Simond Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 Was in Lime St today, it’s almost as good as the model... simon 4 2 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted February 27, 2020 Share Posted February 27, 2020 On 23/02/2020 at 21:33, Simond said: Was in Lime St today, it’s almost as good as the model... 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..... Characterless! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free At Last Posted February 27, 2020 Share Posted February 27, 2020 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..... Characterless! And now being so open you can see the front is not as straight as the model. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Les Green Posted March 4, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 4, 2020 On 27/02/2020 at 22:31, Free At Last said: And now being so open you can see the front is not as straight as the model. That is quite true. The real station front is not straight but has an angle of about twelve degrees between the two front arches. The model station front has an angle of only four degrees. The model station had to fit on fairly narrow baseboards and the track plan was modified to fit the baseboards. If you look at the real station it is built on a curve. We built the model station straight, but with the correct taper on the throat end of the roof. We didn't want to have parallel front arches with the straightened station so i managed to put in a relatively small angle in the alignment of the front arches. The photo shows the slight angle (not very clearly I might add!) between the two arches. 14 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Les Green Posted March 31, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 31, 2020 (edited) Unfortunately,due to Coronavirus Liverpool Lime Street has had to close down for the duration of the pandemic. All exhibition attendances for 2020 have had to be cancelled. It is the fault of the local people ignoring recommendations to social distance themselves and non essential shops being still open. We have realeased photos of the offending people and hope they learn to behave themselves. Edited March 31, 2020 by Les Green 29 1 16 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davefromacrossthepond Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 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. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Green Posted April 1, 2020 Author Share Posted April 1, 2020 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. 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! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davefromacrossthepond Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 Darn that COVID 19!!!! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Green Posted April 8, 2020 Author Share Posted April 8, 2020 See Liverpool Lime Street, this time in Railway Modeller May Issue. On sale from April 9th. 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard.h Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 A very good article with excellent photos including some Locos I hadn't seen before, where have you been hiding the LMS 1000. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony Teague Posted April 9, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 9, 2020 Great coverage which you must all be very pleased with! Well done. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 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. 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. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMS2968 Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 9 hours ago, Hroth said: I'm doing some essential shopping on Saturday, I'll have a look for it then. I'd certainly count that as essential! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theakerr Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 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! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted April 22, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 22, 2020 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 9 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve45 Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 I've just watched it all the way through, brilliant record of the last few years of steam which and ends with the 15 guinea special departing from Lime Street. Absolutely brilliant 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Steve Hewitt Posted April 23, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 23, 2020 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: 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? We should have been packing it all up to take it to the Bristol Show about now. Steve. 10 1 5 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Steve Hewitt Posted July 12, 2020 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted July 12, 2020 It's been a while......... .............since we updated this topic. The Lockdown has constrained our activities somewhat, and we missed the Bristol Show of course. The big thing that we are all missing is the chance to meet and run the railway. However, some things can still be progressed and John has been very busy on the groundworks. He is continuing the "elephant task" of ballasting and point rodding along the platforms and in the station throat. Where the track is plain along the platforms this is fairly straight forward. Its the rodding which complicates things. This takes several distinct phases to achieve the required result. First the route of the rodding between the point and the Signal Box has to be planned and marked out on the bare baseboards. The necessary stools are the installed: Some of this work will never be seen once the layout is running. WHY? you might ask. The team motto "'Cos we can" applies. Any track crossings are excavated and rodding installed. This is as far as John has got at present. The ballasting will progress once individual baseboards can be removed to the workbench to give better access. And that rodding already installed will be removed for the ballast to be laid, painted, weathered etc. before being permanently fixed, painted and weathered. More reports as progress is made.............. Steve. 24 1 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Green Posted August 26, 2020 Author Share Posted August 26, 2020 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. 14 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Les Green Posted September 7, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted September 7, 2020 Another three Comet coach kits completed for the Glasgow to Liverpool sleeper train. 17 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLaird Posted September 12, 2020 Share Posted September 12, 2020 Nice work Les, lovely finish. Have you done anything special with the six wheel bogies to get them to run reliably? Are there details of the coupling system elsewhere on this thread? Regards John E. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Green Posted September 12, 2020 Author Share Posted September 12, 2020 (edited) 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 Edited September 13, 2020 by Les Green 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Steve Hewitt Posted October 11, 2020 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted October 11, 2020 Quiet but not idle..... The Covid-19 restrictions have curtailed much of the teams social contact, which has been confined to the telephone and fortnightly Zoom conferences. (Posh word for gossip). John has taken advantage of unrestrained access to his railway to tackle one of the "elephant" tasks - Ballasting and Point Rodding in the Station and Station Throat. The ballasting extends to the buffers. It awaits the attention of Rob with his collection of muck and grime. The point rodding runs are carefully mapped. The route is excavated below existing track and rodding hardware temporarily installed. It gets quite congested nearer to the signal box! All this temporary installation is then removed for ballasting to be completed. It is later re-installed and weathered. Waiting impatiently for restrictions to be lifted... Steve. 16 9 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony Teague Posted October 11, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 11, 2020 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!! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dragonboy Posted October 13, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 13, 2020 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!! 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. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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