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21 hours ago, Bogie said:

I agree.  The sense of realism is the most outstanding feature.

 

I visited the area once back in 1997.  I only took a single photo (as these were the days of loading film in a camera) and it was only when I got back to Australia and had the film developed that I realised I had not included any trains!

 

Your layout more than makes up.

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You can't fool me, that's not real, that's Davids layout when he has taken his stock of to clean the wheels!

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That is lovely work Dave, particularly the weathering on the wagons. Your mention of Stac Pollaidh struck a chord with me because it is a particular favourite of my wife and only yesterday I hang an enormous picture of it on our wall! See attached. I have not taken the protective film off it yet because I still have to paint the ceiling.

 

Your mention of 56's at Waverley stirred a long distant memory. In 1976 I travelled through to Waverley from Falkirk in the hope of seeing 56001, then brand new, which was rumoured to be visiting. The loco was conducting trials on the ECML following delivery from Romania. I think it did visit but I missed it!

 

Cheers

David

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2 hours ago, Waverley West said:

First up is the addition of a second Mk 3 FO to each of my three HST sets, one blue-grey, one original InterCity and one InterCity Swallow. This wasn't as easy as I had expected, as each rake had been completely resprayed and they each had their own subtleties as regards the colours I used for the seats and so on. Anyway, I eventually managed to produce three FOs which matched their respective rakes and I now have three 2+7 HST rakes, which look more typical of the East Coast formations of the time. 

 

Here is one of the new FOs, showing off its new interior lights. I actually think it's better with the interior lights off during daytime running, as the lights are too bright otherwise. They come into their own during night running sessions though

The IC Swallow looks ace mate, that TF is absolutely First Class! (See what I did there? ;))

 

Look forward to some nighttime lighting shots to really show off the interior lights.

 

2 hours ago, Waverley West said:

...with the newly weathered polybulks in the formation...

They look very much the part as well, those sort of blended chalky grey patches really give the feel of a revenue earning vehicle in use so to speak.

 

It's nice to see an update from you again, always a delight to see more of the fantastic Waverley West.

 

2 hours ago, Waverley West said:

Well, I guess that's it for now. I hope it won't be another five months before my next update!

It's the quality of posts not quantity that counts :)

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10 hours ago, Waverley West said:

Hi folks,

 

Well, six weeks since my last update, so not as bad as last time. I've been pretty busy on the traction front recently. You wait ages for new locos on WW and then no fewer than five come along at once. The new additions cover the full timespan of Waverley West, including a centre headcode 40, two Railfreight 20s and two sector 60s.

 

Anyway, without further ado, here are the new releases from the Waverley West Works:

 

First up are two Railfreight-liveried 20s, based on Bachmann's new release. Although Bachmann's chosen 20227 was a Haymarket loco and therefore perfect for WW, I thought the choice a bit strange, as I was unable to find any other Railfreight 20 which was fitted with a hi-intensity headlight while in BR service, which led to a renumbering headache. I wanted a pair of the locos, so in the end I opted for 20132, which was fitted with a headlight sometime after privatisation as far as I can tell from my research. I found it a bit surprising that no other Railfreight 20 was fitted with a high-intensity light, given that twenty class 20s were painted in this livery and presumably lived on longer as a result.

 

Anyway, 20132 is always the train loco in my pairing, so you don't really see the headlight. So, rule 1 applies and I've let myself off the hook.

 

Here are some photos of the pair, which are currently powering one of WW's Speedlink rakes, passing through Princes St Gardens and on through Waverley...

 

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I opted for a "workaday" appearance for this pair. Not particularly clean, not particularly dirty.

 

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The next new arrival is Petroleum-liveried 60065 Kinder Low. This ended up being a complete respray due to Hornby's complete hash of a paint job on the original loco (60062 Samuel Johnson). Despite their almost exclusive use on freight, 60s always seemed to be pretty clean, so that is how I've portrayed this one.

 

The loco is currently being used on my rake of TEAs, one of the longest rakes on the layout (10 bogies), which it pulls with ease (after the usual major modifications to the Hornby close-coupling mechanism anyway).

 

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The fourth new loco is Coal sector 60078 Stac Pollaidh, which will mainly be used on one of the layout's coal rakes. This was also a complete respray for the same reasons as above. 

 

Here it is pootling about the station light engine...

 

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The fifth and final arrival for now is Banger Blue 40159, which will replace split headcode 40142, which will be sold. My memories of 40s, especially those in Scotland, don't really include the split headcode version, so I had been waiting for the centre headcode version from Bachmann.

 

Again, this one is fairly clean, although the roof is dirty...

 

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Well, I seem to have reached my 10 Mb limit for this post, so I'll sign off from this one. More to follow though!

 

I've been having a bit of a clear-out of my loco projects, as looking at my stock boxes, it was clear many projects were never going to see the light of day for various reasons (lack of time, cost of fitting sound chips, obsolescence, etc. etc.). So, I decided to sell off quite a few locos and use the proceeds to fund sound chips for locos which had been sitting in their boxes for too long. 

 

So far, this approach has been paying dividends, with the above locos now making it to the layout at last and a few other locos also on the bench, including two Coal sector 26s, Large Logo 37417 and (please don't tell anyone) an InterCity 90 and DVT combination. The latter are not a sign that electrification of WW has been authorised (extremely unlikely), just that I happen to like them! They will be used on both drags and as an electric without any OHLE when no one's watching. Rule 1 again. :)

 

Hope to be back soon with those other photos.

 

Cheers for now.

 

Happy modelling!

Dave

 

 

20s look great, and love the 40. 

 

One small criticism - that Whistler is far too clean! :D

 

Seriously though, nice to see an update from you and look forward to your developments.

 

 

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6 hours ago, Waverley West said:

 

Hee hee, I know what you're saying. It was tempting to go to town on it. 40159's condition was actually modelled based on a really good photo of it at Eastfield in 1980 in the book "Looking back at Class 40s". Dirty roof, fairly clean sides. It is probably actually a bit dirtier than it looks in the photos, as it has had a dirty wash down the sides. It's always easier to add more weathering than to remove it though, so it may yet go back to the works.

 

As and when Bachmann release a standard disc headcode version, I may well go to town on one of those. On a previous 40 (now sold), I had a nice oil stain down the side, which I thought looked really good. It actually covered up a glue mark on the body side, but over time I forgot about that bit. Funny how it was incredibly annoying at the time I got glue on the loco, but over time I really grew to like that stain! Perhaps I should do one on 40159 too. 

 

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Cheers

Dave

It is a lovely loco, so I can definitely appreciate the whole "seems a shame to spoil her". I think I remember your other 40 with the stain, would certainly be interesting to see similar treatment on another loco and I like the wee story behind it.

 

Ben

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I've always suspected that the MU jumper-cable sockets at the sides of the bogies on Bachmann's 40s were a bit overscale - rather visible from the end-on view.  Published pics also suggest that several of the original ScR allocation lost their MU jumpers at some stage, but I don't know if that included 40159 as at your time-period.

 

Alasdair

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1 hour ago, AJCT said:

I've always suspected that the MU jumper-cable sockets at the sides of the bogies on Bachmann's 40s were a bit overscale - rather visible from the end-on view.  Published pics also suggest that several of the original ScR allocation lost their MU jumpers at some stage, but I don't know if that included 40159 as at your time-period.

 

Alasdair

I understood they all did?

 

(That is Haymarket specifically went about removing them from its own allocation.)

 

EDIT: In fact, pondering more on the matter - didn't they also perform a modification to the sandboxes as well?

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On 19/10/2021 at 18:47, AJCT said:

I've always suspected that the MU jumper-cable sockets at the sides of the bogies on Bachmann's 40s were a bit overscale - rather visible from the end-on view.  Published pics also suggest that several of the original ScR allocation lost their MU jumpers at some stage, but I don't know if that included 40159 as at your time-period.

 

Alasdair

 

Hi Alasdair,

 

Now that you point it out, yes, 40159 had had its MU jumpers removed by the time of the main photo I used when weathering the loco (1980). 

 

I have seen a photo of them fitted to the loco while it had domino headcodes though, so I think I'll leave them in place, mainly because they add a bit of colour and interest to the bogie frames.

 

Cheers 

Dave

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14 minutes ago, Waverley West said:

Hi folks,

 

Just thought I'd post some piccies of the latest releases from the Waverley West Works - Coal sector 26002 and 26008, which seem to go everywhere together, currently hauling the layout's MGR HAA rake..

 

26002 was chosen as it has round buffers and is otherwise identical to the original Heljan donor loco 26008 as far as I can see. 26008 was kept un-renumbered.

 

They have both been weathered to a work-stained, but not too dirty state, which 26s in this livery often seemed to be in.

 

So, without further ado, here are some shots of the pair on the MGR rake passing through Princes Street Gardens and then Waverley...

 

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Currently on the workbench are Large Logo 37417, which is awaiting final buffer beam detailing, and an InterCity Swallow DVT.

 

Hope to be back soon with another update.

 

Happy Modelling!

Dave

 

A lovely set of photos, those 26s look so good together.

 

I see that poor woman is still running for her train! ;)

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18 hours ago, Waverley West said:

Hi folks,

 

Just thought I'd post some piccies of the latest releases from the Waverley West Works - Coal sector 26002 and 26008, which seem to go everywhere together, currently hauling the layout's MGR HAA rake..

was this because 008 wasn’t slow speed fitted? Believe only 001-007 were so fitted so maybe pairing 008 with 002 gave ability to still slow speed at Cockenzie?

nice job - I like the subtleties of the weathering which really brings out the detail.

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