Grantham - the Streamliner years

[Mallard60022]

I saw a Loan Arranger once; I was refused as my cravat rating was poor.

Ar$e.

Edited January 12, 2016 by Mallard60022

[Barry O]

You could end up in the naughty boys ballasting team duck and SM....

 

Back to Grantham.....the whole layout is taking on a new life as the scenic work progresses.

 

Baz

[gr.king]

Ballasting butter? Bit crunchy for me, I suspect.

 

Maybe you get smooth as well as the crunchy type?

Edited January 11, 2016 by gr.king

[Guest Brighton_JunctionLNER]

well another aussie term would be that its turned out as usless as tits on a bull  


but photos will be up hopefully next week  

she did enjoy herself, and we cant wait to come back, especially for somemore of Mo's potato and leak soup YUUUMMMM 

[LNER4479]

Steady progress on the winter scenic work...

 

The report from Ormesby last night is that all the cobbles setts(!) are now in place in the Up Goods Yard. This photo shows the boarded walkway that existed alongside the loco change siding. It has since been treated (and the missing area of setts between the lines of the adjacent road filled in). I just need to dig a shallow inspection pit for the loco road.

 

The significant aspect in this photo is in the background - the wooden fence separating the Ruston & Hornsby / Aveling Barford siding from the rest of the goods yard.

 

This view from last night (courtesy of Paul Bolton) shows it better. We'll have the gate open-able for the goods yard operator to deposit wagons down the siding. The treatment of the roadway leading to the cattle dock shows up well here.

 

Meanwhile, back at base, the remaining patch of bare baseboard alongside platform 1 has been treated; here, my usual cocktail of plaster, PVA and poster paint is being applied on top of the cork base to raise the level slightly and induce a bit of unevenness.

 

With ground treatment now applied, the pilots take it in turns to fuss about with the Pigeon Van. The Wills platform signal cabin has been used to fashion a small hut with a shallow-pitched roof that appears in the background of photos of the north end that show this area. Any Granthamonians know what this was used for? Shunters / pilot traincrew mess hut?

 

And the C12 (now sporting red and white station pilot lamps!).

 

With these combined efforts we now have no bare baseboards showing other than at the extreme south end, so a little milestone achieved there.

Edited January 12, 2016 by LNER4479

[Tony Wright]

Here's a loco that might well be one of those running into the bay above the station approach road. 

 

 

 

Wonderful scenic work, by the way. My compliments to all concerned, and I look forward to seeing it all at Stafford. 

[Barry O]

setts = less ballasting... wooopiiiddooo! - but wait .. is that a brush, ballasting, glue for the spreading of  in the plaster mix????

 

The scenics are coming on really well. the Ormesby boys really have a knack for getting it to look right

[Market65]

I really love the way that all those scenic works are coming together and making the layout look so real and complete! The north end is so right now with much of the scenic work completed.

That gate to the private siding, since it can be worked, can be opened just when a shunt move is due - just, I think, like the prototype.

 

With regards,

 

Rob.

[gr.king]

Steady progress on the winter scenic work...

 

 

 

With these combined efforts we now have no bare baseboards showing other than at the extreme south end, so a little milestone achieved there.

 

I may struggle to recognize parts of the layout at my next visit.

[JCL]

Hello mister.

 

Thank you very much for allowing me to come over last night. I had a wonderful time with you both. The layout (or at least the boards that were there) was wonderful, and has certainly changed a lot since last time.

 

Thanks also for allowing me to pose my yet to be finished GNR A5, as it was good to see it in context. I've added a few photos so you can see how they came out. I promise to have it finished for next time.

 

Cheers

 

Jason

 

 

Edited January 19, 2016 by JCL

[LNER4479]

Thanks Jason.

 

Yes, had the pleasure of hosting our North American visitor over the weekend. In his honour (sort of!) I decided it was time to crack on with another platform canopy.

 

Firstly, the six support stanchions are soldered up using a jig for repeatability.

 

These are then mounted on a piece of softwood (which will eventually be part of its carrying case) and the longitudinal pieces added.

 

The basic structure is temporarily placed in its intended location (Plat.5).

 

Soldering now complete.

 

Now with roof pieces added. Bit of a opportunity from adversity here. The model shop I called in at was a bit short on white plasticard sheet but did have 30thou (the thickness I was looking for) in black. As this will have tile sheets stuck on them then seemed like the ideal colour in the end!

 

Now, here's where Jason's contribution comes into play. Some while ago we'd corresponded and he'd used his wizzo Silhouette cutter to produce some cut-outs for the valances and ends that I could use to add the detail.

 

He's also provided some sheets for the rather distinctive and unique bracketry that adorned / adorns GN stations on the 'towns line' (I've noted the same style at Newark). Here I'm reinforcing the delicate parts with flange strips along the top and side.

 

Here they are attached to the first support stanchion - four per column! A bit of effort involved but achievable. Jason put the stopwatch on me and I assembled four such brackets (ie one column's-worth) in just under 23mins!

 

And here is the man himself (with some other fella ... and a strange red engine)

 

To atone for that previous image, here is a loco more appropriate for Grantham! Unfortunately (for Jason), GNR No.1 had 'flew the nest' back to the main NRM the previous month. However, the 4mm scale version (that was seen briefly at Grantham last April - page 80 I think) was still there in the Locomotion case.

 

Hoping to have this canopy all finished and painted ready for the Stafford show. Another temporary mock-up consigned to the dustbin!

[chris p bacon]

 

And here is the man himself (with some other fella ... and a strange red engine)

I reckon he was wearling those same clothes at mine. . . .He said he was travelling light!

 

Canopy looks good, I'm lucky as mine is much simpler and I picked up D&S valencing some years ago for it.

[JCL]

Thanks Chris p Dave. I'm beginning to smell, what can I say?

 

I've been quite unlucky tracking down the Stirling Single. Last time I was over I went to York, to find it was at Shildon, this time I bypassed the NRM and found out the loco had been moved there last month. On the up side, there was plenty to see, and I've still got the Single to look forward to (unless it's in Dubai on tour or something) Next time I'll make sure I do a bit of research before getting on the plane.

 

Thanks again for having me.

[gr.king]

Hello mister.

 

Thank you very much for allowing me to come over last night. I had a wonderful time with you both. The layout (or at least the boards that were there) was wonderful, and has certainly changed a lot since last time.

 

Thanks also for allowing me to pose my yet to be finished GNR A5, as it was good to see it in context. I've added a few photos so you can see how they came out. I promise to have it finished for next time.

 

Cheers

 

Jason

 

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An Edwardian sequence on Grantham would look rather nice.....

[LNER4479]

An Edwardian sequence on Grantham would look rather nice.....

But I'd have to replace me signals ... so that they were ALL somersaults!

 

Mind you, think of all them ECJS 12 wheelers Jonathan'd have to build...

[gr.king]

Not to mention relaying all the track with 9 foot long, well spaced sleepers and nothing heavier than code 75 bullhead rail.....

 

But please folks, don't expand on the theme of track here, enough time and space has been wasted on that topic elsewhere quite recently.

[Mallard60022]

Not to mention relaying all the track with 9 foot long, well spaced sleepers and nothing heavier than code 75 bullhead rail.....

 

But please folks, don't expand on the theme of track here, enough time and space has been wasted on that topic elsewhere quite recently.

Really Graham? I'd love to go and joining that fracarse................................................not.

As far as I'm concerned, if Mr Grant Ham, as he is now known elsewhere (sorry Graham)  and his crew can make C100 look as good as it does on Grantham then why bother doing anything else?  

Phil

[LNER4479]

Mr Grant Ham, as he is now known elsewhere (sorry Graham)

I've been called worse...

[Mallard60022]

I've been called worse...

Noooooooo! I have a way of knowing what some people on this Web call me and it makes me laugh.

Hope you are not insulted G as it was a nickname given by a good bloke?

P

[coachmann]

You're the only bloke I know who knits Peco Code 100 so intricately. 

[gr.king]

Well he used to be a nun you know.

[LNER4479]

Noooooooo! I have a way of knowing what some people on this Web call me and it makes me laugh.

Hope you are not insulted G as it was a nickname given by a good bloke?

P

I like it! Didn't mean to give the wrong impression

 

Well he used to be a nun you know.

Did I? Good heavens! Well you learn something new every day...

 

Unintended radio silence last night as I was busy reactivating the layout into a running railway after several months of scenery goings on. The Up Goods Yard is now looking really well set in context with the rest of the layout; should be a nice backdrop for pix of trains south of the station.

 

So busy, I didn't even take any photos. I'll try and rectify that this evening...

[JCL]

You evidently have a habit of forgetting.

 

Will be good to see it all back together. Can't wait to see the photos!

[LNER4479]

Oh, you lucky people! Well, you have been very patient whilst the layout's been partially un-mantled ... and now the wait is over.

 

The 'big stuff' is back in town so seems as an appropriate way as any of showing off the newly-developed Up Goods Yard.

 

We start with a helicopter view as the down Coronation sweeps through. If you can tear your eyes away from the train then there is the entire length of what the Ormesby team have been working on in the background.

 

I did promise one of our viewers from across the pond that this particular loco would feature so here she is, complete with ceremonial bell. I quite like this viewpoint and there are many and various pictures taken from here over the years, each providing its own tantalising glimpse of the scene in the goods yard such as this.

 

Meanwhile, what's coming the other way? A somewhat improbable view as the Scotsman would have to have been two and a half hours late for this chance meeting to occur! But - hey - we are enjoying ourselves here

 

Looks even better from outside the helicopter(!) A silver A4 on the Flying Scotsman? When did that ever happen...

 

Couldn't resist it! Perspective isn't quite right, it isn't the right A4, the headboard should be on the top lamp bracket. But otherwise, here is a first crack at recreating THAT pre-war colour picture.

 

Whew! Far too much excitement in one go. But, sincerely, my grateful thanks to Paul B, Tom D and Craig who have worked so hard on enhancing this part of the layout over the last few months.

[Barry O]

Looks very nice. Looks like a lot of ballasting to do.....

 

 

Baz

 

Of course the Flying Scotsman is late and with a grey engine... Due to a big end failure further up the line..

 

Hat, coat, see you on Saturday.....

 

Baz