kingfisher24 Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 Here is another, an experiment to see just how many wagons a single class 26 would actually pull up-hill and it really is up hill as the club floor is at a slight angle. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingfisher24 Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 It was nice to finally see Newcastleton in BRM today the pictures came out pretty well i thought, mind i have yet to look at the dvd to see what other snaps of the layout there are on that. Gary 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
millerhillboy Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 Some new additions made into the fleet recently... A work stained 60160 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
millerhillboy Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 St Mags 64946 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
millerhillboy Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 (edited) 46462 after a visit to Stafford stables. Edited January 29, 2017 by millerhillboy 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveArkley Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 46462 after a visit to Stafford stables. Hi, Looking good! We see to be choosing the same prototypes, except I went for Bonnie Dundee with my A1 Here's my version of 46462. Cheers Dave 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
millerhillboy Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 (edited) Hi, Looking good! We see to be choosing the same prototypes, except I went for Bonnie Dundee with my A1 Here's my version of 46462. Cheers Dave We do!!! My ivatt came cheap as it came as LNER black so I just blasted it into unlined black and did the decals. 46462 is interesting for me as I've seen photographs pottering about east Lothian and also someone on here noted it was a regular with an inspection saloon so ideal for the NGS inspection saloon. Got a few others on the workbench but I'll not spoil the fun, see if we're aligned again. Bit more unlikely as all three are Kingmoor locos this time. Edited January 31, 2017 by millerhillboy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
millerhillboy Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 St Mags 64946 64946 was also revisited to allow more warning flashes as per a prototype picture I found from Thornton junction, grot level up a notch as well 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
millerhillboy Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 Don't think I've posted this before, not on this thread anyway. Apologies if I'm repeating myself A Gateshead machine with 3M45 headcode, quite fitting given the source of that working is about a mile from where I live now. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
millerhillboy Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 (edited) One final one I don't think I've posted before but again apologies if so....another like all the above from the Alba weathering studios.... a split box peak. In my defence I do all the fettling, and decals but Dave at Alba really brings them together to my eye. Edited January 31, 2017 by millerhillboy 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Hall Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 The postman has brought goodies. This might be seen as a statement of intent. I've had thirty years to try and work out how to recreate a tiny bit of the WR and I still can't decide how to go about it. All the stations on the wild and woolly section either side of Whitrope seem to be difficult for various reasons, usually a complete lack of scenic breaks. I'm wondering whether to be super brave and try to do Shankend station and viaduct which has a deep cutting either end - 15' x 3' scenic area looks an awful lot in "N" gauge but I suspect it isn't enough for this. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Hall Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 I've been thinking some more about Shankend. I reckon a 4 x 3 board is about the largest size I can handle unaided. At the moment I live in a tiny cottage, and the only way I will get some WR into my life is to build the scenic section on three boards, work on one at a time, and hope that by the time I have all three done I'll be living in a bigger house. So, Shankend in 12 feet? (In N gauge or 2mmFS). Viaduct is about four feet, scale it down from 15 to 12 arches and it should easily fit onto one board along with the northern approach. Station is only a little thing, maybe four feet from the signalbox to the north end of the platforms., especially if I lose one of the goods yard roads. That gives me four feet for the scenic bit in the middle which is almost too much. I'll have to thoroughly mangle the landscape around the signalbox to provide a scenic break, but the same goes for every other WR station I've looked at, possible exception of Hassendean which somehow doesn't appeal as a location. Possibly shortening the viaduct will ruin its fine proportions, but I think it will be OK. I'm pondering doing the whole thing to 2mm finescale track standards just for fun (there isn't a whole lot of pointwork outside the fiddle yard). Period: I'm torn between mid-fifties when no-one was even thinking about closing the WR, and death steam circa 1966 with that fabulous mixture of filthy steam locos and BR blue corporate image. And Claytons of course. I could do both, but strictly speaking I'd need a removable goods yard as it had been cut down to a single siding by 1966. Incidentally, while trying to confirm that bit of info I found a photo showing the Down Outer Home at Shankend. It's co-acting. Ooooh. I'm in love. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Iain Mac Posted May 3, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 3, 2017 Nobody has done Gorebridge Richard if that helps as a suggestion? It means buying another book mind..... It lends itself extremely well to 2mm N or finescale and can be extended either way as space allows domestically. Shank bridge to the north for example and maybe part of Borthwick bank to the south. Gorebridge platforms were on the level too. Iain Mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Hall Posted May 4, 2017 Share Posted May 4, 2017 Nobody has done Gorebridge Richard if that helps as a suggestion? It means buying another book mind..... It lends itself extremely well to 2mm N or finescale and can be extended either way as space allows domestically. Shank bridge to the north for example and maybe part of Borthwick bank to the south. Gorebridge platforms were on the level too. Iain Mac. I'd looked at Gorebridge and it would work well as a model with an overbridge either end of the station. But I have the same problem there as with Hassendean which is that the location doesn't really appeal, at least on paper. The section of the WR which fascinates me is the wild hill country on the Hawick - Newcastleton stretch. That limits me to Shankend, Stobs or Steele Road. (Or Riccarton Junction if I win the lottery.) I think I may need to organise a road trip, have a look at that northern section and see if I can fall in love with it. Of course Gorebridge is now open again, so I could even take a train there. Meanwhile... I can't help thinking that if a manufacturer is going to produce a real authentic WR locomotive it would be rude not to purchase it. As a result, 60079 Bayardo of Carlisle Canal shed is now sitting on my desk at home. I see Farish have released their A2 as 60537 Bachelors Button, but I'm trying to resist as funds are a little short. The problem with these short production runs is that if you don't buy them when they are released, it's almost impossible to track them down later. Richard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveArkley Posted May 4, 2017 Share Posted May 4, 2017 ...60079 Bayardo of Carlisle Canal shed is now sitting on my desk at home. ...A2 as 60537 Bachelors Button, And when funds allow 60093 Coranach of Cana shed too. Then you'll have half of the Canal A3s. Cheers Dave 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Hall Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 ...60079 Bayardo of Carlisle Canal shed is now sitting on my desk at home. ...A2 as 60537 Bachelors Button, And when funds allow 60093 Coranach of Cana shed too. Then you'll have half of the Canal A3s. Cheers Dave Noooo! Stop it now. I don't need any encouragement. Actually I think the next purchase might be some Dapol Gresley coaches as they are plentiful at the moment, but who knows when the next batch will be along? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingfisher24 Posted June 2, 2017 Share Posted June 2, 2017 A few snaps of my almost complete 60085 manna which had a stint on the route from 64a before withdrawal. The loco was originally a tender drive example but had been converted to loco drive complete witha new tender chassis and narrowed tender body. And another which has been converted from a railroad flying scotsman into 60099 call boy, in similar fashion to my recent conversion into spearmint ie using a railraod p2 tender which keeps the cost down. I had originally intended to have the loco with double chimney, elephant ears and late crest but i have currently run out of double chimneys so for the moment the loco is in a slightly earlier condition. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Hall Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 A WR loco although not on the WR: 61184 of St Margarets runs into the bay platform at Longframlington with an inspection saloon, while a North Blyth 2MT, 46474, waits to return to Morpeth with the twice weekly branch goods. October 1960. The Dapol B1 is the first of my "Shankend" locos to get some attention in the form of general dirtying and a new number. I managed to break the right hand combination link bracket off the footplate - it was slightly bent and I didn't realise it was glued on. In fiddling about with it I then sheared the rivet holding the link to the bracket. I used a 16BA brass screw and a crankpin washer off a 2mm Assoc chassis etch to bodge it all back together. It's a lovely runner, not as nice to look at as the Farish version, bit crude in places and with a driveshaft running through the cab, but at least it doesn't have that poxy Farish tender drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
millerhillboy Posted September 30, 2017 Share Posted September 30, 2017 Noticed tbe nameplate needs attention but otherwise heres 60052 in late st margarets guise. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveArkley Posted October 1, 2017 Share Posted October 1, 2017 A heads up for those off you modelling the WR in N gauge - I'm thinning out my loco collection. I have several for sale on the N Gauge Forum, @ http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=classifieds;cat=5 where they are listed for sale by DCCDave. They are 2MT renumbered as 46489 2MT renumbered as 46462 J39 renumbered as 64795 B1 renumbered as 61244 - Strang Steel All are DCC fitted, weathered have a crew, lamps and real coal in the tender. You can see pictures of them earlier in this thread. If you are not a member of the N Gauge Forum and are interested in one (or more) please PM me so we can arrange something. Cheers Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium coronach Posted October 2, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 2, 2017 (edited) Well, half a Waverley Route loco anyway.... Edited October 2, 2017 by coronach 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
millerhillboy Posted December 7, 2017 Share Posted December 7, 2017 (edited) Another few locos having passed through the stafford stables for weathering. Renunbering and detailing done by myself. 60535 70018 70011 Edited December 7, 2017 by millerhillboy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Hall Posted December 8, 2017 Share Posted December 8, 2017 Not quite a Waverley Route loco, but Canal's N15s probably handled more WR freight traffic than any St Margarets V2. 69155 started life as a plastic-bodied Farish GP tank from a starter train set and I built it just for fun really as I have absolutely no use for an N15. It is wrong in every single dimension, partly because of the compromises involved in using a bad RTR model as a base, and partly because I was working from a very inaccurate drawing and didn't look at enough photographs. Still needs a couple of details to finish it off and it is a bit crude by modern RTR standards, but there can't be many N gauge N15s around. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
millerhillboy Posted December 25, 2017 Share Posted December 25, 2017 Not quite a Waverley Route loco, but Canal's N15s probably handled more WR freight traffic than any St Margarets V2. 69155 started life as a plastic-bodied Farish GP tank from a starter train set and I built it just for fun really as I have absolutely no use for an N15. It is wrong in every single dimension, partly because of the compromises involved in using a bad RTR model as a base, and partly because I was working from a very inaccurate drawing and didn't look at enough photographs. Still needs a couple of details to finish it off and it is a bit crude by modern RTR standards, but there can't be many N gauge N15s around. Cant comment on the accuracy of the model but it certainly looks the part and very well made considering. Your pkatform surfaces look superb by the way as well as your trackwork. Unless you've finescaled the GP chassis I'm assuming thats finetrax? Looks great whatever it is, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Hall Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 Cant comment on the accuracy of the model but it certainly looks the part and very well made considering. Your pkatform surfaces look superb by the way as well as your trackwork. Unless you've finescaled the GP chassis I'm assuming thats finetrax? Looks great whatever it is, Yes, it is Finetrax and looks rather pretty. This is my Borders inspired layout "Longframlington". At the risk of going off topic here's another view, with 46474 (allocated to North Blyth for a few months in 1960/61) on the daily goods from Morpeth. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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