LNER4479 Posted February 12, 2016 Author Share Posted February 12, 2016 Looks like I may be able to attend Nottingham on Sunday all being well, thanks for posting the link. If I'm there I will be sure to come and say hello. Unusual for me to be in the uk and for the exhibition to be only 1.5 hours up the road. For me this layout will be the star attraction. I'm sorry to hear about the gremlins last time out, I know very little about watts and ohms and so on, but the fact you're able to transport your layout and set it up and make stuff work is a huge credit to you and the team. I have enough difficulty setting up my 6ft by 2ft 6 layout let alone something like Grantham. Wow Tom, that sounds great! I don't suppose you'll have your Coronation with you? If you have, we could certainly do something with it in the last hour on the Sunday, even if it's just to pose it for a photograph or two. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted February 12, 2016 Author Share Posted February 12, 2016 hey everyone, just wondering what is a good source of information for named express trains and goods trains/express goods trains in the 30s for the ECML? thankyou Hey Jesse, Apologies for not responding your post of a few days ago - I was rather busy with a model railway exhibition! Anyhow - check your e-mails; you should find something of use in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grob1234 Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 Wow Tom, that sounds great! I don't suppose you'll have your Coronation with you? If you have, we could certainly do something with it in the last hour on the Sunday, even if it's just to pose it for a photograph or two. It's being repatriated in March, so I would be delighted to bring it along. I'm in the process of sorting out a suitable carrying medium for them that will enable them to endure a 12 hour flight. Luckily they should fit in hand luggage, here's hoping for a smooth flight! I better sort out the bogie on coach A it's causing derailments at the moment! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted February 12, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 12, 2016 It's being repatriated in March, so I would be delighted to bring it along. I'm in the process of sorting out a suitable carrying medium for them that will enable them to endure a 12 hour flight. Luckily they should fit in hand luggage, here's hoping for a smooth flight! I better sort out the bogie on coach A it's causing derailments at the moment! You could try document card Tubes like wot Isinglass uses (but a bit wider diameter), but hand luggage inspection might go buzz buzz with shapes like that, especially with metal inside. Rather expensive but those nice clear, plastic storage boxes might be better for security searches and for continued storage in the layout room? Phil 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted February 12, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 12, 2016 You could try document card Tubes like wot Isinglass uses (but a bit wider diameter), but hand luggage inspection might go buzz buzz with shapes like that, especially with metal inside. Rather expensive but those nice clear, plastic storage boxes might be better for security searches and for continued storage in the layout room? Phil I brought a couple of 7mm Pennsy electrics through LAX as hand luggage. Yes all the bells went off but we ended up having a light hearted discussion once I showed them what the collection of wires and motors was. I'd got them direct from Sunset Models at their HQ and it would have been criminal to leave them on the shelf at the price I was offered them at. Jamie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mike Bellamy Posted February 13, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 13, 2016 Flying Scotsman visits Grantham . . . . . . . . but it's not what you might think Published today on the 'Grantham Matters' news website http://www.granthammatters.co.uk/steam-crazy-granthams-own-flying-scotsman/ . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gerbil-Fritters Posted February 13, 2016 Share Posted February 13, 2016 I once took a colleague to see the SP Jawbone Branch where it split off from the main at Mojave. Unbeknownst to me, he thought I might like a souvenir of the line and popped it into my carry on bag. Took some explaining when the x-ray machine went bananas, and the security guy pulled a hefty iron track spike from my bag.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post LNER4479 Posted February 21, 2016 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 21, 2016 SO 'wot's been happening since the Stafford show?', I hear you ask.... Anybody? Well, nothing earth-shattering, just the usual mixture of working through the 'snag' list, a spot of maintenance and some additional details. An offer by the ever-helpful Mr Wealleans to do some loco servicing was far too good to turn down, so here he is, busy working his way through his pile of cotton buds (dipped in thinners). His offer came complete with the services of a little person who quite enjoyed rummaging through my stock of even littler people, some of whom can now be seen bringing platform 5 to life Whilst we were in mood, we set up this little scene at Belvoir Baby Carriages, showing a delivery of osier (willow) being unloaded. At the rear of the dray, the opportunist yard hand is there with his brush looking for a free supply of 'fertiliser'! I'm also hoping to squeeze in the fixing up of the water column at the north end of Plat.3, seen here being tried in position prior to painting. And in three weeks' time, it'll all be over for another show! 22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manna Posted February 21, 2016 Share Posted February 21, 2016 G'day Gents Good to see the 'onwards & upwards' going on, but I think Jonathans, 'bickie' tin, is gonna 'cause one hell of a short !!!! manna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold teaky Posted February 22, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 22, 2016 Does it contain shortbread biscuits? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Sadly, no - spare wheels. As well as the loco cleaning we did some wagon tuning and freed up a few which were dragging their wheels. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted February 22, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 22, 2016 G'day Gents Good to see the 'onwards & upwards' going on, but I think Jonathans, 'bickie' tin, is gonna 'cause one hell of a short !!!! manna I was concerned about the type of wheels and the livery......................................................................................gone. P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted February 22, 2016 Author Share Posted February 22, 2016 Yer know what it's like. You don't know where to put something so you say 'I'll just put them in there for now'... 25 years later and the money-box-shaped-like-a-tram is the wagon wheels box and will no doubt be so now until the end of my days. Dunno where it came from - Crich possibly? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jukebox Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Yer know what it's like. You don't know where to put something so you say 'I'll just put them in there for now'... 25 years later and the money-box-shaped-like-a-tram is the wagon wheels box and will no doubt be so now until the end of my days. Dunno where it came from - Crich possibly? Of course if you'd had one of these boxes back then, it would have been logical to use it: 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classsix T Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 (edited) Handrail components in the Hob-nob box...though my dark coarse scatter is in a Mini Cheddars barrel! C6T. Edited February 22, 2016 by Classsix T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted February 22, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 22, 2016 Of course if you'd had one of these boxes back then, it would have been logical to use it: 717324.jpg ah but are the original (larger) ones or the latest small scale ones?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 ah but are the original (larger) ones or the latest small scale ones?? Do you mean Romfords or Finney Its OK on my way out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post LNER4479 Posted February 22, 2016 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 22, 2016 ah but are the original (larger) ones or the latest small scale ones?? Do you mean Romfords or Finney Its OK on my way out. Now you leave off Super Barry-O, Ballast-meister extraordinaire! Plied with cups of best Yorkshire tea and warmed by a glowing brazier, he worked his way down the goods lines until he ran out of baseboard. If I hadn't have put that end piece on I'd swear e'd have ballasted the carpet below. And here's the results of his efforts. Excess bits still to be removed (and reclaimed by the well known stocking-over-the-end-of-the-sucker method) but otherwise we have all the lines in this area now treated. From left to right: Up Goods Reception; Up & Down Goods through line; carriage siding 2; carriage siding 1; Up relief; Up main; Down main More soon... 23 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold lezz01 Posted February 22, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 22, 2016 Hi there. Outstanding ballasting. Given that its just about the suckiest job in railway modeling, mind you point rodding can run it a close second, I think he deserves more than a few cups of tea. Maybe a slice or two of cake as well may be in order don't you think? Regards Lez.Z. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted February 23, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 23, 2016 ah but are the original (larger) ones or the latest small scale ones?? Do you mean Romfords or Finney Its OK on my way out. 00 or H0? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted February 23, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 23, 2016 Hi there. Outstanding ballasting. Given that its just about the suckiest job in railway modeling, mind you point rodding can run it a close second, I think he deserves more than a few cups of tea. Maybe a slice or two of cake as well may be in order don't you think? Regards Lez.Z. Fresh ham and tomato buns plus tea = happy ballasted! Couldn't ballast any more as I had ballasted the good lines on the next board already. Hopefully it will look fine when Henry the Hoover has removed the excess. Baz 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gerbil-Fritters Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 Barry the Ballast, there's nice now isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gr.king Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 Fresh ham and tomato buns plus tea = happy ballasted! Couldn't ballast any more as I had ballasted the good lines on the next board already. Baz The bad lines have to wait of course, as all naughty track should. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 Some of them were having to stand in the corner on Sunday. I didn't ask what they'd done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted February 23, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 23, 2016 (edited) Blithering kobo spell checker!Predictive text just doesn't make sense.There is still a fair bit of ballasting to do so be warned, naughty boys shall be obliged to ballast the best DD yard or two of track, and that includes a certain Mr Duck!Me, I find it therapeutic, perhaps I need to offer it as part of my railway modelling services?Baz Edited February 23, 2016 by Barry O 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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