Popular Post Waverley West Posted June 9, 2015 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 9, 2015 (edited) A rather grimy 37418 leaves Waverley, bound for Inverness... Edited June 9, 2015 by Waverley West 22 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waverley West Posted June 9, 2015 Author Share Posted June 9, 2015 (edited) Haymarket depot has rather more reason to be proud as a smartly turned out 47715 enters Waverley on a push-pull from Queen St... Edited June 9, 2015 by Waverley West 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 How lucky you are to have the natural sunlight it enhances your layout so much the locos emerging from the tunnels look brilliant good to see you back. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Waverley West Posted June 9, 2015 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 9, 2015 (edited) And finally, a few more odds and ends.... 26025 passes Haymarket depot... Another couple of shots of Laboratory 10 on the tribometer train... Grubby windows... ...and if I ever get around to replacing the cardboard buildings on the depot and remove the non-Scottish locos, I think this view will give a reasonable representation of Haymarket in its 1980s guise as seen by those travelling on trains past the depot... Cheers for now, Dave Edited June 9, 2015 by Waverley West 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waverley West Posted June 9, 2015 Author Share Posted June 9, 2015 How lucky you are to have the natural sunlight it enhances your layout so much the locos emerging from the tunnels look brilliant good to see you back. Thanks lms. The parts of the layout that are lit up by natural sunlight vary according to the time of day and year. Late in the day in June, the sun reaches far enough round to come in through the railway room door and on to the Mound Tunnel portals. At other times of year, other parts of the layout like the depot are lit in the morning or evening, so it's very much a case of following the sun! Cheers Dave Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimleygrid Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Very nice work Dave, some lovely photos. The buffer stop looks really good as does the weathering on the ballast, something I am looking at a lot in photos. Very sad I know! Loving the whole look of the depot. I can just imagine leaning out of the window of a train when it passes by and seeing the quality selection of traction on shed. Lovely! I remember passing Eastfield on the train and passing by very quickly.......and not getting many numbers! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimleygrid Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Dave, looking at your 47/7 in the last photo, I don't think it will be long before one of those bad boys makes its way to Boxenby....... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Waverley West Posted June 11, 2015 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 11, 2015 (edited) Hi folks, I was lucky enough to catch Coal Sector 26004 passing through Waverley West tonight... Edited June 16, 2015 by Waverley West 35 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bon Accord Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Just as I remember the coal sector type 2's, complete with those distinctive grim/coal dust streaks between the cantrail grilles! Alas this reflects the last period when I took any serious notice of things on BR - sprinterisation only succeeded in finishing off my already declining interest in the modern railway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdw7300 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Fantastic weathering on the 26, Dave. As ever, amazingly realistic photos. Happy modelling Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimleygrid Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Very nice! The last photo is superb! Love the lighting conditions, perfect. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirley Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 Just came across your Thread, found it difficult to make out whether I was looking at the real thing or a model, superb! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waverley West Posted June 16, 2015 Author Share Posted June 16, 2015 Just thought I'd try zooming in on this one... 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Alister_G Posted June 16, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 16, 2015 It's a real tribute to your skills that even under the most unforgiving close up, there is nothing in that photo that would suggest that it's anything other than a photo of the prototype. Absolutely stunning! Al. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tractor_37260 Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 Colin, brilliant thanks again - I was wondering about that last DBSO shot. It really shows the lights clearly but is that tail lamp on the first one because the light above it has failed, do you know? I don't recall seeing any tail lamps like that on DBSOs before. That may just be because they don't tend to get photographing when trailing, I guess. I presume the normal arrangement would be for both red lights to be lit and no tail lamp? I need to know how many LEDs to fit! Cheers, Dave Hi Dave This may be of help ? . When built Class 47 tail lights could only be switched on one at a time, not both on together. The 47/7 Edin-Glas PP service required twin tail lights to be shown,and so until the wiring was sorted out, they normally ran with one electric and one oil lamp when the loco was propelling, the loco normally always at the Edin end, as it was not permitted for the DBSO to lead up Cowlairs Bank. This "may" provide an answer to the above DBSO photo IF the early builds had the same wiring issue ? or it could be just a failed bulb, the oil lamp being used to comply with the above twin tail light condition. As for your model I'd go for 2 red LED's ! looks better and it's your railway. HTH Ken Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hybridangel77 Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 I love the coal sector 33....just fantastic mate. Terry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waverley West Posted June 17, 2015 Author Share Posted June 17, 2015 I love the coal sector 33....just fantastic mate. Terry Cheers Terry. It's one of my favourites too. I have another lined up ready for weathering, but the challenge will be to make the two of them look OK together after such a big gap between weathering them. I'm really looking forward to seeing them double heading though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold colin penfold Posted June 17, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 17, 2015 I love the coal sector 33....just fantastic mate. Terry Cheers Terry. It's one of my favourites too. I have another lined up ready for weathering, but the challenge will be to make the two of them look OK together after such a big gap between weathering them. I'm really looking forward to seeing them double heading though. 33 !!! 33!!! and he caught you out too Dave, shame on you. You need to watch us southern softies or you will be drinking warm beer and eating jellied eels before you can say "Sarf" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waverley West Posted June 17, 2015 Author Share Posted June 17, 2015 33 !!! 33!!! and he caught you out too Dave, shame on you. You need to watch us southern softies or you will be drinking warm beer and eating jellied eels before you can say "Sarf" You're right Colin. I completely missed that! Oh, the shame of it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 45156 Posted June 17, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 17, 2015 You're right Colin. I completely missed that! Oh, the shame of it. It could have been, had the shedmaster at Eastfield had had his way, as they are reputed to have got there once on the Cliffe-Uddingston cement working, and he was itching to try one on a 27 duty. Whether true or apocryphal, that's the story that I heard many many moons ago. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waverley West Posted June 17, 2015 Author Share Posted June 17, 2015 Hi folks, Some more pics of Scottish class 33s in action... 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waverley West Posted June 17, 2015 Author Share Posted June 17, 2015 (edited) Workstained class 33 no. 26031 heads out through Princes St. Gardens on a snowplough test run... ...and returns later without the 'ploughs... Edited June 17, 2015 by Waverley West 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waverley West Posted June 17, 2015 Author Share Posted June 17, 2015 And finally for now a little Waverley West miscellany... A cruel closeup of the leading ScotRail Mk 3 coach behind 47715, complete with ScotRail Express window and toilet stickers Inspection saloon Another shot of 26025 briefly lit by the sun as it passes Haymarket depot 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 My god winter is nearly here great shots as usual. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigwordsmith Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 Dave, as you know I'm a great fan of your layout, but as someone who has spent 85% of his life in the Southern region, I need to point out that your '33's are in fact not 33's at all, which were a true Southern engine as no other region adopted them Those particular members of the Crompton family rarely made it North of Rugby, and while I'm sure the extra horsepower compared to their weaker siblings would have come in handy, nothing, to my knowledge that left BRCW and had a type 3 designation ever roamed the Scottish Rails. However, as you know 26's were all over the place like a cheap suit! Funny though that such similar members should only have found favour at opposite ends of the nation! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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