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Ian Can you stick me down for a couple please.......in for a penny etc etc etc Disgusting of Market Harborough

Anything further to report on this one....its a location with a lot of potential. Disgusting of Market Harborough

I just used either a couple of buildings or sloped the backscene back behind the 'proscenium arch' on Fried Egg Bridge. seemed to work for me....... Disgusting of Market Harborough

My take on parcels- a couple of platforms on the LBSCR side of Victoria. Still unfinished (Surprise surprise!)

On the subject of passenger trains, why not try 'bitza' trains. Run your loco of choice into the platform with the carriage of choice, allow time for your passengers to disembark then propel it back into the run round loop (i.e. the fiddle yard), plonk the loco onto the other end of the train and propel the carriage back into the platform, the secret is not to show its a single coach train by always leaving part of it under the bridge......... Just a thought Disgusting of Market Harborough

Funny, I was just wondering about the spate of Scottish termini that popped up on here, and how they were coming along just this week! This one has worked out very well indeed! Very nice. Disgusting of Market Harborough

Certainly have! In episode 5 of series 1 of Minder (The Bounty Hunter featuring Derek Jacobi as the wrong un) near the end of the episode Terry has cause to jump off of a bridge on the West Way onto a lorry load of cardboard boxes (don't ask). In the background trundling its merry way down the West London Extension line is a mixed freight and, in amongst the presflos, tubes and such, are 2 PVVs. Interestingly it looks like the presflos are carrying Rugby Cement logos. The official Minder website (on which there is a still of said train with the 2PVVs clearly visible) states the episode was filmed April/May 1979...... Just thought I'd mention it. Disgusting of Market Harborough

Brilliant Steve. Looks like Arun Quay would have done in the 80's!! Cheers mate! Disgusting of Market Harborough

Steve Just had another look through this one, cos I need my mojo kick-starting too Steve! any chance of seeing a pic or two of the full layout? maybe with some 'Speedlink' stock on it? Don't want too much do I!!!! Disgusting of Market Harborough

Good man Al! Look forward to seeing the results! Disgusting of Market Harborough

Good work Chris! Keep us abreast of this AND the O gauge project! Disgusting of Market Harborough

So when are we going to see a pic of you playing with this on a train a la Barbers Bridge then Al? Disgusting of Market Harborough

Did you get any further with this one Chris, or have you returned to the US....... Disgusting of Market Harborough

Only just came across this one. Might I chuck in a few from around this neck of the woods........ Kettering to Loddington. Built to fetch Iron ore down from the Loddington area, the Loddington section closed in the early 1960s but the final section from Kettering to the old Cransley furnaces closed around 1980, Cransley furnaces closed in the early 60s too and was taken over by Cohens, whence it became the iconic scrapyard of the 70s........ Another line from Kettering was the former route to Cambridge. The final section, to Twywell, also remained open until about 1980. The traffic was sand from the Nene valley which was railed to Stoke on Trent I believe. Originally this traffic was handled on the remains of the Higham Ferrers but, for reasons I know not, the traffic was transferred to Twywell in the late 60s and the Higham branch closed. In the latter years, both locations were serviced by a Wellingborough to Leicester trip, usually worked by a class 25, which spent a while working both branches from Kettering. Traffic for Cohens was usually propelled down the branch...... Hope this is of interest Disgusting of Market Harborough

Got any further with this Terry? Disgusting of Market Harborough

Young Clive Mortimore has just drawn my attention to all this wonderful gubbinry vis a vis the W&E Drewreys. All looks jolly splendid apart from the radiator grilles looking a tad diminutive for the W&E pair (D2201 and D2202). Any chance of producing these at some point? Its either hope you do, or buy the whole body and substitute the front with a radiator grille from an Airfix/Dapol kit And Clive wants his body of D2201 back too!! Disgusting of Market Harborough

Thanks for the replies chaps. Smashing photos Brian, I assume that the pictures were taken during a break in shunting operations as there is no brake van on the end seemingly! I've got the video you mention and I believe Llandeilo was where they filmed the shunting operations....... your comments on the reason for switching motive power also makes sense to a certain degree, though I bet there was no great rush to bounce up the Central Wales line in an 03 amongst the driving fraternity! Also bearing in mind it was a MWFO working, it would make sense, although if anyone could date this sea-change in motive power I would be grateful... Jonny- I've seen the thread and the pic mentioned therein, maybe a bit before the period I was interested in though. Brian W- the reason for the totem is down to the joint LNWR/GWR ownership of the station. I believe the signal box was to an LMS design and the LNWR engine shed was built on the site of the old GWR shed early in the 20th century........In steam days, the majority of locos used on the line were of LMS origin....... Any further info would be gratefully received Disgusting of Market Harborough

Chaps. Just a few things to fill gaps in my knowledge. I'm assuming that freight traffic in diesel days to Llandeilo and Llandovery was initially worked by one of the Landore Type3/ Class 37 locos fitted with the car headlights. By the early 80s, the traffic was worked by Class 03 shunters. Now I'm lead to believe this was due to weight issues regarding a bridge on the route. If this is true, which was the bridge and when did the change in locomotion, i.e. the weight restriction, come into force please.... Thank you Disgusting of Market Harborough PS if anybody gets the urge to lob any photos of either 03s or 37s working freight on this line onto this thread, don't hold back!!

That was exactly the photo I had in mind for Terry chaps, taken in 1961....... Take it from there Terry......... Disgusting of Market Harborough

Just a thought Terry, but what do you know about the backwaters of Plymouth? Victoria Wharf.......ooooh.....suits you sir!!!! Disgusting of Market Harborough PS Cath and I are enjoying rude good health at the moment!!

Remember Walbys axiom Terry- More than 2 points is an extravagance!!!! Disgusting of Market Harborough

Just to add to this debate, George Woodcock and John Norton use the 'almost but not quite' naming effect. In this months Toddeler is Framplington, which is Framlingham in all but name. Also Fenchurch St Peters is Middle Drove by the same methodology. George has also produced Falworth (Lapford) and Bedlam Heath (Lenham) on his own. All have featured in the model railway press, when George gives a plausible and well-reasoned explanation for the change in nomenclature.....this also gives an opportunity to deviate away from the rigid confines of slavishly operating as per prototype. Has it diminished the quality of the layouts? Ask the many people who cluster round all of the above layouts (or did when they were on the circuit) in great numbers and you'll find the answer is a resounding NO! Top quality stuff every time! Go for it and damn the naysayers! Disgusting of Market Harborough

Steve Only just come to this thread. Can I lob a spanner in the works viz a viz track plans. If you're looking for the open look Rob gets on his layout (and having seen them in the flesh more than a few times, they look even better than the photos!), why not model just one end of the run round loop and have 2 lines running offscene? I do it on a few of my micros, Friday Bridge being an example (think there's a thread for it somewhere in the boxfile, micros and small stuff section!) Just a thought Disgusting of Market Harborough

Liking the track plan mate. I assume that the left hand platform will be used as a stabling road/incoming rush hour platform/ parcels? road........ Disgusting of Market Harborough

Try googling Cohens Kettering.... They had D2241 kicking around for ages shunting, and when that gave up the ghost they used an 03, whos number I cant recall..... Disgusting of Market Harborough