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  1. Andy Y

    Onwards and Upwards

    Andy Y commented on Andy C's blog entry in New Hey

    It's a layout I'd love to get to grips with from a photography perspective Andy. The tail end of an exhibition day isn't the best time for anyone to have to tolerate lights, cables, cameras plonked in inappropriate spots and waving backcloths around. If you ever fancy having a bespoke set of shots done covering all stock and angles I'd be more than happy to oblige. It would give chance to do some really tasty shots where shots are stacked to get greater depth of field.
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    It sounds like there's been massive strides in moving the club forward over the last couple of months Graham, looking forward to seeing developments in due course. It's good to hear when there's clubs dying out through lack of interest around the country that some can see the ways to move forward, club-wise it's very strong around your neck of the woods; must be something in the water.
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    I'm frequently asked about how the concrete effect was achieved on keyhaven and also crops up periodically in reference to "How do I do inlaid track work?" questions. The inset track on Keyhaven Quay was achieved by use of cork floor tiles abutted to the side of the sleepers, these basic floor tiles, obtained from a DIY chain, near enough match the rail height of Peco Code 75 track. The inset section between the rails uses Fabfoam obtained from a craft shop chain and cut into 14mm wide strips; the foam comes in A4 sheets at around 20p a sheet so a little goes a long way and can be easily laid into curved track of any reasonable radius and is secured to the sleepers with Copydex, fortuitously this also matches the height of the code 75 rails. The gap between the rail and the adjacent cork floor tile is filled with ready mixed flexible filler from a tube and smoothed over. Using a strip of plasticard on top of the sleeper ends will stop the filler subsiding into the gaps between the individual sleepers. The same filler is used to fill in any small indentations and cracks that are inherent in a natural cork product and smoothed off before being left to dry. A weakness in my approach was to not put anything over the sleeper ends which led to a slight rippling in the filler as it dried out, a strip of card or plasticard over the sleeper ends would stop that happening. Once the filler is dry a smoothing over with light abrasive paper gives an even finish, the drying process naturally taking the filler down to just below the rail head thus making cleaning relatively easy. The whole area is then sprayed with a suitable cheap stone coloured spray (Plastikote), concrete comes in a variety of shades but it's worth looking at the real thing before going wild, weathered concrete is probably a lot paler than anticipated when you pick up the spray can. Joints in the concrete are represented by carving lines into it with a craft knife and metal ruler, the lines are then drawn in with pencil. It's then down to you how you much you wish to weather the surface from that point.
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    Very interesting to see the architecture of the boards Chris and 'what lies beneath' the landscape. Excellent use of the forum features too.
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    Is that a tram hiding away in a bay platform?
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    Robin Park Arena & Sports Centre, Loire Drive, Wigan WN5 0UH Saturday 12th December 2009 - 10am until 5.30pm Sunday 13th December 2009 - 10am until 5pm Exhibitors: ALEXANDER BREWERY 'OO' 20 X 2 Ray Elwin from Warrington Model Railway Club. ALSTON 'N' 9.3X7 BR 1950's David Smith of Staffordshire ASHBOURNE (Park Rd) of HENMORE DALE 1920's 'Ong' 32X10.6 Trent Valley Group of the 7mm NG Assn BASSENTHWAITE LAKE B.R (L.M.R.) 'N' 1960's 11.6X3.3 Don Annison, South Lakeland Railway Modellers BATH GREEN PARK 'OO' 60X14 LMS/S&D/BR Taunton MRG BISHOP WEARBURN 'N' 24X3 ECML/Co DURHAM 1951/66 by John Spence of Melton Mowbray BURNTISLAND 1883 'P4' 26X8 NBR David Orr, East of Scotland 4mm Group CAMP 93 Parsons Lumber Co USA 'On30' 21X2 by Richard Turner of Hazlemere, Bucks CHEDDAR 'P4' 13.6X2 S&DJR 1920's Simon Challis of Somerset COWSBRIDGE GWR 'OO' 1940/50's 16X3 Juanita Harrington of Chesterfield EVENSTOW 'P4' 11.2X3 GWR (North Devon) 1920's Paul Iliff & Ian Harrison of Tiverton FELSEN DB German Mosel Valley 1960's 'HO' by John & Peter Smith of Birmingham FLINTCOMBE 'P4' 19.8 X 1.8 S&DJR Dorset 1930's by the 'East Dorset Gang of Four' HASSELL HARBOUR BRIDGE 'O' 41X15 East Coast 1930's Alsager Railway Association HAYESDEN 'Ong' 12X2 Snow in Kent 1938 Tony Mortlock of Tonbridge Kent HINTON PARVA 'OO' 32X11 BR 1955 High Wycombe & District MRS HORTON REGIS 'O' 50x4 LSWR 1895/1905 Epson & Ewell MRC HUBBERHOLME 'EM' 20X2.6 LNER/LMS in the Yorkshire Dales in 1938 by David Seymour of Skipton & District RS KATAMI MITTSU 'N' 12x2 Japanese Railways Winter Snow in 2000, Norman Raven of Wold Newton Yorkshire LITTLE CUSSING 'N' 24X2 BR 1950's Graham Smith of Leicestershire LNWR STEAM SHED 'OO' 12X8 LNWR 1919 Roger Stapleton of Washington, Tyne & Wear LONDON ROAD 'P4' 22x2 LNWR 1908 Jol Wilkinson of Suffolk LONG LINE 'N' 70 X 4 'N' GWR 1939 by Mark Henshaw of Cheshire. LOUGHBOROUGH (Midland) 'OO' 21X11 North Leicestershire Midland Main Line 2000 by the Ivanhoe MRS LYTTON (Canadian Pacific R.R) 'N' 24X2.6 Alastair Knox High Peak MOSTYN 'P4' 22X14 BR (North Wales) 1977 Barrowmore MRG NEWCASTLE by the WATER 'N' 24.9X4.3 BRM 1990's Alsager Railway Association OGDEN FOLD 'P4' 18.9X13.6 Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway by the South Hants MRC ORMSTON TOWN 'N' 16X8 GWR/LMS 1930's Bridgend RMG OVERLORD II 'OO' the South Coast June 1944 by Chris Mead from Warwickshire. ROWLAND'S CASTLE 'OO' 16.6X11.6 Southern Railway Wartime 1940's by Peter Goss of YORK SCHLOSS WOLFENTAL N' Bavarian Railway S.E. of Munich 1921. by Dr. Michael Watts SHEEP PASTURE 'P4' 16X2.6 Cromford & High Peak Railway by Robin Whittle & S4 Glevum Group SMRZOVKA 'TT' 16x3.6 Czech Republic 2006 Ian Lampkin & Dan Spalding of Surrey SODHAM HALL 'OO' 10X1 BR (WR) 1960's Roger Epps of West Yorkshire TAN-yr-ALLT & DWFFYR UCHAF 'OO9' 16X2 North Wales 1950's by Stan Williams of the Merseyside OO9 Society UPPER BENLLECH 'OO' 12.6X6.6 BR (ex LMS) 1964 by Bob Hawes of Warrington WELL CREEK BASIN 'O' 18X14 Wisbech & Upwell Tramway, Crawley MRS WHITLEY BAY DOCK 'OO' 20X3 BY Michael Thomas of Jarrow Tyne & Wear ZAUBERWALDBAHN 'Ong' 13x4 DR 750mm Gauge KLEINBAHN 1960's Norton Cross MRG Traders 247 DEVELOPMENTS A1 MODELS ALAN GIBSON KITS [New to Wigan in 2009] B.H.ENTERPRISES Bachmann EUROPE BILL HUDSON TRANSPORT BOOKS BOOK LAW PUBLICATIONS BRILLIANT BASEBOARDS BRITISH RAILWAY MODELLING BUZZ MODELS C&L FINESCALE EXHIBITIONS CASTLE TRAINS [New to Wigan in 2009] CHELTENHAM MODELS [New to Wigan in 2009] CHURCHWARD MODELS COMET MODELS CONTIKITS CUMBRIA RAILWAY Ass [New to Wigan in 2009] D&E VIDEOS DC KITS DIGITRAINS DEAN SIDINGS DIRTYDOWN.CO.UK [New to Wigan in 2009] EDWARDIAN SPLENDOUR EXACTOSCALE FLANGEWAY MODELS [New to Wigan in 2009] FLEETLINE FOOTPLATE MODELS [New to Wigan in 2009] GEM MODELS GOING LOCO GREEN SCENE HELMSMAN ELECTRONICS HOBBY HOLIDAYS JUDITH EDGE KITS LAYOUTS4U.NET LONDON ROAD MODELS M & B MODELS MAGNET INSURANCE SERVICES [New to Wigan in 2009] MODELEX N BRASS LOCOMOTIVES N GAUGE LINES NORTH EAST MODELS [New to Wigan in 2009] P + H MODELS P4 TRACK Co PARKSIDE DUNDAS MODELS PHOENIX PRECISION PAINTS ROGER CARPENTER PHOTOGRAPHS RURAL RAILWAYS SCREEN PRODUCTS LIMITED [New to Wigan in 2009] SHAWPLAN MODEL PRODUCTS [New to Wigan in 2009] SKYTREX Ltd TEN COMMANDMENTS TMS MODEL TODMORDEN MODEL SUPPLIES UNIT MODELS WIGAN FRM CLUB SALES YORK MODELMAKING & DISPLAY Co [New to Wigan in 2009] Demonstrators Rassbottom Brow Group EM/4mm George Nutter - 'N' Steve Hewitt - 4mm Semaphore Signals Ken Ball - Model Buildings in 4mm Howard Clarke - 7mm Ng Assn Geoff Kent - Modelling in Plastic Sheet Wirral Finescale Railway Modellers - 18.83 Track & Rolling Stock Peter Leyland - Model Buildings in 4mm & 7mm The 2SF Association John Holden - 4mm Rolling Stock Les Green - 4mm Rolling Stock Brian Pickersgill - 4mm Rolling Stock Tony Bates - Interlocking Model Signals Tony Wright - British Railway Modelling Wigan Finescale Railway Modellers Societies Bachmann DCC Roadshow 7mm Narrow Gauge Association Scalefour Society London & North Western Railway Society FFestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways 'N' Gauge Society Lynton & Barnstable Railway Trust Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Society The 2mm Scale Association The EM Gauge Society Stafford Railway Circle British Railway Modelling Sales Team Cumbria Railway Association
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    Wadebridge club will be holding their annual show on the 14th and 15th of November at Wadebridge School. The location means it's probably a bit far for folk in, say, York to visit on a day trip but those in SWAG land should be encouraged to pop along. Treneglos of this parish will be making a return trip to this show which they last attended in 2005! More details can be found here: Click!
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    Lovely presentation and ballasting James. Would you consinder removing your 'nipples' on the tie bars from the points?
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    I always enjoy any trip down to Hampshire or Dorset, the tinkle of yachts in harbours, the thrum of perpetual ferries, a chance to sample once more some of my favourite pubs; it lifts the spirits don't you know. I must be getting old when thoughts turn to "I could happily retire here, just there, that house with the balcony there", only another 20 years to save up for what I can't afford today! This time whilst mooching around I was somewhat surprised to find in a bookshop one of the rare New Popular Edition OS maps for The New Forest published just after the war. Seemingly this is the only map edition which shows the line down to Keyhaven from its junction at Shirley Holm on the Lymington branch. I trust you'll forgive it being a little battered, I have a big soft spot for these maps telling a story of years gone by in colour from hand crafted originals, none of this GPS, generated on a screen to be viewed on a 3" screen to tell you how to get where you want to be stuff of the 21st century. OS maps are still world-beating in my eyes, a constantly evolving record of Britain since Napoleon was at the end of telescope on the other side of La Manche. A rare find indeed and one that helps build a picture for the layout. Aside from the rail ferry loading point for transfering stock twixt Eastleigh works and the Isle of Wight it also shows the reason behind one of the branch's other traffic flows to the salt works. The proximity to the salt marshes of Keyhaven and Pennington Marshes supported a salt industry through the years apart from a short 300 year interlude between the 15th and 18th centuries. The salt works is now levelled as is the rail ferry site, the adjacent Keyhaven Marine Engineering company relocated to the Lymington with its well-heeled owners of yachts and Reliant Scimitars in the early 1970s. So, it's all gone now. Armed with a copy of a page from the Railway Magazine that I remember "seeing" years ago in 1971 I went to see what, if anything, still remained at Keyhaven. All that is now visible is the quayside wall, the River Avon's estuary continues to silt up, the end of the quay has been filled with spoil from the levelling of the site which has now become overgrown. It also forms the start of the coastal footpath that hugs the shoreline to Lymington. The ferry crossed to Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight starting through the deeper water channels out of Keyhaven. Deeper is a somewhat subjective term as even at high tide the channel is little more than 15' deep until the shelter of the end of Hurst Castle is passed. Thereafter it's only two miles across the Solent until gaining shelter once again on the far shore once passed Sconce Point. Very few images seem to exist of the rail ferry in operation, the service was infrequent anyway but reduced over the years; crossings were preferred in calmer winds anyway but sailings were often made overnight dependent on tides to try and keep clear of the high number of pleasure boaters on that stretch of water. I caught site of a postcard at a fair that incidentally included the ferry in the distance in a late '60s shot. The ferry unloaded at a similar facility just beyond the former Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport station passing under the town bridge. That line never did close in 1953, not in my world. Credits: New Popular Edition maps coutesy of http://www.npemap.org.uk/ under a Creative Commons Licence.
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    National Festival of Railway Modelling BRM show on the 17th/18th October 2009 East of England Showground (Just off the A1) Sat 10am - 5pm (Doors open at 09:30 for pre-booked ticket holders) Sun 10am - 4:30pm (Doors open at 09:30 for pre-booked ticket holders) Free Parking Free Showguide Free Shuttle bus from Peterborough Station Tickets Pre booked ?? 8.00 Adult ?? 3.50 Child (5-14) ??23.00 Family (2 adults + 3 children) On the Door ??10.00 Adult ?? 4.50 Child ??35.00 Family More info here http://www.warners-exhibitions.co.uk/railway-modelling/national/default.aspx
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    See http://www.lydcc.org.uk/exhibition2009.html The LYDCC MRG are holding their 3rd Annual Exhibition on Saturday 31st October and Sunday 1st November 2009, 1000 to 1700 at Alder Grange School, Calder Road, Rawtenstall, Lancashire, BB4 8HW Tickets: Adult ??5 Concession ??4 Children (under 16) ??3 Family (2+2) ??12 NEW for 2009 DCC Seminars (Saturday & Sunday) 1100 Introduction to DCC Andy Forty, DCC Supplies 1400 DCC Questions & Answers Layouts confirmed so far:- ADS Barras Blackmill Brockley Green S.E.4 Castell Road Dudley Road Ecclesford Junction Harrison Ford Hasselhof (f) Holden Junction Livsey Lane Mannin Middle Nodnol Pen-Y-Bont/Penyfford Peters Street The Wagon Works White Hill Cement Works Wrye Demonstrations Weathering RailwayModels4U Traders include:- DCC Supplies Modelfair DC Models Penketh Model Rail Centre Todmorden Model Supplies RailwayModels4u Unit Models
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    Our 73rd Annual Exhibition will be held at the New Century Halls, Corporation Street, Manchester. There will be two floors of exhibits and the Halls provide a comfortable environment for visitors, with most of the space carpeted. There are chairs for you to have a rest, food from light snacks to cooked meals, and drinks (including a fully licensed bar). Opening times: Saturday 3rd October 2009 - 10.00am to 6.00pm Sunday 4th October 2009 - 10.00am to 5.00pm Confirmed layouts for 2009 are: 7mm Harlyn Road LSW 1920s/BR 1950s Pempoul Reseau Breton 1950s 4mm Alkham BR (S) 1950s Anderstaff Yard BR current Blackmill BR current Crown St BR (M) 1960s Crumley & Little Wickhill Narrow gauge Gamston Bank BR (E) 1950s/1960s Knutsford East Junction LNER Newhey BR (M) 1960s Oldshaw BR (W) 1970s blue diesel Peffermill Yard BR (Sc) 1960s Pudley Lane GWR Wibdenshaw BR (NE) 1970s 3mm Lindhurst 1930s 2mm Bodmin GWR Stoney Lane Depot BR(S) 1990s Other Napier Valley Railroad American narrow gauge Cascade Yard US 0 gauge 3' narrow gauge Note: Calstock Cotehele and Megalo Horio have both withdrawn. Traders (click the links for their websites): 247 Developments All Components Bachmann Industries Europe Ltd. Bill Hudson Books Brassmasters C+L Finescale Comet Models Cheltenham Model Centre D.C. Kits & Models Eileen's Emporium Ffestiniog Railway Society Freestone Model Accessories The Gordon Coltas Trust - photograph sales Greenscene Judith Edge Kits Langley Miniature Models Parkside Dundas Pennine Models Phoenix Precision Paints Railway Modeller and Peco Products Rural Railways Shawplan Ten Commandments Videoscene and Train Crazy Wizard Models (Model Signal Engineering and 51L) Directions The Hall is at the junction of Corporation Street and Miller Street, next to the CIS tower. Access to the Exhibition is through the front entrance, facing Corporation Street. Corporation Street runs from Marks & Spencer to the side of Victoria Station. Note that the post code for New Century House does not give the correct location on Google Maps nor StreetMap. There is plenty of car parking in the nearby area. Take the train to Victoria Station only 3 minute walk from the Exhibition, to Piccadilly Station (15 minute walk), or to Deansgate Station (20 minute walk). Metrolink trams will be running throughout the Exhibition from Bury, Altrincham, Eccles/Salford Quays, Piccadilly Station and G-Mex - alight at Victoria Station (or Shudehill Interchange and then follow the tram lines to Corporation Street). Warning: the Metrolink lines in the City Centre are being re-laid and work is not due to finish until 2nd November. Although bus replacement services will operate between Piccadilly Station, Victoria Station and St Peter's Square, if the weather is good and you are feeling fit then it will be quicker to walk as it only takes 15-20 minutes.
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