RMweb Premium Barry O Posted July 29, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 29, 2015 Been busy doing up a couple of wagons requested by Robert.. weathered but could really do with some Return to Hull Silo and the instruction on padlocking everything shut when the vehicle is to be moved.... Baz 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted July 29, 2015 Author Share Posted July 29, 2015 Ooh they look nice! Stand by for young Mr Wealleans raising you a coupling of cattle vans and a lowmac... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted July 29, 2015 Author Share Posted July 29, 2015 (edited) Thanks mate! I'm looking forward to seeing Grantham in September. Look forward to meeting you then. Bit of a 'doh!' moment this end as it has now registered that you're the Jeremy behind the 2mm Grantham project featured on the Return to Grantham website (being quick on the update was never one of my strongest points ). It all makes sense now! Edited July 29, 2015 by LNER4479 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornish trains jez Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 Look forward to meeting you then. Bit of a 'doh!' moment this end as it has now registered that you're the Jeremy behind the 2mm Grantham project featured on the Return to Grantham website (being quick on the update was never one of my strongest points ). It all makes sense now! That's ok. I think we met briefly at the NEC in Birmingham. Both myself and Ian had a chat with you if I remember rightly. Grantham is certainly impressive and as I said before, can't wait to see it in its full form. Best regards, Jeremy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 raising you a coupling of cattle vans and a lowmac... In good time, but not tonight... busy with a 52'6" BG with Kadees both ends. I can't tell from the photo but I'm sure Baz will have reinstated the inspection windows in the ends which were only plated over in BR days. What's happening inbetween them? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted July 29, 2015 Author Share Posted July 29, 2015 What's happening inbetween them? Some tangled up handrail wire pretending to be couplings I think... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted July 29, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 29, 2015 Ooh they look nice! Stand by for young Mr Wealleans raising you a coupling of cattle vans and a lowmac... no problem as some other stock is appearing including teh traction engine wagon - the number for which JW gave me and I have to admit I have lost(!) In good time, but not tonight... busy with a 52'6" BG with Kadees both ends. I can't tell from the photo but I'm sure Baz will have reinstated the inspection windows in the ends which were only plated over in BR days. What's happening inbetween them? Well I haven't cut them out - the Parkside kit has them as internally covered windows. Some tangled up handrail wire pretending to be couplings I think... DGs - the coupling of choice - cheap, easy to make, easy to use delayed action ... what more do you need? :-) Baz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 I haven't cut them out Tsk, tsk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post LNER4479 Posted August 2, 2015 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 2, 2015 Bit of fun this weekend. 4479 senior called in for a training session. Without the usual visiting stock, some imaginative rostering ensued. The shedmaster at 64B lent this impressive trio to the cause... ...whilst the LMS sent over a rival streamliner! Viewed from across the loco depot, a northbound Leeds service slows for its Grantham stop, whilst the southbound 'Flying Scotsman' streaks through. Depot operator's view of Empire of India. Blue Peppercorn A1s to the fore! A bit of depot detail has been added. The Fowler 2-6-4T is definitely far from home! Attractive depot line-up down at the New Shed. The B17 seen later at the south end of platform 5. Hope you enjoyed it as much as we did 22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les1952 Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 42322 running-in ex-Derby borrowed by Nottingham shed to cover for a failure? Just a thought Les 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted August 2, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 2, 2015 Hi. LNER4479. Great photo's, with some very interesting trains! The scenic work is really coming along, and the layout just looks so real. I particularly like the detail in the depot, especially the coal heap. With regards, Market65. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted August 2, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 2, 2015 Great day had playing trains! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Blue Streak Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 That's brilliant. Looks like you blokes had a ball. I keep trying to tell people, sometimes it's nice just to "play trains". Forget era, regions and correct consists, just run what takes your fancy. Doesn't BR Blue look good right next to apple green (second last pic) !! Now I really fancy something in that Blue, #@%**^!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 (edited) A couple for Barry from down by the seaside, taken on the phone (I forgot my camera). Grain van, still in LNER condition shortly after Nationalisation.... (You know what's coming here, don't you?) ... and still displaying the glazed inspection windows which BR later plated over. Edited October 26, 2018 by jwealleans 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted August 3, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 3, 2015 While playing trains we managed to work through the sequence... Some great moves to watch if you can get to Grantham in September. Mind you the stock will be much more prototypical. Baz 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted August 3, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 3, 2015 A couple for Barry from down by the seaside, taken on the phone (I forgot my camera).Grain van, still in LNER condition shortly after Nationalisation....(You know what's coming here, don't you?)... and still displaying the glazed inspection windows which BR later plated over.Can't get the roof off my 3...perhaps some black paint may have to suffice? I always thought these were like a sliding piece of wood...learn something new every day! Ta! But wots that protuberance out of one of the buffer beams? Hat, coat , C u later 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gr.king Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 (edited) I've got one of those, with tension lock couplings I'm afraid, and there may be another in that shoe-box full of wagons that came my way on very advantageous terms. Are they needed? The one I built myself finished up with its axles rather intriguingly at anything but 90 degrees to the line of the solebars, yet it still runs well enough. At least the two axles are parallel and lie in the same plane..... Trapezoidal underframes for ever! 4/8/15 Technical correction: the shape suggested by the axles and solebars on my dodgy grain wagon is actually a rhombus, not a trapezium. I'll write it out a hundred times.... Edited August 4, 2015 by gr.king 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
great central Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 42322 running-in ex-Derby borrowed by Nottingham shed to cover for a failure? Just a thought Les Not sure on that, can't remember when the connection to the Lincoln line was re-instated, I suspect late 60s, possibly after things like Fowler tanks had pretty much disappeared from the area. Prior to that, the most likely way a Fowler tank would have got to Grantham would have been from Egginton Junction via Derby Friargate? Whilst there was a connection at Trent Lane from Low level to the Grantham line, it was rarely used as I understand it. It may even have involved a double shunt from the Midland line into Low Level? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flying Fox 34F Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 The LMS had running rights from Saxondale Junction to Nottingham London Road. It was part of the arrangements for the GN/LNW joint line through the Vale of Belvoir and onto Market Harborough. The LNWR built a Goods Yard at Manvers Street, Nottingham and had there own Loco Depot at Colwick, but this closed sometime in the 30's. The link between the GNR and MR at Nottingham was a pair of exchange sidings for transfer goods wagons and coal wagons. Getting back to Grantham, it's good to know the schedule has got worked through. Hopefully, by the end of the month I'll have figured out how to explain it to the masses? Paul 4475 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted August 4, 2015 Author Share Posted August 4, 2015 Can't get the roof off my 3...perhaps some black paint may have to suffice? And a piece of clear plastic on top? That was the Dave Shakespeare 'dodge' (albeit on buildings) to make windows look effective from three feet away. The one I built myself finished up with its axles rather intriguingly at anything but 90 degrees to the line of the solebars, yet it still runs well enough. At least the two axles are parallel and lie in the same plane..... Trapezoidal underframes for ever! 4/8/15 Technical correction: the shape suggested by the axles and solebars on my dodgy grain wagon is actually a rhombus, not a trapezium. I'll write it out a hundred times..... So it goes round right hand curves better than left hand ones (or vice-versa)? One of my recently re-commissioned convertor wagons is a bit like that thanks to some slovenliness on my part. Doesn't seem to affect its running or shunting abilities - the wonders of Peco Code 100! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gr.king Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 I think this particular grain wagon would be very happy on a model of the old gauntleted track over Selby swing bridge, had the signalman moved the points just as the wagon went over, leaving it to run with one wheelset on each pair of rails! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post LNER4479 Posted August 5, 2015 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 5, 2015 The scenic work is really coming along, and the layout just looks so real. I particularly like the detail in the depot, especially the coal heap. Well, picking up on that (and thanks!), here is a selection of recent updates: A two stage grading process of a crushed up lump of coal, to produced some 'large' 1:76 lumps. These were glued to the sides of the expanded polystyrene coal stack to give an impression of the 'dry stone wall' method of construction. The top was then filled in with a more general mix of 'nutty slack' to complete the appearance. One or two additional features being worked on to try and build up the scene. Meanwhile, attention has turned to the town scene. The road surfaces have for a long time been ... er ... in need of some attention. Well now their time has come. Looking better already! To be continued... Also need to contemplate some backscene work. Last month, young Mr Wright brought some prints of some snaps of the locale - surprising how effective they look just strung together like this. One of the interlopers from last weekend still appears to be in town... Finally (for now), the weekend just gone involved a fitting for the layout drapes, a most important touch for the exhibition circuit. I make no apologies for copying the way it's done on 'The Beat' - Velcro strips for quick and easy fitting and removal. What d'yer think? Can't claim any of the credit (apart from the measuring up) - all the work of step-mum, to whom my grateful thanks. 24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted August 5, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 5, 2015 Hi, LNER4479. Great to see the making of the coal stack, it is very effective and most realistic. The town scene road surfaces are looking very good at this early stage. I like the layouts drapes - velcro is an incredibly simple and effective way of putting them in place, and removing them after the layout has been exhibited. The drapes make the layout look complete - I like them. With regards, Market65. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markeg Posted August 6, 2015 Share Posted August 6, 2015 The coal stack looks great and progress is really moving along. The layout is definitely coming together and looking like alive. If I can say that. The Velcro is one idea that we use here at our club in Bendigo OZ. Its good that The Gresley beat was the inspiration for the Velcro. I went to see it at its home in 2011 and is my all time favourite layout. Grantham is certainly not far behind. The blue is the right colour too. I presume that was planned? Mark in OZ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted August 6, 2015 Author Share Posted August 6, 2015 The blue is the right colour too. I presume that was planned? Most certainly! Blue is / was the colour so far as LNER 1930's is concerned (with the greatest respect to apple green and teak!) - so much more interesting than black! I'm still working on step-mum so far as embroidering the LNER monogram every 10 feet is concerned... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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