RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted April 27, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 27, 2018 Bol Locks to Bow Locks, how about some more exciting running pics mate? May be. One day. I reckon Clive has used up all this months advanced technical and electronic knowledge, we'll have to wait until next month. Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted April 27, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 27, 2018 I reckon Clive has used up all this months advanced technical and electronic knowledge, we'll have to wait until next month. Mike. So, Tuesday, then? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted April 27, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 27, 2018 So, Tuesday, then? Presuming you have the same calendar as me, yes. Although I will see it an hour before you! Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimwal Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 While I was searching for my box with loco buffers and other bits in it, I stumbled across my very old part made Trans Pennine unit, I am going to have a ago at getting it going. The buffers are for my Vi-Trains Type 3s, they are coming on OK. Clive, in keeping with the spirit of this thread and to inform the steam followers can you please identify the 'loco' in red Anyway you're doing a grand job with your layout. Jim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted April 29, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 29, 2018 Clive, in keeping with the spirit of this thread and to inform the steam followers can you please identify the 'loco' in red Anyway you're doing a grand job with your layout. Jim It's a 350 shunter innit? Well, that's what we used to call em! Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted April 29, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 29, 2018 Clive, in keeping with the spirit of this thread and to inform the steam followers can you please identify the 'loco' in red Anyway you're doing a grand job with your layout. Jim We all have that magic spares box, mine seems to be full of buffers for locomotives. I do have a red loco, well one in maroon and it isn't a LMS Pacific or Western. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titan Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 We all have that magic spares box, mine seems to be full of buffers for locomotives. I do have a red loco, well one in maroon and it isn't a LMS Pacific or Western. Ah, So it is a Warship! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted April 29, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 29, 2018 We all have that magic spares box, mine seems to be full of buffers for locomotives. I do have a red loco, well one in maroon and it isn't a LMS Pacific or Western. Hmmm - a maroon loco guessing game - is it one of these then? Cheers, Mick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted April 29, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 29, 2018 It could have been the preserved Midland Compound as that was still running specials in the 1960s. It is a boring Warship, still don't know why I brought it, apart from it looking pretty in the shop on the day. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted April 29, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 29, 2018 We all have that magic spares box, mine seems to be full of buffers for locomotives. I do have a red loco, well one in maroon and it isn't a LMS Pacific or Western. Sarah Siddons? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted April 29, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 29, 2018 Sarah Siddons? Oh!!!!! That reminds me I have two maroon locos. The other one is a nice pannier tank in a proper livery not that G*R green but the one that has the same lettering as a Routemaster Bus, "London Transport". What a nice livery for a engine. Now that was brought for a purpose. Hanging Hill being in North East London was connected to the LT system and was used to exchange wagons between the two railways. What reason can I use for it to appear in Sheffield? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titan Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 Oh!!!!! That reminds me I have two maroon locos. The other one is a nice pannier tank in a proper livery not that G*R green but the one that has the same lettering as a Routemaster Bus, "London Transport". What a nice livery for a engine. Now that was brought for a purpose. Hanging Hill being in North East London was connected to the LT system and was used to exchange wagons between the two railways. What reason can I use for it to appear in Sheffield? Dead in tow to the scrapyard and thence to the furnaces? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted April 29, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 29, 2018 (edited) Oh!!!!! That reminds me I have two maroon locos. The other one is a nice pannier tank in a proper livery not that G*R green but the one that has the same lettering as a Routemaster Bus, "London Transport". What a nice livery for a engine. Now that was brought for a purpose. Hanging Hill being in North East London was connected to the LT system and was used to exchange wagons between the two railways. What reason can I use for it to appear in Sheffield? To annoy the purists? (You don't need a reason - it's your layout.......) Cheers, Mick Edited April 29, 2018 by newbryford Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted April 29, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 29, 2018 Dead in tow to the scrapyard and thence to the furnaces? No. They outlasted many BR diesels. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted April 29, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 29, 2018 Oh!!!!! That reminds me I have two maroon locos. The other one is a nice pannier tank in a proper livery not that G*R green but the one that has the same lettering as a Routemaster Bus, "London Transport". What a nice livery for a engine. Now that was brought for a purpose. Hanging Hill being in North East London was connected to the LT system and was used to exchange wagons between the two railways. What reason can I use for it to appear in Sheffield? On it's way to Booths? Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted April 29, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 29, 2018 (edited) Hi Gang This evening I have been busy with my very old conversion of Tri-ang coaches into a Trans-Pennine unit. The main thing was to get the non-driving Motor Brake Second powered. It had a Lima 4 wheeled power unit in it but the design of bogie frame let it down it kept breaking. I have now fitted it with a Hornby DMU power bogie and pick-up bogie. All the converted coaches had their plastic wheels removed and replaced with metal ones of 12mm diameter. I have worked out a bodge to make BR Mk1 bogies look a bit like DMU ones, so if it works I will not have to re-bogie the coaches. I have run the whole train and it looks good running at speed and slowly as it enters the station, with the power car pushing four coaches across the point work. When I started the conversion I was building hanging Hill so I have never been able to run it as a full train. There is a lot of work to do but hopefully it will appear close enough to a Trans-Pennine unit. Some old photos DMC non driving MBSK TRBFK TSO (Lima model, couldn't be bothered with cutting and shutting two Tri-ang BSKs) non driving MBSK, with its Lima power unit DMC very much damaged. Edited April 29, 2018 by Clive Mortimore 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted April 29, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 29, 2018 020.JPG TRBFK And there are those that complain about the garish liveries of today's railways..... Cheers, Mick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satan's Goldfish Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 Is that TSO still in its original 'as Lima intended' state and livery? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted April 30, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 30, 2018 Is that TSO still in its original 'as Lima intended' state and livery? yeah Once in lined green, flush windies, new under gubbins and modified bogies, it will look like a Lima coach lined green, flush windies, new under gubbins and modified bogies. There is a lot of work still to be done but the main thing is I have it running which gives me the mo-jo to work on it when I feel like it. Had it running earlier this morning. :locomotive: 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted April 30, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 30, 2018 WHOOPS!!!!!! Cor blimey those Fowler 2Ps are made of strong stuff. You see, I was just starting to bring a 37 hauled parcels train into Platform 6 when........ CRASH....BANG.....THUMP.... the 2P, the leading coach of the train and buffer stop from platform 7 went off the end of the layout. I do believe this accident might have been caused by a tiny error in the route setting, but we must wait for the full investigation to take place. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted April 30, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 30, 2018 WHOOPS!!!!!! Cor blimey those Fowler 2Ps are made of strong stuff. You see, I was just starting to bring a 37 hauled parcels train into Platform 6 when........ CRASH....BANG.....THUMP.... the 2P, the leading coach of the train and buffer stop from platform 7 went off the end of the layout. I do believe this accident might have been caused by a tiny error in the route setting, but we must wait for the full investigation to take place. Look on the bright side Clive - if you were using the Double Catchpoint Clatter (DCC) control system it would probably happen more often and you'd definitely be more likely to have collisions until you get the signalling installed. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted April 30, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 30, 2018 Look on the bright side Clive - if you were using the Double Catchpoint Clatter (DCC) control system it would probably happen more often and you'd definitely be more likely to have collisions until you get the signalling installed. Well the signalman is denying any wrong doing and is blaming the driver of the 2P for not putting on the brakes. :nono: He in turn is saying the guard left the train without the handbrake being applied. And the guard is blaming his wife for the upset tummy he had and had to rush to the loo before he had a personal accident. The stationmaster is blaming anyone who gets in his way...... .........the young lad in the parcels office is blaming the station cat because there is no else left to blame Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titan Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 Ah well, at least you have not had something fall off the layout, through the open loft hatch, bounce down the stairs and end up somewhere near the front door... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted April 30, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 30, 2018 Ah well, at least you have not had something fall off the layout, through the open loft hatch, bounce down the stairs and end up somewhere near the front door... BUMP! BUMP! BUMP! BUMP! Did it work afterwards? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted April 30, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 30, 2018 (edited) WHOOPS!!!!!! Cor blimey those Fowler 2Ps are made of strong stuff. You see, I was just starting to bring a 37 hauled parcels train into Platform 6 when........ CRASH....BANG.....THUMP.... the 2P, the leading coach of the train and buffer stop from platform 7 went off the end of the layout. I do believe this accident might have been caused by a tiny error in the route setting, but we must wait for the full investigation to take place. Sensible use of DCC would have avoided this. But I am more inebriated than I have been for some years*, so what the ###### do I know? *True. But what are reunions with old friends for? Several edits: due to being p1ssed. Edited April 30, 2018 by Regularity Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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