steve W Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 10 hours ago, Stoker said: Tidmeric is another one that I was already familiar with, and in fact had downloaded photos to use as inspiration. Being a Cornishman I recognised the ore hoppers immediately (Camborne and Redruth Tramway I think). This is exactly the kind of modelling that I really enjoy, so bravo. Ah well, as one Cornishman to another, here's a bonus of my Micro 'Petroc Quarries'. This one is 20 x20 inches and has continuous run (14mm gauge) and was built as a 'test track' for Tidmeric stock in a Japanese hotel room... and then the madness set in ... The 4" radius curve in the first picture was inspired by the loading hoppers at S Crofty's Robinson shaft which was the tightest curve I've ever seen. Used to spend my college lunches there in the day. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HonestTom Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 I did a boxfile based on the Lincolnshire potato railways. Video about it here. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 I like it! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 1 hour ago, HonestTom said: I did a boxfile based on the Lincolnshire potato railways. Video about it here. Love the "British Pathè" news start!! Hope your nose has recovered!! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HonestTom Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 7 minutes ago, F-UnitMad said: Love the "British Pathè" news start!! Hope your nose has recovered!! Many thanks, I do suffer for my art. I'm a big fan of those old newsreels and really don't need much of an excuse to parody them. When I directed a production of Animal Farm with my theatre group, we did an entire trailer in the style of a terrible 30s propaganda film. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 Plonkitt Down agricultural tramway in action. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoker Posted July 21, 2020 Author Share Posted July 21, 2020 On 17/07/2020 at 04:45, HonestTom said: I did a boxfile based on the Lincolnshire potato railways. Video about it here. I had not heard of the Lincolnshire potato railways until you brought it up. What a great prototype. Lots of potential there. I especially like the timber cabs, very agricultural! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
009 micro modeller Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 2 hours ago, Stoker said: I had not heard of the Lincolnshire potato railways until you brought it up. What a great prototype. Lots of potential there. I especially like the timber cabs, very agricultural! There’s another one here (Holbeach) plus some other industrial NG: https://009bedsandbucks.wordpress.com/our-layouts/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ColinK Posted July 21, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 21, 2020 If you model the potato railways in 7mm scale then your 0-16.5 locos have to be powered by Tenshodo Spuds! 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Fen End Pit Posted July 21, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 21, 2020 On 10/07/2020 at 22:19, Victor Vectis said: Fen End Pit? 16mm scale, 32mm gauge. Who? Me? It was great fun to build and is good fun to exhibit (when able) David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastworld Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 On 10/07/2020 at 18:42, steve W said: Tidmeric Minerals was a 14mm layout of the Twickenham club. It was one of the earlier 14mm builds, 15ft long with a continuous run with f-yd at the rear. With most 'industrial lines' tending to have one purpose and as simple as possible it was decided to incorporate three scenes of typical 2ft gauge line use to engage visitors. It successfully did over 120 shows in the UK and Europe. At the right end was a stone crusher and grader, with animated conveyors and rotatary grader (shaver foils), central was a fine model by Brandon Evans of wooden ore loading hoppers from a cornish tin mine photo with a small workshop area at the left end with a water filled slate quarry behind, disguisng the return curve. Along the way a Festiniog rotating signal became incorporated. Eventually sold to a private museuem in Bremen we came home with an empty van. The crusher end, built from photos, typical rather than precisely modelled. Taken from photos The trestle, again based on a prototype, though I forget which. Works train and stone train in the passing loop. Track design was such that we could operate in either a two of three board format, or all three. The left end with part of the small works area and the flooded slate quarry to the rear. At the first exhibition we had to open the windows as the resin 'water' was still drying and one of our team had to get lots of nice goodies for his wife as the resin ran out of some holes onto the dining room carpet the night before. All good things come to and end and sfter selling the layout (We were moving up to 1:20.3 scale) we found a final picture of the line waiting for the auction: Cheers Steve W. That was one of my favourite layouts - I did wonder what happened to it. Stu Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve W Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 Thanks for the compliment it's appreciated. After something like 120 shows we were getting tired of the layout although it operated like a dream throughout. The matter came to head when the club was evicted from the college in Richmond with three weeks notice and we had nowhere to store it long term. We tried selling in the UK (ultimately offered at £50 ex-stock) but it was rather specialist with the 14mm gauge - people who want that usually build their own, so we honoured the last show committment in Bremen with an optomistic 'for sale' sign on it and it was sold before the show opened for an exceedingly good bag of Euros. You would be amazed how much 'duty free' you can get in an otherwise empty Transit van on the return trip! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HonestTom Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 On 21/07/2020 at 16:53, Stoker said: I had not heard of the Lincolnshire potato railways until you brought it up. What a great prototype. Lots of potential there. I especially like the timber cabs, very agricultural! They're absolutely fantastic. Stewart E. Squires' The Lincolnshire Potato Railways is the definitive work on the subject. I like them because they have that "anything goes" feel that makes for easy scratchbuilding and modification, and there are plenty of RTR wagons that are perfect for the job. You could even adapt the Bachmann Thomas and Friends range's Rusty to provide motive power. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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