coachmann Posted March 1, 2016 Author Share Posted March 1, 2016 Hi coach Just a reminder that the Ellesmere layout is at Rainhill Show this coming weekend t?hought I would wander over on Saturday was impressed with what I saw on your thread earlier. Are you intending to go over the weekend I haven't been to a railway exhibition in years. Ellesmere is a fine layout and it's builder has been very helpful to me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruffnut Thorston Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 I hid away upstairs this afternoon to enjoy that old film of the LLanfyllin branch. I always enjoyed riding those Welsh branch lines as they twisted into the mountains. My one regret is never to have taken the time to travel from Oswestry via Three Cocks Junction to Brecon - I could so easily have done it. dh How about the Tanat Valley Railway to Llangynog? A wierd thing happened to me a whike ago.... I was looking at a map, and spotted Llangynog, not so far away from Oswestry. It rang a bell....sounding a lot like Llaniog, the station featured in Ivor The Engine! The valley looked like a likely route for a line to the coast, via Dolgelly, except for the mountains that is.... So I drew up a plan for a line from near Oswestry to Llangynog, as part of a failed scheme to get to the coast, scuppered by lack of finance to conquer the mountains! There were a few places that could provide traffic, including Llanrhaeadr-Ym-Mochnant, with the torist attraction of Pistyll Rhaeadr, a waterfall that is one of the wonders of Wales. There were also quarries at Llanyblodwel. A while after doing the plan, I found out that there was indeed a railway up the valley of the Afon Tanat....The Tanat Valley Light Railway! So much for fact being stranger than fiction! https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Tanat_Valley_Rly.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanat_Valley_Light_Railway The trackbed is visible from Llangynog, where a Caravan Site is on the station site, on the Google Maps photos...it gets more difficult to follow after a lake on the trackbed though! A lot of the trackbed seems to have been made into access roads for agriculture... Until, with diligence, you end up with the rails at Llanyblodwell! Closed to Passengers in 1951. Goods traffic to Llanrhaeadr-Ym-Mochnant continued until 1960.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gerbil-Fritters Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 I haven't been to a railway exhibition in years. The last time Larry attended a show it wasn't pretty.... Andy York is visible at 0.14, other webbers may be there too Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Harvey Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 The last time Larry attended a show it wasn't pretty.... Andy York is visible at 0.14, other webbers may be there too That was before decimalization I don't doubt for Larry. Andy way preparing for his Electricity Company advert Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruffnut Thorston Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 I have found this extract from OS MAP Shropshire Sheet X11.14 Oswestry 25 inches to 1 mile rev 1924 pub 1926 .... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted March 1, 2016 Author Share Posted March 1, 2016 Thanks Sarahagain. Photos are generally selective and depict Oswestry as a compact station and that is what I hope to capture on 4mm scale. The building that survives to this day will be the focal point across the tracks with Welshpool on the left. The curve at the Whitchurch end will have to be reversed due to space. Code 100 will not feature in the station after all although it will be everywhere else. The C+L hi-sleeper bullhead track arrived today. The fact that the railhead perfectly matches the height of Peco Code 75 points did it for me in the end to save a lot of faffing about.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JZ Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 Can I just add. With the Hornby model, the bogie wheels have too wide a tread, this really shows on the 'face' of the engine. Someday I will get around to replacing mine with Gibson's. Other than that, there is little to choose between them. Maybe the Hornby has the edge on hauling power, I have some gradients on my layout. But on the level and for your use, that wouldn't be a worry. Minor differences in density of lining, both use red and cream, but nothing that judicious weathering wouldn't hide. I'm quite happy to run them together double heading. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobM Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 Hi Bob. For Oswestry General, read Windermere as that is what the track plan is for. It is a wagon turntable and goods platform / shed. Not sure of the relevance here but Windermere was gravity shunted for both passenger and freight by backing up the branch, holding the train on the brakes, running the loco off and then allowing gravity to do the rest. Hence why there is no obvious run-round or station pilot facilities; there was neither. Hello Jason... As a follow up question.....are you aware if this wagon turntable was set, as it looks to be from the plan here, between two platforms...? Cheers Bob Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted March 7, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 7, 2016 A couple of BE coaches, the maroon one for a pal........ WEB GWR third maroon 2.jpg This one is for Oswestry, resprayed with a more prototypical carmine red..... WEB GWR compo 2.jpg These look very nice. How the planning for the new layout coming along? Baz Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted March 7, 2016 Author Share Posted March 7, 2016 These look very nice. How the planning for the new layout coming along? Baz Back working flat out on coaches at the Barry. Baseboard construction for Oswestry will commence in April. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gerbil-Fritters Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 do you have a track plan yet? for those of us who can't wait for April? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruffnut Thorston Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 Early 1950s! So, Crimson and Cream corridor coaches, with the odd one or two still in the last GWR livery....Crimson non-corridor stock....also with the odd GW livery survivor. Nice LNWR style lined black halls with red name and numberplates, those that are not still in GWR livery, perhaps with "BRITISH RAILWAYS" in GWR style lettering.... It could mean the odd Ivatt 2-6-0 or 2-6-2T in LMS lined black? Some wagons still in pre-BR liveries, esprcially the "small letterig over the number" liveries.... Plenty of wooden bodied ex PO wagons in rather tatty liveries, with "P" prefix numbers on crudely applied black patches, and white diagonals for the door ends of so-fitted mineral wagons.... Possibly one of the most varied periods, I think so anyway! Crimson & Cream....one of the nicest coach liveries. Since revived in Scotland! Not very many Diesel Locos....perhaps a recently built 0-6-0 Diesel Elaectric Shunter (08) or earlier LMS/ GWR types.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
edcayton Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 ...and a blue "King" and a green "Castle" and a lined black "Star"? or were they always green? Ed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted March 8, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 8, 2016 ...and a blue "King" and a green "Castle" and a lined black "Star"? or were they always green? Ed I believe the latter were basically green Ed - but latterly on most of them the colour was obscured by filth judging by all the pictures I have seen (the only exception being appearances on/just after railtours). At least one 'Saint' made it into fully lined out BR black but again most latterday pictures show them to be distinctly grubby. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 Almost April, Larry should be back soon. I hope. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 On the 1st I presume Andy! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 On the 1st I presume Andy! Hope so Peter. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gismorail Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 Yes soon be time to come out of habination though to be fair it's still a bit cold up here in NWales got snow on the hills today Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gerbil-Fritters Posted May 2, 2016 Share Posted May 2, 2016 Yes soon be time to come out of habination though to be fair it's still a bit cold up here in NWales got snow on the hills today Is it still too cold in the shed? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Rowsley17D Posted May 6, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 6, 2016 We have had a couple of warm days now. Has anybody seen Larry? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 He's active on RMWeb just not actively posting. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 Just had a natter with Larry, he's fine but very busy at the moment, but does still pop in from time to time for a quick look at things. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Alder Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 He is posting over on MU for the mo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted May 6, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 6, 2016 Just had a natter with Larry, he's fine but very busy at the moment, but does still pop in from time to time for a quick look at things. Definitely keeping ok - I recently had a useful 'commercial' conversation with him Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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