Mike Posted November 19, 2021 Author Share Posted November 19, 2021 Well as my open wagons for conversion to Salt wagons didn't materialise I thought why not build a bogie van. So here is an ex ABS model loosely based on a GVT wagon. I have also decided to change from a 2 signal approach to a sort off Brown & Marshall disc as used by the Ffestiniog. 10 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted November 23, 2021 Author Share Posted November 23, 2021 Gratuitous look around Hookton getting ready for Wednesdays photo shoot by the master of the art Chris Nevard. 10 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Williamson Posted November 25, 2021 Share Posted November 25, 2021 Mike, Will the Chris Nevard photos be published anywhere? He does take magnificent pictures! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted November 26, 2021 Author Share Posted November 26, 2021 14 hours ago, Chris Williamson said: Mike, Will the Chris Nevard photos be published anywhere? He does take magnificent pictures! They will hopefully be published along with an article in a future issue of Model Rail magazine. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted December 7, 2021 Author Share Posted December 7, 2021 (edited) Railcar at Hookton both units fitted with Tenshodo spuds and connected with tension lock couplings. Edited December 7, 2021 by Mike spelling mistake 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted December 8, 2021 Author Share Posted December 8, 2021 Phase 1 almost complete if a layout is ever complete, now on to phase 2. First job will be to separate the thread just for Hookton and then on to phase 2. This will be the Lipp stream with bridge and the station area moving on to phase 3 Parkbourne Saint Giles. Will my opus Gargantua ever be finished who knows, but at least it will keep me off the streets albeit stony broke. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted December 12, 2021 Author Share Posted December 12, 2021 Hookton, yawn, yet again. Peco crane with jib reduced by scale 11 ft and Dick Potts working on the drawings for a replacement bilge pump casing. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Williamson Posted December 13, 2021 Share Posted December 13, 2021 That drawing board takes me back! Hard to see in the shadows but it looks just like the one I used when I started work at the tender age of 16 years old - Junior Draughtsman on the princely sum of £25 a week . Is there a big counterbalance weight at the top of the parallelogram arm that carries the square? Mind you, the bike I rode to work one was maroon rather than blue. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted December 19, 2021 Author Share Posted December 19, 2021 (edited) Photo of the harbour and village copyright of Nevard Media and Model Rail. Just one of a recent photo shoot. Not for sharing or copying. Edited December 21, 2021 by Mike 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted January 7, 2022 Author Share Posted January 7, 2022 Thought I'd change from DC to DCC. Who was it who said it was only two wires? 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted January 9, 2022 Author Share Posted January 9, 2022 (edited) Having just acquired an almost brand new Bachmann 0n30 mogul, I needed to find an excuse to run it on Hookton. Now you have probably noticed how I tweak history, so here goes. The loco was purchased from the Sandy River and Rangeley Rail Road, shipped to Southampton, then by Rail to The Dorset Iron Foundry in Poole. where the loco was re-gauged from 2ft to 2ft 3". The loco was then transferred by rail to Parkbourne St. Giles to access the HLVR metals. Fortunately there are no tunnels or cuttings and what earthworks there are, are fairly generous, the only real problem was the bridge over the Lipp which needed strengthening. Now I need to tweak the model, the tender is rather plain and needs modifying, a new drawbar twixt loco and tender plus a fall-plate and some cosmetic work to improve the overall look. Edited January 10, 2022 by Mike gap in text 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted January 10, 2022 Author Share Posted January 10, 2022 (edited) Newly acquired Mogul straight out of the box and one half of the Railbus WIP Edited January 10, 2022 by Mike space between pics 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted January 13, 2022 Author Share Posted January 13, 2022 (edited) In the history of Hookton there is mention of the salt pits. If you are producing salt you need to transport the product and what better way then by rail. Having been unable to purchase a couple of Peco wagon kits I acquired a couple of very basic 3d printed opens Brake gear was added to one side ( not enough in the scrap box to to both sides) the end altered and PlastiCard roofs added. Here is the first one underway with still a lot of work to do, but you get the idea. Edited January 14, 2022 by Mike grammatical correction 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted January 14, 2022 Author Share Posted January 14, 2022 Yet another bit of history tweaking. Cancelled Australian export order from Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Co a re-gauged narrow gauge coach for the HLVR. Photo taken as it arrived and before the Loco and coach have been through the Hookton workshops. For that read Grandads Shed where things are made and mended - eventually. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted January 31, 2022 Author Share Posted January 31, 2022 Started mucking about with the loco and tender. New pilot beam on loco, air tank with associated pipe work, electrical conduit and rear lamp on tender plus brake wheel. Chains to be fitted to bogies and a lot of cleaning up to do. Loco needs additional pipe work to air tank, electrical cable to generator and bell wire. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 an order from the US as a result of the 1890's strikes perhaps Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted February 9, 2022 Author Share Posted February 9, 2022 (edited) Work is a foot, well a fall-plate and air tank plumbing which is a best guess. Bell wire and head light wiring still to do but my Grandads shed is just a little on the cold side. Edited February 9, 2022 by Mike 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted April 19, 2022 Author Share Posted April 19, 2022 (edited) The time has come the Walrus said to talk of many things, Panniers, Prairies, Castles and Kings. What absolute nonsense, I have actually started building the extension to Hookton which will in fact be a stand alone of Parkbourne Saint Giles that fictional terminus of the line. The baseboards are built although in a rush of blood to the head I cut the hole to the fiddle yard in the wrong end, now filled and the exit hole cut in the right end. The track plan for anyone who can remember is the same as my Lenches Bridge Layout ( Now known as Bankfield Road.) The double slip has been created by using two wye points toe to toe, well it is narrow gauge. As soon as my camera has been repaired or replaced I will upload some photos and no I haven't shelved the Central Shires Cheese Company, just taken my foot off the gas. 🙂 Edited May 11, 2022 by Mike Missing words 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted September 2, 2022 Author Share Posted September 2, 2022 Every picture tells a story 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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