Waverley West, Princes St Gardens and Haymarket MPD

[Jim76]

Great photos Dave - I thought it was real and had to take a second look as the track is so realistic, the only giveaway was the Class 56 which wasn't common until the early 90s.

[Waverley West]

Great photos Dave - I thought it was real and had to take a second look as the track is so realistic, the only giveaway was the Class 56 which wasn't common until the early 90s.

 

You're quite right, Jim, of course. I generally run stock that would have been seen in the Edinburgh area in the late 70s through to the early 90s, but I never let that get in the way of some modelling fun and my modeller's licence is fully up to date.

 

:senile:

 

Cheers

Dave 

[Marcus 37]

Absolutely fantastic photos Dave. They just look so real. Think my favourite is the 20's with the MGR but, I maybe biased. Any chance of a 37 in the same setting then I may have to change my mind. Great work indeed.

Cheers

Marcus

[Waverley West]

Absolutely fantastic photos Dave. They just look so real. Think my favourite is the 20's with the MGR but, I maybe biased. Any chance of a 37 in the same setting then I may have to change my mind. Great work indeed.

Cheers

Marcus

 

I'm sure it can be arranged, Marcus. I'll have a word with the traction controller.  I have a quite few more shots like that in mind of WW's various rakes and locos.

 

I realised I had left the Velux windows open last night after yesterday's mini-heatwave and woke up to a torrential downpour this morning. Went up to the railway room to find the two wings to the fiddle yards soaked. Hopefully it will dry out and no harm will be done. No scenery was affected fortunately.

Edited July 20, 2016 by Waverley West

[P.C.M]

I am with Marcus, if you are up for a few requests can we have 37043 on some MK1s or 2s and a class 26 on ballast. Please.

 

Cheers Peter.

[Waverley West]

I am with Marcus, if you are up for a few requests can we have 37043 on some MK1s or 2s and a class 26 on ballast. Please.

 

Cheers Peter.

 

 

Consider it noted, Peter.

 

Cheers

Dave

[Marcus 37]

I'm sure it can be arranged, Marcus. I'll have a word with the traction controller.  I have a few more shots like that in mind of WW's various rakes.

 

I realised I had left the Velux windows open last night after yesterday's mini-heatwave and woke up to a torrential downpour this morning. Went up to the railway room to find the two wings to the fiddle yards soaked. Hopefully it will dry out and no harm will be done. No scenery was affected fortunately.

I noticed last night you were having quite a storm in you're neck of the woods. Hopefully there's no lasting damage to the layout. If its a plywood base its pretty resilient these days. 

Cheers

Marcus

[Waverley West]

I noticed last night you were having quite a storm in you're neck of the woods. Hopefully there's no lasting damage to the layout. If its a plywood base its pretty resilient these days. 

Cheers

Marcus

 

Cheers Marcus. Yes, it was quite a storm. It's still going on now in fact. There's some pretty impressive forked lightning outside my window every few minutes as I'm typing now. The layout base is plywood, so hopefully no lasting damage. A lesson learned though hopefully.

[45156]

Hope all is well with the layout - water is a bit of a B*gger.

[Marcus 37]

Cheers Marcus. Yes, it was quite a storm. It's still going on now in fact. There's some pretty impressive forked lightning outside my window every few minutes as I'm typing now. The layout base is plywood, so hopefully no lasting damage. A lesson learned though hopefully.

 

This is quite interesting. Haven't seen a storm quite like that over the UK for a while.

 

http://www.lightningmaps.org/#y=54.1478;x=-4.8074;z=6;t=3;m=sat;r=0;s=0;o=0;b=0.00;n=0;d=2;dl=2;dc=0;

 

As you say, still going on now.

[61656]

I realised I had left the Velux windows open last night after yesterday's mini-heatwave and woke up to a torrential downpour this morning. Went up to the railway room to find the two wings to the fiddle yards soaked. Hopefully it will dry out and no harm will be done. No scenery was affected fortunately.

 

You can get retrofit motors and rain sensors for Velux windows; they're not cheap, but then neither is rebuilding a model railway. Alternatively you can get a rain sensor that just sets off an alarm to tell you its raining, which you only have activated when the window is open, it can even alarm to your mobile phone if you want. Personally I'm not sure that knowing I'd left the windows open when I'm 4 hours from home would really be a benefit.

 

Great pictures though - what really works is that there is no obvious limit to the railway, the scenery goes on forever in all directions. Normally the eye isn't fooled because it sees something like a backscene edge which shouldn't be there. Fantastic modelling.

[Waverley West]

I'm sure it can be arranged, Marcus. I'll have a word with the traction controller.  I have a quite few more shots like that in mind of WW's various rakes and locos.

 

I realised I had left the Velux windows open last night after yesterday's mini-heatwave and woke up to a torrential downpour this morning. Went up to the railway room to find the two wings to the fiddle yards soaked. Hopefully it will dry out and no harm will be done. No scenery was affected fortunately.

 

Hi Marcus,

 

I had a word with the traction controller and he was very obliging. He even put double stamps on the Cockenzie MGR run for me this morning...

 

 

 

Hope to be back soon with some more of the same.

 

Cheers

Dave

 

PS After the flooding of the line at the weekend, services appeared to be back to normal so no harm done.

Edited July 22, 2016 by Waverley West

[colin penfold]

Being as I live in Norfolk I loves a tractor.

 

Seriously, thats just brilliant.

Edited July 22, 2016 by colin penfold

[Marcus 37]

Hi Marcus,

 

I had a word with the traction controller and he was very obliging. He even put double stamps on the Cockenzie MGR run for me this morning...

 

37s 7 BW.jpg

 

37s 7.jpg

 

Hope to be back soon with some more of the same.

 

Cheers

Dave

 

PS After the flooding of the line at the weekend, services appeared to be back to normal so no harm done.

Think I've just died and gone to heaven. That looks absolutely superb. Thanks for carrying out my request. Can't beat a pair of work stained tractors.

Really glad to here that the flooding caused no permanent damage.

Cheers

Marcus

[Waverley West]

56084 trundles past Haymarket MPD with yet another load of coal for Cockenzie...

 

 

[Waverley West]

27052 heads past its home depot with a train from Dundee...

 

 

 

[45156]

Of course, in your era the power station is still working and the MGR service frequent.  Unlike when I was at Cockenzie last week.  NIce one, though.

[45156]

A quick suggestion, are you ever planning to model the earlier Glasgow-Edinburgh services, with a 27 at each end and 6 mk2s in between, or don't you have any 27/2s?

[Waverley West]

As requested, Peter...

 

Railfreight 26025 on a ballast working

 

 

 

[45156]

Please stop it - all this nostalgia is getting habit forming - on second thoughs, keep on posting, I love it.

[Waverley West]

Of course, in your era the power station is still working and the MGR service frequent.  Unlike when I was at Cockenzie last week.  NIce one, though.

 

Absolutely Stewart. My rules!

[Waverley West]

A quick suggestion, are you ever planning to model the earlier Glasgow-Edinburgh services, with a 27 at each end and 6 mk2s in between, or don't you have any 27/2s?

 

Yes, I am. I only have two 27s at the moment though, neither of which is a 27/2 and I've renumbered my 27/1 to a 27/0, but it is a plan for the future. I've been looking out for another TOPS era Heljan 27 but they are pretty rare at the moment and Heljan don't seem interested in doing any more right now. I know I could use a pre-TOPS era one, but it would be a bit easier with a TOPS one, especially as the numbers would be in the right place, even if they would have to be removed..

Edited July 22, 2016 by Waverley West

[Waverley West]

Some more shots of 56084...

 

 

Edited July 27, 2016 by Waverley West

[Jack374]

Some more shots of 56084...

 

56084 6 Closeup.jpg

 

56084 6 Closeup BW.jpg

There are dedicated threads for prototype shots Dave, you don't have to keep posting them on here you know!

 

Oh...wait....

 

Truly excellent modelling and very inspirational...please keep the photos coming!

 

Thanks,

Jack.

[45156]

Yes, I am. I only have two 27s at the moment though, neither of which is a 27/2 and I've renumbered my 27/1 to a 27/0, but it is a plan for the future. I've been looking out for another TOPS era Heljan 27 but they are pretty rare at the moment and Heljan don't seem interested in doing any more right now. I know I could use a pre-TOPS era one, but it would be a bit easier with a TOPS one, especially as the numbers would be in the right place, even if they would have to be removed..

You could try a couple of 33s (see previous jests) and I once heard from a reliable source that on one occasion, a 33 or two turned up at Eastfield for servicing, off the Cliffe-Uddingston cement service and the staff at Eastfield had big ideas about trying to hijack them to see how they'd do instead of the 27s which were by then starting to show real signs of over-use.