Mineral trains on the CVMR.

[Mrkirtley800]

That looks really interesting.  How about some more photos?

Derek

[Ruston]

9 hours ago, Mrkirtley800 said:

That looks really interesting.  How about some more photos?

Derek

There aren't many more photos as it's still a work-in-progress but you can see more of the layout if you click on the link in my signature line, below.

[Jol Wilkinson]

Probably my favourite carriage  built for London Road. A LNWR D10, 65' 6" Composite Dining Saloon, modified from a Modellers World D9 kit by using a Bill Bedford narrow vestibule etch and running on Masokit sprung bogies. The photo was taken by Barry Norman for MRJ but not used in the London Road article.

 

[Edwardian]

7 hours ago, Jol Wilkinson said:

Probably my favourite carriage  built for London Road. A LNWR D10, 65' 6" Composite Dining Saloon, modified from a Modellers World D9 kit by using a Bill Bedford narrow vestibule etch and running on Masokit sprung bogies. The photo was taken by Barry Norman for MRJ but not used in the London Road article.

 

 

Gorgeous model of a sumptuous prototype. 

 

It is very American in its influence; sort of Country & North Western. 

[Jol Wilkinson]

53 minutes ago, Edwardian said:

 

Gorgeous model of a sumptuous prototype. 

 

It is very American in its influence; sort of Country & North Western. 

 

Perhaps a bit of Pullman influence? The LNWR generally only used clerestory roofs on some of the 12 wheel diners and sleppers, Royal train carriages and some other Diagrams including a45ft Family Saloon and some 45ft bogie vans (some of which were converted for use in WW1 Ambulance Trains).

 

Here, by way of a change is something different. A GER Horsebox, built from a D&S kits and painted by Ian Rathbone. I don't know who built it, I took it as payment of a debt, together with its GWR counterpart.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 11, 2019 by Jol Wilkinson
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[62613]

On 28/03/2019 at 13:00, CF MRC said:

My iPad desktop picture (courtesy RM, Craig Tiley).

 

Tim

Great pic, spoiled by the signals, if it's pre-grouping. Distant signals didn't become yellow until 1928, IIRC, and if this is true GN, surely they should be somersaults, rather then upper quadrant.

 

[CF MRC]

True, re signals, but the layout is set between the wars and we alllow ourselves a latitude in the stock running from the 1900s up to 1940.  The track plan is accurate  for the main lines up to 1932 in the Belle Isle section. 

 

Tim

Edited April 11, 2019 by CF MRC