Allegheny1600 Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 Edwardian, I definitely agree with that!! Wasn't it in the roaring twenties when that sort of model became more 'streamlined'!?! Along with many other things, of course. Cheers, John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 Forgive me if this one has already been covered, but Nearholmer's got me into a South London frame of mind; the Mid Sussex Group's EM "Brighton Road", as picture on the Scalefour, Scaleforum 2010 web-page: 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 Yes, John, I agree; low wind resistance isn't necessarily a good thing. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 I haven't seen "Brighton Road", but I shall certainly be looking out for it - very interesting indeed! Thank you for drawing it to our attention. The railways of London, c1900-1914 must have been absolutely fascinating - so much variety, with things that dated back to the 1860s, rubbing shoulders with some serious high-teckery, and service-patterns that are now mostly-forgotten. Kevin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 Bit of a Brighton fixation at the moment. Here is another from the Scalefour website, Fittleworth by Phyllida & Nick Holliday; West Sussex circa 1900: 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Miles Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 Fittleworth was also part of the late Peter Korrisons' layout. I had a chance to operate it several times. A brilliant model. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 Fittleworth - More superb modelling of a wonderful railway. I followed it up on the S4 website and discovered that a lot of the scenic work formed an 0-Level art project. Talented young builder! Here is some Brighton techno-porn. The production locos had a different boiler, of course. But, what about the loco number? Wasn't No.84 "Crowborough", a Tertier? Kevin 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave Searle Posted October 26, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 26, 2015 Hi Kevin, It was renumbered 408 in September 1880 to make the number available for Crowborough which was completed the same month. regards,Dave 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 Aha! Thanks, Dave. "Crowborough" has to be my favourite Terrier, indeed favourite standard gauge loco, because I was born there. Fortunately, Mr Bedford of Lewes left us with an absolutely marvellous photo of it. Kevin 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Holliday Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 Fittleworth was also part of the late Peter Korrisons' layout. I had a chance to operate it several times. A brilliant model.Just for the record, my model of Fittleworth is based upon the real station, at something like 70% of its full length to meet the Scalefour Challenge. Peter's wonderful layout only makes use of the name.Thanks for the various compliments regarding my attempt. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Miles Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 (edited) Just for the record, my model of Fittleworth is based upon the real station, at something like 70% of its full length to meet the Scalefour Challenge. Peter's wonderful layout only makes use of the name. Apologies, I didn't know not being knowledgeable about all things L&BSCR. I am a Midland modeller for my sins. Also, sadly discussion of Peter's layout should be in the past tense. He passed away a couple of years ago. Some of his boats went to the Newhaven museum and his stock was sold through the O gauge guild. I think they layout was sold with the house so has probably been dismantled. Edited October 27, 2015 by John_Miles Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickRalph Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 I haven't seen "Brighton Road", but I shall certainly be looking out for it - very interesting indeed! Thank you for drawing it to our attention. The railways of London, c1900-1914 must have been absolutely fascinating - so much variety, with things that dated back to the 1860s, rubbing shoulders with some serious high-teckery, and service-patterns that are now mostly-forgotten. Kevin Sadly, "Brighton Road" has been dismantled; details of this layout and others by Barry Luck (including "Plumpton Green" - the new one on the exhibition circuit) can be found on Barry's website at www.lbscrmodels.co.uk Mick Ralph Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted February 13, 2016 Share Posted February 13, 2016 Ogden Fold, Lancashire & Yorkshire, snapped at Peterborough, 2014: 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 Walmington on Sea, snapped at Peterborough in 2012: 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 Exceedingly good. It seems to be more or less a model of the Hayling Branch. BTW, I saw the LNWR layout London Road recently, and that is another superb piece of pre-grouping modelling. K Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 It's a railway, it's wonderful, and it's God's! Taken at STEAM 2014: 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Something, then, of the Premier Line. Uppingham at Peterborough in 2011: 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
58herbie Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Here is my Pre grouping layout. I have some backdating to carry out ie rebuild the platform canopy right upto the tranship shed. Few other minor details The layout is a near scale model of Holmfirth and will be based between 1890-1920. A couple of tasters. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Herbie, that looks excellent, thank you for sharing. May we see more? Given the timespan, you might just about be able to include an infant Nora Batty (with wrinkled socks)! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Absolutely brilliant model-making in these photo-posts. I don't know if its all down to builder-skill, or a coincidence, but even the weather looks different between the LBSCR (Summer always comes soonest in the South), Central England, and Yorkshire (looks a bit chilly and damp, even if bright) layouts. K 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Let me be frank and speak from an entirely selfish point of view! I love seeing pre-Grouping layouts. I don't really have funds for trips to exhibitions at the moment, so I am relying upon photos from past visits and what I can find online. Even at reasonably large exhibitions, such as Peterborough, one often finds only one, or, maybe, two pre-Grouping layouts, and, my own photographic 'archive' will soon be exhausted, but I would love to see more of what RM-Webbers are producing and whatever else is out there. Of course, I'd love to contribute, but I have hardly built a thing yet, and must rely upon the achievements of others for inspiration! Kevin, I see what you are saying about the light - I have some particularly gloomy pictures of Marske to come! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG John Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Hinton Burtle would probably have closed before the Grouping. It was kind of inspired by the West Somerset Mineral Railway if it been connected to the national network, so it was converted to mixed gauge and was operated by the GWR. The WSMR influence was mainly limited to the way I knocked the Wills building kits about. Very little of the stock was mine. Just the coal wagons and the red narrow gauge ones. In the first photo, the narrow gauge goods train is hauled by a broad gauge loco, and is changing sides. Things like side stepping work perfectly when done to tight standards like P4, and I'd never have got mixed gauge pointwork to work with such tight curves and angles in anything courser. Sorry about the grotty photos, but it was a creation of the pre digital 1980s. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Lovely layout there, John. The track is excellent, the stock fascinating, and I really like the use of the Wills toll lodge kit; it looks very 'in period' as a station building. Dare we enquire as to the layout's fate? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG John Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Lovely layout there, John. The track is excellent, the stock fascinating, and I really like the use of the Wills toll lodge kit; it looks very 'in period' as a station building. Dare we enquire as to the layout's fate? I lifted the track with the idea of adapting the scenic bits for another layout after a good few years stored in the loft, then scrapped it when I sold my last house. I've still got the buildings, and the stock that wasn't borrowed. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG John Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Hinton Burtle was being replaced by Broad Hinton, that was never finished. It appeared at one exhibition where it ran badly, and was never seen again, as life was getting too complicated for modelling at the time. The building and bridges were made by the late Mike Jolly. The only photos I have were taken after years in the loft, just before I disposed of it. I've no idea if the new owner did anything with it. It's a shame I couldn't have kept it, as it would be a lot more advanced than "Small, Broad & Totally Pointless" is by now! 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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