sbduck Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 Not an easy object to photograph…this is the Kingston Up line – the line that links with the flyover. This is a straight ramp followed by a level curve that connects the fiddleyard with Twickenham all of which has been designed to sit on the inner edge of the fiddleyard boards. Gawd knows where we’re going to store it! Come and see it in place on the layout at our July 23rd Open Day… 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil gollin Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 . I see the work is driving you to drink ! ( Or are those bottles the break time refreshments for the next group meeting ? ) . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelly Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 Impressive work so far keep going Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbduck Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 A sneak preview of the Station Road semis – villas – townhouses whatever you want to call them… Here the raw front walls, side returns and the block of steps (to be cut into 4). The tall opening on the right and left of each building is the front door (to which the steps will lead). The rectangular cut out on each house is the basement/lower ground floor window Lots to do, but this is a good start – as ever laser cut in 2mm MDF 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAY NORWOOD Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 Coming along nicely chaps. Keep up the good work. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEAMYAKIMA Posted April 22, 2016 Author Share Posted April 22, 2016 Coming along nicely chaps. Keep up the good work. Hello Ray I know you are an ex TDMRC member. I do hope you can join us on July 23rd for Twickenham Junction's first operating session at TDMRC'S 2016 Open Day Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAY NORWOOD Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 Hello Ray I know you are an ex TDMRC member. I do hope you can join us on July 23rd for Twickenham Junction's first operating session at TDMRC'S 2016 Open Day I would be very pleased to come along to your open day on the 23rd July 2016. Please PM me all the details. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonhall Posted April 29, 2016 Share Posted April 29, 2016 We managed to cut a back and spacers for the Villas last night in plywood, and then all of the window surrounds in cereal packet - two layers to give a bit of depth, but rather simplified. Jon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbduck Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 (edited) Progress on one of the 4 semi-detached townhouses on Station Road alongside the south side of Twickenham Junction – these houses will be half-relief and form the back drop to the western station throat. Tried n tested Terry method: laser etched 2mm MDF with cereal packet window overlays and acrylic laser etched windows and doors Come and see how these and other buildings, trains and trackwork are progressing at our July Open Day – free entry on 23rd July – please see the accompanying video https://youtu.be/BIw0BRN0_Js . Look forward to seeing you there! Edited May 31, 2016 by sbduck 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAY NORWOOD Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 I will be up there for the open on July 23rd all the way from Devon I was a member back in the late 1970 and 80's. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
barison82 Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 Fantastic - love the way you've captured the detail on those window frames, they look very authentic to the period of architecture Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbduck Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 Sorry for the gap in communication. It’s been summer (what a lovely one too!), but we have been busy. The 23rd July Open Day didn’t pan-out quite how we wanted it to. Great shame and a shame for our guests – sorry for that! Guess what, the following week with three defects resolved, we had trains running on DCC the whole way round… honestly, we did… Since then, I have blown up most of our MERG modules: the Chairman has kindly taken on sorting out what is salvageable or not. Without a control panel, it’s not the end of the world at the moment. Meantime I have been testing our point motors (Tortoise on C&L bases). 1 is problematic, another 3 need some lubing or minor fettling. The rest work like a charm. Dead chuffed A busy team are steadily ballasting (to a very high standard – really pleased with what they’re doing!) and next week I plan to fit cosmetic brass and plastic fishplates The substation has been glazed and is in the queue for weathering later this autumn – photo to follow. Likewise, the Albany and villas are moving along. Watch this space. Another cheeky project follows in a moment… Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbduck Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 Just like buses, you wait ages for a new entry in this blog and then 2 come at once, LOL :-D As seen on my workbench t’other day – Twickenham’s second hand watertank (it had originally been installed at Richmond in the 1840s and moved to Twickenham in 1850 – it lasted in use in excess of another 100 years…). This is an underside view – note the output pipe coming from under the RH side of the tank. A little more to do but nearly there… An hour or so later and here is the tank with its lid – I have to fit some I-section girders to the underside and we’ll be all done bar the painting and weathering… 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAY NORWOOD Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 It is coming on nicely chaps. I travelled from Barnstaple to your open day in July and see some old members and I also brought some of my logo's to run on your test track. Your Twickenham layout had a few problems but that is work in progress and a chance to give it good run to iron out any problems. Nice to see on going progress on the buildings keep up the good work. Hope to come to your open day next year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbduck Posted November 11, 2016 Share Posted November 11, 2016 Mudpies or ballasting? Our only truly errant point – CY3. It’s front of house and has two fundamental gauging faults with it; so here it is being prepared for removal. It may never do much in its life, but it has to work correctly! A couple of weeks on and the point has been kindly and expertly repaired by a Northwick Group member and is ready to put back in place – we owe Northwick big time! Thanks very much indeed. Proof that illustrious members do graft. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEAMYAKIMA Posted July 5, 2017 Author Share Posted July 5, 2017 Just a quick update to say that it's fast approaching that time of year again when Twickenham MRC hold their annual Open Day - July 22nd (10am - 4pm) This year the theme will be N gauge as the club is planning to start a new N gauge layout in the near future. However, OO will not be forgotten and the Twickenham Junction project will have a static display - so if you're interested in this project, why not come along and meet the team building it? There will be at least five working layouts (N, OO and O), displays/demos, refreshments and a s/h stall. I hope you agree that's not bad for a free open day - donations welcome! You can find full details here ..... www.tdmrc.org.uk 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbduck Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 The September workday turned-out to be a milestone day in several ways. We now have a control panel fascia. Hurrah! This is silk-screen printing on an aluminium/plastic sandwich and very professional it looks too! Dead chuffed (If you pardon the pun! )! The plan is that over the next three months or so, this will metamorphose into a work box of electronic wizardry which will enable us to route set on Twickenham Junction... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelly Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 That fascia looks very nice. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbduck Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 It's been a long time since our last entry..... Twickenham has been hibernating for various reasons, but the first signs of awakening this Spring (!) are our new control panel – seen here attached to board 3 on our January workday. We’re now working on the mimic diagram, then some hardware and wiring, then the dreaded MERG programming! Come and see how we’re getting on! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbduck Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 Following on with the theme of the control panel, here is the painted (Rover Brooklands green!) and varnished control panel box. Hopefully next time you see it, it will be full of electronickery and with a finished mimic panel on top… Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbduck Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 (edited) So we’ve been set a challenge! Come and see Twickenham and the fiddleyard running at our Open Day on 21st July. We won’t have route control on the scenic section by then, but we will have the fiddleyard stocked with trains able to provide some variety through Twickenham. So to give you an idea of the scale of the operation, here is the layout in its fullest current extent. It’s big. At our April workday, we set it all up to see whether it worked. Once we’d cleaned the track it certainly did. Very pleased Edited May 3, 2018 by sbduck Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbduck Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 And here’s the proof. This is a train running on DCC trundling UP through the layout having just passed underneath the Kingston UP flyover line. For those interested in EMUS, the unit is a 2-NOB (no bog in Southern EMU classification parlance) created by grafting a Tri-ang EMU cab front and roof onto a Bachmann EPB. Quite convincing, especially when it’s trundling past. Not immediately obvious what it is! Come and see more at the end of July 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEAMYAKIMA Posted July 3, 2018 Author Share Posted July 3, 2018 (edited) Not long to Twickenham MRC's open day now! Come and see Twickenham Junction in action in the flesh. July 21st (10am to 4pm) Kerswell Hall, Wills Crescent, Hounslow TW3 2JF For full details see www.tdmrc.org.uk Hope to see some of you there! Edited July 3, 2018 by TEAMYAKIMA Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbduck Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 Phew! Well although it was warm, Twickenham Junction and the Fiddleyard behaved themselves. In fact, they surpassed themselves! We managed to run trains in both directions through Twickenham and through the fiddleyard. Better still we were able to route trains through different lines on the fiddleyard. Well done Howard! The only issue we had was back-to-back dimensions being rather mean especially on Hornby models – fellow OO finescale modellers please note! Back in 2016 when the rails expanded in the warmth, we couldn’t run a thing. This turned out to be due to cross-wiring in the traction bus. Remember that DCC is AC so if two adjacent boards are cross-wired it won’t matter - unless the rail ends happen to make contact… Boy-oh-boy will it then matter! And that’s what happened… suffice it to say we have rectified the wiring faults as the wiring needs to be right for reliable running and fault diagnosis 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbduck Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 What a superb photo thanks to a local train driver! This really gives a sense of what the model will look like when viewed from London Road Bridge. Howard has done a superb job on that infernal footbridge. Trust me – it’s complicated and painstaking!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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