hartleymartin Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 Just re-read the whole thread and I think you've given me some inspiration. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dava Posted June 27, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted June 27, 2019 Thanks, I could do with some inspiration on what is going to replace Coxheath! It will have to accommodate 'small' BR diesel shunters as well as the tiny light railway locos, in two different time periods. Dava 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb67 Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 8 hours ago, Dava said: Thanks, I could do with some inspiration on what is going to replace Coxheath! It will have to accommodate 'small' BR diesel shunters as well as the tiny light railway locos, in two different time periods. Dava How about one of the many small yards, or scrap yards that were around the London docks or East London? Steve 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dava Posted October 13, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted October 13, 2019 Coxheath Sidings continues to see occasional use as a test track for new locos and those converted to DCC. The track, foamboard base and electrics are showing their age. Here we have a Heljan Hunslet 05, obtained at reasonable cost [see Rails of Sheffield]. DCC installed, not sound as these locos had tortuous gear changes. Cab detailed with footplate staff, weathered and numbered as D2579, allocated to Thornton Junction and often the Kirkcaldy Harbour Branch shunter. The layout has been mocked up temporarily as 05 habitat as a station on the goods-only Lochty Branch with the goods office from Largoward and the St Andrews Post Office Moggie van. Dava 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dava Posted October 13, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted October 13, 2019 (edited) Coxheath Sidings continues to see occasional use as a test track for new locos and those converted to DCC. The track, foamboard base and electrics are showing their age. Here we have a Heljan Hunslet 05, obtained at reasonable cost [see Rails of Sheffield]. DCC installed, not sound as these locos had tortuous gear changes. Cab detailed with footplate staff, weathered and numbered as D2579, allocated to Thornton Junction and often the Kirkcaldy Harbour Branch shunter. The layout has been mocked up temporarily as 05 habitat as a station on the goods-only Lochty Branch with the goods office from Largoward and the St Andrews Post Office Moggie van. Dava Edited October 13, 2019 by Dava Delete as duplicate post 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NeilHB Posted October 13, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 13, 2019 Glad to see Coxheath sidings is still going strong Dave - looks good as a freight only station on the Lochty branch with the 05. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dava Posted October 13, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted October 13, 2019 Thanks Neil, Been too lazy/busy to start a new layout and the eternal question - 0 or 0-14? But all these 0 gauge locos need somewhere to run. Plans are afoot for this winter! Dava 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brack Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 5 minutes ago, Dava said: Been too lazy/busy to start a new layout and the eternal question - 0 or 0-14? Both. Sorted that for you... 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dava Posted December 1, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 1, 2019 I like to have a model railway running over Xmas. There are 3 small layouts in my workshop, no time or room to build anything else, also the 'Snow Santa H0e Chistmas Cracker box', but that is unfit for operation now, with fallen trees, 'snow' falling off and unsafe track. So it's back to Coxheath Sidings, in a slightly new iteration. The Largoward goods office was temporary. As built the layout had a front viewing and back operating side, I've decided to make the operating side the viewing side. So the low-relief warehouse has changed sides to the goods dock, there is a new wall alongside the narrow platform, and the timber yard has gone. This took a Saturday afternoon with some scenic tidying still to do, before introducing some seasonal touches. The 1-plank wagon uses a Slaters Midland chassis from a GOG event, with a plasticard body, yet to be painted. The layout will be running with either interwar light railway or BR 1960 mainly diesel periods, not usually mixing them. Festive touches to follow... Dava 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NeilHB Posted December 1, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 1, 2019 Dava, the changes look good. The Slaters Midland chassis’ are really rather useful for adding new bodywork too. Do you fancy bringing Coxheath Sidings to Mickleover in January? 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dava Posted December 2, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 2, 2019 Thanks Neil, I almost always make it to Mickleover as a friendly event and the 2020 date of 18 Jan is the week before the GCR 'Frozen' Winter Gala, so not a crowded weekend. Mrs Dava doesnt like me scheduling two events the same weekend, or even the same month... Given the choice between operating one of the three layouts in the workshop for a day, the GCR Z scale, 'Bunny Mine' 014, or Coxheath in Gauge O, the biggest gauge one wins as I can almost see what I'm doing!. It will be in DCC mode, so folks with a small chipped loco can bring it along. Wonder if the Dapol Sentinels will be here by then? The small water tower on the layout is a gift from our friend Jim Read. Dava 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NeilHB Posted December 2, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 2, 2019 That’s excellent thanks Dava - look forward to seeing you there! Will be in touch nearer the time to confirm details etc. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dava Posted December 3, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 3, 2019 The single plank wagon had a first coat of paint and was shunted down to the loading dock by 'Fenchurch'. There is a mix of rolling stock and vehicles from the early and 1960 eras on view here. 'Fenchurch' needs some subtle weathering round the smokebox but I've yet to start that. I am looking for a 1:43 scale Morris 1000 'Minor' open pickup, as made by Corgi, for inclusion on the layout as a working vehicle. If anyone has one they don't require, let me know. Dava 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dava Posted December 24, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 24, 2019 In this update from Coxheath Sidings, a Moggie Minor pickup did arrive, a new wall at what is now the back of the layout was built today, and the line was busy with seasonal traffic including a visit by a Santa on a flat wagon, accompanied by reindeer too big for the cattle truck, Rudolph was out of gauge. Spot the pig in a blanket..... Happy Christmas, and hoping for a better 2020, Dava 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dava Posted December 28, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 28, 2019 The Christmas features have been tidied away for another year down at Coxheath Sidings. One purpose of the layout these days is as a DCC test track. A couple of locos have visited the SPROG programming track and in total there are now 6 DCC fitted locos. All are RTR so far, as they come with pre fitted sockets. If the Heljan AC cars railcar accepted a generic 21 pin decoder [it doesnt] it would have got one too. So they were all shunted into position for evening photographs... So we have Terriers Fenchurch & Bodiam, MW no 3, HC no 2, Fowler 86 & BR 05 2579. A Sentinel is on order to join them, covering a couple of different eras. I also have a little fleet of kit built and scratchbuilt locos intended for retrofitting in due course, but really a new and rather larger layout with work for more locos needs to come first... Dava 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dava Posted January 13, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 13, 2020 Coxheath Sidings will be appearing at the ever-friendly 7mm NGA Trent Valley event at Mickleover this Saturday 18 Jan, details here courtesy of EDM Models: https://ngtrains.com/shop/exhibition/7mm-nga-trent-valley-group-open-day/ The microlayout has had some changes made, and this may be its last public outing. Or possibly not. After nearly 5 years it has long outlived its experimental construction from foamboard, but not its usefulness. A bit like the BR Mickleover Test Track [who remembers that?] it continues to be useful in testing train control systems, ie DCC! Here we see an old friend, the little Peckett, out from storage for a test run. Come and say 'Hi!' on Saturday, bargains and goodies to be had from the traders as ever. Dava 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dava Posted December 23, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 23, 2021 Nearly two years since its last appearance, pre-lockdown, my microlayout Coxheath Sidings makes a reappearance from storage in the workshop. Why? No timber has been cut (or baseboards bought) for any replacement, despite much design work. I needed a Christmas layout, and wanted to run some of the American O scale stock I have collected for my shortline project (yet to be built…). Coxheath Sidings was originally built in Canada back in 2015, though it has until now represented a British industrial byline. Here we see it representing an obscure US freight loading dock, hijacked as a Santa Claus location. Visiting locos comprise a KTM brass B&O K16a 0-4-0 tender which needed its tender coupling fitting and test running. And a GE 44-tonner, classic shortline loco. US bogie cars are really too long for this layout, even 40-footers. But its good to see anything run, as well as some of the British locos. Dava 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dava Posted December 30, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 30, 2021 Christmas is over for another year, Coxheath Sidings has taken delivery of another loco, GE 45 tonner joins the 44 tonner in the siding. Thanks to Rmweb Classified for this one! Dava 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted January 9, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 9, 2022 I had a chance to run a 45 tonner at a shortline that a friend worked for, it was a pleasant experience. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted January 9, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 9, 2022 On 23/12/2021 at 18:52, Dava said: ...snip... Visiting locos comprise a KTM brass B&O K16a 0-4-0 tender which needed its tender coupling fitting and test running. And a GE 44-tonner, classic shortline loco. US bogie cars are really too long for this layout, even 40-footers. But its good to see anything run, as well as some of the British locos. Dava I have a different B&O 0-4-0, the ubiquitous "Docksider" also in O by KTM: I suspect that the locomotive that has more models of it built than the Docksider is the Globe/Athearn HO EMD F7. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dava Posted January 10, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 10, 2022 1 hour ago, J. S. Bach said: I have a different B&O 0-4-0, the ubiquitous "Docksider" also in O by KTM: I suspect that the locomotive that has more models of it built than the Docksider is the Globe/Athearn HO EMD F7. Yes! Seriously thought of buying one of these. I had many Bachmann N gauge ones which powered narrow gauge models. There is an O scale one on eBay UK but importing the K16a from the US was better in every way, a lovely loco! I don’t think it had done more than a test run. Fitting DCC will be interesting as it’s a big old style motor which stalls at 5 ohm. Dava 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dava Posted January 10, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 10, 2022 1 hour ago, J. S. Bach said: I had a chance to run a 45 tonner at a shortline that a friend worked for, it was a pleasant experience. I came across this GE 50 tonner (more weight, no side rods) in Canada. Orangedale station museum, NS. Full story of the shortline here 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Train Posted September 6, 2022 Share Posted September 6, 2022 Can I ask what driver figure you are using in the 05? Thanks. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dava Posted September 30, 2023 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 30, 2023 (edited) This thread lost the later photos of Coxheath Sidings hosting my American shortline locos for test running, I have added a couple below. Coxheath still exists in store and construction of its larger replacement US shortline is finally about to start. Dava Edited September 30, 2023 by Dava Add photos 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Train Posted October 5, 2023 Share Posted October 5, 2023 Excellent. Looking forward to ther new thread. 😊 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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