Ruston Posted July 18, 2019 Author Share Posted July 18, 2019 The first batch, fresh off the pantograph, including the last of my Smiths hooks to make up numbers in place of the one that pinged off somewhere on the floor. They just need a rub on an oilstone to take off the burrs. I make up a complete pair of couplings before dunking them in blackening solution. 7 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted July 19, 2019 Author Share Posted July 19, 2019 L&YR Diagram 21, 10-ton goods brake van. I have used up all the suitably sized L&Y lettering from my HMRS sheet, so I put the illiterate symbols on it instead. It's also supposed to have the tare weight on the solebar but I couldn't get the individual numbers and full stops to come away from the methfix backing and so I gave up before it drove me crackers. 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barclay Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 On 16/07/2019 at 20:33, Ruston said: Next in the erecting shop is this Manning Wardle Class F kit. It's by Chivers Slimrails, which is a manufacturer that I have never had any experience of before. The whitemetal castings have a little flash but are otherwise crisp and the lost wax castings look excellent. Most class F had 2ft. 9in. diameter wheels but a few had 3ft and as that's the smallest MW pattern wheel available that's what it will have to be. The instructions for motorising it mean nothing to me and I'll be looking to find which High Level gearbox will fit. Some of the parts are surplus as the kit is intended to build Wantage Tramway No.7, with it's non-standard fully-enclosed cab. Needless to say that I'll be building it as the Boyne Engine Works intended. Those brass castings look like the ones supplied for the MRJ scratchbuild series but I may be wrong. The name of Roger Chivers has been around a long time - I built one of his etched brake vans a couple of years ago and it went well. I attach a picture of my own 'F' to show the powertrain - I think that's a Lo-Loader but it was a long time ago so can't be 100%. It did need some cutting down to fit though. Looking forward to seeing it come together. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted July 23, 2019 Author Share Posted July 23, 2019 I bought the kit for this LNWR coach from London Road Models at the Scalefour exhibition in Wakefield, earlier this year. I have decided to get two more, but not brakes, and replace the NER and the Stroudley-esque TTTE coach as the stock for the public passenger service. The NER coaches are just a bit on the large and modern side for my liking. I am also replacing the Nellie conversion engines with a Beyer Peacock 2-4-0T and possibly a Terrier. All of the aforementioned are for sale so if anyone is interested please look through previous posts to see photos of them and contact me by PM only. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted July 24, 2019 Author Share Posted July 24, 2019 On 21/07/2019 at 17:38, Barclay said: Those brass castings look like the ones supplied for the MRJ scratchbuild series but I may be wrong. The name of Roger Chivers has been around a long time - I built one of his etched brake vans a couple of years ago and it went well. I attach a picture of my own 'F' to show the powertrain - I think that's a Lo-Loader but it was a long time ago so can't be 100%. It did need some cutting down to fit though. Looking forward to seeing it come together. Thanks for that. It doesn't look like the Lo-loader in the picture. http://www.highlevelkits.co.uk/gearboxplanningpage.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barclay Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 Yes, you're right - how strange, it does look completely different. But then if you look at the 'profiles' tab on the same page it shows a more detailed drawing of each gearbox and the lo-loader looks like the one in my model. I bought another recently for the Hudswell Clarke so I've had a look at it and it does seem the same as the one in the 'F'. The key is that very slim top part that helps it fit into a small firebox, with a bit of a trim, and then the double articulation to get the drive down and forward to the rear axle. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ruston Posted July 25, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 25, 2019 At the moment any modelling at all is out of the question. It's 36 degrees in the shed and in the house isn't much less. The coolest place in the house is the garage, so I've had a proper running session and have taken some snaps along the way. It's been good to actually have a play with the trainset. The pickup goods trundles into Brookfoot in the charge of Bagnall wing tank Anubis. Having left the rest of its train in the platform road, the three empty stone wagons are being left in the loop for collection by an engine working on the high level line and will be taken to their respective quarries. With the remainder of the train re-attatched, Anubis heads off alongside the cut towards Hipperholme. Meanwhile, Andrew Barclay 0-4-0ST Horus has collected a couple of wagons from Knowles siding. The fireman, who is around the other side and out of shot, is pinning down the brakes on the wagons, as per instructions on the board. An unnamed Peckett W4 from the South Wales coalfield, and recently purchased through a dealer, heads down toward Brookfoot with a public passenger service for Elland. The Peckett and its train in the platform road at Brookfoot. The signal is pulled off for the passenger. Horus, on the right, awaits the road so the wagons from Knowles siding can be deposited to await collection by the pickup goods from Hipperholme to Elland. The stone empties in the loop will be collected and taken to the quarries. Horus propelling the stone empties up the bank and over the trestle viaduct. The dwelling in the background is Egypt House - the home of the line's General Manager Mr. Ozias Harding. He had the turret built so he can observe the railway from his study. Horus takes on water whilst Peckett Osiris heads to Ashgrove and the colliery of the Calder Vale Coal & Clay Co. to collect a train of coal. Anubis shunting the Knowles portion of it's train prior to for departure to Elland. Osiris ,having collected the coal train, now heads for the bank top. Trains usually descend the bank with engine leading but the chaldrons are heading up the line a short distance to a canal wharf and to save time running round at Brookfoot they descend with a brake van leading. The public passenger service back up to Hipperholme passes under the trestle. Having returned light engine from Elland, Anubis takes on water... Before going to be coaled. The passenger engine is shedded at Elland but before Osiris could return to shed things were getting a bit too warm for me and for the railway, so the Civil Engineer closed the trestle, the engine crews walked off the job and I went for a cold drink. 25 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted July 27, 2019 Author Share Posted July 27, 2019 I have bought one of the engines for the public passenger service. I chose this livery because it's kind of nondescript and the K&ESR logo can be covered by an etched plate that I'll have made up by Narrow Planet. I'm just a bit worried about opening the box. I think I may need to watch one of those box-opening videos before attempting it. It looks a difficult one to get into, what with a card sleeve and, I suspect, some kind of clear plastic inside that. Perhaps the advice of an online expert should be sought before attempting such a feat? 1 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginelane Posted July 27, 2019 Share Posted July 27, 2019 Yes the box is easily ripped and makes it difficult to repack. Unnecessarily complex! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted July 27, 2019 Author Share Posted July 27, 2019 1 hour ago, enginelane said: Yes the box is easily ripped and makes it difficult to repack. Unnecessarily complex! I was being sarcastic. You know, all those so-called 'unboxing' videos, where someone films their latest purchase, drones on about it and shows it being removed from the box? I did just look on Youtube for 'Hornby Terrier' and there were almost a dozen of them. I wasted nearly half an hour of my life watching one... Almost three minutes of some bloke banging on about which versions he's bought or has ordered before he gets the model out of the box and then goes on about the packaging (yes, really! I couldn't believe it! It's a fecking cardboard box - what is there to know about that?). This nonsense went on for almost half an hour and by the end of it I'd learned nothing that I didn't already know and couldn't have seen for myself by looking at pictures. If I really want to know about a model I'll look for a review in a magazine where I can see professional quality photos. I'm sure these folks just love the sound of their own voices. They've Probably they've done 'Media Studies' at school, or college and they think they're the next Martin Scorsese or whatever... 3 1 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted July 29, 2019 Author Share Posted July 29, 2019 I thought the green Peckett looked a bit naked with no nameplates on the tank. It's the first one that I bought when they first came out a couple of years ago and it was used on Nant-Y-Mynydd. Instead of buying some new plates for it to fit in with Ozias Harding's naming scheme I have decided to make transfers for it instead... Because of the lighting the camera hasn't picked up the top line but it reads 'Exuperias Gittins, Railway Contractor No.3' This fits in with what Tatlock wrote in the Oakwood book about Gittins plant yard being up near one of the quarries and how his engines would run out on test before and after contracts and overhauls. The quarries sometimes would borrow one when their own engines were out of order. On the public passenger service a Terrier was bought from the LBSCR, in 1902, and was used right up until the cessation of passenger services. 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo675 Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 On 27/07/2019 at 11:44, Ruston said: I have bought one of the engines for the public passenger service. I chose this livery because it's kind of nondescript and the K&ESR logo can be covered by an etched plate that I'll have made up by Narrow Planet. I'm just a bit worried about opening the box. I think I may need to watch one of those box-opening videos before attempting it. It looks a difficult one to get into, what with a card sleeve and, I suspect, some kind of clear plastic inside that. Perhaps the advice of an online expert should be sought before attempting such a feat? Dave, You cannot do an "unboxing" video because you have a fine model railway to run your models upon. For a proper "unboxing" video you would have to run the worlds most gushingly fantastic model on circle of first radius track, temporarily laid directly upon the laminate flooring in the conservatory at your mummy's house. I strongly suspect that the above does not in any way describe you or your living arrangements ! Gibbo. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warspite Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 On 25/07/2019 at 19:11, Ruston said: At the moment any modelling at all is out of the question. It's 36 degrees in the shed and in the house isn't much less. The coolest place in the house is the garage, so I've had a proper running session and have taken some snaps along the way. It's been good to actually have a play with the trainset. Great photos and narrative. Really enjoyed the story. Stephen 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastworld Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 An excellent layout! Stu Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
5050 Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 Family 'istory has it that old Exuperia's yard were a right scruffy 'oil wi' bits of engines lyggin all over t'place. We might 'ave an old photo or two 'angin abaht somewhere - but dinna 'old tha' breath ter see 'um. Ah could do wi' one o' them transfer thingies fer my Peckett, but wi' a differnt number. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ruston Posted August 1, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 1, 2019 5050 came to play with the trainset, yesterday and and I have started on making wagon loads for the quarry traffic. The type of stone from the quarries and mines around the Hipperholme/Lightcliffe area was used for architectural purposes, rather than being a crushed product for industry or roadmaking and so it is far more time-consuming to make loads. I've also used my modeller's licence to imagine how some of these things were carried and in the case of the two loads made so far - roofing stones and flags - I have them leaned against the wagon ends and packed every 4 or 6 with wood. They have been made using card and microstrip on card bases. From yesterday's running session. 25 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted August 3, 2019 Author Share Posted August 3, 2019 Another engine to build. Can you tell what it is yet? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo675 Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 4 minutes ago, Ruston said: Another engine to build. Can you tell what it is yet? Hi Dave, It doesn't have enough wheels to be a Mersey Railway 0-6-4T, which means I have no idea. Gibbo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted August 3, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 3, 2019 Beyer Peacock 2-4-0T belonging to somebody. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted August 3, 2019 Author Share Posted August 3, 2019 7 hours ago, Northroader said: Beyer Peacock 2-4-0T belonging to somebody. Well spotted. The kit is for an Isle of Wight Railway engine but they were a standard BP design and were supplied to many different railways from the 1860s to the 1880s. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted August 3, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 3, 2019 I reckon that engine is about the best looking design you can find. I fell in love with its small brother while I was camping with the Scouts on the Isle of Man a long time ago. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted August 4, 2019 Author Share Posted August 4, 2019 I have done some more work on the BP. I've had to use filler here and there and so this first coat of primer is just to make it easier to see where the filler needs to be sanded, or added to. As far as the body has progressed, and without the frames or the addition of any extra weight, it is already up to 164g, so it should be a good hauler. Apart from the chimney and dome, it has all been soldered together. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted August 5, 2019 Author Share Posted August 5, 2019 The body is now all together, bar the roof, which will have to be fitted after painting and the addition of footplate crew as there won't be enough space to get them though the gap if the roof is fitted beforehand. I have also got the power unit ready to fit to the frames - a 60:1 High Level Slimliner, retrieved from one of the Nellie conversions. The motor is a Mitsumi 12/20, which are slow-running motors and, hopefully, well-suited to something such as this with it's large driving wheels.The motor is soldered on without any jigs, collars or other nonsense. I just put the motor, with worm, in place hard up against the first gear and then moved it away just enough. The next thing is to get a rolling chassis, which I'm hoping won't be too difficult but I have made things more difficult by using the P4/EM spacers in the kit and have filed them to give an overall frame width of 13.5mm. If I'd used the OO spacers the frames would be only 11.6mm wide, which is silly when there's almost another 3mm for the back-to-back of the wheels. I set the back-to-backs at 14.7 anyway... 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tullygrainey Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 3 hours ago, Ruston said: The motor is soldered on without any jigs, collars or other nonsense. I just put the motor, with worm, in place hard up against the first gear and then moved it away just enough. Pragmatic engineering at its best! Looking good. Alan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ruston Posted August 9, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 9, 2019 Yes, I know it's not industrial but I can't very well have a thread for the industrial part of the layout and another for the passenger part. 27 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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