Bochi Posted June 13, 2020 Author Share Posted June 13, 2020 Memo to self: try to avoid humping 18mm plywood boards by yourself in future. Especially when trying to race against the threatened rain... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
signalnorth Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 On 28/03/2020 at 15:27, Joseph_Pestell said: I have seen that. Wish I had found it before Dad died. He would have enjoyed that a lot, not least because he did not get to see much of the line travelling mostly at night. What class of diesel is that right at the end of the film at Dumfries? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 3 hours ago, signalnorth said: What class of diesel is that right at the end of the film at Dumfries? Going by the shape and Dumfries shed’s allocation in 1965, it’s probably an NBL diesel-hydraulic shunter, class D2/10: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_D2/10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
signalnorth Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 Ah right. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
signalnorth Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 So this is how the line looks in Train Simulator. Pretty good I feel. I ran a freight out to Creetown and back behind a Jumbo . The Jumbo is a free download from Caledonia Works. It's very nice too . Hope you enjoy the pics. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bochi Posted May 8, 2021 Author Share Posted May 8, 2021 Looks really good, that simulation! The layout has been dormant for much of lockdown: I got involved with other matters and although the virus passed casa Bochi by, there were health issues. On the bright side, my choice of point motor was simplified by the return of Cobalts to these shores so I splashed out on a dozen of those. Now to get on with laying that fiddleyard. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bochi Posted June 29, 2021 Author Share Posted June 29, 2021 I am glad to report that the first track not just for testing was laid today! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bochi Posted July 1, 2021 Author Share Posted July 1, 2021 One of the fun things about the Port Road is trying to work out what goods traffic would have been seen on it in the 1935-45 period. Photographs are hard to come by: the vast majority of pictures I've seen are post-1948. There are not so many from the 1930s, and virtually none from the war years: no doubt because taking photographs of railways, and especially those used extensively by troops, would have been a national security issue! Swan gives the impression of a wide variety of wagons, with horse boxes from "all over the country" as well as a fair number of private owner wagons in addition to standard LMS and ex-Caley stock. Most photographs of all periods show a predominance of vans and cattle wagons - milk, meat, fish and general goods. But what about the London milk train? Or motor spirit? Shell had a refinery at Ardrossan with those early Shell tank wagons. Did any of that make its way to Newton Stewart? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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