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[Tony Wright]

A red letter day today, as Geoff Haynes delivered the models I've made of late which he's painted.

 

Starting with a J6, which I built from a SEF/Nu-Cast kit for one of his customers..................

 

 

 

More to follow...................

 

 

Edited July 17, 2020 by Tony Wright
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[Tony Wright]

Geoff also weathered the D16/3 which I built and painted recently.

 

 

This subtle airbrush dusting just brings it to life......................

[grob1234]

Thank you all to the usual suspects for your help, Tony, Graeme, Jonathan and Graham; team Grantham essentially!

 

The C2 is running to a very acceptable standard. The body is doing whatever it does and really smooths the whole thing down. No knocking!

 

Graeme - you're right it is the slightest of 'problems', but with all thats going on and with the much larger troubles I face at the moment, chewing the fat with good friends about a loco thats 99% intstead of 100% is very welcome light relief!!

 

Would you belive I have lost a poppy's jig in the move, and I can't for the life of me remember where it could be. It'll turn up the day after I buy another one!!

 

Oh BTW, the Silver Jubilee 8 car set is finished now

Edited July 17, 2020 by grob1234

[ROY@34F]

Tony , I have found a photo of Gonerby tunnel mouth .  It's the east end (Gonerby end) , but it may be very similar to t'other end . What do you think ? Any help to Jessy ? Looks fairly recent with the 30 mph limit for the right turn of the new chord ahead , 

Hope to load it   !

 

Regards , Roy .

[LNER4479]

Well, if you'd only asked ...

 

That nice Mr Mellor tooked some pictures a few years ago to assist in making the version for Grantham.

 

All in the course of his official duties I hasten to add.

 

Note the water course details - I found this particularly useful when making our model.

 

Edited July 27, 2020 by LNER4479

[Tony Wright]

8 hours ago, LNER4479 said:

Well, if you'd only asked ...

 

That nice Mr Mellor tooked these pictures a few years ago to assist in making the version for Grantham.

 

All in the course of his official duties I hasten to add.

 

Note the water course details - I found this particularly useful when making our model.

 

 

Thanks Graham,

 

I did tell Jesse to ask you about the dimensions.

 

Speaking of Jesse; His C2 is finished.......................

 

 

 

Geoff Haynes delivered it yesterday, having painted it beautifully. 

 

The next job is to fit a decoder (ugh!!!!). 

 

It's now the third one of these DJH kits I've built, one, of course, which is now Jonathan's property and runs on Grantham.

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

 

 

[Tony Wright]

This next loco definitely comes into the category of 'why bother building a kit when there's a perfectly good RTR equivalent?'. 

 

 

 

 

I bought this Nu-Cast K1 kit off a friend about 18 months ago. Some little time later, I was asked by DJH if I'd assess the firm's latest motor/gearbox combinations. What better way, thought I, of testing a new drive than by by building a loco for it to go into? Thus, that's what I did, and Geoff Haynes delivered it yesterday, fully-painted.

 

It represents one of the few K1s which lost its electric lighting, and is based on a prototype picture showing it to be just ex-works, which Geoff has replicated. 

 

So, apart from the need to road test a new drive, what's the point in building a K1 when Hornby's RTR offering is excellent? Not only that, at prices asked recently, at a fraction of the costs of all the bits for this. 

 

Apart from this one being far more powerful that an RTR example, then is there a point? There is to me, of course. This one is unique, even though it might well be not as 'good' as Hornby's K1 in terms of crispness and accuracy.

 

But, anyone can own a Hornby K1. That's probably the real reason.......................

[Jesse Sim]

9 hours ago, LNER4479 said:

Well, if you'd only asked ...

 

That nice Mr Mellor tooked these pictures a few years ago to assist in making the version for Grantham.

 

All in the course of his official duties I hasten to add.

 

Note the water course details - I found this particularly useful when making our model.

 

 

I’ve been meaning to email you Graham, do you mind emailing me them photos? Thanks a bunch! 

[Jesse Sim]

1 hour ago, Tony Wright said:

Thanks Graham,

 

I did tell Jesse to ask you about the dimensions.

 

Speaking of Jesse; His C2 is finished.......................

 

 

 

Geoff Haynes delivered it yesterday, having painted it beautifully. 

 

The next job is to fit a decoder (ugh!!!!). 

 

It's now the third one of these DJH kits I've built, one, of course, which is now Jonathan's property and runs on Grantham.

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

 

 

Fitting a decoder should be easy, for a man of your experience  

[CUTLER2579]

Roy & Graham,

The photo,s of Gonerby Tunnel take me back to the 1950/1960's when I used to collect eggs on  Cliff & Mary Green's Chicken farm that was right near the Tunnel mouth. Cliff had previously worked at Aveling Barfords and started farming on a part time basis. I think Mary is still alive and if so must be in her 90's. As a child I remember the hens gave you quite a nip as you took their eggs.

Then an afternoon spotting on the ECML @ Saltersford  Cutting.Lyons Apple pie and  Vimto. 

Such happy days,not a care in the world. Virus, no idea what one is, never heard of computers, Covid 19 or much else.

Regards,Del.

[LNER4479]

13 hours ago, Tony Wright said:

Good evening Graham,

 

I don't believe any thread can be 'hijacked' if what's shown is is interesting and inspirational modelling.

 

Do my eyes deceive me, but is that a Hornby-Dublo tinplate ex-LMS brake in the middle picture? 

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

Well, if you're going to 'goad' me like that ... just a few more then.

 

This is from a few years ago, when the signalling was still being installed but it does show the station and the mix of rolling stock. So - yes - Dad does indeed cheerfully use Hornby Dublo rolling stock (including the coupling system) as he built up a large collection of it in his younger years. Most now have metal wheels and corridor connections. As far as he is concerned, they represent the trains in the timetable, a five coach formation being pretty standard in a room only 13ft long. But they are used carefully. No.11 awaits departure with an East Coast express to Edinburgh so it is predominantly ER stock (3 kit built Kirks and a Bachmann Thompson), with just a solitary example of a MkI. The train conveyed a restaurant car, according to the timetable; hey, it's actually a buffet vehicle, but you get the idea. The goods wagons (a few over on the right) are almost entirely HD.

 

These two views (apologies for poor quality) show the shed which, again, represents Aberdeen Ferryhill (61B), with some ex-LMS types around. His whole reasoning for building layouts along the Perth-Aberdeen axis has been that it was a location where both East Coast and West Coast pacifics regularly mingled. Both were beloved from his formative 1950s spotting days.

 

Here is a glimpse of the loco allocation and working (diagram) arrangements. He loves all this! Ex-LMS/CR on the left (for the Perth-Glasgow workings) and ex-LNER/NBR (for the Dundee-Edinburgh workings).

 

Back down at the station - and just 'cos it's you - here is an example of rival pacific types rubbing shoulders. No doubt you'll instantly recognise the source of the A1, what I built him for his 60th birthday. He loves this loco. Alongside, Perth have naughtily 'pinched' the Crewe Duchess from the overnight sleeper, which now prepares to head back south.

 

And here she is, en route. It is of course my City of Nottingham and it's on the Up West Coast Postal (of 'This is the Night Mail, crossing the border ...' fame). Once again, this small through station no more than represents Stonehaven but nevertheless provides some additional operational interest as trains pass through and head into the 'rest of the world'

 

Finally (honest!), back on the subject of Hornby Dublo coaches, bet you never knew they did one of these?(!)

 

 

Answers on a post card!

 

Thanks for encouraging the further indulgence.

 

Graham

Edited July 18, 2020 by LNER4479

[Tony Wright]

30 minutes ago, LNER4479 said:

Well, if you're going to 'goad' me like that ... just a few more then.

 

This is from a few years ago, when the signalling was still being installed but it does show the station and the mix of rolling stock. So - yes - Dad does indeed cheerfully use Hornby Dublo rolling stock (including the coupling system) as he built up a large collection of it in his younger years. Most now have metal wheels and corridor connections. As far as he is concerned, they represent the trains in the timetable, a five coach formation being pretty standard in a room only 13ft long. But they are used carefully. No.11 awaits departure with an East Coast express to Edinburgh so it is predominantly ER stock (3 kit built Kirks and a Bachmann Thompson), with just a solitary example of a MkI. The train conveyed a restaurant car, according to the timetable; hey, it's actually a buffet vehicle, but you get the idea. The goods wagons (a few over on the right) are almost entirely HD.

 

These two views (apologies for poor quality) show the shed which, again, represents Aberdeen Ferryhill (61B), with some ex-LMS types around. His whole reasoning for building layouts along the Perth-Aberdeen axis has been that it was a location where both East Coast and West Coast pacifics regularly mingled. Both were beloved from his formative 1950s spotting days.

 

Here is a glimpse of the loco allocation and working (diagram) arrangements. He loves all this! Ex-LMS/CR on the left (for the Perth-Glasgow workings) and ex-LNER/NBR (for the Dundee-Edinburgh workings).

 

Back down at the station - and just 'cos it's you - here is an example of rival pacific types rubbing shoulders. No doubt you'll instantly recognise the source of the A1, what I built him for his 60th birthday. He loves this loco. Alongside, Perth have naughtily 'pinched' the Crewe Duchess from the overnight sleeper, which now prepares to head back south.

 

And here she is, en route. It is of course my City of Nottingham and it's on the Up West Coast Postal (of 'This is the Night Mail, crossing the border ...' fame). Once again, this small through station no more than represents Stonehaven but nevertheless provides some additional operational interest as trains pass through and head into the 'rest of the world'

 

Finally (honest!), back on the subject of Hornby Dublo coaches, bet you never knew they did one of these?(!)

 

 

Answers on a post card!

 

Thanks for encouraging the further indulgence.

 

Graham

Great stuff Graham,

 

Thanks for showing us.

 

The A1 looks good (DJH?), but does Ernie Wise write your 'scripts'? 'No doubt you'll instantly recognise the source of the A1, what I built him for his 60th birthday.'

 

The Hornby-Dublo brake 2nd? Did it start off as a WR chocolate and cream one, with the lower panel now painted maroon? It certainly looks effective.

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

[Tony Wright]

1 hour ago, Jesse Sim said:

I’ve been meaning to email you Graham, do you mind emailing me them photos? Thanks a bunch! 

Another one from the Ernie Wise school of English............

 

'I’ve been meaning to email you Graham, do you mind emailing me them photos?'

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

[t-b-g]

9 minutes ago, Tony Wright said:

Another one from the Ernie Wise school of English............

 

'I’ve been meaning to email you Graham, do you mind emailing me them photos?'

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

 

Should it be "them there" photos?

[Tony Wright]

The last of the batch of Geoff-Haynes painted locos from yesterday............................

 

 

 

 

 

I bought this Nu-Cast B16/3 kit off the estate of the late Roy Jackson last autumn. 

 

It had been started, dismantled, part re-started and dismantled again (this has nothing to do with forensics - one can always tell previously-soldered components which have been dismantled). It had an EM set of frames, and two boilers! One of those boilers seemed to be 80% filler (of a greenish kind), so that was dumped. The other (a replacement?) had not been started.

 

I built an OO set of frames for it (no doubt the great man is glaring down right now) and re-rebuilt it, handing it over to Geoff for painting once I'd finished.

 

This now completes the quartet of locos I bought off Roy's estate. I merely part-rebuilt the A5 and L1, and made OO chassis for them (more glaring), finally painting/weathering them myself. The J17 featured as a complete build recently. 

 

I've mentioned this before, but those four locos (no longer in their mouldering boxes) are now completed and running on a model railway - surely what they were designed for? It would have been wonderful to think that they'd eventually have run on Retford, but that wasn't to be. I'm delighted that they're running on Little Bytham, even if it isn't EM. 

 

 

[LNER4479]

19 minutes ago, Tony Wright said:

Great stuff Graham,

 

Thanks for showing us.

 

The A1 looks good (DJH?), but does Ernie Wise write your 'scripts'? 'No doubt you'll instantly recognise the source of the A1, what I built him for his 60th birthday.'

 

The Hornby-Dublo brake 2nd? Did it start off as a WR chocolate and cream one, with the lower panel now painted maroon? It certainly looks effective.

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

Aha - caught you out with the A1! It's actually a Crownline kit, with the loco body built around a Hornby Gresley A1 boiler.

 

My impish-ness to deliberately mis-use the 'what' word, Ernie-wise style, honest.

 

HD Brake 2nd? I'll leave that open a little longer to see if others can spot the subterfuge ...

[Barry Ten]

I got the Ernie Wise reference.

 

He won't sell many ice-creams going that fast etc.

[Woodcock29]

1 hour ago, LNER4479 said:

Well, if you're going to 'goad' me like that ... just a few more then.

 

This is from a few years ago, when the signalling was still being installed but it does show the station and the mix of rolling stock. So - yes - Dad does indeed cheerfully use Hornby Dublo rolling stock (including the coupling system) as he built up a large collection of it in his younger years. Most now have metal wheels and corridor connections. As far as he is concerned, they represent the trains in the timetable, a five coach formation being pretty standard in a room only 13ft long. But they are used carefully. No.11 awaits departure with an East Coast express to Edinburgh so it is predominantly ER stock (3 kit built Kirks and a Bachmann Thompson), with just a solitary example of a MkI. The train conveyed a restaurant car, according to the timetable; hey, it's actually a buffet vehicle, but you get the idea. The goods wagons (a few over on the right) are almost entirely HD.

 

These two views (apologies for poor quality) show the shed which, again, represents Aberdeen Ferryhill (61B), with some ex-LMS types around. His whole reasoning for building layouts along the Perth-Aberdeen axis has been that it was a location where both East Coast and West Coast pacifics regularly mingled. Both were beloved from his formative 1950s spotting days.

 

Here is a glimpse of the loco allocation and working (diagram) arrangements. He loves all this! Ex-LMS/CR on the left (for the Perth-Glasgow workings) and ex-LNER/NBR (for the Dundee-Edinburgh workings).

 

Back down at the station - and just 'cos it's you - here is an example of rival pacific types rubbing shoulders. No doubt you'll instantly recognise the source of the A1, what I built him for his 60th birthday. He loves this loco. Alongside, Perth have naughtily 'pinched' the Crewe Duchess from the overnight sleeper, which now prepares to head back south.

 

And here she is, en route. It is of course my City of Nottingham and it's on the Up West Coast Postal (of 'This is the Night Mail, crossing the border ...' fame). Once again, this small through station no more than represents Stonehaven but nevertheless provides some additional operational interest as trains pass through and head into the 'rest of the world'

 

Finally (honest!), back on the subject of Hornby Dublo coaches, bet you never knew they did one of these?(!)

 

 

Answers on a post card!

 

Thanks for encouraging the further indulgence.

 

Graham

It looks to me like a kit bash of a HD BSK and SO? I can just make out the join in the side at the start of the brake end.

 

Andrew

[LNER4479]

You're getting a bit warmer, but there's a bit more to it than that ...

[St Enodoc]

2 hours ago, CUTLER2579 said:

not a care in the world

apart from measles, German measles, mumps, chickenpox, polio, TB, tetanus...

[St Enodoc]

1 hour ago, Tony Wright said:

I bought this Nu-Cast B16/3 kit off the estate of the late Roy Jackson last autumn.

From, shirley?

[St Enodoc]

25 minutes ago, LNER4479 said:

You're getting a bit warmer, but there's a bit more to it than that ...

It's been stretched a bit too, hasn't it?

[St Enodoc]

2 hours ago, LNER4479 said:

Well, if you're going to 'goad' me like that ... just a few more then.

Lovely stuff Graham (and your Dad). A beautiful 1960s/70s-style layout - and anaglypta wallpaper too!

[Woodcock29]

26 minutes ago, LNER4479 said:

You're getting a bit warmer, but there's a bit more to it than that ...

I'm thinking its certainly part of a SO. But maybe the brake section is actually from a full brake? Of course its also had at least a partial repaint.

 

John might be right that it could be longer now than a standard short HD, although I'm not certain of that. One problem is I don't have any HD coaches now for comparison, sold the last of my father's a few years ago.

 

Andrew

[Tony Wright]

1 hour ago, LNER4479 said:

Aha - caught you out with the A1! It's actually a Crownline kit, with the loco body built around a Hornby Gresley A1 boiler.

 

My impish-ness to deliberately mis-use the 'what' word, Ernie-wise style, honest.

 

HD Brake 2nd? I'll leave that open a little longer to see if others can spot the subterfuge ...

I should have spotted that it's Crownline - by the too-high safety valves.

 

Actually, what caught my eye in the picture of the HD hybrid coach is the Gresley one behind it. Did any ever have their number positions so low? At the bottom of the side. I know some ScR-allocated Gresleys in maroon had the horizontal lining lower than standard, but all the numbers I've seen on them were still above the central beading.

 

Regards,

 

Tony.