Popular Post westerner Posted December 28, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 28, 2021 Some signage on the van and it is parked in front of the bolster now without its load. I bought some extra bolsters as the log load is actually glued to the bolsters so that i can take it off, replace with the ones you see with chains and return empty as it were. 22 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post westerner Posted December 31, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 31, 2021 As it is the last day of 2021 I thought I'd wish everyone Happy New Year and post a couple of photos of the now finished Morris van with a few other things that have been built or finished in 2021i.e. the crane , the break van, the goods yard wall and gates and the extra shrubbery on the railway banks. 25 5 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwr Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 Lovely photos Alan. Have a very happy New year Paul R 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post westerner Posted January 6, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 6, 2022 Ben's been visiting again. A couple of shots of 8749 arriving with the afternoon goods from Bullo. 22 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
90rob Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 12 minutes ago, westerner said: Ben's been visiting again. A couple of shots of 8749 arriving with the afternoon goods from Bullo. Bradford Barton meets Ben Ashworth - lovely pictures! 2 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwr Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 19 hours ago, westerner said: Ben's been visiting again. A couple of shots of 8749 arriving with the afternoon goods from Bullo. They work so well in monochrome Alan Superb Paul R 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post westerner Posted January 9, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 9, 2022 After running round its train 8749 shunts the Vanwide for the Drakes to un load into their van. It then couples up with the brake van to proceed to the colliery to pick up some full wagons, before returning to Blackney to pick up the by then unloaded Vanwide. 21 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 Very nice. Always think as well it adds to the picture/s if you can weave a story into it….. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted January 9, 2022 Author Share Posted January 9, 2022 I've been re-reading Bob Barnett's "Dean Forest Footplate Memories" and have been trying to match the dates in his accounts up and down the the two Forest Branches with photos in Ben Ashworth's "BR Steam in Dean" and eventually I came across a correlation. He describes a trip on Prairie 4564 on a very hot 28th August 1964, The loco was not in good condition, it was so poor that going through the 209 yard Bradley Hill Tunnel conditions were so bad on the footplate he wanted to get off but was stopped by his driver. Remembering there was a photo in Ben Ashworth's book featuring a small prairie I leafed through and found the photo and discovered that it was taken on the 28th August 1964 so I must assume it was during the described trip. It sounded incredibly unpleasant with Bob laying on the floor of the footplate to avoid passing out through the heat, fumes and gasses that were filling the cab. It certainly gives a completely different view of the Forest Branches than do the almost idyllic photos. 1 2 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Hal Nail Posted January 10, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 10, 2022 17 hours ago, westerner said: it was so poor that going through the 209 yard Bradley Hill Tunnel conditions were so bad on the footplate he wanted to get off but was stopped by his driver. It sounded incredibly unpleasant with Bob laying on the floor of the footplate to avoid passing out through the heat, fumes and gasses that were filling the cab. I appreciate poor old 4564 was no Usian Bolt, but by the time you allow for our man feeling overcome, having a chat about leaping, a brief tussle, the fireman chipping in "how about lying on the floor", clearing a bit of room and gingerly getting down with knees creaking (or is that just me?) surely they'd have been out for about a minute?! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post westerner Posted January 11, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 11, 2022 Continuing the sequence. Later that morning 8749 arrives back with two full coal wagons uncouples and runs round its train. It then shunts its train(coal wagons and break van) under the bridge, allowing to room to pick up the Vanwide. and then leaving for Bullo. 25 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post westerner Posted January 19, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 19, 2022 (edited) The demolition train arrives to take away track and ballast from a disused siding up the branch. After collecting rail , ballast and sleepers 3775 arrives back at Blackney ready to shunt its way to the front of its train. And the finally leaves for Bullo. As I still had another set of bolster I made up the load of rails which you can see in a couple of the shots above. As with the tree trunk load the rails are glued to the bolsters, so that when the wagon is empty the load can be lifted off, chains, bolsters and all and replaced with the empty bolsters apart from the chain as in the first photo Edited January 19, 2022 by westerner 23 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post westerner Posted January 19, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 19, 2022 A pet hate of mine is seeing wagons always with the same loads no matter where or in which direction they are going. As you may have noticed I do fill and empty my wagons depending on what duty they are on eg mineral wagons going to the colliery or leaving the colliery. I thought I'd take a photo of the removable loads to date. From te left the coal loads, in the centre the sleepers and spent ballast and nearest the camera the double bolster loads and the empty bolsters. There may be more to come. Ads you can see looking at the coal loads they are constructed in such a way thet by pushing down on one end they can be lifted out of the wagon. 21 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 Impressive loads there and I have to agree on the loads going nowhere aspect of layouts. I have some timber ballast and coal loads to make up so will be shamelessly copying your methods! 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb67 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 Love the loads for the wagons, especially the bolsters. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ramblin Rich Posted January 22, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 22, 2022 On 19/01/2022 at 14:40, westerner said: The demolition train arrives to take away track and ballast from a disused siding up the branch. I saw the first line & my heart sank - I thought you were about to rip things up! Really evocative pictures & I do like the idea of the removable loads on the bolsters. 6 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 5 hours ago, Ramblin Rich said: I saw the first line & my heart sank - I thought you were about to rip things up! He'd better not!!! This layout is far too good for that!! If Alan ever does want to scrap it, he can scrap it in my direction any time he likes... 3 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted January 23, 2022 Author Share Posted January 23, 2022 I'll remember that if ever I do want to scrap it. But I have no intention of doing so for the foreseeable future. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gismorail Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 2 hours ago, westerner said: I'll remember that if ever I do want to scrap it. But I have no intention of doing so for the foreseeable future. That’s, I’m sure a great relief to many on here ……if it did happen there would be questions raised in parliament 1 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 6 hours ago, gismorail said: That’s, I’m sure a great relief to many on here ……if it did happen there would be questions raised in parliament He could take a leaf from the "Big Book of Boris Excuses" if that happened.... "I didn't realise removing the track counted as scrapping" "No one told me I was dismantling the layout" "I wasn't there although it happened in my house"..... 1 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted January 23, 2022 Author Share Posted January 23, 2022 Brilliant, I was going to go write a similarity based reply, but I suspect I might have been even more b Orisal. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwr Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 You could always extend Alan? Paul R Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 2 hours ago, pwr said: You could always extend Alan? Paul R And what about his layout? Sorry.... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted January 24, 2022 Author Share Posted January 24, 2022 I'm quite happy at my present height thank you. 2 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post westerner Posted February 19, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 19, 2022 Took advantage of yesterdays Hiatus and did a bit of modelling. I made yet another load for the double bolster. A load of cut tree trunks. 23 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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