Nearholmer Posted March 7, 2016 Author Share Posted March 7, 2016 With attention on 'Paltry Circus', when there's been time to play trains at all, traffic has been a bit quiet at 'Birlstone', but today, the 11:24pm goods from Norwood Yard contained a more than usually interesting cargo. Farmer Adams has come into money, and decided to invest in "One o' they Foreign tractors, like them 'Talian farmers is usin' nowadays.". Here it is arriving. Wagon and tractor from Progress Products, at what seemed a really fair price to me. Kevin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted March 20, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 20, 2016 What a very interesting and rather unique layout and the latest loco (above) just happens to be a Yanky Tank. That looks great. This makes such a change from the procession of smaller scale layouts ( including mine) and is as 'quirky', in the nicest possible way, as Brian's USA) tinplate collection. Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted March 20, 2016 Author Share Posted March 20, 2016 Here is a 400+ year old goods train, in the sense that the wagons are all at least 60 years old, some of them probably nearer 80. One of the great advantages of coarseness is the ability to interun old crocks and brand new things. Kevin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted May 15, 2016 Author Share Posted May 15, 2016 The through express goods, which has kept two four year olds entertained for the past hour. They can drive the loco, with annoying noises, smoke etc! Notice the vital inclusion of a Hornby cattle wagon, with opening doors, to permit the conveyance of Lego figures. K Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ChrisN Posted May 15, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 15, 2016 The through express goods, which has kept two four year olds entertained for the past hour. They can drive the loco, with annoying noises, smoke etc! Notice the vital inclusion of a Hornby cattle wagon, with opening doors, to permit the conveyance of Lego figures. K We always needed a good supply of open wagons and van whose 'lids' came off so that we could carry freight around the layout, unload it, load some more and off again. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted May 15, 2016 Author Share Posted May 15, 2016 Funny you should say that. When I properly re-discovered tinplate, after a gap since c7 years old, I was genuinely surprised that the old Hornby van-roofs didn't have sliding hatches in them; I had a sort of false-memory of hatches, when what we must have done was to slide the entire roofs back and forth, to admit the knights-in-armour and cowboys, who were the usual passengers. Most of the 0 gauge we had was handed-down from an uncle, so doubtless he had "worn the roofs" in for us already! Kevin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Metropolitan H Posted May 15, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 15, 2016 The through express goods, which has kept two four year olds entertained for the past hour. They can drive the loco, with annoying noises, smoke etc! Notice the vital inclusion of a Hornby cattle wagon, with opening doors, to permit the conveyance of Lego figures. K I still pity the poor fireman. He needs to be a long-jump specialist as well as a coal heaver! Chris H Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted May 16, 2016 Author Share Posted May 16, 2016 No problem! The fireman was Captain America, and the locomotive was driven by Princess Elsa, who managed fine, despite an ankle-length dress and a long cloak. K Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted October 8, 2016 Author Share Posted October 8, 2016 The LMS thing seems to be creeping-up on Birlstone. I've just resurrected this 1928 clockwork Hornby No.2, which will now hurtle the post and fish special round for two laps. Not in pristine condition, but unrestored after 88 years. All I had to do was clean the mechanism, and sort out a few places where things were fouling and impeding free-running. K Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zomboid Posted December 25, 2016 Share Posted December 25, 2016 Oh dear. It's a good job I haven't the space for more than one tiny layout, that's all I can say about this... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted December 26, 2016 Author Share Posted December 26, 2016 Ah, well, this is a classic case of taking forty years to achieve an overnight success in terms of having space ........ twenty five years building indoor layouts, ranging from the really tiny to the modest, followed by fifteen years building things in the garden, because that was the only space large enough. In short, Sir, don't give up on the idea. Kevin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted January 19, 2017 Author Share Posted January 19, 2017 It is often forgotten that the Great Aunt of the well known railway photographer H G Cassoulet lived at Birlstone. During family visits, HG would escape the tedium, by offering to walk his Aunt's darling poodles, which actually spent most of their time tethered to a fence post, while he pointed his camera at trains. Astonishingly, one of HG's cameras, now in the possession of a local collector, was recently discovered to contain an undeveloped film. The film was processed with great care, and some of the resulting prints are shown below. Not HG's greatest works, by any means, but interesting all the same. (The camera was actually one of my father's, a 1935 Voigtlander Bessa, which I think he bought in about 1950 ...... price £3 12s 6d, pencilled inside the back) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted January 19, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 19, 2017 Amazing how that that old film has kept its condition, those photos could have been taken yesterday. He picked a good subject with that nice old tinplate line, ah, they don't make em like that now, do they? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 It is often forgotten that the Great Aunt of the well known railway photographer H G Cabbageleaf lived at Birlstone. During family visits, HG would escape the tedium, by offering to walk his Aunt's darling poodles, which actually spent most of their time tethered to a fence post, while he pointed his camera at trains. Astonishingly, one of HG's cameras, now in the possession of a local collector, was recently discovered to contain an undeveloped film. The film was processed with great care, and some of the resulting prints are shown below. Not HG's greatest works, by any means, but interesting all the same. (The camera was actually one of my father's, a 1935 Voigtlander Bessa, which I think he bought in about 1950 ...... price £3 12s 6d, pencilled inside the back) Pure poetry. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted January 20, 2017 Author Share Posted January 20, 2017 Steady on Old Chap! Anyway, one more print has been squeezed from the feeble negatives. PS:I noticed that autocorrect had renderered our photographer's name incorrectly. H G Cassoulet is the correct name, known to close friends as "Old Bean". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted February 11, 2017 Author Share Posted February 11, 2017 Radical! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen 28 Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 Radical! Surely the perfect Tin plate prototype! (Spam can, geddit?) Collects coat, heads for door. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted February 11, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 11, 2017 Is this the latest acquisition? Looks great, Highly envious. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianusa Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 I don't venture far from collectible and vintage but glad I came across this interesting thread out on its own! Good stuff here and hope to see more. Brian. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted February 12, 2017 Author Share Posted February 12, 2017 Not a new loco; I've had it for a few years, but rarely use it, because it somehow seems to demand a longer train than looks sensible on my layout. It 'wants' ten or twelve coaches, when I usually only run three or four. I don't remember the unrebuilt ones in service, but I did do a very tiny bit of work on 'Blackmore Vale' before it returned to service in the mid-1970s, and was at the lineside when it blew a superheater tube during its very first run! It looked pretty much like the picture above, all shining and magnificent, then there was a strange 'whumph', and it started making a buzzing noise ........ those of us watching had no idea what had gone wrong until later. The latter part of this film shows the day, and I'm almost certainly one of the people leaning on the fence in the final sequence. Oddly, the sound on the film doesn't quite convey what we actually heard, and I'm a bit confused as to which shots in the film show the very first run .... there are different train consists in different shots https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EJqgRdOX1Pk K Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted February 12, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 12, 2017 Seeing them leaving Charing Cross with a Kent Coast train, fair enough, but then after watching one shunting at Bude, two coaches is perfectly convincing for them. They're still a beautiful machine, I was allowed to drool over Blackmore Vale as a seventieth birthday treat. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted February 12, 2017 Author Share Posted February 12, 2017 Yes, it's a not a matter of logic, there were plenty of cases where they worked short trains. It's something to do with the fact that the model is so immensely heavy and powerful; it looks best belting along, with a long train, and I simply don't have the room for that. It must be very well-engineered, because it only draws about 500mA, even if I load it to six or seven, and whizz it round as fast as I dare ......... not that I indulge in such juvenile activity (when anyone is watching). I think Blackmore Vale is out of commission currently - certainly was last time I was at Sheffield Park. If my maths is correct, it has now spent roundly twice as long as a preserved loco as it did with SR/BR! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted February 26, 2017 Author Share Posted February 26, 2017 This thread terminates here; this thread terminates here! All change please; all change! Passengers wishing to continue their journey should board the thread standing under my signature below. All change; all change!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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