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On 23/02/2020 at 21:33, Simond said:

Was in Lime St today, it’s almost as good as the model...

 

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simon

 

I'd say it's visually poorer than the model, with that boring flight of steps up to the station, and the overcleaned North Western Hotel.

And not a tram in sight.....   :jester:

 

Characterless!

 

 

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19 minutes ago, Hroth said:

 

I'd say it's visually poorer than the model, with that boring flight of steps up to the station, and the overcleaned North Western Hotel.

And not a tram in sight.....   :jester:

 

Characterless!

 

 

And now being so open you can see the front is not as straight as the model.

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12 hours ago, davefromacrossthepond said:

Well, perhaps we could forgive them this one time? After all, they are works of art.  Of course, I would be more than happy to quarantine them on my layout.  :sarcastichand:

 

 

The Liverpudlians on the layout would love to come to your layout. Problem is there are no flights from the UK to the USA at the moment!

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On 31/03/2020 at 15:55, Les Green said:

It is the fault of the local people ignoring recommendations to social distance themselves and non essential shops being still open.

 

:scared:

They are Very Naughty people! (but well modelled)

 

Is the chap behind the platform barrier teasing the queue wih a bar of Frys chocolate? Slowly eating it whilst they cluster closer and closer...

 

 

On 08/04/2020 at 18:36, Les Green said:

See Liverpool Lime Street, this time in Railway Modeller May Issue. On sale from April 9th.

 

I'm doing some essential shopping on Saturday, I'll have a look for it then.

 

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Have not received my May RM over here and because I may not I decided to read it on the web even though that leaves a bit to be desired.  However, the upside is the photos.  LLS photos are fantastic on the desktop.  Much better than the magazine would/will be.  And what a layout!

 

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Not sure if this has been mentioned or if the Lime Street guys have seen it, apologies if either has already happened.

 

Running off the Bootle branch 1:53

Edge Hill, running into one of the Southport bays 1:55

Lime Street starts at 2:42 thru to 5:13

 

Not watched anymore yet

 

 

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Locked down, but not idle..........

 

The Lime Street Crew enjoyed our first "virtual" session today, thanks to Zoom.

 

Subsequently, John sent us the following video and photo of his latest development.

He has now solved the problems of getting the new chimney to smoke.

 

 

And here is the Smoke Generator fitted into the baseboard:

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The actual generator is fitted inside the perspex water tank which also contains a fan to drive the smoke up the chimney.

The small control panel is used to operate the system manually  or to integrate it with the layout's main control system so that smoke is generated at intervals during "day light" and switches off during "night time".

 

I wonder when we're going to be allowed out to play with the railway?:senile:

We should have been packing it all up to take it to the Bristol Show about now.

 

Steve.

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Another ongoing task during these sad times is the construction of an extra three coaches for the Glasgow to Liverpool sleeper train. A sleeper first, a sleeper second, and a full brake. The three coaches are comet kits modified to have internal lighting when completed.

 

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Nothing was done with the 6 wheel bogies. They are pin point bearings and run quite smoothly. A drop of oil may be applied later if we have any running difficulties.

The couplings are just a bent piece of 1mm wire with some 0.5mm wire soldered on to represent the vacuum and heating pipework. The bare  vertical part just fits into a tapered hole in the base of the adjacent coach. All home made and simple enough. The coaches at the rake ends are fitted with KD couplings. All of our coach rakes are permanently coupled when on the layout.

Hope that helps

Les

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8 hours ago, Steve Hewitt said:

All this temporary installation is then removed for ballasting to be completed.

It is later re-installed and weathered.

 

 

It is hard to imagine installing point rodding runs twice!

 

Even once is beyond most of us!! :fie:

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On 11/10/2020 at 21:34, Tony Teague said:

 

It is hard to imagine installing point rodding runs twice!

 

Even once is beyond most of us!! :fie:

Yes totally agree there Tony. My newest layout I’m building is using British Finescale hand made code 40 track and I did look at 2mm Association point rodding components but decided that was an insane idea.

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