Coldgunner Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 I've convinced myself that Greslington was a loop line that has been disconnected from the main network. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted January 10, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 10, 2012 As most layouts are fictitious, surely that makes every working fictitious? Mick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Well, a circus train is unusual, but plausible, half a dozen horse boxes, a couple of elephant vans and cattle vans, as well as some general NPCCS vehicles. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Savoyard Posted January 11, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 11, 2012 I will be running 'Holcombe Brook & Tottington' as the previous owners did which was a what if scenario with the electric passenger trains, Class 504's, running in the 1960's, with a presumption that the urban sprall of the 80's started 20 years earlier. I like the idea of undoing all those cuts of the 50's & 60's. Being a north west layout it will have the famous wakes weeks so there is a need for seaside specials. Then there are football specials (I will have to invent a new First Division team Holcombe Brook Rovers!) which presumbably could have all sorts of trains on them, a Western Blue Pullman visited Bury on a football special, there is a picture in one of the books on Bury. Peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debs. Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Well, a circus train is unusual, but plausible, half a dozen horse boxes, a couple of elephant vans and cattle vans, as well as some general NPCCS vehicles. .........and a bunch of clowns! That`s the passengers, not we modellers! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS1977 Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 And a Triang giraffe wagon for good measure! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomJ Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 A few branch lines near works were used for testing a photographing engines (the Highworth near Swindon was one). Also I think a few branches in the West Country (and probably elsewhere) were used to park the Royal Train overnight, right up to fairly recent times Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
22xx Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Not that it is in my era/region, but I wonder if anybody knows what would be prototypical rolling stock for the transportation of weekly production from the jam butty mines in Knotty Ash during the late sixties/early seventies? I have a very hazy recollection that the Diddymen transported everything on a 1970s gravy train, so I'd suggest 45T TTA tank wagons. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GC Jack Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 I only have problems with my exhibition layout, but I still do it. I have a model of the yet to be built clan Hengist which is a regular performer and my best loco, which runs on it. Causes lots of comment good and bad. Jack Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Natalie Graham Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 And a Triang giraffe wagon for good measure! Where did the prototype for that run? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 And a Triang giraffe wagon for good measure! Where did the prototype for that run? Dunno. It wasn't Woodhead.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonB Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 See post #9 above:- Railtour duty is always a fallback option. I am modelling a branchline on the B&NSR, City of Truro did a railtour on the line in 1957 so if they ever make one in N gauge I will snap one up as it is easy to justify it making a small run down the branch. I also have Evening Star which could be a tad harder as it was not built until 1960 (the B&NSR closed to passengers in 1959). However I plan to run the layout up until the green diesel-era anyway so I will just claim it retained its passenger services for a bit longer and ES made a Railtour visit somewhere in the early 60s. I think that Rail Tours were given special dispensation to run on "closed to passenger" lines. There is an undated picture in the "Railways of Warwickshire" site of a rail-tour at Shipston on Stour apparently after such closure. (The web master [That's NOT me!] would be interested to know the Tour identity and date, also the where-abouts of the photos being taken by the participants!) I travelled in a Narrow Gauge Railway Society trip on the V of R after passenger services had ceased, using school-type benches in the open trucks. Caused much amusement to the local populace as we crossed Raven Square! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 It seems from many examples I've seen that last excursions/ railtours were frequently run over by then freight-only lines. This seems to have been very common during the sixties, with many of the Scottish branches hosting such trips. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 It seems from many examples I've seen that last excursions/ railtours were frequently run over by then freight-only lines. This seems to have been very common during the sixties, with many of the Scottish branches hosting such trips. I half expect StuartP's Portwilliam in due course to feature the Garlieston railtour consisting of Caley 0-6-0 and a rake of wooden Highs, rammed with hardy railtourists. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 The day we'll start to worry is when a plain green 350 shunter appears at Culreoch with a brake van University Railway Society special.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PaulCheffus Posted January 11, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 11, 2012 Hi I've always liked the SR 3rd Rail EMUs and have been kit building a few over the last two or three years. I can't really justify these on a Woodhead themed layout (unless someone can come up with a plausible reason) so I will one day just have to build a second layout for just for these. Cheers Paul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karhedron Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 I think that Rail Tours were given special dispensation to run on "closed to passenger" lines. There is an undated picture in the "Railways of Warwickshire" site of a rail-tour at Shipston on Stour apparently after such closure. (The web master [That's NOT me!] would be interested to know the Tour identity and date, also the where-abouts of the photos being taken by the participants!) I think that railtour was in the mid-1950s so after the line had been closed to passengers but was still open for frieght. This one in fact. http://www.sixbellsj...s/550424re.html There was another (a brakevan special) in the late 50s behind standard 2 mogul 78009. In fact, Shipston-on-Stour seems to have been a favourite for specials. There was one in 1952 behind a M&SWJR 2-4-0 (prototype for everything). http://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/50s/5208xxsl.html I have always thought that Moreton-in-the-Marsh station would make a very good model, particularly if one imagined that Shipston branch had retained its passenger service for longer. Cross-country route so a modest (but attractive) GWR station that could still have anything up to a Castle running through with an express. Shipston branch with all the interchange workings that implies. Rather smart UD creamery at the north end of the station as a dedicated source of freight (could be modelled in half-relief if short on space). And there are convenient road bridges at both ends of the station to act as scenic breaks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkSG Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 I have always thought that Moreton-in-the-Marsh station would make a very good model, particularly if one imagined that Shipston branch had retained its passenger service for longer. Cross-country route so a modest (but attractive) GWR station that could still have anything up to a Castle running through with an express. Shipston branch with all the interchange workings that implies. Rather smart UD creamery at the north end of the station as a dedicated source of freight (could be modelled in half-relief if short on space). And there are convenient road bridges at both ends of the station to act as scenic breaks. On similar lines (or, indeed, exactly the same line!), Evesham would be a good basis for a big roundy roundy (maybe a loft layout at home, or a club exhibition special), because you could include both the GWR and Midland stations giving plenty of opportunity for lots of different locos and stock to pass through. Plus you have prototypes for lots of nice cliches: A river bridge, a rail-over-rail bridge, a small loco depot and lots of shunting. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xerces Fobe2 Posted January 11, 2012 Author Share Posted January 11, 2012 Hi I've always liked the SR 3rd Rail EMUs and have been kit building a few over the last two or three years. I can't really justify these on a Woodhead themed layout (unless someone can come up with a plausible reason) so I will one day just have to build a second layout for just for these. Cheers Paul Being towed to Horwich for overall as they were transferred from Doncaster, due to a high volume of work at that site? XF Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debs. Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Where did the prototype for that run? Only into the head-shunt! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Only into the head-shunt! Or bang road... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted January 12, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 12, 2012 Coals to Newcastle - Tyneside or New South Wales? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xerces Fobe2 Posted January 12, 2012 Author Share Posted January 12, 2012 I think this is more plausible XF Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted January 12, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 12, 2012 Hooray for Magnadhesion............ Mick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted January 12, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 12, 2012 I've still got my Hellifield Bogie snowplough train from Long Preston and can't bear to dispose of it so it will run through Lancaster Green Ayre and go up the branch to Castle, obvioulsy being sent to the LNWR section for testinjg over shap by the new LMS bosses, However it might be closely followed by a Pennsy 01a and I haven't thought up a reason for that other than the old chestnut of "Its my train set". Jamie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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