Southwich Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Evening all, Tonight I have been out to the "train room" to continue with the wiring. As well as wiring I have taken numerous photos and recorded a rather belated update video. Over the next few days, with the help of my grandad, aka Grimley senior, I will be building the fiddle yards and hopefully putting up the back scenes. Photos and videos to follow: 37425 passes new Southwich cement plant: New Southwich by southwichrailway, on Flickr 37425 passes 60036 parked up delivering cement: New Southwich by southwichrailway, on Flickr Cement silos: New Southwich by southwichrailway, on Flickr 60036 and 66068 in front of the cement silos: New Southwich by southwichrailway, on Flickr 60036 leaves New Southwich: New Southwich by southwichrailway, on Flickr And finally the update video:http://youtu.be/ILrrlr4Alck Thanks for reading, Any feedback is much appreciated, Will Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d winpenny Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Looking great David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swifty11 Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 Looks great! And do I see a 57/3? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southwich Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 Looks great! And do I see a 57/3? You do indeed! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swifty11 Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 57312? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southwich Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 57312? Yeah on a six wagon ballast train Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swifty11 Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 Yeah on a six wagon ballast train Nice! When mine is out to task it handles my full 15 with ease! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southwich Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 Nice! When mine is out to task it handles my full 15 with ease! Can't fit more than six within the 5ft of the proposed fiddle yards! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southwich Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 Evening all! I have been very busy today with my grandad building the two 5ftx2ft fiddle yards, which now sit on two more trestles in the train room. The far end fiddle yard has all the track pinned down and dropper wires soldered on ready to be wired up tomorrow morning. The second scenic board is also ready to be wired up properly, so hopefully can have a train running from one fiddle yard to the other by the end of tomorrow. Photos to follow of baseboard construction as well as the first train running on new Southwich! Firstly the fiddle yards were dry fitted: New Southwich fiddle yards by southwichrailway, on Flickr Next we glued them together using wikes adhesive wood glue: New Southwich fiddle yards by southwichrailway, on Flickr Then the screws were drilled in the previously countersunk holes: New Southwich fiddle yards by southwichrailway, on Flickr Finally photos and video of the whole layout: New Southwich fiddle yards by southwichrailway, on Flickr New Southwich fiddle yards by southwichrailway, on Flickr New Southwich fiddle yards by southwichrailway, on Flickr Hopefully tomorrow I can finish the wiring on the layout. Any feedback is much appreciated, Thanks, Will Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d winpenny Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 Looking great, good video. I do like the tea wagons did you weather them yourself? David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southwich Posted August 22, 2014 Share Posted August 22, 2014 Looking great, good video. I do like the tea wagons did you weather them yourself? David Thanks David! No they were "borrowed" from grimley Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southwich Posted August 22, 2014 Share Posted August 22, 2014 Evening all! Today I have finished the fiddle yards by wiring them up. I have brought the power into a chocolate box then sent the power of in four different wires to four separate chocolate boxes, one for each board's power. The joins in the boards created a large problem for me to transfer the power from one to the next, however this was overcome by using 3 pin connectors provided by my grandad, (grimley senior), which include a plug and socket which dangle beneath the boards. Photos to follow of the fiddle yards and a video of trains running on the layout: New Southwich fiddle yards by southwichrailway, on Flickr New Southwich fiddle yards by southwichrailway, on Flickr I'm having problems uploading the video at the moment so will edit in the link hopefully tomorrow after it has uploaded. Any feedback is much appreciated, Thanks, Will Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class"66" Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 Looking realy good lots of nice stock too.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southwich Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 Latest YouTube video: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class"66" Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Great video! looking forward to another update Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southwich Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Evening all! Thanks for all the positive comments, they are much appreciated! There hasn't been much work over the last few days due to the running of trains, but hopefully I will be able to get the back scenes up tomorrow. Tonight I have bolted on the end buffer piece to stop any run away trains! This took an hour to do as I split the wood, which had to be repaired, as well as enlarging the holes for the bolts. The vibrations were a right pain to control, so I had to hold the boards down to limit the vibrations. Photos to follow of the buffer at the end of the fiddle yard: New Southwich- fiddle yard ends by southwichrailway, on Flickr New Southwich- fiddle yard ends by southwichrailway, on Flickr Hopefully I will have a layout update out by the end of next week. Any feedback is much appreciated, Thanks, Will Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southwich Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 Evening all! Tonight I have finally finished construction on the layout! All the boards are together for the first time with the back scenes on. Many thanks to my dad, grimley grid and my Grandad, grimley senior for all their help. The back scenes need to be painted again, as well as having the holes where the screws are filled. Tomorrow I plan on making an experimental board to practice the ballasting on, we will see how that turns out! I now have other scenic items such as trees, clump foliage, relay boxes and orange pipes all waiting to be added to the layout! Pictures to follow of the layout: New Southwich- construction complete with back scenes by southwichrailway, on Flickr New Southwich- construction complete with back scenes by southwichrailway, on Flickr New Southwich- construction complete with back scenes by southwichrailway, on Flickr New Southwich- construction complete with back scenes by southwichrailway, on Flickr New Southwich- construction complete with back scenes by southwichrailway, on Flickr New Southwich- construction complete with back scenes by southwichrailway, on Flickr And finally a picture of 37707 that I've had a go at modifying: 37707 at New southwich by southwichrailway, on Flickr And with quite a nice filter: 37707 at New southwich by southwichrailway, on Flickr Any feedback is much appreciated! Thanks for looking, Will Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hybridangel77 Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Fantastic stuff...southwich is starting to look very impressive even at this early stage. Terry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d winpenny Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Looking excellent David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southwich Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Something different: scenic board/programming track. Evening all, Over the last few days I have been producing a scenic board, which I will use to photograph future rolling stock projects, and to programme locos. First off I created the frame for the bottom of the board: New Southwich- Scenic board/ programming track by southwichrailway, on Flickr New Southwich- Scenic board/ programming track by southwichrailway, on Flickr I marked out and drilled the holes for the screws to make the frame, then added Wickes wood glue to make sure when I screwed the frame together it wouldn't move! After making the frame I added the side scenes and back scenes. Next I added the bed for the track as I planned to have a hill side either side of the track, which can be seen here: New Southwich- Scenic board/ programming track by southwichrailway, on Flickr After adding the track bed, with the help of my dad (grimley grid) I've redone the wire mesh for the paper mâché base for the hillside: Adding the wire mesh to the scenic board by southwichrailway, on Flickr Finally I've taken photos of the first loco on the board: 60500 on the new scenic board by southwichrailway, on Flickr 60500 on the new scenic board by southwichrailway, on Flickr Any feedback is much appreciated! Thanks, Will Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimleygrid Posted September 8, 2014 Author Share Posted September 8, 2014 Whilst helping Will program some locos earlier, I suddenly thought........ image by AP474, on Flickr image by AP474, on Flickr New Southwich in the late eighties/early nineties, oh yeah baby! Now that's more like it, a 31 on PCAs, lovely. I have been saying to Will that the layout would look great set in that period. I know that it is his layout but he just needs a bit of guidance now and again! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d winpenny Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 Looking great David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class"66" Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 Realy like your 37707 looks beast!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southwich Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 Thanks Neil and David! Here's my latest update which I have posted on YouTube: http://youtu.be/x6N75r-bz_4 Thanks, Will Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class60lover Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 Looking great fella. keep the utube vids coming to Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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