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Hi all

having been on sometime through I best get around to tell you all about my layout. it is oo scale and it lives in the box room of the house. hence the name until I can think of better name for it. most of my stock is modern image but I share the layout with my dad so his stream engines do run on it too. This my first layout so be kind as was build to play train on :)

image of the layout can be found at http://pics-by-robert.photosnaps.org.uk

until I can work out posting them on here . Will draw up a track plan too.

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I don't see why anyone should be unkind pacer lover it's a great layout smile.gif !

 

Besides if you are happy and enjoying it why should it matter what anyone else thinks or says ohmy.gif

 

I actually work for Arriva so it's nice to see the livery even if I do have to dispatch them on time!!!! biggrin.gif

 

Best Wishes keep up the fantastic work (I am being sincere)

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hey

thank you thefonz1. yep im happy but there all room for improvment. everyone one here have been very welcomeing thanks guys:)

hope that not too much arriva colour for u lol thinking of get the arriva 158 too but all ready got 2 of them :)

 

 

thank you lewis. i will try and keep the pictures coming :) but in the mean time why not have a look at photo site as lots more pics on there. yep the 57 is lovely model

 

regards

 

pacer lover aka rob

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hey all

a small update as been playing trains today:)

just a couple of pics

does any one remenber midland mainland these days ?lol liveries change so quickly these day :blink:

and centarl trains class 158/153 combo and a arriva class 150/153 combo:)

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does any one remenber midland mainland these days ?lol liveries change so quickly these day :blink:

and centarl trains class 158/153 combo and a arriva class 150/153 combo:)

 

I know what you mean about the liveries changing. I originally wanted the Midland Mainline 170 but couldn't get one so settled for the Central Trains livery. Now I want the Cross Country livery!

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hey rammy

u saying that wanted a Midland Mainline 170 but got a Central Trains livery and now wanting a Cross Country one reminds me that once i saw a 170 with cross country logos with central trains marking on that look like midland mainline liviy under them :)

 

how long before the liverys we see to do go :blink:

btw had a look at your layout . it looks good :)

 

rob

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hey all

time for a up date me thinks

here are some new pics

the frist one, is class 60 on iron ore emptys pasting though the station :) it reminds me of the old Iron Ore trains between Port Talbot and Llanwern.

 

the second, is of a postman pat lol

 

the thrid, well let just say i forgot it was the end of the line ,oops:(

there more new pics on my photopic site.

 

 

rob

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The last picture is nearly complete disaster!!

 

From the pictures and track plan I particulary like the way you have utilised the space on the window wall by having the shed building there with the two tracks to it giving some local operational interest as well as the end to end trains you can run.

 

It is a great layout including another tardis, The Doctor seems to be getting around many Model Railways these days!!

 

Regards

 

David

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I like your Class 57 - quite fancying one of those myself!

 

If you are after some ideas for suitable passenger rolling stock I'm sure that I have recently seen one of these Arriva 57's, top and tailed with either another Arriva 57 or a Virgin liveried 57 (on loan I believe) but with a short train of what looked like Mk2 BR blue/grey coaches (could have been Mk3?). This was in North Somerset. I think its either a Cardiff to Taunton or Cardiff to Paignton service. Saw it another time with some green liveried MK2 or Mk3 coaches. I didn't recognise the colour though. It could have been an older Arriva livery or maybe an older FGW livery.

 

Whichever, I'm sure it must be possible to find something you can run it with?

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hey guy

ta for comments

david i was lucky , normaly the buffer-stops would stop the train tho the power still on but this time i was going way too fast then oops lol but it didnt fall off so all ok :)

 

also i got a dalek ( a pencil end toy) for him to fight some where :) it on a 1 year loan from my little sis from about 5 years ago so got to hide him from her

 

leavesonline yep it a great model :) ta for the ideas may try them as have got some mk2s in old fgw , virgin, intercity n blue n gery, so could top n tail them with my fgw 57 or ews 67 or could just runing with any thing i want - see below

it could happen lol

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the thrid, well let just say i forgot it was the end of the line ,oops:(

there more new pics on my photopic site.

 

 

Stourbridge Town bubble-car (1978?) or North Circular Road Class 31 pair (1989?), anyone? wink.gif

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hey all

time for a up date now it a may and i have been to the bristol show .:)

the main thing i pick up at the show was a Bachmann class 220 - welsh dargon, a unbox 3 class set from the Bachmann train set. being 3 car it the rigth length for my layout plus i like the name it fit in nicely with my layout been somewhere in south east wales ish lol

also i brough the new Bachmann house under construction . it is bigger that i though so had to small move around on the layout to get in it , the chapel have move next to the petrol station with the house under construction going where it was .it a great model tho :) hope the pics will show that .

the other things i pick up was some peco town back ground and some noch moterbikers which can seen in the pics below

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