Llanbourne North Wales in the 80s.

[Andrew P]

Great to actually meet you yesterday Peter, hope you enjoyed the Show, and have a good trip back to the Land down Under.🙃

 

BTW will you have a suitcase FULL of new purchases to take back?🤪

 

Don't forget to check out Fridays Video, I have some footage of you looking like you know what your doing. 😆

 

[St Enodoc]

34 minutes ago, Andrew P said:

Don't forget to check out Fridays Video, I have some footage of you looking like you know what your doing.

Wow! That will be worth seeing!

[P.C.M]

On 29/05/2022 at 08:13, Andrew P said:

Great to actually meet you yesterday Peter, hope you enjoyed the Show, and have a good trip back to the Land down Under.🙃

 

BTW will you have a suitcase FULL of new purchases to take back?🤪

 

Don't forget to check out Fridays Video, I have some footage of you looking like you know what your doing. 😆

 

Oh shite no looking forwards to that.

Great to meet you though mate.

 

Cheers Peter.

[Gwiwer]

Sorry we ran out of time to catch up this trip.  There will be another time.  Safe travels.  

[P.C.M]

10 hours ago, Gwiwer said:

Sorry we ran out of time to catch up this trip.  There will be another time.  Safe travels.  

Thanks mate hopefully I will be over for longer next time so will catch up then.

[SRman]

Some of my photos from Peter's BRMA meeting last Saturday. There was a very good attendance, and a great time was had by all. Thanks to Peter and Leanne for their hospitality. I still marvel at the myriad of fine details Peter has incorporated into Llanbourne.

I have had to spread the photos over several posts because of the size limits.

 

 

 

[SRman]

 

 

[SRman]

 

[P.C.M]

Hi Jeff, glad you enjoyed the day. Some nice pics too. I didn't take any on the day but took a few Sunday when I went out to run some trains.

First up 20121 and 169 work a train from Stoke. These two are Lima models 169  is a dummy and 20121 runs on a Bachmann chassis.

Next pic shows some recently weathered VEAs and a recent purchase of a cavalex PFB.

Last pic shows 25912 coming into the yard where it will drop off the BDAs for unloading.

[P.C.M]

08472 has been dumped in the yard as it playing up again. 

08695 has shunt relased the train from stoke and the 20s have dropped back onto the front. 45103 arrives on a train from York.

[SRman]

I took a few photos of the O gauge stuff too, but they need to go in the relevant thread, once I can find it. 

[JBM37404]

6 hours ago, SRman said:

Some of my photos from Peter's BRMA meeting last Saturday. There was a very good attendance, and a great time was had by all. Thanks to Peter and Leanne for their hospitality. I still marvel at the myriad of fine details Peter has incorporated into Llanbourne.

I have had to spread the photos over several posts because of the size limits.

 

 

 

Shot with the buses in is great, remember well the Crosville Cymru Coastliner services. Used to see a few VRs and the like at Flint depot when cycling past in the 80s with one eye on the railway looking to see what 47s would pass on the Eustons.

[Temeraire]

Hi Pete

 

Nice collection of photos and looks like a good meet up, I’ve got a meet planned at mine in a few weeks time if you’re free? 🤣

 

It was good to see you last month on your visit and hope the trip home was bearable.

 

All the best

[P.C.M]

10 hours ago, SRman said:

I took a few photos of the O gauge stuff too, but they need to go in the relevant thread, once I can find it. 

Its Holmes road in the 7mm section.

[P.C.M]

8 hours ago, Temeraire said:

Hi Pete

 

Nice collection of photos and looks like a good meet up, I’ve got a meet planned at mine in a few weeks time if you’re free? 🤣

 

It was good to see you last month on your visit and hope the trip home was bearable.

 

All the best

Thanks Ian,

I had 21 peoples turn up luckily the weather was ok and both layouts ran well. I was good to catch up and see the lads and Exford not sure I can make it for the next meet 🤣🤣 it would have been nice if  I could have stayed an extra few weeks but it was hard enough going back to work after 3. Trip home was OK just long.

 

Cheers Peter.

[P.C.M]

My two Bachmann 25s are still finding plenty of work on llanbourne. 25904 is stabled while 25109 runs LE to Bangor.

31319 arrives on an empty ballast train from Carnforth.

Edited June 21, 2022 by P.C.M

[P.C.M]

20121& 20169 leave llanbourne and head down the branch.

33010 Heads for Crewe.

25224 shunts the fuel tanks.

[P.C.M]

I thought while the track was fairly clean and the layout was working well I would run a few trains using the timetable.

 

One of the first trains of the day that can be seen in daylight is the 1M82 from Cardiff. This train consists of a couple of vans and two MK1s providing some passenger accommodation. The train is booked for a class 47/4 but can produce a 37/4 or class 33. As can be seen in the pics  25059 had turned up due to a loco failure near Crewe.

A van is removed and one added to form the return working to Cardiff.

 

 

 

 

[saxokid]

Had good catch up here on all your top modelling 😀

looking forward to more updates n pictures too..

cheers neil

[P.C.M]

18 hours ago, saxokid said:

Had good catch up here on all your top modelling 😀

looking forward to more updates n pictures too..

cheers neil

Thanks Neil. I do have a few more pics to load. Just pics from running trains as I have been going through my timetable. 

 

Cheers Peter.

[trw1089]

Always enjoy a virtual visit to your layout Peter, so have been enjoying a thread catch-up looking at all the BR Blue.

[P.C.M]

3 hours ago, trw1089 said:

Always enjoy a virtual visit to your layout Peter, so have been enjoying a thread catch-up looking at all the BR Blue.

Thanks Tony, I have a few more pics to post up from my running sessions recently so drop by any time.

 

Cheers Peter.

[P.C.M]

All the talk of the new Bachmann class 37/4 made me put my 37428 on the layout and have a think about do I need to get the newer one. I have another 37417 in the cupboard which I am planning to do as 37427 it will need a bit if work but I think I will stick with my plan of doing that rather than selling it on and buying the newer one. 

I think with a bit of work the older 37 looks pretty good. 

[saxokid]

6 minutes ago, P.C.M said:

All the talk of the new Bachmann class 37/4 made me put my 37428 on the layout and have a think about do I need to get the newer one. I have another 37417 in the cupboard which I am planning to do as 37427 it will need a bit if work but I think I will stick with my plan of doing that rather than selling it on and buying the newer one. 

I think with a bit of work the older 37 looks pretty good. 

Im same pete toying with idea getting new 37430,but sametime ile be keeping all my favorite Bachmann large logos too👍

[Steven B]

On 12/07/2022 at 12:54, P.C.M said:

 

 

 

 

I do like this scene. Very convincing.

 

How did you make the vegetation on the embankment?

 

Steven B.