cromptonnut Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 I'm not very good with stuff like that. The only things that tend to move or light up on my layouts are the trains! When I started to build North Street, I found some very realistic working LED streetlights so spent an age fitting them all and running the wires. They were designed to run off a 3V supply. I didn't have a 3V supply, but I did have a 3.6V supply. "That'll be fine" I thought. On flicking the switch, they all glowed nicely but only for a split second. I still remember the little puff of white smoke rising from every single streetlight. I once did a similar thing with a control panel with route setting LED's - accidently crossed a 36v CDU output with the 12v DC supply for the 12v LEDs ... tried the first point and BANG. The air was blue, with smoke and words. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 Currently adding pavements and road markings to the road that crosses the line at the scenic break. Yes, there will be a bus stop, but not actually on the bridge, just before it. Having stated that I don't "do" working lights... it just doesn't appeal to me to dim the room lights and pretend it's 3am in Limehouse... I have made one concession. There will be a zebra crossing and as the belisha beacons flash night and day, they may have to work. I think they'd look more daft if they didn't. As a nod to Keith and Ronnie who seem to have a toilet fixation, I'll need to find room for a 1980s Superloo somewhere... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithHC Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 Too add to the flashing beacons what about the Loo door opening on a surprised occupant. Sorry more toilet humor. However the plans for a under-construction factory/office building look good. Keith HC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopardml2341 Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 Too add to the flashing beacons what about the Loo door opening on a surprised occupant. Sorry more toilet humor. However the plans for a under-construction factory/office building look good. Keith HC I thought exactly the same, but as my interweb connection has been up and down more often than a wh@re's drawers, I was unable to post it when I first saw the 'superloo' pic 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 Like the Superloo Pete, every Town should have one, how about a queue outside with Legs crossed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopardml2341 Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 Found out why mi interweb was a bit unreliable yesterday - a confetti of blue and yellow wire strippings at the local BT joint box. Why don't the technicians clean up after themselves? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 Found out why mi interweb was a bit unreliable yesterday - a confetti of blue and yellow wire strippings at the local BT joint box. Why don't the technicians clean up after themselves? My net connection was really slow about 6 months ago. It was like being back in the dark ages of dial-up. All those naughty cheerleader pictures were taking an age to download. I gave BT a ring and they said they'd look into it. The very next day, they planted a new pole right outside the top floor railway room's window and upgraded all 8 or so connections from it. I have a sneaky feeling that must have been a coincidental planned upgrade and not the result of my telephone call! Impressive, though. Particularly the lorry that planted the pole... I'd never seen one of those before. Yes, I'm sad enough to have nipped upstairs and taken a picture of the pole... 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Guest Posted April 15, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted April 15, 2016 (edited) Meanwhile, somewhere in East London... Weathering and marking the road turned out fairly well. Still have a few more yellow lines to do and need to add the belisha beacons, but you get the idea... Edit: Playing around in Paint Shop Pro, I've been knocking up a road sign or two appropriate for the area. Not sure which I'll use yet, but one shown below. Edited April 15, 2016 by Pete 75C 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 My net connection was really slow about 6 months ago. It was like being back in the dark ages of dial-up. All those naughty cheerleader pictures were taking an age to download. I gave BT a ring and they said they'd look into it. The very next day, they planted a new pole right outside the top floor railway room's window and upgraded all 8 or so connections from it. I have a sneaky feeling that must have been a coincidental planned upgrade and not the result of my telephone call! Impressive, though. Particularly the lorry that planted the pole... I'd never seen one of those before. pole.jpg Yes, I'm sad enough to have nipped upstairs and taken a picture of the pole... Don't worry Pete, there's lot in every Town now. :nono: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 Meanwhile, somewhere in East London... Weathering and marking the road turned out fairly well. Still have a few more yellow lines to do and need to add the belisha beacons, but you get the idea... wp_163.jpg wp_164.jpg Edit: Playing around in Paint Shop Pro, I've been knocking up a road sign or two appropriate for the area. Not sure which I'll use yet, but one shown below. Image1.jpg Will you have John, Paul George and Ringo striding across? hahhahhaha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 Will you have John, Paul George and Ringo striding across? hahhahhaha. Can they be running for the bus instead? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopardml2341 Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 (edited) Pete, Really like the road treatment, but..... Were bus stops marked out like that in your time frame, iirc the contrasting tarmac and yellow lettering is a fairly new innovation, would it be just white on black? This pic: http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/resources/images/3473727/ is stated to be Chingford in the 80's, but it is the guardian..... Edited April 15, 2016 by leopardml2341 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 Pete, Really like the road treatment, but..... Were bus stops marked out like that in your time frame, iirc the contrasting tarmac and yellow lettering is a fairly new innovation, would it be just white on black? Probably not? Definitely not circa 1987 but I did find reference to them in a Highways Agency document dated 1999 so I guess they've been around 20 years or so (just maybe not as prevalent as today). I'm not about to start running trains around in hideous vinyl graphic privatised liveries so there's no chance of the layout ever pretending to be set in the 21st Century, but it's always nice to backdate or stretch things a little "time-wise". You know me. A little colour in a world of grey! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted April 15, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 15, 2016 Looking excellent Pete, being a bit pedantic when did the 'lorry route' logos appear on road signs late 80s perhaps? Are you doing 70s now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 Are you doing 70s now? June 4th, 1984, about ten past two. Everything but steam and plastic multiple units, mate. Pick a date. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopardml2341 Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 June 4th, 1984, about ten past two. Everything but steam and plastic multiple units, mate. Pick a date. Rule number 1 rules Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St. Simon Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 June 4th, 1984, about ten past two. Everything but steam and plastic multiple units, mate. Pick a date. Better not look at your former layout Looks fantastic Pete, you've practically built a layout in the time its taken me to half finish one you half built in the first place! I love the road, very good. Simon 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 The photograph is of South Chingford looking towards Chingford Mount this was my Saturday morning haunt in the fifties sixties ,the trolleybuses used to terminate here outside the cinema ,and the newspaper is the Walthamstow Gardiuan Nice to a photo of yesterday pity you cant put trolleybuses on the layout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobster Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 That's a nice Photograph, but I thinks it looks more like late 60s or early 70s to me rather than 1980s Cheers, Bob. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Siberian Snooper Posted April 15, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 15, 2016 Can they be running for the bus instead? If was the driver, I don't think they'd make it, a piece of toti would be different though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 The photograph is of South Chingford looking towards Chingford Mount this was my Saturday morning haunt in the fifties sixties ,the trolleybuses used to terminate here outside the cinema ,and the newspaper is the Walthamstow Gardiuan Nice to a photo of yesterday pity you cant put trolleybuses on the layout. Did someone mention trolleybuses? (Sorry, going way O/T) 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 Now that's what I call a bus quiet,fast, high quality accommodation worst decision ever to get rid of them in London used to prefer a trip on a trolley to anything else. you really should put a trolley route on the layout only have to put up a few wires? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 What I love about that trolleybus photo (apart from the vehicle itself) are the signs of those more-sociable-society times. Prams seemingly unattended outside shops, pushbikes stood on kerbs, very little road traffic, and virtually no road signs/markings. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chris p bacon Posted April 15, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 15, 2016 What I love about that trolleybus photo (apart from the vehicle itself) are the signs of those more-sociable-society times. Prams seemingly unattended outside shops, pushbikes stood on kerbs, very little road traffic, and virtually no road signs/marking There's still a Tesco's though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelly Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 There's still a Tesco's though. That is how they started The photo is great The road markings look good, if perhaps to my eye a bit too modern, but without reference I can't say that for sure as such things can be difficult to work out without references to hand I find. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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