Richard Mawer Posted May 14, 2020 Author Share Posted May 14, 2020 ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE Michael has built a rather nice little coaling stage. I think the silver surfer needs a spot of paint or two. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Mawer Posted January 13, 2022 Author Share Posted January 13, 2022 Sorry for the silence. We’ve just been working through stuff. Plus this blessed virus stopping us. Anyway we are finally due to take it to our first exhibition 5th March at Kettering with the O Gauge Guild. Its starting to come together quite well now. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Mawer Posted January 27, 2022 Author Share Posted January 27, 2022 NOTICE The Stonethwaite and Bainrigg Railway will be displayed for the first time on 5th March at Kettering with the Gauge O Guild. Come along and see us. Cheers Rich Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Mawer Posted May 13, 2022 Author Share Posted May 13, 2022 Gauge O Guild - Kettering. March 2022. More exhibition invitations please. Rich 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Mawer Posted May 13, 2022 Author Share Posted May 13, 2022 We even made the Guild News 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Mawer Posted May 13, 2022 Author Share Posted May 13, 2022 Some final adjustments on the Stonethwaite Wharf board before we start on Phase Two of the project : Bainrigg station. Grace with a brake van. An impressive rake of rusty stone skips and a couple of tank wagons in the siding. Phase one (as shown at Kettering) plus phase two will be shown in Oxford in October. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Mawer Posted June 3, 2022 Author Share Posted June 3, 2022 Grace gets pumped. A visit to the paint shop is needed. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Mawer Posted June 3, 2022 Author Share Posted June 3, 2022 Just a little Yank Like many narrow gauge lines, after WWI, the S&B acquired a Baldwin repatriated from the trenches. Ours is a Class 10 prairie. Seen as a stopgap workhorse rather than a loved member of the loco stud, she was always just known as The Yank. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Mawer Posted October 23, 2022 Author Share Posted October 23, 2022 A TRIP UP THE DALE It’s been a while!!! Phase one was Stonethwaite, the town at the bottom of the Dale with the canal wharf and warehouses etc. We first exhibited that at Kettering. Then we accepted an invitation to Oxrail and in a silly moment said we would have completed phase 2 by then. This phase is Bainrigg, the village at the top of the Dale. The quarry is to be found just outside the village, but that’s another phase! So Dave built another 3 baseboards including a corner. Our layout is modular so the joining methods and track alignment match from board to board. The exceptions are where boards are pairs. We can currently exhibit as phase 1 or phases 1 & 2, with or without the corner and the corner can even be reversed so the L shape can be either way round. Anyway, the clock was ticking over the summer to get it done. Its a brief trip through some green stuff, the outskirts of the village into the terminus. The quarry line passes through but is currently gated. These photos are without finishing touches. Its still a ghost town! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Mawer Posted October 23, 2022 Author Share Posted October 23, 2022 OXRAIL - KIDLINGTON, OXON - OCTOBER 22 Well we made it! We deliberately made the layout lower than some layouts so the youngsters have a better chance to see. Our moving features and the sounds go down well. Given the size of the full layout this was only the second day it was fully operated so we had some discoveries and issues to sort. But generally we, the club and the public were happy. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Mawer Posted October 23, 2022 Author Share Posted October 23, 2022 EVERY DAY IS A DAY AT SCHOOL In the case of Oxrail, it physically was: a Primary school. Anyway, our biggest discoveries were both things we discovered in Kettering, thought we had sorted, but found we hadn’t. In fact they were connected - or not as the case maybe. Kaydees and Fiddleyard. Its well known that Kaydees do not like changes of gradient. This is made worse with short wheelbase stock. At Kettering we discovered we had small changes of gradient in and out of the fiddle yard that we hadn’t perceived as issues. But trains became uncoupled as they left. We also knew that we needed to realign the traverser tracks to match the boards towards Bainrigg. So we relaid the traverser before Oxrail. Even though we thought we had ironed out the worst issues, it was still an issue at times. Michael’s winter project is a full rebuild. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Mawer Posted October 23, 2022 Author Share Posted October 23, 2022 (edited) DIAMONDS ARE A (GIRL’S BEST FRIEND/BLOKE’S PAIN THE….) DELETE AS APPROPRIATE. We have a diamond crossing at Stonethwaite. We wanted elecrofrog of course, but Peco do not make an electro code 100 Short. So I fitted a code 75 with packing below. MISTAKE. It was always a sticking point for deep flanges and wider treads/tyres. I have finally plucked courage to rectify it; brought on by snapping a frog and two check rails while trying to ease it in situ. Yesterday I attacked the board and removed it and 2 short lengths of track. Hours were then spent modifying a code 100 insul frog into a live version using check rails off the code 75 to replace the plastic ones and using rail and solder to replace the insul sections. Its a bit messy on the outside of the rails but that it all hidden when in place. The original code 75. Post surgery. The replacement code 100. Note the amount of plastic check rails and insul breaks. The boosters are another story. The finished conversion. Edited October 23, 2022 by Richard Mawer 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 5BarVT Posted October 23, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 23, 2022 2 hours ago, Richard Mawer said: The boosters are another story. I’m sitting comfortably so you may begin. Paul. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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