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I could never make up my mind whether Siouxsie Siouxx or Clare Grogan should have been the first Dr Mrs Gerbil-Fritters.

Watching these two videos I had similar recollections, Mrs W doesn't understand, she's five years younger than me and she's all Wham

How does one get a 14xx running smoothly?  The answer quite simply is perseverance old chap.

Just watching a video of someone train watching at York last week, do non passenger diagrams now generally use the station now as it seems that way.

I've not been to York for a long time but it seems the lines in / out of the station operate at a higher speed than in the past and the freight trains traverse the station quite quickly.

New thread name, I've found a location for my fictional route - Port Isaac.

For my version, the join of the LSWR and GW routes at Launceston has come earlier and there is some joint running from Launceston to a junction near Port Isaac where the real line to Wadebridge and Padstow continues with the junction to my station being joint.

I am also going to imagine that my line specialised in services to suit game hunters traveling to the area for weekend pursuits which will see the use of baggage vans and a restaraunt car on some services bringing in the gentry from London.

Planning night, this looks a lot more North Cornwall railway, the track under the building will be disappearing. Absolute max train length is three coaches, is most definitely steam and will be ex LSWR in the main with GW interlopers though I will allow exotic motive power for the area in the form of a Dean Goods, a Dukedog and a Railcar. Time period flexible mid thirties to early War years

The plan from L to R is:

Track 1 long coach siding

Track 2 loop with shorter coach siding

Track 3 main

Track 4 short bay

Track 5 loading bank

Track 6 goods platform

Track 7 coal line

Possibly a kickback from the entrance to the bay which will either be to store local passenger trains between services or form an entry to a turntable, not sure on that yet, but second board items.

Will make a start on laying at the weekend as the wife is away on a course.

This popped up on YouTube, I miss the sounds of Peaks accelerating.

Why are there now two options for payment, surely this is complicating matters further and if you think you're going to need Mk3 version what happens to payments made the first two ways if there is a third new method coming.

A sterile white room with glass floor solves the problem

Looking at the extra space and the existing plan I've realised it doesn't feel Southern enough.

I think a complete rebuild is on the cards, left to right should be coach siding, run round, main platform line, then a small bay and a goods yard. Putting the platform in the middle and stopping the tracks a bit short of the edge of the board will also improve the look.

Pics to follow

There is a layout thread, http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/114825-south-west-on-a-big-plank/

You'll see the progression from GW branch to Southern EMUs and back to just steam.

I am at the point where I usually rip it all up and start again, this time I have decided to progress from the base I have. Once this extension is down I intend to paint the track.

Goods wagons need a goods yard, this layout began life as an experiment in 4mm as I'd been playing about with N Gauge for the past few years. The Goods facilities had never got past a couple of sidings with one being a kick back that I didn't really like, I'd also lost early on a coach siding.

So I've doubled the width of the station and this will allow three Goods sidings off a single feed plus a coach siding. I also plan to replace all the points leading into the station and the bay platform with large radius points, the coach siding will also use a large radius so the coaches look better when being shunted. I will also be rebuilding the fiddleyard as it was extended to hold a 4CEP and 4VEP with neither of those being in my stud any longer and now max length will be three Maunsell plus a T9.

I've extended the base today with some ply and 2x1 and it now looks like this, you can see the existing unsatisfactory goods facilities

Tomorrow I can begin to alter the track.

I have got better with my purchasing, only ex LSWR and GWR locomotives and appropriate stock.

I've resisted the B4 as it would put not be found on a branch.

Today has been a positive day, first deleting the apps then getting on with woodwork on my layout. I've been wanting to expand the layout to have better Goods facilities and a coach siding but my fear of cutting wood held me up.

Well I decided to get on with it, I followed my plan and for the first time I sawed ply in a straight lines, sounds daft but in the past I have really struggled with handling the woodcutting even with a mitre saw and a jigsaw. Today was all plain old handsaw and the results were excellent.

This week in counselling I have accepted that I have a few addictions which are not helping my state of mind and also wasting many hours of the week.

I realised a couple of weeks ago that one of my addictions was buying trains, I was buying several items I and I recognised the feelings before and after the purchase as being the same ones went I went on a mad spree of buying EMUs last year before selling them all this year. Luckily the recent purchases are in line with what I want to model and I have got good at restricting the urge to buy but I have to realise that buying has to be planned and I can't just play on EBay.

Today I deleted 8 apps off my iPad, all those time wasting games that suck the life out of you but somehow keep you playing.

This afternoon I aided my wife in her training to be an instructor by being her class in some yoga poses - bow pose, up dog and strking cobra.

Should we read anything into the image of the Caledonian Sleeper?

Don't worry. Next year good old Doctor Beeching is coming to close it down. 

 

 

 

Jason

And we mustn't forget they have already successfully displayed it with HS2 complete through the Vale.

Of course it was hard to see for the usual visitor because it is all in tunnel, but those of us in the know knew where to look for the trains passing underneath.

Can i suggest you adopt HTTPS whilst your doing this so the general site is also secure on relaunch and not just the payment portal.

Roye England will be turning in his grave. By the time of the diesels some of the buildings depicted had gone. The scene he set out was what he had seen..and having been fortunate enough to have a long chat with him a long time ago he wanted people to see the Vale as it was..and what a brilliant job the people involved in Pendon have done about doing just that!

 

Baz

Apparently Tony Gee is contemplating a 153 on Leighton Buzzard.

I do agree with you that is seems very at odds with the premise of Pendon to introduce diesels albeit in green form but if it is an experiment and not the norm and the models used are of the right quality which i would expect they will be then it's not the end.

I am contemplating a weekend down in Oxfordshire to visit Pendon and it is the P4 Bodmin that is making it attractive to visit on that particular weekend.

Interesting. How is it possible to bump start an engine that has no direct mechanical link to the running wheels?

Like this

How about having the warehouse sidings slighty lower than the rest of the layout - there is the lead in track that could be on a small slope - then you will better access to the fiddleyard behind for the odd occasions (weekly it seems) you add to your stud.

It seems either a lot of Parkside and Ratio rolling stock kits are missing or they have cut back their ranges, I prefer it to be the former.

Hi everyone,

 

just back, rather bruised and beaten, to find this. I'm stunned as the site is supposed to be completely secure, as the final stage of ordering, i.e. the transfer to lloyds, is apparently, but i shall now have to check that as it was checked by Lloyds.

 

Sorry again for yet another 'glitch' and hope it can get sorted soon.

 

Thanks

Dave

Dave, any site that isnt HTTPS is unsecure - even RMWEB, I did suggest a couple of days back you might want to consider making your site HTTPS as you ask for names/addresses but your clicksafe element which should be a separate portal within your site should be secure if Lloyds have signed it off. 

Is worth looking at Hattons on an Bachmann or Hornby models as they usually have an old stock item from when new and it will describe the DCC status of the model which is useful when trying to discern whether a model is DCC/DCC Ready or split chassis.

Searching via Google seems to bring up hattons at the top of most lists when it comes to model number searches.

I've also used this site for checking out the heritage of Hornby product serial numbers http://www.hornbyguide.com/default.asp

COBBLESTONES

For those of us interested in cobbling but don't have the confidence to plaster/scribe just seen this product come up at Hattons: https://www.hattons.co.uk/356776/Chooch_Enterprises_8654CH_Flexible_adhesive_road_sheet_small_cobblestones_300mm_x_95mm/StockDetail.aspx

We now return you to your abnormal programme the Wells Naughty Brigade and the our long suffering Captain is still struggling to coral his brigade.

I've been wanting to extend my railway slightly to let me have a couple of extra sidings and a carriage road for my terminus.

Simples - couple of bits of ply, 2 long 2x1 and 3 short 2x1 cross members and some screws.

Progress is finding the screws, buying some track and imagining the outcome, then reimagining the outcome, then thinking so more about the outcome followed by more thinking, I think you get the drift.

The commonsense part of my brain is shouting 'For God's sake Julian, it's just 5 pieces of wood' the emotional side is saying but it won't be straight, it'll tip over the railway (no it won't if it has leg support(s))

When you are your own worst enemy eh!

If you are unsure of Ebay why not also look at some of the secondhand websites - it's less wild west with them though you might pay a bit more - Hattons/Rails secondhand is really only for items you really really want as they tend to price higher (and sometimes higher than new).

http://www.sandjmodelrailways.co.uk/

http://www.ronlines.com/

http://www.thejunctionbox.net/shop/

plus others if you look on Google

Link to a topic on secondhand traders http://www.rmweb.co....their-websites/