RMweb Gold john new Posted November 21, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 21, 2018 Over-r Bit of late running while testing ready for the NEC this weekend 32090007178_eb4ebb992a_b1.jpg Over-running engineering woks in the Rainhill area? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted November 21, 2018 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted November 21, 2018 Something like that! Ta for the wine bottle tip but I’ll need to ask a friend as I don’t like it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
backofanenvelope Posted November 21, 2018 Share Posted November 21, 2018 Looking forward to finally getting to see LC at Warley. I have questions! :-D Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted November 21, 2018 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted November 21, 2018 Great we can have a gnatter about RhB too Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted March 28, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 28, 2019 Next show is Rotarail on 27th April https://rotarail.webs.com/exhibitors Fareham College (Postcode PO14 1NH) 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 Well, that's what comes from following a link ......... very nice layout: practical, interesting, well-executed. I like it. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted January 8, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 8, 2021 Ok so Lulworth has retired from outings but still very much used at home. My involvement with modular groups for three other gauges means I started doodling ideas to have a second station so I could run from A-B. I’d tried Havenstreet-ish ideas but the announcement of the LNWR Precedent got me thinking I could turn the fiddleyard into another station for the growing collection of pre group locos. So an idea formed for a very compact terminus viewed from the other side so in each case the other scene becomes the fiddleyard / other station. I can squeeze a 42ft turntable on by offsetting it out of the front edge and this will allow a loco released by the station pilot to turn then return to its train in the other platform. Locos doing the runaround on the Lulworth half can also use the turntable when the disappear under the bridge. It’s limited by the space I have to 12ft long so I can get round both sides in the room as it’s 17ft long with bookcases either end. Anyway here’s the doodle and remember it’s only a home layout 12 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCB Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 (edited) Looks neat but it seems a shame to waste length on a platform end building when you could have had a crossover for a run round. Can you actually get to both sides? Edited January 8, 2021 by DavidCBroad Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted January 8, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 8, 2021 (edited) 2 hours ago, DavidCBroad said: Looks neat but it seems a shame to waste length on a platform end building when you could have had a crossover for a run round. Can you actually get to both sides? Three 3ft boards exist as Lulworth and as it stands I just need to build another 3ft long board for the far end. Getting rid of the building only gains 9 inches and the crossover and headshunt would need twice that. It’s a bit of a caricature I know but as I’ve got 15ft between the bookcases 12ft allows me to walk round one end and get to both sides it also will store easily as two 3ft tall boxes stacked end on in a corner of the spare room. If I use all the 15ft I’m left with an odd 3ft board to find a home for. To be honest if I were to extend it I’d probably add the 3ft in the middle to give more distance scenically between the two stations. Edited January 8, 2021 by PaulRhB 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 The general concept of ‘back to back’ termini viewed from opposite sides is very ingenious. Because I have a strange obsession with being able to ‘run round’ without going ‘off-scene’ and because I’m no great fan of using turnover engines when it can be avoided, I would probably use a turntable-release at the RH terminus, though. That sort of thing fits nicely with pre-group locos, because it was still fairly common, or at least not yet rare, pre-WW1. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted January 8, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 8, 2021 9 hours ago, DavidCBroad said: Looks neat but it seems a shame to waste length on a platform end building when you could have had a crossover for a run round. Can you actually get to both sides? I did a similar alternative but I quite like the station forecourt with the line from the goods yard over the street. That line could connect to my mini 3x2 Peckett Paradise layout As you can see I’ve printed them both to mull over 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melangoose Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 Good idea Paul, you have some good layout ideas. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pitbull1845 Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 I thought you were joking when the plan appeared on the WhatsApp group! I like the concept, and I'm sure you'll make a good job of it.. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gypsy Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 Just found this from your OO9 stuff - great idea! Just as an FYI for the range vehicles, AFV turrets are usually traversed to the rear for transit - it makes for a shorter load, is easier to access the driver's hatch for loading/unloading/emergency and aslo reduces the risk of a barrel strike. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted May 31, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 31, 2022 (edited) Well it’s been quiet but with the Accurascale Scottish 37 on the way and the chaps building West Highland V4, Meanach and Tulloch Bridge corrupting me with ideas I’ve been acquiring a few Scottish area wagons for my collection when it moves to the West Highland in my head 😎 I got the Dapol Turbots but found they’d nearly need binoculars to see the next wagon! 5ft apart?!? so a cunning plan the chopped pocket and coupler also had some paper glued in to tighten them up to eliminate droop. The tail chopped off after Still not perfect but halved the gap so that will do Edited May 31, 2022 by PaulRhB 9 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb67 Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 That's nice work on the couplings. I might try that with some other wagons I have. What glue did you use to stick them together? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted June 1, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 1, 2022 2 hours ago, sb67 said: That's nice work on the couplings. I might try that with some other wagons I have. What glue did you use to stick them together? Superglue, I roughed up the surface and the inside of the pocket with a needle file to give more key as it’s slippery plastic. Just to get rid of the shiny surface. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted June 24, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 24, 2022 A bit of a retrospective on Lulworth as many of the photos are still missing at present. I’d been constantly mulling over the extension ideas and decided that I really needed a longer loop for the trains I want to run so it may be time to start again, negotiations for a new home may well see Lulworth move to a good friend and get it back out in the circuit and make space for a longer replacement that can accommodate my alternative sets of stock. So while that goes on here’s some of the story of Lulworth Castle. From the basic frames Grew the layout base which all stacked in two trollies made from built in fridge panels. Packed away it looked like furniture. And setup at home or shows to play trains. The primary idea was a Southern branch line using all rtr components, trains, buildings from the Scenecraft ranges. Signal from Borg Rail and points from Marcway with C&L track. I had MOD trains to the ranges at Lulworth Camp The branch to the camp on the front of the layout and it also served Povington Pit Clay works. Of course you always find a flaw in the design at a show and have to make a temporary fix, the bufferstop kept disappearing . . . 15 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted June 24, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 24, 2022 Of course it was always taken seriously Strange visitors 11 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted June 24, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 24, 2022 Ideas were tested out Some, like the magnetic signs worked really well to change periods 15 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post PaulRhB Posted June 24, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 24, 2022 So in modern mode it had a few changes in small buildings And accessories Even the clay traffic still survived and more techniques were tried and tested Some techniques tried out by guest operators were less successful Modifications were always made to tweak the operating potential, some weren’t subtle! , But overall it was fun to build and operate and learn what else I wanted. If all goes well it will soon travel a few miles south to a new home and my fondness for modules will be tried out in OO with another idea. Lulworth No11 may have to find a different cargo to shunt too. 18 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold john new Posted June 25, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 25, 2022 8 hours ago, PaulRhB said: So in modern mode it had a few changes in small buildings And accessories Even the clay traffic still survived and more techniques were tried and tested Some techniques tried out by guest operators were less successful Modifications were always made to tweak the operating potential, some weren’t subtle! , But overall it was fun to build and operate and learn what else I wanted. If all goes well it will soon travel a few miles south to a new home and my fondness for modules will be tried out in OO with another idea. Lulworth No11 may have to find a different cargo to shunt too. Like the mini magnets and metal signs idea. One squirrelled away for the future. Thanks for this repost, I’ve always been impressed by your posts on this authentically plausible layout. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melangoose Posted June 25, 2022 Share Posted June 25, 2022 A great little layout that is very universal for running different era’s. Hope the journey continues at its new home. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devonbelle Posted July 24, 2022 Share Posted July 24, 2022 Lovely layout. Love the steam era but i do also like the 1990s/2000s - works well and love the 37 on slurry wagons - redolent of Cornish clay in the 1990s or the Quidhampton traffic when I worked in the railfreight business. Brilliant. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted July 24, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 24, 2022 30 minutes ago, Devonbelle said: or the Quidhampton traffic when I worked in the railfreight business. There’s a good reason for that as I enjoyed the 37’s coming and going on the Quidhampton tanks as it’s my patch 😎 Unfortunately the early digi pics lost in a hard drive failure but here’s one of Viking in 2003 on an engineering train at Salisbury 3 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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