RMweb Premium coronach Posted October 17, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted October 17, 2018 A St Margaret's B1 trundles down the gradient towards Slitrigg with a north bound train of fish empties... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium coronach Posted October 17, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted October 17, 2018 Hawick D49 sets off southbound from Slitrigg on a stopping passenger train..... 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium coronach Posted October 17, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted October 17, 2018 Meanwhile, some activity at Whinburgh... 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium coronach Posted October 17, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted October 17, 2018 Not a lot of progress on the layout this year - most efforts have been on maintenance and rolling stock construction. The next major task will be to relay and detail the 20 ft section between the fiddle yard and the three arch bridge approaching Whinburgh from the south. This section is simply plain track layed straight on to the baseboard. It is quite inaccessible because most of it located is under the eaves and behind another scenic section, so the plan is to take a rubbing of the track alignment then remove the track and lay it onto prestretched lining paper. I can do this away from the layout, including painting and ballasting. If it goes to plan, it should then be possible to insert the detailed track into the layout and then just tidy up the joining sections at each end. Fingers crossed !!!! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium coronach Posted October 17, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted October 17, 2018 Finished a bit of 2D modelling too..... 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium coronach Posted November 27, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted November 27, 2018 (edited) I've decided to finish off Slitrigg goods yard, starting with the cattle dock. It's nice and warm working in the dining room so I am building a module to fit when it is complete. Cardboard base, Wills stone setts, plasticard strip and some scrap bits and pieces, detailed with Chinchilla dust and flock powder; topped off with a spare gas lamp. I have also completed another Parkside kit for the fish train. Edited November 27, 2018 by coronach 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium coronach Posted December 22, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 22, 2018 Freight ops through Slitrigg this morning..... You might notice that the station building has been refurbished. The original stonework had become detached from the foamboard carcass and has been replaced with a rendered stone effect - much better. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium coronach Posted December 22, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 22, 2018 Another view of the building 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium coronach Posted December 22, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 22, 2018 A wider view of the railway 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
millerhillboy Posted December 22, 2018 Share Posted December 22, 2018 Great to see a different angle and see what you are working with. Its a layout I'm very jealous of I have to say Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted December 22, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 22, 2018 A wider view of the railway WP_20181222_12_39_45_Pro.jpgWP_20181222_12_39_30_Pro.jpgWP_20181222_12_39_12_Pro.jpgWP_20181222_12_39_58_Pro.jpg Always good to see how people arrange things behind the scenes - thanks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium coronach Posted December 23, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 23, 2018 A couple more pics from yesterday. One is of the 'spare fiddle yard' - a shelf containing cassettes full of trains that do not all fit on the fiddle yard 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 Good to see pictures of your layout always something new had a look at the cattle dock module it looks great ,like the cobblestones .Have a good festive season , Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium coronach Posted December 24, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 24, 2018 A small project for Christmas Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium coronach Posted December 24, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 24, 2018 And I couldn't resist running a train ....... Or two...... 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
millerhillboy Posted December 25, 2018 Share Posted December 25, 2018 Last picture out the 4 is spot on. Lovely stuff. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium coronach Posted December 27, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 27, 2018 A Hornby J36 arrived on the line this week. Needs a bit of weathering and will be renumbered! It is great listening to Peter Handford recordings of these locos on 'Railways to Riccarton' 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium coronach Posted December 27, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 27, 2018 Any suggestions as to which J36s were allocated to Hawick in the early 1960s would be appreciated. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJCT Posted December 27, 2018 Share Posted December 27, 2018 (edited) Any suggestions as to which J36s were allocated to Hawick in the early 1960s would be appreciated. The Spring 1962 edition of the Ian Allan Locoshed book (actually ScR data to 21/10/61) lists 65234, 65275, 65316, 65330, 65331 - some of which carried tender cabs. Another source I use is BR Database - http://www.brdatabase.info/locoqry.php?action=locodata&type=S&id=601036138&loco=758 but that doesn't list 65234 at Hawick, so some careful cross-checking might be in order. My current plan is to renumber mine as 65312, as that was based at Carlisle Canal.... HTH. Alasdair Edited December 27, 2018 by AJCT 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium coronach Posted December 27, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 27, 2018 Progress with the accommodation bridge today.... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcordingley Posted December 27, 2018 Share Posted December 27, 2018 I hope I don't come across as one of those "cleverclogs" posters for that is not my intention. However, I checked the allocation history of 65234. I too have the Spring 1962 Locoshed book and can confirm that it does indeed state that 65234 was allocated to Hawick on 21/10/61. However, Yeadon states it was at Bathgate by September 1931 and transferred to St Margarets on 06/09/1964. There is no record of it being allocated to Hawick so I can only assume that someone somewhere confused 64F (Bathgate) with 64G (Hawick). Cross checking with the BR Database, as recommended, seems to confirm this. My J36 arrived unexpectedly on Christmas Eve and I live in hope of further variations, perhaps even a tender cab version, in Hornby's 2019 programme! I checked 65234's allocation history in my copy of Hugh Longworth's excellent 2014 book ("BR Steam Locomotives Complete Allocations History 1948-1968". (This is, incidentally, an excellent reference book and a fascinating read - thoroughly recommended!). The listings also suggest that 65234 was at Bathgate from nationalisation until September 1964, and thereafter at St Margaret's until withdrawal in 1967. David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium coronach Posted December 27, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 27, 2018 In situ...... 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium coronach Posted December 28, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 28, 2018 (edited) 65316 it is - on one side anyway !! Edited December 28, 2018 by coronach Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 In situ...... WP_20181227_18_55_25_Pro.jpg Winter of '63 I see - is there a stopping train buried in there? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilks Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 Coronach I have just started your posts on your layout. Can't fail to like the Waverley route as it offers so many modelling opportunities. Would you be able to post a track plan of the layout as I not sure on the relationship between the stations and the fiddleyards? Happy modelling in 2019. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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