FoxUnpopuli Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 27 minutes ago, phil.c said: Something missing [ScrewLink] A very nice 'shop indeed. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 31A Posted May 24, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 24, 2020 10 hours ago, bigwordsmith said: how can that be an honorary Deltic? It’s entirely the wrong shape! It sounds like one, and goes like one .... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 24, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 24, 2020 35 minutes ago, phil.c said: Something missing What have you done with my kadee? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 24, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 24, 2020 Another look at 60050 this morning. 60050 was a cop for me at Grantham during the summer holidays of 1956. It had been on the GC until June that year, which was inaccessible to me back then. I can even remember where it was - just coming off the turning triangle on Grantham shed, easily visible from the island platform. End of nostalgia. Most of the formation behind the tender was MK1, but our chap spotted a couple of more interesting cars, one LNER, and another with GNR origins. I think we will be having a poll on coaching stock before long. 27 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted May 24, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 24, 2020 17 hours ago, great northern said: Today I have found a sheet of paper. It reminded me that years ago I worked out a lot of complex route settings, and allocated macro numbers to each one. Why then have I since been scratching my head and taking ages to set them manually each time? Sitting quietly with my tea, I shall consider that question. I shall also deal with the afternoon image, which is another look at that Stanier tank. A nicely proportioned beastie, that. Speaking for myself, I think that it is best if the operation of a layout reflects as closely as possible the way it was operated in real life. So fine to have computerised control for a layout based on current day operation. Fine to have route-setting entry/exit panels for a layout portraying busy locations from 1960s onwards. But for a layout set in the late 50s, individual levers for each point, signal, etc. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 24, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 24, 2020 This poll produced two resounding winners. The Deltics got 17 votes, the nearest challenger managing 2. On the freight side, Class 56 was again well ahead with 7 votes, nothing else getting more than 2. We will move on to the suggestions some of you have kindly made for other polls, and start with an amalgam of Type 1 and diesel shunters. What was the most attractive design to be found amongst those? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 I will go with Clayton Class 17 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 BTH Class 15. Loads of character. The only diesel I've built a model of. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNERandBR Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 For me Type One means only one thing, well two as they liked to pair up, the Class 20 'Choppers'. Preferably in BR Blue 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CUTLER2579 Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 Must be the Class 15. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted May 24, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 24, 2020 18 minutes ago, jwealleans said: BTH Class 15. Loads of character. The only diesel I've built a model of. Only one you have built? Type 1s and Shunters mixed, not to sure on this. Do I go for A BTH Or Hawk Or a Cayton Or a NBL Or English Electric Or something a bit more humble like a 350 Jocko I think a little Barcaly gets my vote today. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 3rd Rail Exile Posted May 24, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 24, 2020 Another vote for Class 20... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieR4489 Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 I think I’ll go for a Chopper as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted May 24, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 24, 2020 English Electric Type 1. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 24, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 24, 2020 1 hour ago, Joseph_Pestell said: Speaking for myself, I think that it is best if the operation of a layout reflects as closely as possible the way it was operated in real life. So fine to have computerised control for a layout based on current day operation. Fine to have route-setting entry/exit panels for a layout portraying busy locations from 1960s onwards. But for a layout set in the late 50s, individual levers for each point, signal, etc. I agree with you entirely in theory, but in practice there is no chance my layout would have ever been built had I gone down that route. Control panel(s) of a size I don't have room for would be the first problem, and individual operation would be much more complex. I've said before that I tend towards idleness, so to be constantly walking up and down the room to set the route for a single train would not appeal. I can do that with at most six key presses on one unit, and from one location, and that's what keeps me motivated. I'll admit to double standards, as I'm quite prepared to spend time putting a single train together from cassettes and loose stock, but that's what I enjoy doing, which has to be the most important thing. 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 24, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 24, 2020 45 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said: Only one you have built? Type 1s and Shunters mixed, not to sure on this. Do I go for A BTH Or Hawk Or a Cayton Or a NBL Or English Electric Or something a bit more humble like a 350 Jocko I think a little Barcaly gets my vote today. Clive, did you really build all that lot? Or have you found a way to get them to breed? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 24, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 24, 2020 Tea break photo today shows 60050 waiting to depart, and another WD and more empties trundling and clanking along the Down slow. It has been very grey and rather cold here until now, but the sun just came out. Oh, and went back in again. 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted May 24, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 24, 2020 (edited) 11 minutes ago, great northern said: I agree with you entirely in theory, but in practice there is no chance my layout would have ever been built had I gone down that route. Control panel(s) of a size I don't have room for would be the first problem, and individual operation would be much more complex. I've said before that I tend towards idleness, so to be constantly walking up and down the room to set the route for a single train would not appeal. I can do that with at most six key presses on one unit, and from one location, and that's what keeps me motivated. I'll admit to double standards, as I'm quite prepared to spend time putting a single train together from cassettes and loose stock, but that's what I enjoy doing, which has to be the most important thing. I do understand that, especially in the context of operating a layout on your own. And, of course, nothing wrong with operating the fiddleyard with a maximum of automation because that does not represent "real railway". We all of us have to make some compromises. I am planning a layout of similar size and complexity to yours. It could be built to have four signal boxes and therefore four operating panels but I think that I can justify the LMS having modernised to having just three with one of those "locked out" except when needed to shunt a freight train into the small goods yard there. The design reflects my love for operating a layout more as a signalman than as a locomotive driver. The necessary compromise is that I won't be able to have a operating timetable that covers all the trains that would have run over a 24-hour period. It will just be a sequence that represents a part of the service. I'm not too bothered if, as a single operator, the trains don't all run on time because I can't keep up. Edited May 24, 2020 by Joseph_Pestell 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Pilotman Posted May 24, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 24, 2020 I’ve never seen one and know very little about them but I’ve always thought the Clayton Class 17s were attractive locos. I think having non-standard window shapes is part of the appeal. The concept was obviously sound as I see many examples of centre-cab Bo-Bo locomotives shunting and pulling local freight traffic whenever I catch a train here in Germany. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted May 24, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 24, 2020 I’m voting for the class 20 Chopper too. A very good looking Type 1. Rob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Hawkins Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 Class 20 receives my vote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted May 24, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 24, 2020 27 minutes ago, great northern said: Clive, did you really build all that lot? Or have you found a way to get them to breed? All me own work. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigwordsmith Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 18 minutes ago, Joseph_Pestell said: I do understand that, especially in the context of operating a layout on your own. And, of course, nothing wrong with operating the fiddleyard with a maximum of automation because that does not represent "real railway". We all of us have to make some compromises. I am planning a layout of similar size and complexity to yours. It could be built to have four signal boxes and therefore four operating panels but I think that I can justify the LMS having modernised to having just three with one of those "locked out" except when needed to shunt a freight train into the small goods yard there. The design reflects my love for operating a layout more as a signalman than as a locomotive driver. The necessary compromise is that I won't be able to have a operating timetable that covers all the trains that would have run over a 24-hour period. It will just be a sequence that represents a part of the service. I'm not too bothered if, as a single operator, the trains don't all run on time because I can't keep up. When I set out to build my Waverley East layout in our last house I had visions of 10 coach trains hacking round a decent run - I did after all have 36' x 11 and Gilbert very wisely as it turned out counselled me to wards keeping it simple, especially if I was planning to turn it on my own. As you'll see if you can be bothered to trawl through the 20-odd pages of drivel in my own thread, this actually got to the building of the main lines and fiddle yard, and the setting out of the main station. I realised that operation was going to be way beyond me, and in fact with my eyesight getting slightly less sharp I found I couldn't really see much of the long train in the distance - The length of my room meant that a train at the other end of the room is a scale half a mile away, so all detail, even the number on the loco side, gets lost. We moved a couple of years ago so the railway had to be dismantled, and my new room is 21'x9'6. That is much more manageable, and while I will continue to have a very complex engine shed and a six road station to play with so I can terminate trains to send them off in the opposite direction, complete with loco change, I'm eschewing a fiddle yard in favour of semi-concealed storage loops so trains don't have to go round lots of times. The theory is that I should give myself a lot less of an operational headache. IN fairness I'm not massively enthused to get on with it at the moment, partly due to injury and partly due to having got a bit disillusioned at the last line by biting off too big a mouthful! There's a reason most layouts never get finished - ambitions are often much larger than the practicality. In that respect layouts like PN and Little Bytham are unusual, but they serve much more as a backdrop to the owners' main interests - in Gilbert's case realistic operations and Tony as we all know is an amazing builder of models. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 Has to be a class 16 for me. Much more purposeful looking than a 15 or even a 20. Stewart Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welly Posted May 24, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 24, 2020 I vote for the Class 15 - nice looking loco, pity about it's rubbish performance in service! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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