Nick C

Hi Paul - I know Chris well, he only lives a few miles from me, and we've been working together on plans and ideas for the coaching stock (though Chris' ones are a lot more advanced than mine at the moment!)

Hi All,

After lurking on here for quite a while, I thought it was about time I started a thread on my new layout - Cowes, on the Isle of Wight.

Having been looking for a suitable station that would fit in the limited space I have without needing too much compression, and having been interested in the Island railways for a long time, Cowes easily fit the bill - and it has another personal connection as I used to live in the town...

So far, I've built the main station baseboards, and am now starting on the trackwork - using SMP OO flexitrack and copperclad points. - photos to follow soon!

Locos will be a mixture of Kernow and kitbuilt O2s, with an E1 or two and a couple of Dapol terriers making the odd appearance (period is fairly flexible as the station didn't change much, but predominately mid 50's, so the terriers will only appear when I'm having an "earlier period" running session...). Stock will be a mix of kit and scratch built - I'm trying to draw up CADs of the SECR stock with a view to getting a 'scratch-aid' style kit etched at some point.

I've got plenty of photos of the station itself, but very little information on the area around it - can anyone help? Especially the buildings to the immediate south of the station (Cross Street and the Fountain Coaches yard) and along Terminus Road (particularly the pub and Ganges coal yard)

Cheers!

Nick

Hi

 

This is a picture of some of my EM gauge SECR and LBSCR 4mm coaches. I am miles away from getting to Chris's excellent layout.

They look excellent! How did you do them?

Black with Sunshine lettering works well on the late John Lewis' layout 'Orestone Quay' (http://www.burgesshillmrc.org.uk/orestone-quay), which has a similar theme and period...

Good to see Orchard Road at Exeter this weekend - being stood between this and Yard Shunter all weekend I am now convinced of DCC for my own layout (when I get round to building it instead of playing with other people's...)

Nick C

Hi Ray,

Good to meet you and Darren today and see Yard Shunter in the flesh - very good it looks too! I was impressed with the iPod control system as well.

Nick C

(The bearded one who was helping out with Bembridge next door...)

Nick

 

You are welcome. Glad you enjoyed it.

 

Ian

Thanks. I've now spent most of this evening looking at various pc - dcc interfaces, even though I haven't built the layout to go with it yet!

Did you get the new circuit breaker to fit in your control panel in the end? You were worried about the size when I spoke to you yesterday morning...

30 minute teardown sounds bliss, I was helping with the gauge three layout Blackgang, and that took nearly two hours before the last bits were in the trailers.

Good to see this (and have a bit of a play) today. I'm seriously impressed by your control system!

I've just been given one of the new 33/1's, and it has the various under-buffer-beam pipes pre-fitted. They don't appear to want to come of easily, so does anyone know if they are glued in, or if they are removable to fit the T/L couplings?

Cheers,

Nick