MossdaleNGauge

On 12/04/2024 at 06:56, Modelrailwayquest said:

Loved your layout - I've included it in my show highlights video!

Thanks for including Mossdale Road. My “fifteen minutes of fame” was very quickly squashed, no idea who David Campbell is that was mentioned in the program and the video, a minor typo by AIMREC.

Had a great time this weekend displaying Mossdale Road for the first time. The layout and trains performed well, with Saturday being a DC day and Sunday DCC, lots of friendly chats about the trains and scenery. A good exhibition although I didn’t get to see all of it.

Dave

1 hour ago, Pete Haitch said:

I rang SMS a few months ago and was told that the delay was due to the process of acquiring the new post Brexit UK equivalent to the  EU CE certification.

Pete.

One way to get around this is not to sell completed items but as kits for home assembly. May be get all the surface mount components fitted at the factory, leaving the end user to solder all the standard size pieces.

The new office building by the Otford tracks that you have modelled superbly was on TV this week. In the ITV drama about the Post Office scandal it was used as the building for Futijsu’s head office. Other scenes were also in Kent, the village hall was at Pratts Bottom, and is used for an annual model railway show, Tatsfield for the Post Office/cafe and St Mary Cray High St with its large brick viaduct

Dave

This is my attempt at the Dornoch station kit in N gauge, no layout for it yet, just a 27 and some mk1’s so far.

Just watched the latest episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, it’s about safety on American railways and their level crossings. It should appear on YouTube soon, or on catch up on VirginMedia. On the list of priorities for running their railways, safety is in fourth place. The show ends with a very well made Thomas style remake featuring a huge crash with HO gauge trains.

The unit is probably supplied with the links not attached as that is the safest way, the links can then be fitted as required. Yours looks secondhand as it has signal number, so I suspect the technician removed the links when it was decommissioned and kept the links as spares.

It does look good on your wall, I could do with a half size one outside my room’s door.

Dave.

The returns are commoned on terminals 2, 4 & 6, any of these can be used. The lamp selection terminals are 1 & 5 depending on which aspect is required.

It was good to see it tackling the climb to the North Downs in the sun, but just a little bit too dark on its return.

http://The Armistice Kentish Belle London Victoria - Sheerness at Knockholt and St Mary Cray Junction https://youtu.be/HUgZ6HQckU4

My first attempt at a Pop Up Design model, it’s Dornoch Station in N gauge.

Dave

19 hours ago, The Stationmaster said:

 

PS What I took from the trails to be Eddie Izzard's layout looked remarkably like one we have seen in the past in another tv series being constructed 'for a customer'.  It's going to be interesting to hear all about that one

Eddie's layout is located here https://www.bexhillmuseum.org.uk/our-patron-eddie-izzard/eddie-izzards-wwii-model-railway/

Try this site for the clips to put together to make a complete message, and there are some very unusual ones there for ScotRail to play

https://scotrail.fishcreek.dev/?s=09

16 hours ago, Wickham Green too said:

... but still a darned sight more comfortable than the 378s or 'City Beam-me-up' 707s that have appeared in more recent years.

More so, if you can find an empty seat in the old first class part of a 465/9

Nothing that new around here, the 465 Networkers are now 31 years old with no replacement planned. Photo from here https://www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2022/10/10/southeastern-networker-trains-reach-30-years-old-this-week2/

On 03/03/2019 at 15:47, Mike Storey said:

 

Interesting, thanks, but on the 08's, at a wheelbase of 10ft 6" (so only 10" longer than the Sentinel) do we know whether the 08 left the depot precincts at Lillie Bridge or Neasden, in order to test track circuits? I am not aware of track circuit issues with 08/09 classes on BR (but stand to be corrected) but certainly of much longer wheelbase units. I was led to believe that the issue for lack of detection was one of axleweight more than wheelbase?

 

 

Sorry, new to this thread.

Anything with a short wheelbase would fail to be detected by the track circuit whenever it went over the original style of delta track circuit which needed an isolated short length of section rail for its own purposes. Hope the picture explains this.

There are some examples from 1980 of train formations in Michael Palin’s trip to Kyle and back.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/great-railway-journeys--confessions-of-a-train-spotter/znc7cqt

Not my photo, but is has already appeared elsewhere.

If you go through the planning applications there are many drawings like this one for example

There’s no gaps in the conductor rails and no cables from trackside to the conductor rails, so I would guess they are signalling rooms.

3: I am probably better placed than most to answer this one. In about 2016 I was part of a group surveying the interface between the offices and the station in preparation for the offices of 55 Broadway being sold. Lots of walking around some very concealed and unused corners of the building and saw more of it than I had ever seen before. In the basement of the offices is the boiler room and there was a disused fire escape from it that led on to the very eastern end of the westbound platform beyond the place where passengers can access. There was no other connection between the two, apart from some cables passing through a room.

Express Dairy had a depot in Mottingham Road which still exists as a motorbike shop.

https://expressdairytales.uk/ed-depots-e-m

I have a book about Eltham, I used to live there, but there is no mention of anything milk related except for one photo.

I returned from Catania, Sicily a couple of months ago, the direct train to Rome was delayed by ninety minutes due to a track inspection following an earlier earthquake. This meant the train missed the ferry at Messina so we arrived in Rome three hours late, making it a thirteen hour journey. There was no on train catering as we were warned but we had stocked up in preparation for this.

He should put it on EBay as a Private listing, no one will see it without a link to it

It’s the road leading to Stonebridge Park Depot, just to the left of the crash is a sign saying no parking. Will make an interesting episode of Train Truckers and how they rescue the train.