D869 Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 I'd like to add our thanks (from the St Ruth group) to the organisers, stewards etc. An excellent show. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penlan Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 I thought St Ruth captured the essence of Penzance very well, and when I was watching some excellent slow running in 2mm scale. As I live about 4 miles west of Penzance, and thus know the area well, I thought the buildings captured the real ones very well, though I think the road above the station - Chyandour Cliff - is a bit narrower in 1:1 scale, there doesn't seem to be as much room to pass in my car. I did see some early stock at one point .... I was reminded of the Gibson photo's in a late 1890's Railway Magazine. I have copies somewhere, but due to a computer crash etc., I lost a lot of data... If you want them posted here (or in the Prototype section), let me know. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penlan Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Following my comments re. early stock on St. Rush, I have posted an item on the Forum's Pre-Grouping Topics section at http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/85267-gwr-penzance-flower-traffic-1898/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Smith Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 I did see some early stock at one point .... I was reminded of the Gibson photo's in a late 1890's Railway Magazine. I have copies somewhere, but due to a computer crash etc., I lost a lot of data... If you want them posted here (or in the Prototype section), let me know. I'm afraid that I can plead guilty to the early stock - I have a set of 4 4/6 wheelers that I am trying to get built, but only managed to get two of them acceptably finished for a trip to St Ruth. They are in the early Edwardian livery (prior to the change over to all Lake), and are a work in progress. Since the weekend I have raised them a little by adding some black plasticard between the chassis and body to bring the roofs up to the correct height - they now look a bit more sensible behind my saddle tank! Image of the 2 coaches prior to being raised 0.5mm. A bit of detail of the build can be found in my blog : http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/1009/entry-13348-2fs-gwr-4-wheel-coaches-u4/ http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/1009/entry-13639-2fs-gwr-4-6-wheel-coaches-u4-t38-and-coupling/ http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/1009/entry-13801-2fs-gwr-4-6-wheel-coaches-u4-t38-continued/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woody4472 Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 On behalf of the Woodfield Road team can I offer sincere thanks to the organisers. We were very well looked after indeed, the only down side being the M25 car park but I suspect that is beyond their control. Found an excellent curry house in Ewell on the Friday and a Chinese for the Saturday. Decent beer difficult to track down though. Very enjoyable weekend, will try and get as a visitor next year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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