phil_sutters

two birds - one stone - an N gauge terminus A multi-level continental layout - exhibition or home.

A return to Amberley

I can't remember if I had used this one in this thread before.

I used to look out for this one when I travelled regularly to Southampton in the 80s & 90s - Loopy Loo at Siemens Northam Depot

A return to Swanage - like the USA tank, I think this little shunter has moved on elsewhere.

Last one - the second Bluebell one wasn't that good - but across the mid-Sussex border at Amberley there is a bit of a long shot of the narrow gauge works.

The key character elements to make a crane of that type are the drums and gears. The chassis are usually pretty basic and sometimes with inside bearings, which avoids having to source the correct axle guards. The cabins can be plate steel, corrugated iron or wood. The ones I made were based on photos of those used on the SDJR's Highbridge Wharf. Langley and Skytrex both offer fairly simple platform-mounted cranes, which can be used as a basis and there are others - Mike's Models and Peco, I think. Langley do a resin vertical boiler, which I used on the hydraulic crane where the boiler is out on view, but the other two had scratch-built boilers hidden away inside the cabins. All the chains used came from a very fine scrap necklace. There are photos of my cranes in my album - http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/gallery/album/4186-the-highbridge-wharf-project/

How about an N or smaller exhibition layout - again not yours.

One of mine from the Bluebell this time -

I could really do with a 4mm version of this - a conversion of a saddle tank version of a 1861 2-4-0 Geo England tender loco. - to shunt my Highbridge Wharf style project! http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/gallery/image/74223-sdjr-2-4-0t/

Seems like good topic. I don't think I have that many to offer but there's this one and a couple more from the Bluebell which I'll upload later.

Many thanks for your research. Phil

If there is a particular period or date you need details of, I can check Dad's loco spotting log books. Apart from living on the Bristol & Exeter mainline, he often went down to Exeter and we had a holiday in Dawlish one summer. You can see the sort of details he recorded on these pages. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/gallery/album/4148-john-sutters-loco-logs-ref-bournemouth-services/

It just crossed my mind how impossible it will be to do a DIY repaint of some of the recent liveries, like the new SWR one with shaded stripes. Transfers mimicking the full-sized vinyls would be the only way I guess.

Now there's an idea for today's challenge - heritage and preservation workshops - including stock being worked on in the open - not just parked there. One by one of my grandsons this time

I just noticed that you were looking at tin sheds - this one was a subject of much debate in another thread - about which make and model it was. The telegraph pole is in the 'prototype for everything' class.

I am sure others can place this. It's from a negative with no indication of the date either. It continues the murk theme.

One-man operated version - the table is used mainly used as a sector plate.

You could try it at Alexandra Palace!

Thanks for your interest, Keith. I think that is probably the only set like that in Dad's photos. Bristol TM was the nearest big station when we lived in Somerset - in three different places, throughout most of the 50s, 60s & 70s, so Bath Road was the shed he saw most often.

Your link takes me up to the top of this page of the thread.

Inkpen were around in the 1980s (I think - or possibly earlier) They produced a range of ready-painted solid resin 1/72 British army vehicles. I believe that they were originally produced as identification training aids for the army. I had a whole set of the range at one time. When I looked today I only found these two MKs. You can see why I thought they were like your models, although I hadn't realised that yours were 1/152nd. (NB these are not in answer to the request for non-tracked vehicles, as they have never been used on a layout. They are from my military modelling phase, when I had no layout and did no railway modelling.)

Steam, between & oil-box era

Bridgwater S&D - one junction, one intermediate station, one halt and one terminus - oh and one cement works siding and a line to a wharf.