Removed a/c Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 What a great looking layout. Really like the water, you have done a cracking job on it !! Regards Scott Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted March 21, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 21, 2016 Thanks Scott, hoping to get some work done on it soon , had intense radiotherapy last year and I'm only now getting the energy to start modelling again. Ice been buying stuff over the year so I must get cracking! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derekstuart Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 It's good to see you becoming more frequent on RMW again, Russ. You certainly must be doing something right with your water effect, judging by the amount of comments you get on it. Shocked about not having a bus on the bridge though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted March 21, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 21, 2016 Cheers, Derek. I bought an Eastern counties base toys MW last week,it's currently downstairs with my diecast but it will be upstairs soon. The water does seem popular, it's only PVA Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derekstuart Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 Only PVA?A layout is only wood, metal, glue and plastic. It is how you arrange it that counts. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Smashing layout, have enjoyed catching up. Particularly like the church, bridge and water-effects. Can't have too many models set in Norfolk, I reckon. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted March 26, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 26, 2016 Thanks for the kind words. You're right about Norfolk layouts, there doesn't seem to be too many based on Norfolk. Suffolk seems more popular for some reason, could be that Suffolk doesn't have the amount of flint buildings that we have up here. AFAIK there have never been any ready to plant ones Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dubloseven Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 What an absolutely marvellous layout. I used to know the area well having lived just the other side of Holt in the sixties and seventies. I can remember Holt station in its last few years of use. It's a pity the NNR couldn't get to Holt station itself and ultimately save it for posterity. Sadly it was finally demolished sometime later to make way for the Holt bypass and apparently there's a tyre depot on the site of the old goods yard now. Such is progress. Regards, Cliff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dubloseven Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 At least someone managed to get a picture of this lovely old station a few years after closure before it was torn down. I cycled over that level crossing on many occasions back in the day. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted May 31, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 31, 2016 Thank you. Thats quite a rare picture of Holt station, it shows the signalbox which is now at Weybourne . Incidentally this is the second Holt station the first being destroyed by fire in the mid 1920s The NNR would like to put a line down the North side of the bypass to a new station in Holt,but I can't really see it happening Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dubloseven Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 (edited) Hello Russ I've a couple more photos in my collection. Both trackside this time. The first one I think is from just around the time of closure and the second one some years after when the main building had been demolished. If I recall correctly the old W.R. West building by this time was a wholesale grocery company and the yard contained a small shed manufacturer called Thaxters Portable Buildings. Hard to believe some 40 odd years have passed. Regards, Cliff. Edited May 31, 2016 by Dubloseven 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
croydon junction Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 And a couple of more recent ones I've seen similar factories on other layouts, but what techniques/kits/scratchbuilding methods did you use to make that factory? Thank you Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted May 31, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 31, 2016 (edited) Hello Russ I've a couple more photos in my collection. Both trackside this time. The first one I think is from just around the time of closure and the second one some years after when the main building had been demolished. If I recall correctly the old W.R. West building by this time was a wholesale grocery company and the yard contained a small shed manufacturer called Thaxters Portable Buildings. Hard to believe some 40 odd years have passed. Regards, Cliff. image.jpg5414082260_e9047a5d76_b.jpg Thanks Cliff excellent pictures,thaxters is still trading but from a different site, great company supplied all the wood for my layout. I'm not sure if that is their building in the photo or the other similar one that existed on the site. Thaxters building was sadly demolished last year and the site is supposedly becoming an aldi I've seen similar factories on other layouts, but what techniques/kits/scratchbuilding methods did you use to make that factory? Thank you The factories are walthers kits namely a grain store and flour mill painted with a mix of paint and talcum powder then sprayed with clear Matt varnish Edited May 31, 2016 by russ p 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullie Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 Hello Russ I've a couple more photos in my collection. Both trackside this time. The first one I think is from just around the time of closure and the second one some years after when the main building had been demolished. If I recall correctly the old W.R. West building by this time was a wholesale grocery company and the yard contained a small shed manufacturer called Thaxters Portable Buildings. Hard to believe some 40 odd years have passed. Regards, Cliff. image.jpg5414082260_e9047a5d76_b.jpg I might be right at least one building associated with the station still exists, one of the warehouses? Saw it on Google maps though not sure how old the footage is. My Pott Row layout is set for in Norfolk so that makes at least two of us! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted May 31, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 31, 2016 There are a few Norfolk layouts but not that many. Alas the building on Google no longer exists,that was thaxters timber merchants. There is very little if anything on the station site to indicate it's existence now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted February 5, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 5, 2017 Cley will be dismantled in the not too distant future hopefully. It will be rebuilt in a similar form but will be around four times its current size. Improvements will be Both legs of the triangle will be double track More gentle curvature Carriage sidings ( Based on Yarmouth) between platform ends and junction Five or six platforms 35 foot open country section with just a double track railway in the scenery that will include a caravan site Station yard and sorting yard bigger Obviously this is all going to take time but hopefully regular updates Will be posted the building housing it is about to have it's roof fitted. The only downside is that to get planning permission I had to reduce the height so I'm a little worried that headroom maybe restricted under the eves 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 Both legs of the triangle will be double track More gentle curvature Carriage sidings ( Based on Yarmouth) between platform ends and junction Five or six platforms 35 foot open country section with just a double track railway in the scenery that will include a caravan site Station yard and sorting yard bigger Just a small upgrade then Russ? Best of luck with it all! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted February 5, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 5, 2017 Cheers Pete, I think it's going to be a long project. Also in the garage below it there will be an MG Maestro to rebuild Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nat D Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 Crikey Russ, that new garage/railway room is bigger than my house. Is the MG the red one you had a few years back? Sounds like you're going very busy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted February 16, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 16, 2017 Hiya nat it is the same mg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nat D Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 It hasn't rusted away completely then. I'll have to pop over when you aren't driving some heritage traction somewhere, it's been far too long. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted February 17, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 17, 2017 Definitely, I'm off for two weeks after Saturday Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertiedog Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moggs Eye Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 Hi Russ, I've just found your thread after following the link from your post in the Female Drivers thread. You've made a really good looking layout, I'll look forward to seeing more of it. Cheers, Ben. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 How's the garage build going Russ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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