'CHARD Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 I'm loving this project - what is more Ian, our very own Millerhillboy is also modelling the northern end in 2mm, he's main line in tempo, but I'm sure he's on the button when it comes to the various rolling stock options in your scale. I must say, with the range of bread and butter Waverley Route types now available in N, it's no surprise it's so tempting to take advantage of modelling space in the smaller scale. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanLister Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 My reason for 2mm is the fact that I wanted to model a significant of the Tweed waterfront; the running quality of 2mm these days combined with the bespoke nature of handbuilt track geometry means I can do it justice, if my skill levels allow. I'll give it a good go, anyhow......so much to learn. 2 new photos on the layout thread. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
37175 Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Currently on a break in Border County land (think "Busman's Holiday") ... took this photo this afternoon at Bellingham. Thought it may be of interest. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tony graham Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Currently on a break in Border County land (think "Busman's Holiday") ... took this photo this afternoon at Bellingham. Thought it may be of interest. I would like said coaches.... If I get the Euro up tonight then I want the royal 47 that DBS are selling and a few Mk2 coaches that are sitting at Crewe to tow behind it. May also need somewhere to store and run said items from, any ideas where would look after them for me? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tony graham Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Any idea what this is within the yellow box? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Max Stafford Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 Lifting eyes I'd say mate. The window arrangement on this one suggests that it's ex- EMU stock so this vehicle perhaps used to have a power bogie underneath. Those rails look like a guards or driver's cab too. Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tony graham Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 I though it was some kind of clamp to keep the coach to the body or to keep a door firmly shut. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Max Stafford Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 I reckon if you were that keen to keep a door shut it would be less effort to plate and weld it. I'm sticking with lifting eyes. Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 Someone with 750 DC in their veins will correct me no doubt, but I reckon given its window spacings, and B4 type bogie with what looks like added bracketry, that's a VEP or CEP* vehicle, and those are lifting eyes. * I have no idea what those terms actually mean Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard Lamb Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 I have just got my grubby mitts on the October Railway Observer and find a mention of these coaches. ex-4Tc One is 76301 The control gear has been removed and gone to a good home. One will be a cafe and the other a resource room witrh a display focussed on the Wansbeck line. Bernard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steele Road Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 Someone with 750 DC in their veins will correct me no doubt, but I reckon given its window spacings, and B4 type bogie with what looks like added bracketry, that's a VEP or CEP* vehicle, and those are lifting eyes. * I have no idea what those terms actually mean VEP stands for Vestibule Electro-Pneumatic braked stock and CEP stands for Corridor Electro-Pneumatic braked stock Further info can be found here: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Railway_multiple_unit_numbering_and_classification Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted November 20, 2011 Share Posted November 20, 2011 Hehehe!!! Cheers Andy. I was only half being tongue-in-cheek - as your bro will tell ya, I conveniently fail to understand how boiling water is used to propel trains when it suits me Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steele Road Posted November 20, 2011 Share Posted November 20, 2011 That's OK Chard, ha ha! Where's the tongue in cheek emoticon when you need it? There are too many railway acronyms to remember though. And TOPS/TRUST codes! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 No tongue-in-cheek emoticon required at the end of this link: http://www.langholmpicturearchive.com And on the branch we have nearly 200 new photos. The site is almost worthy of a thread to itself, the resource is so vast. Search using Railways as your category. Glentarras and Byreburn viaducts, Gilnockie and Canonbie including the latter's ex-pit sidings, and some other stunners. Lose yourselves in the collection for an hour or two, Waverlites, it just keeps giving Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
37175 Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Seems you did the same search as me, amazing to see some of the viaduct destruction photos amongst them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Stewart Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 No tongue-in-cheek emoticon required at the end of this link: http://www.langholmpicturearchive.com And on the branch we have nearly 200 new photos. The site is almost worthy of a thread to itself, the resource is so vast. Search using Railways as your category. Glentarras and Byreburn viaducts, Gilnockie and Canonbie including the latter's ex-pit sidings, and some other stunners. Lose yourselves in the collection for an hour or two, Waverlites, it just keeps giving A superb collection, especially the Gilnockie ones (one day I'll model that station - just got to settle on a scale and track gauge) Colin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 A superb collection, especially the Gilnockie ones (one day I'll model that station - just got to settle on a scale and track gauge) Colin I mean, HOW irresistible is Gilnockie? And over on the 'Most Wanted' thread I highlighted a real Holy Grail shot of mine, the proof of a Class 25 working the branch passenger. This has elevated Gilnockie into my top echelon of branch cameos. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 Here's a new one, Sunilaws, looking towards Kelso in 2005: http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/imagecomplete2.php?id=36586 Cue research. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
37175 Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 Withdrawal notice for Sunilaws: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 Willie wandered and got this great shot of Sunilaws before tracklifting: http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/imagecomplete2.php?id=36590 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roygraham Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 And Roy roamed a little further along the line. roygraham Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
62440 Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 A question - perhaps for those with the necessary WTTs - when did diesel shunters take over the St Boswells to Kelso traffic? I was at Kelso on 29 March 1965 when there was a fair number of linesmen disconnecting signals as the Kelso to Berwick section had been closed completely on that date. The daily goods still ran, worked by a steam loco from Hawick. When I was next at Kelso in 1966, the motive power was a D3000 shunter from Galashiels. (I can kick myself now, but on both visits I had a camera but didn't take any pictures, preferring to watch the scene but not through a viewfinder.) Anyone confirm when the Hawick/Galashiels changeover took place:? Logic perhaps suggests it would be when the Hawick shed closed to steam but it would be nice to confirm it. In March 1968, the last freight from Galashiels took some wagons to Kelso and left them there, the sidings being cleared out a week later by the Hawick Clayton. (Which may have given rise to the idea that Claytons worked the freights after steam went.) Here's Maxton with the brake van being propelled by the loco on a zero-order freight towards St Boswells in December 1966, a neat little cameo to model??? Bruce Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/imagecomplete2.php?id=36789 Back to the northern reaches, and the Lothian coalfield. This pug kinda symbolizes for me a half-remembered time and atmosphere of an area that's now transformed beyond recognition. This would make a lovely ancillary industrial cameo as part of a larger layout, or a smaller project in itself. Beautiful. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Blandford1969 Posted December 15, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 15, 2011 Not sure if we have seen these few at Langholm http://www.flickr.com/photos/irishswissernie/5733778437/in/faves-29644579@N07/ and http://www.flickr.com/photos/irishswissernie/5734355642/in/faves-29644579@N07/ regards Duncan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 I'd say 'not,' so good spot that man. Would you look at the pristine track alignment in the second shot looking along the shoulder of the 4MT. Absolutely magnificent. Light blue running-in board could do with some shortbread petticoat tails and a Sunday Post just to round it off nicely though Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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