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First coming together of all 4 boards. All tested OK. Just a re-solder of a rail to a brass screw on board 4 in the BOCM road and all is ready for a spray over of track muck. Station area. Odd perspective here as platform 1 is a shade under 6 foot long. It looks about 3 foot! Long view from the fiddle yd end. And looking out from above the platform 3 bay line. Next job will be laying Peco code 100 rails on copper clad sleepers in 8 3 foot long cassettes i've made to hold stock in the fiddle yd. Cheers

A couple of videos showing my Dapol 08 trundling BDA and brake up and down the run round. Cheers

That's a shame. Your creations are thoroughly inspiring. Good luck with a 4mm efforts.

Great layout name.

Cheers Craig. I'm always positive with these things. I'm going for the under funded run down station vibe too... Lots of poor drain pipe leaks and soot stained peeling paint...

It is a shame as i rather fancied sitting back and watching a train trundle round...

Hi, Due to the forces of our pitilessly indifferent Mother Nature I couldn't prevent water ingress into the garage housing my roundy ambition called Ryedale Mill. When the rain blows in at a certain angle it comes in. No matter how many tubes of mastic and kilos of mortar i throw at it, I couldn't get through a winter without damage. So maximum salvage has occurred leading to the minimal loss of a few lengths of pse and a sheet of ply. It means i have to go portable and flexible so i can over winter and keep everything viable. This means my positive, exciting new project is a 13ft something by 2 feet wide terminus station and small yard called Drypool. It's on 4 simple straight boards with no frills and minimal curves. The terminus is based on a fantasy that a terminus was built on the east bank of the river Hull near to the Drypool lifting bridge and Witham area of East Hull in the Drypool ward. The terminus survived due to the connection provided by the New Holland ferry here rather than at a non-rail connected pier as was the reality. BR kept it open as they could maintain the Withernsea and Hornsea branches by having most trains terminate at Drypool and running a cross city shuttle on the H&B high level thus still closing the level crossing 'plagued' NER route. Well it's a fantasy based on the country having a sensible transport policy and politicians with a vision beyond the next suffrage session.... Yes.... I know.... Pure fantasy..... Well the track is laid. The 5 turnouts were built as B6 in situ with the catch point the only survivor from Ryedale Mill in tact. All other track materials were reused in the traditional railway fashion. The images below show the track plan well. There's a single lead approach to the 3 platform terminus. There is also a siding to a BOCM bay for vanwides to sit at. This siding has station limits access to allow the run round. There is also a (single ended depiction of) run round loop/yard for local trip freight up a short branch to riverside based industry in the Lime Steet area (oil, coal, steel etc...). It's really a way for me to shuttle my DMU's around.. And a hand sketched plan.. Cheers

A go slow in one direction only tends to be a physical deficiency in my experience - usually related to pick up issues or gearing. If the controller is tripping then its likely you have a big strain leading to a big draw on amps. If i'd forked out that kind of money for something built by a manufacturer with the usual consumer protections i'd contact the seller and request they act. The only practical approach otherwise is step by step exam through the motion and current chains to id the issue. Good luck.

Those cab lights are a lovely yellow tone just like the old rubbish watt bulbs on the real thing....

IIRC the curved part nearest the camera is to the bottom and the flat area furthest away should sit under the buffer just to the left of the nearside buffer. I might be wrong, it's been about 30 odd years since I coupled a BG to a loco (a 33 on a newspaper train out of Waterloo if memory serves....)... Cheers

Are you aware of John Turner's Flickr collection? He has an excellent album of images of the area during the period. Oh, and based on your stock list - surely you need a few DMU's? Cheers

Tut tut... The things the thrill of the farm can do to a boy......

Wow! Genuine good wishes with this project. I admire your ambition! Just a few thoughts immediately spring to mind. Are you building your own pointwork to fit in with the plan? I assume you're modelling the pre-electrification layout with lots of double slips etc...? Have you seen New Street in P4 - it used to have its own site and was being built by Jim Smith-Wright? It's very inspiring. The boards will be very wide - you'll need to plan ease of access very carefully! As an example a 4mm scale model of Waterloo Station including throat would need an area larger than a tennis court.... Really good luck with this - you have an awesome level of ambition! Cheers

Ooo interesting. Looks good so far. These beauties always boogied their way over Goole swing-bridge when i drove em. I'm sure i heard the customers singing 'Abide With Me' once....

I've considered working scissors but the effort required would never meet the reward in my mind..... but we're all different. I only do one car and once coupled there's no gap: The exhaust stacks help to hide most of it anyway.

I use folded thin black card on my DMU's. It's really easy to do.

'Our' adoration of the private car and utter reliance on it has caused huge issues. We are completely disconnected from our local environment sat in a car for a journey where the priority is the speed and convenience of the journey rather than the wonderful natural beauty of the places we're passing through. It stops us caring where and what damage is being done. My rant done... Apologies.

You've made a good job of that. It really looks the part. By the time you've done all the fettling and scratch building you could've had one of DJP's superb versions built!

A rather 'English' phrase would be "oh bu@@er"! My outside garage where Ryedale Mill sits has sprung a water leak. I think it's coming in through a SE facing wall where a fracture seems to have developed. Some other bits show signs of concrete cancer from the reinforcing rods. The water looks like it runs down a wall and lies on the floor to evaporate. Annoyingly it hits a bolt on the way down which causes spray onto the boards. I'm not sure what to do at the mo. Winter is not far off and issues will get worse no doubt. Not sure why now but i have been busy bashing out concrete footings left from an old adjacent structure. This may have caused some disturbance. In the short term i need to find where the water egress is and patch up if poss then look at any damage done. The whole building sits on a concrete slab which is on top of heavy clay. I'm only a few hundred metres from the Humber too and the heavy rain with long, hot dry periods we have had lately may have caused some movement? Hey ho - i'll remain positive and rescue or reconfigure, either way rail services will run again and kits are ready to be stuck together. Cheers

There is an inner ridge on the etch i believe that sits within the opening. The frame will have to fit inside this.

Yep, as here. I would offer up and then use fine files and small sanding blocks (400 grit) to remove the original frame with constant checking for a fit. I always work against an image too. Good luck with it - pleased they are what you wanted. Cheers

An Easybuild one will be a straightforward build and you can detail it to your specs.. Quality kits too.

Although they're so far down my wants list I will probably never get one; I hope these will be really good, reliable models. I think they might be as big a boost to 7mm converts as the Dapol 08 and that GWR steam loco thingy....

Those 40's are very impressive. The green one is really nice.

I had to refer to images and mark out on the base to locate the pivots correctly. I do seem to recall the instructions mentioned some measurement. There's not a lot of wriggle room between the hang of the pipe on the beams and the trussing. The kit is a nice one and a good challenge. The finished model will always carry presence. Cheers