Mid-Cornwall Lines - 1950s Western Region in 00

[Andrew P]

1 hour ago, 5BarVT said:

Could they have been related one wonders?  Was Tassie a free state (like S Aus) or conscripts?  (Hoping I’ve got my history right about the free state!)

Paul.

I have a VERY distant relative who was deported to Oz, from Bodmin Goal. 

[Martin S-C]

On 23/10/2021 at 10:17, St Enodoc said:

I think it will start with "Great" and end with "Consols" but I'm still mulling over the bit in the middle. I have one strong idea but if anyone comes up with a better one I'll think about changing it.

Ford?

[aardvark]

On 23/10/2021 at 15:37, St Enodoc said:

 

The Kernow/Bachmann engine house will go between the Treloggan Junction Branch track and the backscene. I think I have a name for this but I haven't decided finally yet.

 

 

This page:

 

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/funny-punny-inappropriate-place-names-5785420.amp

 

includes a picture titled "Snow at Ding D0ng mine in West Cornwall", which looks remarkably like St. Enodoc's model.

 

Coincidence ... or conspiracy?

 

 

Edited October 25, 2021 by aardvark
Hmm ... The nanny filter doesn't like the second word in the name of this mine.

[Tim Dubya]

8 hours ago, aardvark said:

 

This page:

 

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/funny-punny-inappropriate-place-names-5785420.amp

 

includes a picture titled "Snow at Ding D0ng mine in West Cornwall", which looks remarkably like St. Enodoc's model.

 

Coincidence ... or conspiracy?

 

 

 

 

I rather like " Touch Me Pipes" from that article, and I always enjoyed the village name of "Cox" (nanny filter alternative spelling) when I was traveling to and from Perranporth*

 

* the only place I have ever seen a glow worm.

 

Edited October 25, 2021 by Tim Dubya
I am not available for that sort of thing, even in Cornwall.

[St Enodoc]

3 hours ago, aardvark said:

Coincidence ... or conspiracy?

You'll need to ask Kernow Models!

[Oldddudders]

At the end of my Lower 6th year at skool in Surrey, 1965, the French teacher emigrated - to Tasmania. Yes, he was Cornish. Learning to pronounce French from a Cornishman was not the best start....

[Tankerman]

2 hours ago, Oldddudders said:

At the end of my Lower 6th year at skool in Surrey, 1965, the French teacher emigrated - to Tasmania. Yes, he was Cornish. Learning to pronounce French from a Cornishman was not the best start....

 

Growing up on a farm near Stithians, pronounced Stidians, in the 1950's I developed quite a strong Cornish accent, which is still obvious but not as pronounced. In my first year at the grammar school in Falmouth I was told by the French teacher that I would have difficulty in speaking French for just that reason.

[St Enodoc]

I started painting Porthmellyn Road signal box last night, with a first coat of cream on the interior walls. No photos yet until there's a bit more to see.

[St Enodoc]

13 hours ago, Tankerman said:

 

Growing up on a farm near Stithians, pronounced Stidians, in the 1950's I developed quite a strong Cornish accent, which is still obvious but not as pronounced. In my first year at the grammar school in Falmouth I was told by the French teacher that I would have difficulty in speaking French for just that reason.

You could've tried Breton instead.

 

In my final A level German year, we (only two of us) were taught by a very attractive young German girl on a student placement (Christa from Stuttgart. Obsessed? Me?). She certainly brightened up the drudgery of analysing Duerrenmatt, Haussmann, and the rest.

[Woodcock29]

On 25/10/2021 at 07:34, St Enodoc said:

Indeed. East of Adelaide in SA there is a heritage mining area centred on the town of Callington.

 

https://www.samininghistory.com/sa-mining-heritage/

Our most well known ex Cornish mining towns are Burra and Moonta, as mentioned in the web reference. Out of curiosity I lived in Rosevear St, Hawthorn here in Adelaide after we emigrated in 1964, until 1978.

[St Enodoc]

Look at these!

 

Very tempting...

[St Enodoc]

18000 arrived from Sheffield today.

 

Unboxing later (no video).

[Harlequin]

On 27/10/2021 at 00:31, St Enodoc said:

Look at these!

 

Very tempting...

Talk to me.

[St Enodoc]

3 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

18000 arrived from Sheffield today.

 

Unboxing later (no video).

Unboxed, no drama. Everything present and correct. Currently running in (DC) on the rolling road.

 

So far, I'm impressed.

[St Enodoc]

DC running complete - 15 minutes in each direction at each of half- and full-speed. Very smooth with a tiny amount of vibration, which I put down to the rolling road roller rather than the loco. The motor is quiet too, with all the sound coming from the noise of the wheels on the rollers. There's no sign of anything getting hot either.

 

After dinner I'll probably fit the decoder then try the loco on the layout tomorrow.

[Barry O]

Wagons await transfers then weathering.. should be in the post this weekend all being well.

 

Baz

[St Enodoc]

I fitted the LokPilot 5 21-pin decoder to 18000 as planned. No problem getting the body off, although the blanking plate needed a little persuasion to let go, and programming with DecoderPro was simple as always.

 

The body went back on easily too but the screws for the fuel tank were a lot tighter to put in than to take out. I managed in the end but if they give me any trouble in future then I'll get rid of them and use a bit of Black Tack instead.

 

A satisfying couple of hours' work.

 

I feel a pre-order for 18100 coming on, to replace my "heritage" Q kit.

[5BarVT]

48 minutes ago, St Enodoc said:

I feel a pre-order for 18100 coming on, to replace my "heritage" Q kit.

If I did that (and 18000) it would feel as if there were more specials than correct locos (having D600, Kestrel, Falcon and a Clayton on a 70s WR/LMR layout).

But it’s tempting!

Paul.

[5BarVT]

On 14/08/2021 at 11:31, St Enodoc said:

 

 

 

Going back to your use of DCC Concepts foam trackbed.  It looks like you separate it into two parts when laying curves.  Do you use the preformed cut, to do you measure and cut your own line?

I ask because (1) the preformed cut seems to be off set on my batch, and (2) I can’t seem to line my straightedge to their line sufficiently accurately!

Paul.

[St Enodoc]

2 hours ago, 5BarVT said:

Going back to your use of DCC Concepts foam trackbed.  It looks like you separate it into two parts when laying curves.  Do you use the preformed cut, to do you measure and cut your own line?

I ask because (1) the preformed cut seems to be off set on my batch, and (2) I can’t seem to line my straightedge to their line sufficiently accurately!

Paul.

I use the preformed cut, Paul. I fold the strip along the cut a couple of times then just tear it. You're right, the cut's not always dead centre but it's close enough for me on the batches I have, with a variation of no more than +/- 2mm or so.

[St Enodoc]

18000 had a successful trial run today.

 

First I ran it as a light engine for a couple of laps in each direction. I was surprised by the low maximum speed, with speed step 90 corresponding only to about 60 scale mph. It doesn't matter though, as that was the line speed in Cornwall at the time.

 

I then hooked it on to a set of seven coaches, with one more to match the couplings. It cruised serenely round the layout without a hint of breaking sweat and with no problems on the curves (30" minimum radius) or over pointwork, so that's it for now and 18000 has come back indoors ready for some detailing.

 

Next, I photographed the Branch passenger sets, all 13 coaches of them (some of these will start their day at Pentowan so the Chapel Sidings won't actually be as crowded as this once the expanded sequence comes into play).

 

Looking from the left of Chapel Siding no 1:

 

Set 87 is a three car set, consisting of a Bachmann BR S and a maroon Airfix B Set fitted with 9' bogies to represent diagram E145.

 

Set 88 is my original Airfix E 140 B Set, now over 40 years old.

 

Set 89 is even older, being a pair of K's E116 kits that I built for the first Pentowan layout in Edinburgh. They've been upgraded and had at least two repaints since they appeared at the far left of the third picture of Pentowan on page 1 of this topic.

 

In Chapel Siding no 2, sets 90 and 91 are single Bachmann BR standards that act as strengtheners. All three of these BR coaches will be replaced in due course by Westdale, BSL or Comet kits.

 

Set 97 is another maroon Airfix E140 set, which I plan to replace with BSL E147s, while set 98 is a more recent Hornby version, this time in crimson for a change.

 

Finally I took a photo of Polperran, where the sidings are gradually filling up.

 

At the rear, in road 6, is set 242, a three-coach Maunsell BTK-CK-BTK set that works the Okehampton service. This will be hauled by 30710, which will go on to the layout once I've repaired its motor mountings using the spares from Peter's Spares (usual disclamer).

 

In road 7 we have 41297 with Set 199, the Padstow set. Hornby Maunsells again but this time a green BSK and BCK. Normally 30200 will work this set but 41297 is standing in until I've finished detailing the 02. As you can see, I haven't added the set numbers to these coaches yet.

 

In road 8 we have the autotrain and road 9 is where the Gloucester SPC will live once I've detailed it. Road 10 is, of course, the headshunt.

 

The ACE, long china-clay train, two class K freights (one SR and one WR) will live at the other end of Polperran, leaving one spare road for the Perranporth - Paddington coaches and any other odds and ends. I might park some of my shorter "funny trains" here too - watch this space.

Edited June 20, 2022 by St Enodoc
Images restored

[5BarVT]

20 minutes ago, St Enodoc said:

18000 had a successful trial run today.

Having seen yours in black and gwrrob’s in green, I find the black rather attractive.

 

21 minutes ago, St Enodoc said:

Branch passenger sets, all 13 coaches of them

22 minutes ago, St Enodoc said:

Polperran, where the sidings are gradually filling up.

That’s a lot of trains!

Paul.

[TrevorP1]

Pleased you had a positive experience with 18000 John. Much the same as mine. As you say the 'top speed' is quite low but that doesn't matter a jot for us in the Duchy!

 

Other than front bufferbeam detail I haven't detailed mine yet. I think it was Rob who suggested that Modelu might be doing a crew so I think I'll wait for that and then do the rest. The loco is crying out for some light weathering so once I'm happy it will go on the - ever longer - list to be taken over to Grimey Times.

 

Funny trains... I have an A3, A2, Deltic, 37 on some CDAs plus some Scottish diesels. I also have a Bachmann Baldwin 2-6-2... it's tempting to hard wire a chip into that... There's also an A4 but the valve gear falls to bits when it runs. Not to mention a couple of Lynton and Barnstaple Manning Wardles!

[St Enodoc]

19 minutes ago, 5BarVT said:

I find the black rather attractive

Yes, I like the black and silver livery too. I think it looked good on all the early internal-combustion locos.

 

20 minutes ago, 5BarVT said:

That’s a lot of trains!

There's more! One of the features of Pentowan, like the real Newquay, will be the extensive carriage sidings. I haven't worked out exactly how many I can fit in to stable about 40 coaches at a time but I think it will be around 7 to 9 sidings of different lengths, between 2 and 7 coaches each.

 

Pentowan will have its own station pilot, namely D3510 on loan for the summer from Truro shed. Pentowan will be very busy, especially on Saturdays, and will probably be the place that regulates the whole layout.

[5BarVT]

12 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

I use the preformed cut, Paul. I fold the strip along the cut a couple of times then just tear it. You're right, the cut's not always dead centre but it's close enough for me on the batches I have, with a variation of no more than +/- 2mm or so.

Just tried it.  So much easier and the small tear marks make the ‘centre’ line more visible for track laying.

Thank you.