RMweb Premium Neal Ball Posted January 15, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 15, 2023 Perhaps a lamp from the range at Kytes lights. https://www.kyteslights.com/product_info.php?products_id=332 Usual caveat applies. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
B15nac Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 I'm after some GWR lamps like this not sure how to go about it maybe scratch built is the way forward Regards Neil 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neal Ball Posted January 15, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 15, 2023 10 minutes ago, B15nac said: I'm after some GWR lamps like this not sure how to go about it maybe scratch built is the way forward Regards Neil Try DCC Concepts for GWR Lamps, although they are a bit pricey 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 It's something that I noticed that we seem to have gone backwards on during my twenty odd years absence from railway modelling. You used to be able to buy metal kits for all manner of GWR gas and oil lamps, as well as the Tilley lamps and various other pre grouping companies. The same thing applied to such items as water columns and other company specific paraphernalia. I suppose that it's a result partly of people retiring, or selling out to the competition, but mostly the trend moving away from making a model towards opening boxes. Happily the exceptions seem to have gathered here. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold lezz01 Posted January 15, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 15, 2023 I blame the Bachmann Class 25. Regards Lez. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
B15nac Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 Lots of depots on the western region had this type on posts 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neal Ball Posted January 15, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 15, 2023 2 hours ago, B15nac said: Lots of depots on the western region had this type on posts Of course that might be post Nationalisation. I don’t think they would be typical of depots in the GWR era…. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold GWR57xx Posted January 15, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 15, 2023 Examples of earlier gas lamps around sheds can be found on the excellent Warwickshire Railways website, eg:https://www.warwickshirerailways.com/gwr/gwrsa1573a.htm 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamingWales Posted January 15, 2023 Author Share Posted January 15, 2023 I've not done much in terms of physical modelling today, only painting the windows for the boiler house. I have however been messing about with CAD again to draw up the entrance to the western/coastal end of the workshop. It still needs a bit of cleaning up but I felt it worth sharing On the subject of wall lamps and yard lamps (see below photo, best I could find) some of the yard lamps have the added addition of supporting telegraph wires (or maybe the other way around🤔) so a bit of modelling will have to be done at some point 6 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 Given the vast number of green enamel lampshades that have graced this land over the last hundred years, I'm surprised that nobody has ever sold sprues full of them in the way you can get drainpipes, roof ridges, chimney pots etc. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted January 16, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 16, 2023 20 hours ago, B15nac said: Lots of depots on the western region had this type on posts Totally useless things - I always reckoned the main idea of those lamps was to create enough light to enable to avoid walking into the pole they were mounted on. Often far better to work without such things than with them although some did give a much better spread of light.. 3 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 My pet hate was always those 110v tungsten or halogen work lamps. Not only were they blinding, but they created massive shadows and in a confined space used to mess with your depth perception. They also used to get red hot, which was useful in the middle of the night or mid winter, but if you were working in a confined space there was always a good chance of burning yourself on the damned things. 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS1977 Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 3 hours ago, The Stationmaster said: Totally useless things - I always reckoned the main idea of those lamps was to create enough light to enable to avoid walking into the pole they were mounted on. Often far better to work without such things than with them although some did give a much better spread of light.. I seem to remember some were still in place along Napier Road in Reading until the area was used as a compound for NR during the station rebuilding/electrification. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamingWales Posted January 20, 2023 Author Share Posted January 20, 2023 Not strictly layout related but I wanted to share it. I've been working away in Scotland this week in Dumfries and Galloway and the site was right next to the rather impressive Gatehouse and Fleet viaduct 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamingWales Posted January 21, 2023 Author Share Posted January 21, 2023 I've been getting the hang of the ModelU guttering today and fitted the main guttering and outlets to both the workshop and boiler house. Down spouts to follow once I source the relevant plastic strip to do these I've also cleaned up and given the seaward/western entrance to the workshop it's first coat of paint 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamingWales Posted January 31, 2023 Author Share Posted January 31, 2023 Slowly but surely the shed build plods along with progress over the weekend and last few nights. The first little job has been to paint all the steel work with separates/supports each brick section. Black internally and red brown externally, both will need weathering to tone them down but the appearance is much better already Vs the milky brick red previously present The internal shed walls of the boiler house have had the mucky wash treatment as well as the window panel being attached at the eastern end where the shed entrance is One thing I have put off for ages as well is the brickwork that sits in between the steel work and front of the shed. This is now being addressed so everything should fit together nicely when the time comes 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamingWales Posted February 3, 2023 Author Share Posted February 3, 2023 Some general layout news but very important all the same. It's my birthday in a couple of days so I treated myself to a Ten Commandments rolling road, which as I'm sure everyone knows is very useful when having an end to end layout. It's been put through its paces by my K1 (which is the only loco I have at my parents where the road was delivered) I haven't gone mad buying NE locomotives. I bought the K1 with my birthday money from my 18th, before seeing the light of the GWR, so is a very personal locomotive to me and hasn't been run in about 4 years having sat in storage. I will probably be renumbered it to 62005 in the future as a reminder of a trip on "The Jacobite" which 62005 hauled. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamingWales Posted February 5, 2023 Author Share Posted February 5, 2023 And so it begins..... 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamingWales Posted February 5, 2023 Author Share Posted February 5, 2023 End of play with layout building (for now). I ran out of materials due to a slight design change and also ran out of time as I had to be back in Yorkshire. But this is where I'm at.... One side near complete and the other we won't talk about. After a big sort out I couldn't resist getting some track and locos out 😁 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamingWales Posted February 12, 2023 Author Share Posted February 12, 2023 After moving the baseboard to their final home in the spare room I set too today properly marking out where all the track and building will finally sit. The main purpose is to work out placement of the pits to cut out the holes in the baseboards Progress so far Checking locomotive clearance with the boiler house 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
russell price Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 i think we are at similar stages, ive just marked out most of my trackwork positions so i can add the turntable and point motors etc before i finally brace the boards, if i braced them first i would find everywhere i need to go through would foul something or other!! I ought to go and put up some progress pics on my Welshpool thread. 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted February 12, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 12, 2023 Now that’s a really interesting idea! I feel as if a 100 watt bulb just went on here 😀 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamingWales Posted February 13, 2023 Author Share Posted February 13, 2023 I've been doing a little more work with trackwork planning. I have a bit of a conundrum with the coal stage ramp. A bit of reading around on here and elsewhere has coal stage ramps at about 1:35. The current gradient below sits at around 1:16 so roughly twice as steep. So do I fit the whole ramp within the scenic baseboard space or extend the ramp into the fiddle yard space??? 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 Can you shove 2-4 coal wagons up the 1 in 16 with a pannier tank? It might be worth conducting some tests. 5 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamingWales Posted February 14, 2023 Author Share Posted February 14, 2023 I was catching up on the Hornby TV show at my modelling desk this evening whilst having a mess around with the 74xx and some coal wagons. The conclusion is that it CAN make it up the 1:16 ish with 3 unloaded MDOs but with a load it is a bit of a struggle without giving it some welly and shot down on the descent. Testing on a 1:35 ish it had little problem with the load and no major speed difference going down. I also set up both gradients a bit more accurately with some spare timber strips to get a better visual idea and posed the scene with a 4MT for good measure 1:16 👇👇 1:35👇👇 My conclusion is the 1:16 just feels a bit too toy like in terms of gradient and speed required. Plus aesthetically the 1:35 look better and more in keeping with the overall realistic aim of the layout 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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