Snofi Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 Is it me or did your signal take a bit of a knock during the vid? Great stuff! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Rowsley17D Posted August 30, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 30, 2015 Nice video Al. Was there any sound on it? If so, there's summat up wi' me 'puter. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 Nice video Al. Was there any sound on it? If so, there's summat up wi' me 'puter. Thought I'd gone Mutton as well Jonathan, hahhah Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Alister_G Posted August 30, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted August 30, 2015 Nice video Al. Was there any sound on it? If so, there's summat up wi' me 'puter. Thought I'd gone Mutton as well Jonathan, hahhah Sorry Gents, I had to censor the language. Al. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Alister_G Posted August 30, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted August 30, 2015 Is it me or did your signal take a bit of a knock during the vid? Great stuff! Yep, it did, I hadn't put it back in it's socket properly, but the train did Al. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jock67B Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 Loved the video Al, the locos looked so smooth over the track work, that I'm going to have to trawl through that section again when I get time - well worth emulating! Thanks for sharing it with us, Kind regards, Jock. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Alister_G Posted August 30, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted August 30, 2015 Loved the video Al, the locos looked so smooth over the track work, that I'm going to have to trawl through that section again when I get time - well worth emulating! Thanks for sharing it with us, Kind regards, Jock. The secret to that is simple - the bit of track in view is almost completely without points, it's one long length of Flexitrack. Al 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweven Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 Great progress Al, really enjoyed watching the video - the second to last DMU looked particularly superb coming around the corner in front of the back-scene with its lights on. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Alister_G Posted August 31, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted August 31, 2015 I'm afraid it took longer than I thought to upload this, but anyway it's finally done. This video was taken using my Branor Cam Truck, and shows various locos of mine which haven't been run in a while getting some exercise, as well as a tour round the layout in both directions. It's a bit long, so feel free to skip to the interesting bits I have edited it down from the full original, cutting out various bloopers and derailments There's one turnout at the entrance to the fiddle yard at the station end, which the cam truck always derails on. The track looks absolutely smooth, and I've checked the back-to-backs on the truck, but I can't find the issue. One of the Crabs always derails it's front bogie there as well, so there's definitely an issue, but I don't know what the cause is. Enjoy the video, and thanks for watching. Al. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted August 31, 2015 Share Posted August 31, 2015 Very good Al, with the cam Truck you get a far better perspective of the Layout as a whole, and some nice Motive Power as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe MCMLXI Posted August 31, 2015 Share Posted August 31, 2015 Hi Al, that's a great video you've made. The view through Bakewell on the 'Up' line is great, really shows off the excellent bridges, canopies and buildings you've made - being an x- Bakewell lad, I can really appreciate what you've created, well done. regards joe Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold westerhamstation Posted August 31, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 31, 2015 Hi Al, a great video tour, and some lovely shots of Bakewell Station and the backscene. The Alfred Hitchcock like guest appearences of yourself, were an added and unexpected bonus. Lights camera action. All the best Cecil B Demille. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgeT Posted August 31, 2015 Share Posted August 31, 2015 Love the new video Al, very professional... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Alister_G Posted August 31, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted August 31, 2015 Hi Al, a great video tour, and some lovely shots of Bakewell Station and the backscene. The Alfred Hitchcock like guest appearences of yourself, were an added and unexpected bonus. Lights camera action. All the best Cecil B Demille. Thanks Adrian, I'm never sure whether you are comparing me to Mr Hitchcock based on my girth... There was also a guest appearance by my brother at the end there, you can immediately see the resemblance... NOT! Al. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Alister_G Posted August 31, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted August 31, 2015 Love the new video Al, very professional... Thanks George. You should see the bits I cut out Al. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Rowsley17D Posted August 31, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 31, 2015 Just wondered how much trouble you got in with all those SPADs? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Alister_G Posted August 31, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted August 31, 2015 (edited) Just wondered how much trouble you got in with all those SPADs? I did start with the signal off, but at some point it dropped - I didn't realise until I was editing the video, and I wasn't going to shoot it all again, I knew someone would notice Nobody's mentioned that bloody brakevan yet, either, twice it derailed itself Al. Edited August 31, 2015 by acg_mr Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snofi Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 Nobody's mentioned that bloody brakevan yet, either, twice it derailed itself Al. I figured I was being rude enough mentioning the signal ;-) 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Alister_G Posted September 9, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 9, 2015 A couple of photos to keep the thread going - I've been too busy to do much modelling recently. Rebuilt Patriot 45536 in early BR livery pulls a Derby - Manchester express through Bakewell: A similar shot in colour: A closeup of the Patriot taken from the embankment: A filthy and unidentified Jubilee pulls a failed Peak and it's express through the yard at Bakewell: 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jock67B Posted September 9, 2015 Share Posted September 9, 2015 (edited) Morning Al, Another lovely video, I felt just like I was driving around in a DMU! Filthy or not, there is something very stylish about the Jubilee - not that I'm biased (check me out in the avatar pic standing on the 'Valiant' at an early age!). Shouldn't worry too much about I filling the thread(#3219), the quality of your modelling makes any wait worthwhile! Kind regards, Jock. PS, it wasn't unusual to see a proper loco performing such a rescue on the G&SWR lines in the late fifties/early sixties, especially hauling broken 22's!! Edited September 9, 2015 by Jock67B 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Alister_G Posted September 10, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 10, 2015 (edited) i took a load more photos last night, but ran out of time processing them. so here they are. This is a sequence taken from the prototype. The first train of the day from Bakewell throughout the week, was an All-Stations stopper to Derby, leaving Bakewell at 06:30. The coaching stock for this working was stored overnight in the goods loop in Bakewell Yard, and every morning a locomotive would run down from Rowsley to pick it up.It surprised me to learn, from reading the excellent book "Rowsley Railway Miscellany 2" by Glynn Waite, that quite often this locomotive would be a Jubilee from Nottingham shed, which had completed an early turn to Rowsley.I don't know if the commuters of the time realised how honoured they were to have such prestigious engines on their train to work! Or maybe Jubilees were not considered particularly special at the time?So, the Jubilee would arrive at Rowsley, and having disposed of its load, would be turned on Rowsley turntable, and then run tender first down the line to Bakewell, some 4 miles North.Here we see 45659 Drake (which actually spent all it's life at Leeds Holbeck, but let's pretend it's Hong Kong, or Jellicoe, or one of the other Notts shed locos) entering Bakewell from Haddon, tender first. She runs in on the Down line, until she's cleared the end of the single slip on the crossover to the up line. She then pulls forward over the crossover onto the Up line, until she's clear of the crossing: And then once the points on the slip are set, she can set back into the goods loop: and couple up to the coaches: The whole train then pulls forward out of the goods loop onto the Up line: She then sets back into the platform, ready for all those commuters to go to Derby. More in a minute, Al. Edited September 10, 2015 by acg_mr 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Alister_G Posted September 10, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 10, 2015 (edited) Whilst Drake has been shunting about, back down the line at Haddon, a heavily loaded minerals train has been waiting at the signals. Now that Drake is safely on the Up line, the minerals can proceed, and so ten minutes later, two of Rowsley's finest (!!) a 4F and a Crab, struggle into view through the station: The ruling gradient through Bakewell is quite steep, and it's obvious these two are making heavy weather of the load: But on they slog, until they pass out of view: Thanks for looking, Al. Edited September 10, 2015 by acg_mr 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 Excellent pics and story Al, really well done Mate. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Rowsley17D Posted September 10, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 10, 2015 A lovely group of pics, Al. That early morning Bakewell-Derby train was the "Joe Wright" if I remember my Bill Hudson correctly. Named after the usual guard of Midland times. The stock was returned by the down "Joe Wright" leaving Derby around tea-time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Donw Posted September 10, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 10, 2015 I like the sequences of moves Al. I will look at the videos when I get back to a decent network. Don Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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