Clagmeister Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 Hi, I'm back and have made a start on a new HOe/009 project. Based upon a fictional modern age project based in the Central Lakes. As a house move is on the cards this will be a modular system with the first board based around the railways operating centre named after the Roman Fort it is situated near on the outskirts of Ambleside. Have made a start marking stuff out and base painting, also before wiring and track laying I needed to put the Harz style inspection pit in. Here it is outside number 1 road of the running shed. If any of you have worked on a heritage line shovelling ash you might have experienced this. You'll notice in this pic that there is guy doing the work whilst another guy tells him how to do it better :-) There is a historic story to it which I'll bore you with later, and i'll do track plans and give you an idea of how its going to be. I hope to do photographs of the route too. Glad to be back although I have been lurking for a while, some great stuff on here as always. Claggy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clagmeister Posted September 1, 2017 Author Share Posted September 1, 2017 First movements on the Central Lake District Railway at Galava Works today. Trial fitting and testing 4562 backs a coach towards the engineering shop. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crisis Rail Posted September 2, 2017 Share Posted September 2, 2017 Well its different and interesting. We know Galava quite well. This has a shade of Ravenglass about it. Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clagmeister Posted September 2, 2017 Author Share Posted September 2, 2017 Thank you. It will be modern times on an old fictional track bed, using imported stock to operate a modern tourist system. Coniston to Rydal and Elterwater opened by the Furness Railway in 1897 as an extension to their standard gauge line. Built to 2ft gauge and used locomotives built by Manning Wardle which were roughly the same as those used on the L&B. There are plans to have old stock and locomotives built in the future so heritage trains can be run. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Corbs Posted September 2, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 2, 2017 A bit like the Brecon Mountain Railway? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clagmeister Posted September 2, 2017 Author Share Posted September 2, 2017 Yeah, plus W&LLR did it, but where this differs is its a modern tourist operation with the majority of services in the hands of railcars like Austrian operation. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clagmeister Posted September 2, 2017 Author Share Posted September 2, 2017 Most services will be in the hands of these beauties. The Skelwith Bridge board when I do it should look like this with UK buildings and back scene. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clagmeister Posted September 2, 2017 Author Share Posted September 2, 2017 Spent most of the afternoon, cutting, fitting and sticking the concrete hard stand down outside the engineers shop. works fine, quite chuffed with the result. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clagmeister Posted September 3, 2017 Author Share Posted September 3, 2017 4562 receives some attention on the pit, prior to being put to bed this evening. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clagmeister Posted September 3, 2017 Author Share Posted September 3, 2017 Should this be somewhere else as its a British line, but Narrow gauge and using foreign stock? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
long island jack Posted September 4, 2017 Share Posted September 4, 2017 (edited) Interesting concept, you could model the little 2' gauge railway TTG, Threlkeld, Thirlmere and Grassmere mineral railway, this join the CK&P at Threlkeld, if you drive through St Johns in the Vale, you can still see part of the track bed near Bram crag quarry which was part of the light rail network. There was talk a couple of year back about re-instating the track from Threlkeld quarry to Barm crag quarry by a small group of volunteer's at Threlkeld quarry, but sadly this didn't get past just thinking about it, but part of the track bed is being used for the new extension at Threlkeld, so it's not all bad news. Edited September 4, 2017 by long island jack Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clagmeister Posted September 4, 2017 Author Share Posted September 4, 2017 Interesting concept, you could model the little 2' gauge railway TTG, Threlkeld, Thirlmere and Grassmere mineral railway, this join the CK&P at Threlkeld, if you drive through St Johns in the Vale, you can still see part of the track bed near Bram crag quarry which was part of the light rail network. There was talk a couple of year back about re-instating the track from Threlkeld quarry to Barm crag quarry by a small group of volunteer's at Threlkeld quarry, but sadly this didn't get past just thinking about it, but part of the track bed is being used for the new extension at Threlkeld, so it's not all bad news. Yes a little railway round to Bram Crag would be great. Ian and Dicken were still talking about it last time I saw them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waverley West Posted September 4, 2017 Share Posted September 4, 2017 Looking good, Mike. Great to see you back on here. A bit of a change with the new plan, I see! You could always do one of these too... Taken at Zell Am See on our summer hols this year. We had a trip on the Pinzgauer Lokalbahn behind it. Cheers for now, Dave 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clagmeister Posted September 10, 2017 Author Share Posted September 10, 2017 Made a start with detailing, ballasting and planning where the smoke generators and lights will go. Starting to come along a bit now. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clagmeister Posted September 10, 2017 Author Share Posted September 10, 2017 From the running shed roof 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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