RMweb Premium TheQ Posted February 5, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 5, 2015 Norwich had a bright yellow bendy Bus ( with very large SOS on the side) for picking up the drunks on Prince of Wales road Just up from the railway station. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted February 5, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 5, 2015 Shall we go for the bendy bus on fire too... ? Norwich had a bright yellow bendy Bus ( with very large SOS on the side) for picking up the drunks on Prince of Wales road Just up from the railway station. Depends on whether the persons on the bendy bus set it on fire or does it of its own accord. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted February 6, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 6, 2015 or any of Dagenham's production with the inevitable rusty bodywork At least they weren't as bad as Vauxhall's paintwork Or a Lancia Beta with it's engine on the road! Keith Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted February 7, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 7, 2015 Fred Dibnah demolishing a chimney :£ That would be good - with the chimney half down and the remains of the fire still going! Keith Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 or any of Dagenham's production with the inevitable rusty bodywork Or a metallic silver Mk2 Cortina with great leprous patches where the paint has returned to its powder state and fallen off. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium petethemole Posted February 7, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 7, 2015 For a 'last days of steam' layout, a shed cameo of volunteers cleaning a loco. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KalKat Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 Or a metallic silver Mk2 Cortina with great leprous patches where the paint has returned to its powder state and fallen off. ...... ah yes , the dreaded 'paint mange' affecting IIRC Saluki Bronze, Silver Fox and a metallic blue that I can't recall Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS1977 Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 Fred Dibnah demolishing a chimney :£ I worked out once how to do that as a working model(!) but haven't had a suitable layout to build it into! (And,like the animated scenes one occasionally sees of someone cutting a tree down,it would look odd being rewound to its starting position!). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cromptonnut Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 Some great O gauge figures - including Fred Dibhan - available here if anyone fancies recreating the chimney scene above http://www.duncanmodels.co.uk/price_list_figures_and_animals.htm There's also one for Boris, see if you can work out which one. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 Depot layouts are very much in vogue, most have a stud of large express or freight locomotives but I can't remember seeing one which reminds me of a 1960s Sunday at somewhere like Eastfield, with endless rows of shunters gathered in lines awaiting their weekend maintenance and fuelling before dispersing early on the Monday to their various yards and depots. Jim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted February 8, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 8, 2015 (edited) Depot layouts are very much in vogue, most have a stud of large express or freight locomotives but I can't remember seeing one which reminds me of a 1960s Sunday at somewhere like Eastfield, with endless rows of shunters gathered in lines awaiting their weekend maintenance and fuelling before dispersing early on the Monday to their various yards and depots. Jim Hi Jim This is best I can do http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/62823-pig-lane-or-should-it-be-i-am-sorry/?p=811693 Edited February 8, 2015 by Clive Mortimore 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
37114 Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 I've never seen an early Datsun with the obligatory different coloured door on a blue diesel era layout. Jamie Scroll down to post 180, not a Datsun but multi coloured. Also note the coat hanger aerial, something you don't see these days but pretty prevalent in the 1970's/1980's: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/82744-peafore-yard-37114s-new-4mm-br-blue-layout/page-8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium corneliuslundie Posted February 8, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 8, 2015 When you suggested the chimney being demolished I envisaged something like the restaurant at the end of the universe, wind it back each night and do it again each day. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Holliday Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 What about road vehicles with the red and white trade plates strapped on at a jaunty angle? In particular those brave souls who used to drive coach chassis around the country in the fifties and sixties, with only a brown cap, coat or cape for protection. I imagine elf n safety stopped that some time ago. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
37114 Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 What about road vehicles with the red and white trade plates strapped on at a jaunty angle? In particular those brave souls who used to drive coach chassis around the country in the fifties and sixties, with only a brown cap, coat or cape for protection. I imagine elf n safety stopped that some time ago. Many bus chassis now are designed around having the body to give the rigid strength so are not designed to be driven the distance across the country without the body in place. Alexander Dennis use a haulier who has a special trailer that can carry 2 chassis at once. Optare and Wrights use integral chassis which they don't sell to other body builders. The last chassis I saw being moved as described were Javelin coach chassis back in the 2000s Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium petethemole Posted February 8, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 8, 2015 They did the same with lorry chassis. Living north of Luton I often saw Commer/Karrier chassis and, less frequently, Bedfords. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Sheep Posted February 8, 2015 Author Share Posted February 8, 2015 Might have to re-create that one on my layout - was going to have a motorbike factory but perhaps a coach builders would be better Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium corneliuslundie Posted February 17, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 17, 2015 How about a landslip? I envisage an end to end layout with a fiddle yard leading to a through station. Beyond the station there is a landslip in a cutting so the trains can't go any further. So no need for another fiddle yard but lots of extra train movements at a station not designed for them, plus engineering trains taking spoil away and bringing equipment and materials for the repairs. And of course the lines of passengers waiting for the rail replacement buses which have got caught in a traffic jam somewhere and are running hours late. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted February 17, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 17, 2015 How about a landslip? I envisage an end to end layout with a fiddle yard leading to a through station. Beyond the station there is a landslip in a cutting so the trains can't go any further. So no need for another fiddle yard but lots of extra train movements at a station not designed for them, plus engineering trains taking spoil away and bringing equipment and materials for the repairs. And of course the lines of passengers waiting for the rail replacement buses which have got caught in a traffic jam somewhere and are running hours late. That traffic jam, including rail replacement buses, could be put on a bridge. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Sheep Posted February 17, 2015 Author Share Posted February 17, 2015 Reading that description of post landslip chaos I couldn't help but think of a badly laid faller bus system with them all bumping into each other outside the station. If you want to model the landslip in a simpler time then Bachmann have made the perfect set! Just need a 00 set of bloomers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightengine Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 A loco falling into a hole opened by a mine shaft. A sinkhole swallowing a house. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted February 17, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 17, 2015 A loco falling into a hole opened by a mine shaft. A sinkhole swallowing a house. Back to buses, a sinkhole trying to swallow a double decker bus as happened in Norwich some years ago 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightengine Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Kids playing knock down ginger between terraced houses. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scots region Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 Some say that putting a car on a locomotive is non prototypical, and that you can never have the freedom of a car journey with the comfort of a train... all we know is, this is scaring the H_ll out of the stig. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 Some say that putting a car on a locomotive is non prototypical, and that you can never have the freedom of a car journey with the comfort of a train... all we know is, this is scaring the H_ll out of the stig. There is only one way to tell if the Stig is scared...his white suit will turn brown. Hat, coat... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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