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That looks good Jamie, I note that 'we' have gone for a lateral operation rather than your previously favoured vertical option; so long as it fulfils its' need to be easy to operate and reliable. The things you get up whilst I am otherwise occupied!! Do you know I think I recognise the small turreted end board from somewhere..........................ha. Don't tell me you dovetailed the joint tongues?

After our epic of Friday and Saturday morning, we took time out to attend the Bolton O gauge show, and then returned to Gildersome church to take down the layout; starting at around three o'clock this was the view by four o'clock:-

We erected all of the base boards bar one today - Friday 24 Feb, some pics:- These pics show the boards going up, just over 45 mins with only three of us.

Rest in Peace Bernard, our recently departed friend and great modeller.

Last night (Tuesday 31st Jan) Jamie and I started to drop the base boards of the fiddle yard as we have finished the track laying. Tidy up is the name of the game for a while; also I finished fitting the point tiebars and we fitted a couple of point motors to ensure the throws were correct. Everything now looks scruffy, with bits and pieces hanging here and there, but a good clean up and paint job will cover the ' broken bottles, empty tins, discarded pizza boxes, scrap cars, beached ships and general waste'. Will post more pics when it starts to look a little more presentable. Supersonic

I like your layout. Do the electrics just run on standard 2 rail electrical pickup or doe they make use of your nicelt fitted conductor rail?

I uploaded these pics, after correctly orientating them, and they arrived sideways, with the big lad balancing on his elbow!!

Bill, if you had a go at building your own double slip the cost would not be so prohibitive - ask Jamie92208. We have made several 'wacky' pieces of pointwork for Lancaster Green Ayre, Jamie will be happy to point you in the correct direction- anything to keep costs reasonable! It is not difficult. Good luck looks a great idea.

these pics were taken at the club last evening (Firday 13th Jan 12) showing Jamies last frog being fabricated:-

Didn't you say we had to rebuild the points near the platform?

I have just completed the first fabrications of the 1913 pattern Horse Box:-

7 Jan 12. Good morning everyone. Jamie, I finished one and a half sidings last night, those to the Eagle Rock side. It is starting to look like we have more than enough track. I have Mike's xuron cutters in my toolbox - was a little late leaving. Tony was in full agreement with you about the redesign of the two tracks and point at the Earlsheaton end, "we" managed to blacken up his lovely soldering iron - but he has a special tinning product in a tiny container - so "we" were thwarted; he has taken his shim and I have the books. JP was very interested in the Midland loco books, commented how quiet it seemed to be!! So, the redesign AND the isolation pattern for the loop are now needed to crack on.

EERRRRR Jamie you could have shown a picture with all the wheels of the coaches on the track

Thank you for that L-C-H (probably Attacker, Scimitar or Sea Vixen - good from a retired crab eh?) . We laid more track in the fiddle yard last pm, Jamie completed another point, so, we just have a couple of points to go then joinup the dots, as it were. You may get an impression of the scale of the fiddle yard from the previous small video - the link is repeated here:-

Well, yes we laid about 15 feet of track and jamie finished the points. Happy New Year every one!!

sorry guys I could not sign into youtube as Supersonic so there i am prestallbuffet

here are a couple of earlier vids, including Jamies big Pennsy's this one was my first/last landing on the Ark watch f4 002. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgLhK7ZT3zc&feature=player_embedded

Here is the vid from last evenings train run down the centre of the, as yet, unfinished fiddle yard - we are getting there!!!! where ever it is. That was Tuesday 20th Dec 2011, that was. It is not yet exciting, but that was a leap of faith.

jamie, I will need some space on the next etch you produce; the columns on the footbridge now allow themselves to be produced in etch form and soldered up. I wonder also about producing the bannister spindles as an etch, there are many and I do not have the patience to carve matchsticks to shape. Thanks to all contributers for the enlightement on the chronology of the station buildings et-al. Tans

OK, sorry guys - just me showing off on Mr Casty - what he said in a nutshell is when a 'beam' is bent the inner face is under compression and the outer is in tension, therefore, somewhere internally there must be a point or axis which is neither under tesile nor compressive loading ie neutral, qed. Jamie, thank you for the photo's the columns are shown clearly - yes, they are square, with an element of fluting at the top which I did not see from the drawings. The signal at the platform end; had the signal box been moved away from there by the 30's then? Ohmisterporter; it is easy to work into a conversation - you just need a whiteboard, 5 coloured pens, an overhead projector and a pa system; does this help sir?

Dooh; yes, so it is, I remember cutting it for the bb joint, I think i am going to ask Ray to turn a column for the footbridge, this then will be a master to cast from - as in Johns previous productions; John has already offered to do the castings. So, I think things are starting to move along however slowly to start with. Castigliano, he was a mathematician and Physicist during the latter part of the Victorian age, his elastic beam theory sorta went like this:- If a material is homogeneous and behaves in a linear elastic manner we can derive a nonlinear second order differential equation that when solved through the double integration method can give a solution deflection as a function of x. We must assume dv / dx = 0 relative to the length of the beam in the x-axial direction. M = the internal moment in the beam E = the material's modulus of elasticity I = the beam's moment of inertia computed about the neutral axis v = deflection of beam; now does that make it any clearer?

Jamie the curved catenaries demonstrate Castigliano's neutral axis bending theory - and he knew what was what with the bending of beams etc. Tricky looking double slip at the platforms end - can't remember have we got it in? And, a lot of obvious point rodding. There are just a few coal wagons in the yard. Hope to be in Wed eve.

sorry should read "footbridge Drawing"

Jamie, could bring me the copy of the footbridge to the club - I am having a little trouble scaling from the computer screen. You might have warned me so that I could suck my gut in old boy!