RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted April 29, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 29, 2019 Close but no medal, Dan. Our Prefect was that shade of grey, but a single colour. This is an Anglia, 2 doors whereas the Prefect had 4, and a different radiator grille. But my first car some years later, 1970, was a 100E Popular the same colour as your model! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
danstercivicman Posted April 29, 2019 Author Share Posted April 29, 2019 20 minutes ago, The Johnster said: Close but no medal, Dan. Our Prefect was that shade of grey, but a single colour. This is an Anglia, 2 doors whereas the Prefect had 4, and a different radiator grille. But my first car some years later, 1970, was a 100E Popular the same colour as your model! Oh dear ah well I’ll dedicate this to you I’ve worked out from the timetable: Stranraer to Dunragit +10 mins Stranraer to Dumfries +2hr 29 mins (Port Road) Stranraer to Carlisle + 3hr 19 mins (Port Road) Stranraer to Glasgow St Enoch + 2hr 22 mins The Newcastle portion from the evening Boat Train appears to have arrived their after a journey of almost 5hrs! I think its almost ten hrs to Euston! Thankfully the locos swapped at Carlisle I think although after 1965 I think it appears to have been Dumfries? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
danstercivicman Posted April 29, 2019 Author Share Posted April 29, 2019 (edited) 36 minutes ago, The Johnster said: Close but no medal, Dan. Our Prefect was that shade of grey, but a single colour. This is an Anglia, 2 doors whereas the Prefect had 4, and a different radiator grille. But my first car some years later, 1970, was a 100E Popular the same colour as your model! Like this: https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F121793711023 You can tell it’s the 1960s by the theme music which sounds like a donkey walking in the background! Must be pre cowbell! Although you can never have enough cowbell! Edited April 29, 2019 by danstercivicman 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted April 29, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 29, 2019 That’s the boys, Dan! Great unless it rained, when using the accelerator slowed the windscreen wipers down... 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
danstercivicman Posted April 29, 2019 Author Share Posted April 29, 2019 15 minutes ago, The Johnster said: That’s the boys, Dan! Great unless it rained, when using the accelerator slowed the windscreen wipers down... Brilliant I wonder how reliable many of the cars on my layout were... The 5MT on the other hand solid as a rock! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted April 30, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 30, 2019 8 hours ago, danstercivicman said: Like this: https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F121793711023 You can tell it’s the 1960s by the theme music which sounds like a donkey walking in the background! Must be pre cowbell! Although you can never have enough cowbell! I like the bloke getting out of the boot at about 12:50! Not sure what sales feature that was trying to demonstrate. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
danstercivicman Posted April 30, 2019 Author Share Posted April 30, 2019 Yeah me too. Bit of a strange film especially the part when they drive over a brick on the driveway to show the wonders of the suspension! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
danstercivicman Posted April 30, 2019 Author Share Posted April 30, 2019 The worst part of building a layout... point rodding.. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
calvin Streeting Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 (edited) using this idea makes it a bit easyier.. and i also build mine of board on a card template .. and then glue card with point rodding in place.. less aching back leaning over layout glue small bits to make fixing easyer of board build (stools are to compensate for foam track bed) Edited April 30, 2019 by calvin Streeting 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
danstercivicman Posted April 30, 2019 Author Share Posted April 30, 2019 38 minutes ago, calvin Streeting said: using this idea makes it a bit easyier.. and i also build mine of board on a card template .. and then glue card with point rodding in place.. less aching back leaning over layout glue small bits to make fixing easyer of board build (stools are to compensate for foam track bed) Wow that looks great :) Do you print yours? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Legend Posted April 30, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 30, 2019 Must admit I've never bothered with point rodding . Quite impressive 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
calvin Streeting Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 yep.. started with wills kits and relised 8+ runs at over 2m was going to get ££££££ so drew these https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2169509 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Bogie Posted April 30, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 30, 2019 So Calvin do you travel to Australia to do point rodding? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
danstercivicman Posted April 30, 2019 Author Share Posted April 30, 2019 3 hours ago, Legend said: Must admit I've never bothered with point rodding . Quite impressive Thanks I’m looking at the diagram and I think it’s one rod per non FPL and two rods per FPL. Need more point rodding! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
calvin Streeting Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 (edited) yep. 1 for normal point and 2 for others.. one to switch it and one to the lock mechanism. i also think there is part of this forum about planning that stuff.. (lots of people know more about it than me Edited April 30, 2019 by calvin Streeting 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
danstercivicman Posted April 30, 2019 Author Share Posted April 30, 2019 Here is the timetable so far: STRANRAER TIMETABLES.docx Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
danstercivicman Posted April 30, 2019 Author Share Posted April 30, 2019 (edited) Back to the timetable. The 3:50pm to Carlisle and the 4:40pm to Glasgow are both Stranraer Town departures. That means the next service to depart from the Harbour is the 6:15pm to Glasgow which is a DMU working. The pictures are a tad jumbled but as the DMU enters and leaves hopefully you’ll get the idea! Progress on the rodding.. Edited April 30, 2019 by danstercivicman 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
danstercivicman Posted April 30, 2019 Author Share Posted April 30, 2019 (edited) Which clears a path for the 6:45pm partially fitted freight to arrive. Its not actually going that fast but...the camera blurred Like a goods yard predator the Hunslet is waiting in Platform 1 to remove the stock. Edited April 30, 2019 by danstercivicman 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
danstercivicman Posted April 30, 2019 Author Share Posted April 30, 2019 The Hunslet gets to work releasing 44666 to Stranraer Shed. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
danstercivicman Posted April 30, 2019 Author Share Posted April 30, 2019 The next departure will be the 7:15pm... stay tuned! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
calvin Streeting Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 4 hours ago, Bogie said: So Calvin do you travel to Australia to do point rodding? if you pay for ticket Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted April 30, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 30, 2019 Goods yard predator; what a brilliant description! 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted April 30, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 30, 2019 The point rodding looks great It’s something I’ve thought about doing on my layout and you’ve inspired me to think about it more seriously chris 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
danstercivicman Posted April 30, 2019 Author Share Posted April 30, 2019 1 hour ago, chuffinghell said: The point rodding looks great It’s something I’ve thought about doing on my layout and you’ve inspired me to think about it more seriously chris Yeah, Little Muddle was my point rodding inspiration! Its really prominent at Stranraer so would be missing a lot if I didn’t include it 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
danstercivicman Posted April 30, 2019 Author Share Posted April 30, 2019 1 hour ago, The Johnster said: Goods yard predator; what a brilliant description! It’s like a piranha It has to be! There’s so much incoming and outgoing goods! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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