Callow Lane - ex-Midland freight-only line in South Gloucestershire

[Captain Kernow]

Next up was to paint and weather the pavement sections and also to glue the chip shop in place on it's bespoke base.

 

The chip shop is a modified Hornby Skaledale 'Ben's Bookshop' and is described in this ancient blog entry - 

 

The chip shop ended up with four long, spindly legs glued into the resin, made of 2mm brass rod. These locate in corresponding holes in the laminated Dalerboard base unit.

 

The base unit was glued in place a few weeks ago with PVA and a few days ago, I finally glued the chip shop into the base unit, using epoxy:

 

The pavement sections (made up from laminated plasticard and scribed with the Olfa cutter) were then painted, with a base coat of Halfords grey primer and then various Precision Paints concrete and similar hues hand painted on. When this was fully dry, it was weathered and dulled down using a water colour wash and allowed to dry. It was then given a coat of Humbrol Matt Acrylic Varnish. I will probably use a few powders on both pavements and road, once I have painted the road.

 

The pavement sections were then glued in place using Evostick contact adhesive:

 

 

 

 

 

[figworthy]

3 hours ago, Captain Kernow said:

Sorry Adrian, completely forgot to check, the loco is packed away in a drawer, but I'll get it out and have a look.

 

 

Thanks.  Nothing moves quickly around here, so there is no great urgency.

 

Adrian

[Captain Kernow]

I'm a happy bunny today. I've just received my blue Dapol Class 22 back from @toboldlygo. James has weathered it very nicely, based on photos I supplied but before he could do that, he had to re-spray the loco into a proper BR corporate blue, as the Dapol 'interpretation' of the livery was too green.

 

Here is the loco back home on Callow Lane:

 

 

 

Thanks James, that's just great!

 

[gwrrob]

He ain’t bad that young Skywalker , a very nice job.

[Captain Kernow]

I've been quite busy for the last few weeks, doing a few jobs to assist Re6/6 with the exhibiting of 'Parkend Marsh Sidings' at the 'Mini-Scaleforum' day near Teignmouth last weekend. This included building two cottages (one still unfinished) and sorting out a few more wagons, particularly 16t minerals.

 

Prior to that, I had started building another (very) low relief factory for Callow Lane, to fill a gap between the two overbridges.

 

It's based on a new Scalescenes kit for a rail-served factory (although it won't be rail-served on Callow Lane):

 

I shall only be using one of the outside walls, although that will have full relief and associated detail. I had only made a start cutting the basic shape out from Dalerboard, before suspending work to do the jobs for 'Parkend Marsh Sidings':

 

Here are some of the 16t minerals posed in front of it:

 

 

Now that the show has taken place, I've re-started work on the low-relief factory and have started to glue the Scalescenes brick paper on the front. Because this is a modification of their original design, this has involved a bit of 'cut & shut' with the brickpaper:

 

It will all be weathered to a more grimy finish in due course.

 

[Siberian Snooper]

Nice curtains!

 

[Captain Kernow]

1 hour ago, Siberian Snooper said:

Nice curtains!

Whatjamean?

 

That's the backscene!

 

[Siberian Snooper]

I look forward to seeing the "backscene" when the layout gets to an exhibition, it should make a great talking point.

 

 

[37Oban]

I like the fish bar.  Does it mean that Ginger, the Professor and, of course, Biggles, have businesses nearby?

 

Roja

[Captain Kernow]

13 hours ago, Siberian Snooper said:

I look forward to seeing the "backscene" when the layout gets to an exhibition, it should make a great talking point.

Have you never seen Baron von Harrap's apron backscene, with a picture of a works on it, to be worn by the Duty Operator at a show?

 

[Siberian Snooper]

No I haven't seen the Baron's pinny apron, does this mean that you will be wearing curtains, a backscene when you exhibit Callow Lane?

That will be almost as interesting as wondering how loud Monsewer Blackrat's shirt is going to be.

[Captain Kernow]

The (very) low relief factory is finished now and is shown here, temporarily in place, prior to weathering:

 

Some weathering (with powders) applied:

 

 

I also got the iron railings out, that I prepared a few years ago and trial-fitted them on the top of the retaining wall:

 

Sorry this is a bit out of focus, but hopefully the intended arrangement is clear:

 

 

[bgman]

Lovely work once again.

 

I am enjoying both this and an olive ciabatta with spanish ham each very tasty in its own right ! 

[Tim Dubya]

1 hour ago, bgman said:

Lovely work once again.

 

I am enjoying both this and an olive ciabatta with spanish ham each very tasty in its own right ! 

 

Funnily enough, Mrs Dubya is 'doing at bit' of Spanish now on her duolingo app. 

 

"I know nuuuthing".

 

 

 

 

 

Edited October 19, 2021 by Tim Dubya
crackers

[Captain Kernow]

17 hours ago, Tim Dubya said:

"I know nuuuthing"

One of the first things I looked up, when I discovered Google Translate.

 

[woodenhead]

Just been reading an article in the RM from November 1996, some chap called Tim, a Hornby Hymek and the embryonic Titfield Thunderbolt bookshop.

 

How time flies....

 

Edit: In December I found out it wasn't a real station after all, I was so convinced in November

 

This Tim chap is just like the Good Captain and his nefarious ruses.

Edited October 20, 2021 by woodenhead

[Captain Kernow]

13 hours ago, woodenhead said:

In December I found out it wasn't a real station after all, I was so convinced in November

That'll learn you! Don't believe everything written by those lying hyenas of the  Capitalist-Socialist Gutter Press.

 

[Tim Dubya]

13 hours ago, woodenhead said:

JEdit: In December I found out it wasn't a real station after all, I was so convinced in November

 

This Tim chap is just like the Good Captain and his nefarious ruses.

 

Back in the mists of time I heard some geeza had a bookstall on a real station in Wiltshire? 



I understand that this station was once the junction for Titfield, so you weren't far off old chap.

 

[Captain Kernow]

9 minutes ago, Tim Dubya said:

Back in the mists of time I heard some geeza had a bookstall on a real station in Wiltshire? 

 

Cecil B. DeKernow of Kernow Motion Pictures, presents:

 

 

 

[Tim Dubya]

If I am not mistaken, I believe it was our old friend Roy Gough, who took this photograph of the throngs of Combe Downers* marching down Brass Knockers Hill to the opening of the emporium of stuff?

 

 

*  a glass half empty moment

[Tim Dubya]

I would like to issue an apology to @Captain Kernow and @Not Jeremy

 

and replace my total Hill guff with this....

 

 

 

 

Edited October 23, 2021 by Tim Dubya
Super Noodles

[Not Jeremy]

Cripes, I have just spotted Cecil B DeKernow's film, best part of thirty years ago, hell.

 

Lots of (young looking) friends there, it was very (and typically) generous of Chris Austin to agree to perform the opening ceremony and unveil Dave's beautiful running in board.

 

The board that graces the station now is a replacement made some years later by Dave, as the "indestructible MDF" proved anything but. 

 

I was out there last night with Dave, mostly feeling bloody old...

 

And Tim, surely your picture is of Brassknocker Hill rather than Winsley Hill?

 

Or am I more confused than I thought I was...

[Oldddudders]

Oh, that Chris Austin - properly dressed, as ever. ISTR being at his farewell do when he left NSE, and went to be the Board's man at Westminster, replacing Peter Trewin, who became Secretary to the Board.

 

Chris, it has to be said, was a Southern Region Trainee, in 1967, I think. 

[Tim Dubya]

2 hours ago, Not Jeremy said:

 surely your picture is of Brassknocker Hill rather than Winsley Hill?

 

Or am I more confused than I thought I was...

 

Yeah but I got picked on by the old fogeys of Bath, who put the case for lack of stone walling on Brassknocker and that anyone from Combe Down would only be going to look at the pictures and not the wordy bits.  I shall have to get to the local seance down at the Hadley Arms later and see if I can have a chat with Douggie Slocombe and Charlieboy Crichton.

 

Of course, I could just have a few pints of Ched

 

Edited October 23, 2021 by Tim Dubya
Knockers, brass one's

[Not Jeremy]

I didn't know that Bath had any old fogeys left, tis full of young people and money from London, all run by a bunch of greedy trolls and flat earthers from Keynsham, masquerading as the ever so reasonable Ditheral Lemocratz.

 

Still looks more Brassknocker than Winsley to me...

 

 

Picture from the Monkton Combe School archive.

 

Edited October 23, 2021 by Not Jeremy
Better picture