RMweb Premium 45156 Posted March 22, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 22, 2011 Somebody's been busy with the camera and the computer, but obviously was also very busy before that with the modelling, which is amazingly good. Is the layout on the exhibition circuit? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 60027Merlin Posted March 22, 2011 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted March 22, 2011 It certainly has been a busy time during the winter with the usual variety of projects on the go. I had some shots on file from last Autumn but amazingly last week we had the rare event of a couple of days of clear blue skies so the light was good for taking photographs during the late morning/early afternoon period. These were mainly of the Glen and Blue Peter so it enabled me to put thr branch trip together. Blue Peter is the recent Bachmann offering and as it took some time to give it the "treatment" it happened to still be in the fiddle yard undergoing test runs and the opportunity was taken to include it. However with Glen Lyon being the main subject it's not often that smaller stuff features more than pacifics! The layout is one of these "that never leave home",so it has always been a bit of a rare bird. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LNER Tom Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Always great to see some updates 60027Merlin I do have affection for the 0-6-0 and 4-4-0 Scottish, they have something about them that makes them seem very natural to the Scottish area I'm interested, whats the 'treatment' you mention given to the Bachmann Blue Peter? Tom Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 60027Merlin Posted March 23, 2011 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted March 23, 2011 The Bachmann model is finished for Blue Peter's last few years which did not suit me for the 1957 - 1961 period. The additions were; removal of couplings and tidying up the front bogie, new bogie wheels, screw couplings on loco and tender, smokebox split handrail removed and replaced higher up with one handrail, new upper lamp iron, re-positioning of smoke box number plate, new Ferryhill shed plate, addition of works plates, route availability transfers applied to cab sides, steps on running plate at firebox sides, pipe runs, aws bang plate, holes drilled in frame fronts, cab sheeting, tender coaling piece adjusted and topped with real coal, seams on either boiler side removed and boiler sides partially re-painted, top of tender sides painted green, loco and tender finely dry brushed to tone down the glossy effect as purchased, all wheels and valve gear painted, close coupling on loco/tender drawbar slightly adjusted for the closest possible length to enable a realistic look but practical for reliable performance on the layout. I think that's it but I may have missed something! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 60027Merlin Posted April 2, 2011 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 2, 2011 About 20 years ago in the latest Colour-Rail catalogue there appeared in the new slide section a shot of Clayton D8585 with the Leith General Warehouse vans at Portobello East in August 1964. I always thought that it was a great picture but then and for quite some time no Clayton models existed so nothing more came of it apart from building some Parkside kits of the LGW vans. Thankfully Heljan recently produced a Clayton and I purchased one last year but after testing it I never got round to finishing it off however last month I decided to get it out of the box and into service. Even although it is outwith the layout time frame it makes for a change from the usual J35/36/37s on the Sub freights from a few years earlier and at last I can replicate that slide - with not a pacific in sight! 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 60027Merlin Posted April 26, 2011 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 26, 2011 As the gardening season is in full swing tea breaks are always enjoyable between the various things to do. Recently when having a tea break I was sitting outside the greenhouse with my collection of Waverley Route books and the idea for the following snaps came from this. No lead, rhythm, bass guitarists or drummer however here is - "The Carlisle Quartet". 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidw Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 Lovelly. I've 14 A3's in my collection with two Brown Jack's and one Coronach on order. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 60027Merlin Posted April 26, 2011 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 26, 2011 Lovelly. I've 14 A3's in my collection with two Brown Jack's and one Coronach on order. That is some number of A3s! I believe that Brown Jack will be available before Coronach, hopefully sooner rather than later. Like you I shall purchase a Brown Jack as I am after a GNR tender to go with Ormonde, which is all ready to go into the roster, but at present does not have a tender, always a problem as Hornby do not supply tenders separately. I prefer to avoid the German smoke deflectors as they are just outside the period modelled, but I will use the spare high sided tender to go with Brown Jack and change it to a Gateshead loco but whether I keep it is still to be decided. Brown Jack, as seen below, is how I prefer them as they were still in the Haymarket senior links and used on the ECML and the Waverley Route, beauty being in the eye of the beholder and all that! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidw Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 I model the 59 - 62 period. So some of mine are deflectored if that's the right word I like both types .But no single chimneys. A3's are a minefield of derivates... Still building my layout - yours is an inspiration like Gilbert Barnatts Peterborough! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pennine MC Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 Time for a bump methinks, in view of the mention in the RoSc group B) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 60027Merlin Posted June 12, 2011 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted June 12, 2011 Today is the 50th. anniversary of the start of the final season of the A4 hauled Elizabethan and I thought that it would be an idea to mark this in model form on the layout. Here are photos of all the members of the Haymarket no. 1 link which operated this non-stop service over the years together with their Kings Cross counterparts. Unfortunately I cannot feature any Kings Cross locos as I do not have any. However there is certainly no slight intended for this omission as both sheds kept their A4s in tip top condition and the crews and supporting staff did first class work being a credit to the LNER/BR. I have inserted the photos, not as it usually states in the credits for the cast at the end of films, in order of appearance, but in order of the number of years in which each loco appeared starting with the least. The Elizabethan 1953 - 1961 Nine glorious summers from 64B and 34A 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 60027Merlin Posted August 1, 2011 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted August 1, 2011 (edited) In the late 50s/early 60s during summer Saturdays when the football season was closed it gave many trainspotters the chance, with a cheap day return ticket, to visit a station outwith their area in the hope of copping unfamiliar locos and preferably with an engine shed nearby to wander around un-noticed. It's the summer of 1960, Real Madrid had just won, yet again, the European Cup, this time at Hampden a month or so earlier, Elvis had just finished his stint in the US Army and was back recording, the Jet Harris led Shadows had broken the music establishment barrier with their Fenders to the fore and even although Johnny Kidd and the Pirates were Shakin' all Over, Haymarket's no. 27 certainly wasn't as it was on it's record breaking run of appearances on the Non-Stop following on from it's great work on it the previous summer. With that in mind, here is a selection of photos taken at the station and the shed hopefully giving a flavour of what some football playing spotters would have seen back then on the ECML around the Edinburgh area. By coincidence they will be departing many hours later pulled by the same C16 with which they arrived. [ Edited September 11, 2012 by 60027Merlin 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidw Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 Really great Eric Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 45156 Posted August 2, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 2, 2011 Indeed - most impressive - I was looking at work and somebody asked me where the pics were taken, and was surprised to learn that this was a model. There really is some smashing Scottish modelling on this site now - I can think of more than half a dozen really classy layouts now covering different eras and spects of Scottish operation - yours included. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
benachie Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 A fantastic sequence of photies! Alan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
millerhillboy Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Thanks for continually giving us more pictures, they truly are a treat, in particular for us with an interest in the area. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 64B Posted August 2, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 2, 2011 What a great model railway. I love the great collection of 64B locos and rolling stock. I recall seeing LGW wagons at the brewries in Gorgie during the 60s, however I am not sure they ever worked outside of Leith Docks and the Sub. Great work Neil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark 37 Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 You have a very atmospheric layout. A great piece of modelling. Can I ask where the footbridge in the above photo's came from? Best regards, Mark Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 60027Merlin Posted August 2, 2011 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted August 2, 2011 What a great model railway. I love the great collection of 64B locos and rolling stock. I recall seeing LGW wagons at the brewries in Gorgie during the 60s, however I am not sure they ever worked outside of Leith Docks and the Sub. Great work Neil Neil I use the old war horse of modellers licence! within reason, for the layout period of 1957 -1961. For example the V4 pictured a few pages back was withdrawn at the end of 1957 but it will run with A3s fitted with double chimneys a year or two later. Modelling is easier that way! Like you I thought that the LGW wagons were only to be seen in Leith Docks and on various locations along the Sub. however last year when looking through a friend's collection of photos I came across a couple of shots of LGW wagons in a mixed freight at Saughton Junction. It was heading into town and on the Aberdeen line pulled by a J36 and dated in the 50s. We reckoned that the reason for their appearance in the west of the city was because of the Distillery at Kirkliston. That would tie up with the mixed goods make up as there were regular pick-up goods workings out that way then. That then gave me the excuse to "mix them up a bit" - not often though! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted August 2, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 2, 2011 Lovely photos, lovely layout, many thanks for the photos of locos that we small boys down South always dreamed of but very rarely saw. I have two 64B visitors to Peterborough, and alas that is all I can justify. For some reason I have a particularly soft spot for D30's. partly because of the wonderful names, but also because they were such handsome engines. I wonder if they ever got as far South as New England shed? No? Thought not...... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 60027Merlin Posted August 2, 2011 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted August 2, 2011 You have a very atmospheric layout. A great piece of modelling. Can I ask where the footbridge in the above photo's came from? Best regards, Mark Mark I recall buying this at a second hand table at a local exhibition round about 30 years ago, it was still in its sections and wrapped in a paper bag! As I did not have a layout I filed it away for use in the future. I am sure that it is a Triang/Hornby one but cannot verify it. I purchased it as the style reminded me of the bridge on the Corstorphine Branch as at that time I am sure that there was nothing else available to suit and I had plans to model that branch at it had regular pacific workings. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Max Stafford Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Lovely stuff. Red pantiles and 64B locos. No mistaking the setting for this layout! Beautifully done! Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinecreekrr Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 Beautifully done layout and locomotives of all types. I too am taken by the smaller locomotives such as 56035. Is this an augmentation of the Slater's Pug or some other ? Thanks so much for the inspiration. Bruce Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 60027Merlin Posted August 3, 2011 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted August 3, 2011 Lovely photos, lovely layout, many thanks for the photos of locos that we small boys down South always dreamed of but very rarely saw. I have two 64B visitors to Peterborough, and alas that is all I can justify. For some reason I have a particularly soft spot for D30's. partly because of the wonderful names, but also because they were such handsome engines. I wonder if they ever got as far South as New England shed? No? Thought not...... Aye New England was just a bit too far south for Ellangowan to run away from Father Ambrose whilst Wandering Willie didn't like to stray from the Waverley Route! No doubt your 64B visitors were on running in turns from Doncaster as Gateshead were under strict instructions not to use 64B's steeds on their southbound workings. It was the other way round for us as on checking up my ABC today I see that your locally based pacifics at New England and Grantham stand out as not being underlined and hardly a surprise, the only Peppercorn A2 I didn't see was Happy Knight which was local to you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobi323 Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 Well done? The furrows in the garden beds is a nice touch. What have you planted? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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