Midland Railway Company

[Compound2632]

41 minutes ago, Tricky said:

Sorry, @Compound2632 you’re not allowed to play! 

 

Yes, No. 10282 is in my little list!

 

(Psst - the headstocks should be square-ended not slope ended.)

[Tricky]

Psst - they are! A trick of the camera angle.

[Tricky]

It's the spoked wheels that I love!

[Grahams]

8 hours ago, Tricky said:

Here goes another massive distraction! This is a 5” gauge wagon in the making. Cup of coffee for scale. Who can guess what it’s going to be? 

D305 No 10282. Good choice, one of my favourite wagons. 

Embedded link to Midland Railway Study Centre scan of DY6562 88-G5_53

Edited April 24 by Grahams

[phil_sutters]

On 19/04/2024 at 09:08, Peter Kazmierczak said:

Found this when having a spring clean yesterday - taken nearly 45 years ago.

Two good-looking locos. I wish my spring cleaning turned up such goodies.

[Peter Kazmierczak]

Does anyone know when the curve between Derby South Jn and Derby North Jn opened, please?

 

Gough, in his magnificent Midland Chronology, states it opened for passengers on 1st Oct 1846, but was it open earlier to freight? And what passenger traffic would've traversed that line at such an early date, totally avoiding Derby station?

Any ideas?

[jamie92208]

On 22/04/2024 at 08:57, Compound2632 said:

 

I may have some somewhere for the 7mm ones. I've built a few and will look. 

 

Jamie

[Compound2632]

35 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

I may have some somewhere for the 7mm ones. I've built a few and will look. 

 

Jonathan now has a full set of instructions for the 4mm ones, thanks to @mikeallerton posting them on my carriage-building thread.

[Tricky]

On 10/04/2024 at 13:30, Dave Hunt said:

My scratchbuilt S7 Princess of Wales class has full working inside motion but is driven by two motor bogies in the tender. Works fine. The late John Horton christened it The Fastest Tram in the West.

 

Dave 

Got any pics?

[Dave Hunt]

35 minutes ago, Tricky said:

Got any pics?

I’ll try to take some and report back .

 

Dave

[Tricky]

Still a work in progress but I couldn’t resist…

 

[jamie92208]

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@Tricky As requested I've managed to get some photos of 632 my single.   My late friend Tony Bond made it using a Jidenco kit that I bought on the secondhand stand at Warley, as a basis.   After mush discussion we went for tender drive and used the loco as extra pickups.   It works well like every loco Tony ever built.  choose files... I've taken a few photos today.

First off one of the complete model.

Then one of the interior of the loco showing the valve gear.   This was from a Shedmaster kit now Lurie Griffin.

The crank axle ha, I think got a dry joint and the wheels wobble a little but it runs well so I don't intend to take it apart.

Here is another view from underneath.

We both found that having the spring above the front bogie, bearing on the lower stretcher below the axle centres, helps with keeping it on track.

Finally  a shot of the underside of the tender.   This is packed with lead and weighs about 3 pounds.   

Let me know if you want any more shots of it.

 

Hope these help.

 

On my layout it tows the Inspection saloon with tw0 figures sitting on the verandah on the rear.

 

Jamie

 

Edited April 28 by jamie92208

[Dave Hunt]

On 27/04/2024 at 08:13, Tricky said:

Got any pics?

 

Your wish is my command. The model was built about 40 years ago to Finescale standards then rebuilt a few years later to S7. The wheels are Alan Harris castings that I machined.

Sorry about the fall plate being stuck up in mid air; I didn't notice until after I'd taken the pictures.

 

The tender really is a brute.

 

 

Some of the (mucky) gubbins including...

 

....... the inside motion.....

 

..... and the motor bogies.

 

A close-up of one of the bogies. Each one has a small Faulhaber motor with a series of spur gears and finishing with bevel gears giving about 50:1 reduction. There is no gearbox as such but the gears are built in to the bogie frame. There is about +/- 0.5mm sprung suspension. Pickup is the so-called American system with the loco picking up on one side and the tender chassis on the other. The tender body is insulated from the chassis. by a .020" plastic sheet between the two 

I really must clean the fluff and other rubbish off the model someday but it doesn't seem to affect the running.

 

Like Jamie's model, the tender is full of lead and weighs several pounds and the model will pull a house down although the gearing is a bit too high so its top speed is only about a scale 60 mph.

 

Dave

[Fair Oak Junction]

Beautiful spinner, but also I love the mogul in the background! 👌

[Tricky]

Fabulous, thanks @Dave Hunt

[Compound2632]

The Midland Railway Society has a stand at ExpoEM Spring, at Bracknell Leisure Centre next weekend, 11-12 May. There will be Society publications, including back-numbers of the Journal and Modelling the Midland, for sale and of course membership leaflets, with memberships being taken on-the-spot. There will be a display of 4 mm scale models of Midland wagons. (Though not actually EM...)