RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted January 6, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 6, 2022 12 hours ago, Keith Addenbrooke said: I’ve googled heaven or paradise seeking inspiration for a Sermon, although my favourite was a rather unexpected image of a delicious pizza that topped the search results Deep pan, crisp and even no doubt. 1 2 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben B Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 Away from Billiards, and onto toy trains... I blame this thread. I've only ever dabbled in 0 gauge,I have no space for this sort of thing... but thanks to this thread, I have developed a fascination with old 0 gauge tinplate, and bought a few bits spares/repairs for a photography project I'm doing... then saw this beastie. I loved this machine as soon as I saw it! The main loco for my project is a "George the Fifth" bit seeing this Bing, German-made loco, I decided I could incorporate a goods train too. The clockwork is in fully functional condition, and the paint only has a tiny amount of crazing (on the smokebox) and a couple of chips. It's a shame it doesn't have motion/coupling rods, but otherwise it's a very characterful, chunky little tank loco, and destined to be retained as a shelf-sitter after the project. 14 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted January 6, 2022 Author Share Posted January 6, 2022 Many thanks for showing us that. A cute engine if ever there was one. It deserves a branch line, rather than a shelf. I apologise for the recent lack of trains. We will get back to them at some point, I promise. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted January 7, 2022 Author Share Posted January 7, 2022 Here’s one to be going on with. Its a Milbro standard 4-4-2T, which I’ve had in the projects drawer for a couple of years now. Background reading here https://www.milbromodelrailways.co.uk/locomotives.html It has a deeply dead motor. A kind person gave me a working original replacement, but the pinion and fixing points are different, so it would be better if I can find someone with the capability to re-mag, and if needed re-wind, the one it has. IMO, these Mills standard locos, both the 4-4-2T and the rarer 0-6-2T, are well proportioned and convincing, a step up from Hornby, which is what they were meant to be, and better looking than the BL standard tanks, which are a bit too fat to be truly believable. 12 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben B Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 8 minutes ago, Nearholmer said: Here’s one to be going on with. Its a Milbro standard 4-4-2T, which I’ve had in the projects drawer for a couple of years now. Background reading here https://www.milbromodelrailways.co.uk/locomotives.html It has a deeply dead motor. A kind person gave me a working original replacement, but the pinion and fixing points are different, so it would be better if I can find someone with the capability to re-mag, and if needed re-wind, the one it has. IMO, these Mills standard locos, both the 4-4-2T and the rarer 0-6-2T, are well proportioned and convincing, a step up from Hornby, which is what they were meant to be, and better looking than the BL standard tanks, which are a bit too fat to be truly believable. That's a nice loco, and yes, noticably better proportioned than similar machines. Are you doing a Terrence Cuneo pic there, by incorporating a mouse 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted January 7, 2022 Author Share Posted January 7, 2022 The mouse has taken-up residence on the study plank, so maybe it is the spirit of TC. All those Triang catalogue covers, that’s what’s behind it. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted January 7, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 7, 2022 He/she? needs overalls: 5 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted January 7, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 7, 2022 They've been at the cheese again... 4 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben B Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 How's this for a bit of old-fashioned O gauge? As mentioned in the thread about the Bing tank engine, I've been acquiring spares/repairs tinplate O for the photography project. I really didn't need this for the project, but after stumbling on this on eBay, for a bit under £25 including postage, I couldn't resist. A fascinating little bit of British toy train history. From what I gather, this is the very end of the Hornby O gauge legacy; the ingeniously re-done Thomas Percy, an interesting (and early) bit of product tie-in. It's a characterful little set, particularly the plastic goods wagons. Happy to say it's all in working order too, no warping, no cracking, and the plastic has failed go bendy like a lot of plastic toys of that vintage. I doubt it's going to accumulate extra value, but I'll be hanging onto it for the time being 8 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted January 10, 2022 Author Share Posted January 10, 2022 Very good! My youngest bro had the full-on Percy version as a Christmas present when it first came out (1965?) and the track seemed to linger about the place forever, often being used as a road for toy cars that happened to fit. It’s definitely robust. The loco and wagons are compatible with tinplate 0 and got integrated (well disintegrated through hard use) with our hand-me-down Hornby for a while, before that faded away. Memory well jogged, thank you. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted January 11, 2022 Author Share Posted January 11, 2022 Change is afoot. But, that is not The End, because while the space currently occupied by that layout is to become a proper, permanent workplace for my good lady, who has been working from home since The Dreaded arrived, and looks set to continue WFH, a new layout is to arise. More modest, but reasonably portable, and it will be possible to erect it indoors, and leave it set up other than when the current spare room--study is needed for a visitor. Some of you have contributed to the design discussion in another thread, but here is the plan as it sits at present, 3000mm x 2100mm. Bound to change as it gets created, because my layouts always do, but there isn’t much room to do much different! I’ve contracted-out the baseboards in order to give me a flying start, and they might arrive as early as next week, which is quite an exciting prospect for a person who is far better at starting projects than finishing them. 11 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Metropolitan H Posted January 11, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 11, 2022 I see you have passed through into "Mirror-land" in the latest iteration of the layout design - as well as refining the sidings layout! - Is this to confuse me or you? Regards Chris H Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium uax6 Posted January 11, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 11, 2022 Thats an interesting phone number for the Birlstone Stationmaster (369). I may not have been keeping up here, but how big is Birlstone? If its a village it must have a UAX6 exchange, with the Station having more than one line (the subscribers with more than one line were put on the 3xx level, so that the exchange could hunt across the lines, normal single line subs would normally be on 2XX numbers. In fact even for quite large villages/small towns when you could dial the unit fee area (the uax6 didn't allow this, every non-exchange call was via the operator) it would still be unusual for level 3 to be open on the replacement UAX13, as not many were on the phone! If it was a larger town then it possible would have had a UAX14, but that would be 4 digit numbering 2XXX... Sorry for the diversion... Andy G 2 5 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted January 11, 2022 Author Share Posted January 11, 2022 Alice does travel in a train on the other side of the looking glass, although it is rather unusual in that it moves upwards, rather than along. Telephone lines? Yes, Birlstone is a medium-sized town, big enough that the goods depot has a separate ‘phone line, but you have to imagine quite a bit of it, because there isn’t room. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben B Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 4 minutes ago, Nearholmer said: Alice does travel in a train on the other side of the looking glass, although it is rather unusual in that it moves upwards, rather than along. Telephone lines? Yes, Birlstone is a medium-sized town, big enough that the goods depot has a separate ‘phone line, but you have to imagine quite a bit of it, because there isn’t room. Ah, well if we're talking Wonderland and it's railways... Steampunk Jabberwock in the garden... 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted January 11, 2022 Author Share Posted January 11, 2022 You’d certainly need your vorpal shunting stick to deal with that! 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRASinBothell Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 I do wonder if we're going to see pictures of the usual "last day" festivities at Birlstone or Paltry Circus. Maybe a wreath bearing the hope "Perchance it is not dead, but sleepeth"... Gordon 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben B Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 1 hour ago, GRASinBothell said: I do wonder if we're going to see pictures of the usual "last day" festivities at Birlstone or Paltry Circus. Maybe a wreath bearing the hope "Perchance it is not dead, but sleepeth"... Gordon A 4-car DMU for the closure special? Or if the locals are upset, something more confrontational like Hawick with a wreath and a coffin on the platform? Or a miniature mob on the tracks like at Silloth? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted January 13, 2022 Author Share Posted January 13, 2022 Well, Paltry Circus will definitely sleepeth, with periodic awakenings, because it is a standalone, packaway layout. The rest will be dismantled, and track will be up-cycled into the new layout, points especially, ‘cos they is not cheap. The new layout will have a lot more tight radius curves than the old, so there will be some selling and buying done. We’ll have to wait and see whether a special train, stuffed-full of train spotters in gaberdine macs, and locals who bought their first car last year and haven’t used the train since, will run. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RateTheFreight Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Out of interest which loco hauled the inaugural service on the line? Might it get a starring role in the proposed closing festivities? G 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted January 14, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 14, 2022 Good to hear Paltry Circus remains, I’ve got a great affection for that. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted January 14, 2022 Author Share Posted January 14, 2022 12 hours ago, RateTheFreight said: Out of interest which loco hauled the inaugural service on the line? I don’t think there was an “inaugural service” as such for the initial circuit, but I’m pretty sure this was made within a week of circulation being established, so the Q probably holds the honour. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Metropolitan H Posted January 14, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 14, 2022 My records - with pictures and video by Ted R - show that we had a Clatterbang Train Fest at Chez Nearholmer on 23rd May 2014, when numerous trains circulated - including the Q class, your B-L N class, the ACE 3-SUB (or is it a NOL?) EMU and your first Terrier. Visiting trains were from the Met and GWR. The turntable shown in your film of the Q wasn't delivered till the very beginning of June 2014 - I took its pre-delivery pictures here on 31st May. The awful "Madras Marmalade" grease was removed from the Q class mechanism on 29th June 2014. Hope that helps with the narrative. Regards Chris H 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted January 14, 2022 Author Share Posted January 14, 2022 (edited) Maybe I’m a year out in my mental calendar then, and circulation was complete for the New Year of 2014, rather than New Year 2015 ……. I know it was a New Year, because I worked late a few evenings between Christmas and New Year to make sure it was ready in a very basic form. Edited January 14, 2022 by Nearholmer 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 1 hour ago, Metropolitan H said: Clatterbang Train Fest What a fantastic name for an event!!! 2 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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