coachmann Posted June 22, 2014 Author Share Posted June 22, 2014 I went to the trouble of wire and tube in the 1960's but Peco Streamline has made me lazy and I just flick them over. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted June 22, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 22, 2014 Will there be a 'last train' with a wreath on the engine? (And a fusillade of detonators of course.) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted June 22, 2014 Share Posted June 22, 2014 For true realism, I bet the last trains will run on a Saturday. The closure date will be effective from the following Monday so eveyone will turn up on the Sunday and miss it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted June 22, 2014 Author Share Posted June 22, 2014 Will there be a 'last train' with a wreath on the engine? (And a fusillade of detonators of course.) I was loaned a diesel and someone was going to bring over a crane for track-lifting(!), but I suppose there can't be a 'last train' seeing as the line is not closing, but merely switching focus to the a section of line beyond the station overbridge. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted June 22, 2014 Author Share Posted June 22, 2014 I haven't been adding skies much but I thought I'd go a bit further with some forthcoming pictures. Austerity No.90708 passing the closed Oldham Branch platform with an eastbound fitted freight.......... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Rowsley17D Posted June 23, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 23, 2014 Oh dear, it looks as though the shadows are lengthening in more ways than one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted June 23, 2014 Author Share Posted June 23, 2014 Oh dear, it looks as though the shadows are lengthening in more ways than one. Aye. To me, the scene below pretty much captures the feel of Greenfield as the pace of change quickened. By 1966 it was difficult to imagine the bustle that had taken place here at peak times only a decade or so before. Naturally the remaining passenger services are in the hands of diesel power, but freight too is changing as Stanier 8Fs and Standard 2-10-0's sweep in alongside the newer motive power. The familiar 'hee-haw' horn heralds the passing of a Derby Type 2 Bo-Bo in the familiar dark green on westbound vans.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
62613 Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 That last photo. It looks really 'Saddleworth' with all the cottages weavers' hamlets on the hillsides. But it looks as if it could be taken from Lees New Road! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold SHMD Posted June 23, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 23, 2014 WEB Trains 80.jpg Something that is so rarely modelled (taking up that much {valuable operating} space). Kev. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebottle Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 (Thumbnail of picture by Coachmann) Well, that's going to bamboozle future researchers, looking for pictures of the prototype. Edit: Attributed picture. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Grafarman Posted June 23, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 23, 2014 Aye. To me, the scene below pretty much captures the feel of Greenfield as the pace of change quickened. By 1966 it was difficult to imagine the bustle that had taken place here at peak times only a decade or so before. Naturally the remaining passenger services are in the hands of diesel power, but freight too is changing as Stanier 8Fs and Standard 2-10-0's sweep in alongside the newer motive power. The familiar 'hee-haw' horn heralds the passing of a Derby Type 2 Bo-Bo in the familiar dark green on westbound vans.... WEB Trains 80.jpg Amazing picture Coach, one of your best I think; really hard to tell it's a model...now let's move it on a year or so and watch an all-green type 4 whistle through... David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigwordsmith Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Larry that backdrop is amazing Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted June 23, 2014 Author Share Posted June 23, 2014 Thanks guys. The backdrop is the Moors but is actually above Waterhead waterworks. English Electric Type 4's actually started working over the Standedge route in the spring of 1961 but the Sulzer Type 4's took over a few years later. I've run out of photos now but not ideas. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian Smeeton Posted June 23, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 23, 2014 Looking fantastic, But not all of us could afford color film in '64. Only B & W got any? Regards Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JZ Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Hope you don't mind, but here it is in black and white. Could I just add. While all your pictures of Greenfield have been very good, the last few since you started lifting track have,in my view, been the best. Reminds me of how I saw the railways as a child. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted June 24, 2014 Author Share Posted June 24, 2014 I considered a convert to black & white (and add grain and scratches) so you have saved me the trouble. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Alister_G Posted June 24, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 24, 2014 If anything, it looks even more believable in B & W, and it was pretty damn good to start with! I'd like to see your version with grain and scratches though Larry. It really is a superb photo, almost impossible to identify as a model. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
freebs Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Do you know what? I always wondered who took that photograph... Found this postcard in a suitcase in my Dad's loft sorry, spilt coffee on it... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Anotheran Posted June 24, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 24, 2014 Whenever I see that Greenfield has new content I eagerly click through as the photos of exquisite stock on one of the best photographic backgrounds is always a joy to behold. But each time the heart beats faster as I know it may be the last time I see photos of this fantastic layout. It may not have been what you wanted from a layout from an operational viewpoint, but your modelling has been an inspiration and has provided a great backdrop for some spectacular photographs. I look forward to more of the same standard in the new layout, but mourn the passing of Greenfield. Regards, Neil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Alister_G Posted June 24, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 24, 2014 You just know that freebs' postcard is going to turn up in web searches in future years, with people hotly debating it's provenance Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted June 24, 2014 Author Share Posted June 24, 2014 One of the 'old boys' captured driver 'Cannonball' struggling to coax Fowler class 7F 0-8-0 No.49618 through Greenfield with empty wagons for Healey Mills in 1957. No doubt fireman Bottomley was watching helplessly as his precious toil flew out the chimney.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merfyn Jones Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 D5038 waiting at No 3 ground frame after trip to Traws. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebottle Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Do you know what? I always wondered who took that photograph... Found this postcard in a suitcase in my Dad's loft sorry, spilt coffee on it... Could you have another sort through that suitcase, please, freebs? I live in hope that irrefutable photographic evidence exists that Gresley's P2 No.2001 in original condition once stormed through Wadsley Bridge station on a Manchester London Road - Sheffield Victoria Express! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted June 24, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 24, 2014 One of the 'old boys' captured driver 'Cannonball' struggling to coax Fowler class 7F 0-8-0 No.49618 through Greenfield with empty wagons for Healey Mills in 1957. No doubt fireman Bottomley was watchingWEB Trains 79.jpg helplessly as his precious toil flew out the chimney.... WEB Trains 79.jpg Now that is what I call a smoke effect - wound right down and regulator open and bit of steam leaking off the injector as well as the front end being a bit less than tight somewhere. And for once sound is really there in a 4mm engine, I can see it as well as hear it! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 4630 Posted June 24, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 24, 2014 I know photoshopping in smoke effects gets a mixed reaction, but how could anyone look at that image and not be impressed. That is one of the very best I've seen and, to me at least, truly enhances the superb quality of the modelling. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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