Horsehay Railway Modeller Posted February 28, 2021 Author Share Posted February 28, 2021 With all this news about lockdown and road maps I realised it was almost time to face reality and return back to uni. I'm not actually needed there until late April, however as my Christmas holiday has lasted around three months, the sooner I go back to the house I'm spending my entire student loan on, the better. I've settled on roughly the 20th March, which gives me three more weeks with the layout, after which I will only be working on kits etc. buying rolling stock and finishing off my uni layout. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsehay Railway Modeller Posted March 1, 2021 Author Share Posted March 1, 2021 (edited) A few bits and bobs today. My class 122 arrived back from rails, or rather a replacement. It's like a completely different model and runs perfectly so I think I must have had some sort of lemon before. My copy of GWR country stations has arrived and I'm sure it will be a good read. Finally I also made a good start on installing the hidden sidings. I have a list of things I want to complete before returning to uni, which includes getting the basic baseboards finished for my future uni / portable layout. As you may have seen I've ramped up planning for that layout, but I still want to get alot done on coalorsdale before I go away again. Edited March 1, 2021 by Horsehay Railway Modeller 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsehay Railway Modeller Posted March 4, 2021 Author Share Posted March 4, 2021 Hoping to finish the shelf soon, in the meantime here is a copy of the final loco cards template. loco flashcards.xlsx Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsehay Railway Modeller Posted March 4, 2021 Author Share Posted March 4, 2021 Ive finished the shelf, but I don't seem to have any in progress photos on my phone. I'm sure I'll pull some of my camera at some point. Anyhow here's the finished project. You can see the two red leds which illuminate when there's a train up against a microswitch "buffer stop". I've just spread out some random magazines as my Railway books only cover about 2 inches of shelf. (The three books at the end). I've also put half of my Hornby magazines on one side of the speaker, the rest are at uni. All in all this corner is now a nice reading area and I've got more flexibility shunting the works. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsehay Railway Modeller Posted March 7, 2021 Author Share Posted March 7, 2021 I've finally started the station building. The first job is to cover the 3d printed shell in brick plasticard. I've started on the back corner so I can be well practiced by the time I get to the front wall. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Railpassion Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 Any more developments recently? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 (edited) I think that he's busy with the Cherrybrook portable layout project, but he's an industrious sort of chap... Edited May 5, 2021 by MrWolf Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsehay Railway Modeller Posted May 5, 2021 Author Share Posted May 5, 2021 Apologies for not updating this thread. I am currently back at university for the rest of term. Although I'm not actually studying on campus I thought I might as well be living in my student house as I have been paying for it the whole time I've been at home. To that end MrWolf is quite right I am currently working on a new portable layout called cherrybrook which you can find on here. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Railpassion Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 Thanks, I'll take a look. It must be very frustrating to be missing out on so much university life. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsehay Railway Modeller Posted May 5, 2021 Author Share Posted May 5, 2021 2 hours ago, Railpassion said: Thanks, I'll take a look. It must be very frustrating to be missing out on so much university life. It is a little, I had nearly a full year of normal uni last year so I didn't miss freshers or anything like that, but it's a shame to be missing almost the entirety of second year life. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsehay Railway Modeller Posted June 14, 2021 Author Share Posted June 14, 2021 About 4 weeks untill I'm back home, I'm currently down in cornwall staying with my girlfriends family. We hopped on the train this morning to come and do some shopping in Plymouth. Plenty of standing around in clothes shops but I also managed to sneak in a trip to antics, where I've bought a peckett. I may end up repainting it but it will serve as the shunting loco at the works. Having seen so many on YouTube I thought it would be rude not to. There were plenty of pecketts about in Shropshire too. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsehay Railway Modeller Posted June 14, 2021 Author Share Posted June 14, 2021 I've just got back and got it out of the box, the livery is so well applied I think I will just give it a weather and leave it be. There is one in the lillishall company livery which I may pick up at some point too. Overall very impressed, I can't wait to get it shunting the works. i 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
1722 Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 2 hours ago, Horsehay Railway Modeller said: I've just got back and got it out of the box, the livery is so well applied I think I will just give it a weather and leave it be. There is one in the lillishall company livery which I may pick up at some point too. Overall very impressed, I can't wait to get it shunting the works. i I bought the navy blue one and turned it into a Rocket-a-like (named Noah after my little lad) at the Telford Steam Railway. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsehay Railway Modeller Posted June 14, 2021 Author Share Posted June 14, 2021 14 minutes ago, 1722 said: I bought the navy blue one and turned it into a Rocket-a-like (named Noah after my little lad) at the Telford Steam Railway. I'm going to weather this one up and possibly add a name plate. Its similar to Coalbrookdale no 3 which can also be seen at the tsr 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsehay Railway Modeller Posted June 16, 2021 Author Share Posted June 16, 2021 I'm starting to think if things I can do whilst down in cornwall to prepare for going home to the main layout. For now I have another shopping trip planned, this time to kernow sometime In The next fortnight. I've also just bought a few figures from hardys hobbies. A footplate crew for my new peckett and two workers for the yard. I bought the unpainted versions so I will have something to do when Im here. If they come out well I might have a look at a few more. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsehay Railway Modeller Posted June 19, 2021 Author Share Posted June 19, 2021 (edited) Still waiting for the figures. I've been planning the works area in my head and using photos. I wasn't happy with the large building at the front of the scene so I'm working on the idea of a y point leading to a 4 th siding, this will keep most of the area at baseboard level - allowing for easy viewing and shunting. The 4 th siding will go Off the edge of the baseboard and continue on to the "rest of the yard". It will also allow for a small single story warehouse with a loading dock. Of course all of this is theoretical until I get home in july Edited June 19, 2021 by Horsehay Railway Modeller 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsehay Railway Modeller Posted June 22, 2021 Author Share Posted June 22, 2021 Industrial figures have arrived from hardys. I've bought some cheap artists acrylics to have ago at them as I didn't bring any modelling kit down here. I've also got 25 cheapo figures coming from ebay that I can paint up Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsehay Railway Modeller Posted June 22, 2021 Author Share Posted June 22, 2021 This evenings progress. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsehay Railway Modeller Posted June 23, 2021 Author Share Posted June 23, 2021 All done, They're not perfect but they'll do. I'll deffinately get some more figures from hardys at some point. Excellent detail on the figures themselves. A resin printer has also crept up my wishlist, they're more faff but certainly much better at fine stuff than the printer I have. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsehay Railway Modeller Posted June 27, 2021 Author Share Posted June 27, 2021 Evening all, I've been thinking about goods movements on the layout and in particular for the works. My main plan for when I return home next month is to get some of the buildings and scenery finished on the Industrial area, as well as working on rolling stock and goods movements. I bought a job lot of kadee couplers a few weeks ago so I can continue to get individual wagons fitted. I've also just won 8 mineral wagons with coal loads and kadee couplers fitted. Here is some of the traffic I think the works needs. The output lists some of the specific items I wish to represent. In - coal / coke - oil - limestone - iron ore - pig iron - sand ( for moulds) - refractory brick (for kiln repairs) - General goods / machinery parts. Out - small domestic castings (crates / vans) - gates / fences - columns - Bridge parts - beams Does anyone have any other ideas for in / out traffic. Or even specific wagons used for each type of traffic. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsehay Railway Modeller Posted June 28, 2021 Author Share Posted June 28, 2021 The latest of my impulse purchases is another green 61xx. Its a slightly newer Hornby model than my current one, and is also dcc sound fitted!. I will probably keep both, I may end up weathering them to different levels or even respraying one into black. I'll get some photos and videos up when I get back to uni next week. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
whart57 Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 I presume you've had a look at the Dawley Heritage site with the pictures of Horsehay Works. Some interesting products to be shipped there, sadly none shown being shipped. I'll put the link here, maybe others can advise on how things like cast iron columns would get shipped out. http://www.dawleyheritage.co.uk/horsehayworks/738/horsehay-works 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsehay Railway Modeller Posted June 28, 2021 Author Share Posted June 28, 2021 1 minute ago, whart57 said: I presume you've had a look at the Dawley Heritage site with the pictures of Horsehay Works. Some interesting products to be shipped there, sadly none shown being shipped. I'll put the link here, maybe others can advise on how things like cast iron columns would get shipped out. http://www.dawleyheritage.co.uk/horsehayworks/738/horsehay-works Cheers, Indeed I've seen this gallery many times, there are certainly some very interesting castings. Current plan is to 3d print a few. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsehay Railway Modeller Posted July 5, 2021 Author Share Posted July 5, 2021 I'm back from Cornwall and will be at uni for another week untill I return home to Shropshire. Some of my ebay purchases were waiting for me, such as this beautiful prairie. Some touch ups and weathering required but I do like the polished tanks the previous owner has applied. It is a Hornby offering bought second hand and has a dcc sound chip. Does anyone on here recognise it? I think it's a loksound v4. The gold text under the sticker reads ESU LS4N Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsehay Railway Modeller Posted July 5, 2021 Author Share Posted July 5, 2021 Ignore my last, prairie is on its way back to Sheffield. I worked my debit card a little hard over the past month and I decided it was best to just get some money back. Also I wasn't overall enthralled by the loco for the reasons below. a. I already have a prairie b. The sound was nothing to go running home about. C. It needed some work, I. E. Running gear and paint touch ups. Hopefully I get a full refund and the. I will have some money again. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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