John R Smith Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 The track plan (or at least the overall feel of the station) is also quite a lot like Callington in PD&SWJR days. John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium DLT Posted April 5, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 5, 2016 A track plan, a track plan, my kingdom for a track plan... So, it's only taken me the best part of a year, but I think I've finally come up with a track plan for EW that I actually like, and that hopefully won't drive me round the bend having to hand lay all the track and points for: image.jpeg The railway enters from the right hand end, hidden behind some large trees to pass across an ungated level crossing (minor road) and past the tramway cottage that now serves as the station masters residence. The line then splits to form the run round loop, with the left hand line giving access to the small goods yard (goods shed and coal staithes plus coal merchants office). The right hand side of the loop gives access via a kickback siding to the engine shed - wood and corrugated iron I think would be suitable here - before both lines rejoin at the beginning of the platform. A nice timber overall roof for the platform also doubles as a carriage shed and serves to give the passengers some protection from the wilds of the Sudrian landscape! Still trying to work out board sizes, probably no deeper than 2', and each board maybe 3'-3'6" in length - the room the layout will live in is a tad over 9' long, so ideally it's got to fit in that space. Very nice Neil, definite shades of Wantage. Just make sure that the platform/station line is long enough to store the coaches and still allow a loco to use the runround. Cheers, Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NeilHB Posted April 5, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 5, 2016 The track plan (or at least the overall feel of the station) is also quite a lot like Callington in PD&SWJR days. John Thanks John - I can see what you mean with the sweep of the station and overall roof. Hopefully it will end up like that when I've built it. Very nice Neil, definite shades of Wantage. Just make sure that the platform/station line is long enough to store the coaches and still allow a loco to use the runround. Cheers, Dave. Thanks Dave. Definitely food for thought there - for the majority of the time period that EW is set a pair of 4-wheel tramcars will suffice for the passengers, so hopefully there won't be too much issue with length of platform and space for running round. I need to build the tramcars and finish off the coffee pot then I can work out length of headshunt/ run round loop etc. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Young Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Very nice plan Neil, not dissimilar to the one I'm using. Might help work out sizes etc. Cheers, Andrew Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NeilHB Posted May 3, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 3, 2016 Another month and not much progress, however a day off work today saw construction begin on one of a pair of tramcars intended for EW. The resin bodied tramcar seen in previous photos has been demoted to housing the stationmasters chickens at Elsbridge - a fate I'd envisioned for it to explain it not running in later time periods...it just got there sooner rather than later. The new pair represent those built when the line converted to steam power, and are being built from a coupe of Testors/Hawks San Francisco cable car kits as originally written about by Giles Barnabe in the July 1993 issue of Scale Model Trains. His example uses the enclosed portions of the body from two kits to create a seven windowed example. I'm using the parts from three kits to create a pair of 6 windowed examples. I may finish the second one as a brake coach, not sure yet. The kits are long out of production but turn up from time to time on eBay (which was where I snagged my examples from). As can be seen its still quite small, just not as dainty as the resin ex horse tram. Running on Slaters spoked lowmac wheels; I still need to add a further partition to divide the interior into 1st and 3rd classes, plus seating etc. As can be seen, the original sides are quite low so have been raised with a 4mm strip of 40thou plasticard, with the floor being cut from more of the same. Ends are from 20thou (I think) - if I think about it properly I'll probably add another layer from 10thou inside with a rebate for the glazing. Chassis is from evergreen strip - 60thou x 188thou. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hartleymartin Posted May 4, 2016 Share Posted May 4, 2016 Are those sides from the San Francisco trolley kit? I should hunt down a few more of them. Great for carriage parts. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NeilHB Posted May 4, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 4, 2016 Martin, indeed they are. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NeilHB Posted May 15, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 15, 2016 Little bit more progress on coaching stock: First up the Knapford and Elsbridge tramcar - I've stripped off the existing beading and replaced with micro strip in an attempt to change the appearance slightly (that and covering up the join between the two sections as well). Next up is the Wisbech & Upwell tramcar - after many months of no progress I've managed to get the other solebar on and the step ends. Temporarily balanced on the wheels it makes a nice sight with No.7 and the luggage van! Hopefully this will be the impetus to get this project finished... 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NeilHB Posted July 3, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 3, 2016 (edited) Over a month and not much progress to report. Crazy couple of weeks at weeks (and still more craziness to come...) combined with a bad spell with IBS etc. meant I've not had much energy to do anything other than work and sleep. I managed to do a bit this afternoon, mainly moving a couple of projects slightly closer to completion: The ex LSWR 1872 brake has moved on slightly, with new buffers (the others were way too long and meant I couldn't couple it to anything else - oops!) and droplight frames in the passenger compartment. Door handles also added courtesy of some very nicely machined examples from the 7mmNGA. This side has the window frame in the dropped position, for a bit of variety, plus the open door in the guards/luggage compartment. I think a couple of milk churns and crates would look nice in the doorway here. The other side of the ex LSWR 1872 brake. Livery wise some sort of mucky brown colour I think would be appropriate. The other project moved on slightly was the brake 3rd built around a Peco Toad chassis and roof. I finally got round to adding the other end of the coach, plus buffers etc.! It's amazing how small the LSWR Brake is next to the Brake 3rd and the Terrier; however standing it next to the W&U luggage van and W&U tramcar, it's not much bigger: Hopefully it won't be over another month before I make more progress. Edited July 3, 2016 by NeilHB 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium DLT Posted July 4, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 4, 2016 Great stuff Neil, and I love that brakevan. Cheers, Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NeilHB Posted July 4, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 4, 2016 Great stuff Neil, and I love that brakevan. Cheers, Dave. Thanks Dave, must admit I have a bit of a soft spot for oddities like the brakevan! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium DLT Posted July 4, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 4, 2016 Thanks Dave, must admit I have a bit of a soft spot for oddities like the brakevan! Me too, I've got a rather disproportionate number of them. Three goods and three passenger brakes at the last count, and another one on the "to do" list.... Cheers, Dave. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NeilHB Posted July 5, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 5, 2016 Me too, I've got a rather disproportionate number of them. Three goods and three passenger brakes at the last count, and another one on the "to do" list.... Cheers, Dave. You can never have too many brake vans Dave! I think I need to add some more to the Elsbridge Wharf fleet as I've only got 5... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NeilHB Posted July 16, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 16, 2016 (edited) Tree-mendous success - I made a tree! Copper wire and raffia tape and lots of patience. Still not finished with the bark yet as I was loosing the will to live by this point. It's not too bad for a first attempt...I've decided it's a young Sudrian Ash (as they don't exist so no-one can tell me it doesn't look right) and it scales out at approx 20-25' high. Progress on the ex-LSWR van - it's gained a floor and partitions between the guards, small goods and passenger compartments. Couple of crates and some milk churns placed in there to see what it looks like. Knapford & Elsbridge tramway coach - it's finally on its wheels. I've also cut down the end profiles by quite a bit as I realised it looked a little odd - now has more of a flatter roof profile and looks better for it. The roof came from a piece of roofing section that is sold by the Modelling Goods stand of the 7mmNGA - finally found a use for it. What (in my head anyway) looks like a typical post-1912 Elsbridge branch line train - ex Knapford & Elsbridge stock and a Wellsworth & Suddery loco... Edited July 16, 2016 by NeilHB 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NeilHB Posted July 17, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 17, 2016 Don't fall off your chairs in shock - I've made more progress on the tramway coach! Bar steps the coach is now pretty much complete, I just need to figure out a way to make the steps so that they don't end looking massively oversized like they did on the previous version. Apologies for yet another shot of the A1 but I do have to say I think she is probably my favourite loco out of all mine - I have a bit of soft spot for them thanks to the Rev. Awdry and 'Stepney'...No.3 waits to depart from EW with a short passenger train - Driver Jones is doing a spot of oiling round and checking over before departure... 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hartleymartin Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 I'm loving what you have done with that coach! Now where did I put those San Francisco Streetcar kits? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dava Posted July 18, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 18, 2016 I think you left them 'down under' as we say in the UK. Not seen any here for many years. Dava Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hartleymartin Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 For a while they were quite cheap on eBay. For some reason, they are erroneously marketed as being 1:24 scale, but they are in fact 1:48. The newer ones are made in a pale white styrene instead of the green of the older maker. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NeilHB Posted July 19, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 19, 2016 It's a case of knowing where to find them on eBay - I think I struck lucky when I got mine with one complete kit and then a second lot with two part kits - voila enough for two tramcars! If anyone has a couple more lots going begging I'll gladly take them off their hands Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NeilHB Posted July 31, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 31, 2016 (edited) Hoping that the collective power of RMWeb can help me out once again please! I'm after some drawings of the Beyer Peacock 2-4-0T locomotives as used on the Isle of Wight Railway (Ryde, Sandown, Shanklin etc.) - and also the original Oldbury 1864 rolling stock that were purchased for when the railway opened. I have the Oakwood Press 'Isle of Wight Railway' by R.J. Maycock & R.Silsbury, which has some drawings in of the coaches, but not to any discernible scale...! Ideally I'd like to model a couple of the BP 2-4-0T's and some of the Oldbury coaches, as I think they would be ideal for ex Wellsworth & Suddery stock that could be seen on Elsbridge Wharf in one of its later time periods. If anyone knows where I can obtain some scale drawings please (preferably 7mm scale, but will take whatever is available) that would be very much appreciated! Edited July 31, 2016 by NeilHB Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brack Posted July 31, 2016 Share Posted July 31, 2016 Does this help? http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/53719-2-4-0-isle-of-wight-beyer-peacock-tank-loco-from-the-1870s/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NeilHB Posted July 31, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 31, 2016 Thanks Brack, much appreciated. I have wheel diameter so shouldn't be too difficult to scale from. This afternoon's project has actually been quite a quick one for once...a couple of hours work and it's fairly near completion, bar buffers (currently residing on the Knapfogrd & Elsbridge tramcar...) and final detailing. I've had a spare Slater's MR 9ft wagon chassis knocking around since last years Derby show. It was going to end up as an open wagon, but it never seemed to quite make it to the front of the queue. Whilst looking for a project to do this afternoon while waiting for paint to dry, I spotted it lurking at the back of the workbench. A quick doodle later... ...resulted in an Isle of Wight Railway inspired luggage van for the Wellsworth & Suddery Railway. The design evolved a bit as I went along. I'm still undecided about adding a lower line of beading as per the drawing, will have to see how it looks tomorrow. Here it is next to the WSR Brake Third...now covered with a lovely coat of white primer! Livery wise I think it might be brown and white, or overall brown, but we shall see. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NeilHB Posted August 2, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted August 2, 2016 Progress - it has footboards and buffers! Well footboards on one side only anyway, but it's a start. Also added rain strips on the roof. I'm still undecided if it should have lamps on the roof, and thus require steps on one end...suggestions please RMWeb! 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dava Posted August 2, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 2, 2016 A luggage van would not need lamps or steps, similar to the MR corpse van, another charming vehicle. Dava Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NeilHB Posted August 3, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted August 3, 2016 Thanks Dave - no lamps or steps it is then! Must look up the MR Corpse Van, sounds delightful...! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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