Argyle Street, London Midland, Central Trains, EWS, Etc

[Andrew P]

2 hours ago, gismorail said:

OMG not been on for a week and your new 'inspiration' has reached page 4 already .......does look good Andy 

Thanks Martin, how's your O Gauge thoughts going, haha?

[muddy water]

Are you going to use any underlay for noise insulation and ballast shoulder?

[Andrew P]

5 minutes ago, muddy water said:

Are you going to use any underlay for noise insulation and ballast shoulder?

No Muddy, No Underlay as the Locos will be at Crawl Speed, and certainly no Ballast Shoulder as it's a Yard, and so the will be some in filling between some Tracks to lose some Sleepers in the Ash / Cinder / Ballast that forms most Yards.

 

 

[jbmccarthy]

5 minutes ago, Andrew P said:

No Muddy, No Underlay as the Locos will be at Crawl Speed, and certainly no Ballast Shoulder as it's a Yard, and so the will be some in filling between some Tracks to lose some Sleepers in the Ash / Cinder / Ballast that forms most Yards.

 

Looking forward to seeing you do this effect as it's similar to what I want to achieve.

[Andrew P]

6 minutes ago, jbmccarthy said:

 

Looking forward to seeing you do this effect as it's similar to what I want to achieve.

I did a similar thing on the Yard in my Kings Moreton Layout also adding a few oily puddles as well.

 

 

 

 

[muddy water]

22 minutes ago, Andrew P said:

No Muddy, No Underlay as the Locos will be at Crawl Speed, and certainly no Ballast Shoulder as it's a Yard, and so the will be some in filling between some Tracks to lose some Sleepers in the Ash / Cinder / Ballast that forms most Yards.

 

 

Who built a loco yard in a field? 

You will have the farmer chasing you for worrying his sheep with your smelly, noisy diesels!!

 

[muddy water]

Which yard did the photo come from? Great inspiration!

[Andrew P]

11 minutes ago, muddy water said:

Which yard did the photo come from? Great inspiration!

If your talking about the Prototype one, it says Saltley, Birmingham, but I can't confirm that.

[muddy water]

https://www.flickr.com/groups/saltleydepot/

 

The grass looks the same in some of these photos!

[MarshLane]

2 hours ago, Andrew P said:

If your talking about the Prototype one, it says Saltley, Birmingham, but I can't confirm that.

 

Hi Andy,

Yes it is Saltney - now long long and lifted

 

Rich

[sb67]

Looking good Andy, what wires have you used for your main feed and droppers, if you're doing that?

love the Saltey photo, that is a great effect to go for.

 

Steve.

[Andrew P]

5 hours ago, sb67 said:

Looking good Andy, what wires have you used for your main feed and droppers, if you're doing that?

love the Saltey photo, that is a great effect to go for.

 

Steve.

Hi Steve, on this Layout I've used the wire from Peco, it comes in various colours. I have used electrical flex before, but all mine have ventured SOUF which is a bit of a BU66ER.

 

[Andrew P]

And so I have been quiet on here for a few days, but now I'm back to report that;

 

 

 

Edited November 30, 2019 by Andrew P

[Andrew P]

My Passenger Fleet so far.

 

 

 

[muddy water]

You have changed again!

Now we know why you still had manual points!

 

I was looking to copying your first plan. 

Now it looks like you have copied me!

I guess there are only so many ways of doing a layout.

I am sure some of the early railway companies only had a few plans for stations and made them fit the location.

[Andrew P]

39 minutes ago, muddy water said:

You have changed again!

Now we know why you still had manual points!

 

I was looking to copying your first plan. 

Now it looks like you have copied me!

I guess there are only so many ways of doing a layout.

I am sure some of the early railway companies only had a few plans for stations and made them fit the location.

Just had a look and the similarities are astonishing, very nice indeed Muddy.

BTW I do like a good Bluesman, George T on here and I had The G-TAP Blues Band (George Tait / Andy Peters), many years ago.

[Ray H]

We had one of those Class 153 in this neck of the woods Andy.

 

There's something about that livery that makes it so attractive on the single vehicle so I bought one even though it is too long for my layout.

[Temeraire]

12 hours ago, Andrew P said:

And so I have been quiet on here for a few days, but now I'm back to report that;

 

 

 

 

 

Getting closer to Tidsmill Andy!

 

 

[Andrew P]

12 minutes ago, Ray H said:

We had one of those Class 153 in this neck of the woods Andy.

 

There's something about that livery that makes it so attractive on the single vehicle so I bought one even though it is too long for my layout.

Yeah, ain't it pretty, I loved them when I first saw them at Birmingham.

[Andrew P]

4 minutes ago, Temeraire said:

 

 

Getting closer to Tidsmill Andy!

 

 

Now that's a nice name for a future project Ian, haha.

[Andrew P]

Having removed the previous post relating to this I can now reveal the use of terminals.

 

1, Red Track

2, Black Track

3, Points Common

4, Point 1

5, Point 1

6, Point 2

7, Point 2

8, Point 3

9, Point 3

10, Point 4

11, Point 4

12, SPARE.

Edited November 29, 2019 by Andrew P

[Ray H]

Surely that's 9 too many if it is a DCC layout   

[chuffinghell]

9 minutes ago, Ray H said:

Surely that's 9 too many if it is a DCC layout   

“only two wires for DCC” my ar*e 

[Clive Mortimore]

On 28/11/2019 at 20:55, Andrew P said:

And so I have been quiet on here for a few days, but now I'm back to report that;

 

 

I bet you don't change your socks that often.

[Andrew P]

1 hour ago, Ray H said:

Surely that's 9 too many if it is a DCC layout   

 

1 hour ago, chuffinghell said:

“only two wires for DCC” my ar*e 

That is actually an old pic from the previous incarnation, it is now back to only 2 wires. In the previous pic there was separate feeds to each Point and Siding, it's now linked as a sort of Bus Bar.