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  3. Tim Hall

    Brown Boveri 18000

    By Tim Hall,

    An opportunist purchase from Hattons. Silver Fox body on what sounds like a newish Hornby 5 pole motor.  Very smooth, quiet and romped effortlessly on 8Mk1s. I had bought an unfinished one with a Lima chassis a few months ago, but will now sell it on eBay, as this one is better than I could achieve.
     
    Although it has transfers for the numbers and I had bought etched ones for the unfinished one, I think I'll leave it as it is, and sell the etched numbers on, as the transfers are neatly done and slightly smaller than the etches.


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    Little films

    By Tim Hall,

    Hopefully visible to most of you:
     
    https://www.facebook.com/tim.hall.146/videos/1322301394540772/
     
    https://www.facebook.com/tim.hall.146/videos/1299748610129384/
     
    https://www.facebook.com/tim.hall.146/videos/1285028824934696/
     
    https://www.facebook.com/tim.hall.146/videos/1253606708076908/
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    Cruel close ups

    By Tim Hall,

    https://www.facebook.com/tim.hall.146/videos/1472078786229698/?t=10
     
    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1472080349562875&set=pcb.1592464890866521&type=3&theater&ifg=1
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    A few cameos

    By Tim Hall,

    Bought a few odds and ends recently, and have had fun putting them into the landscape, oh and another Class 47 arrived. I've also fitted passengers and crew to my 4-TC, but they don't show up too well in photos.





     


  11. Tim Hall

    Kinky

    By Tim Hall,

    There's been an annoying kink in the track since I laid it about 4 years ago, but recently a track gang got onto the job.....





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    Off my trolley

    By Tim Hall,

    Wickham trolley arrived after being bought in Derails sale.
     
    Runs surprisingly well over dead frog Peco points. "Real" ballast added. HO figures on order, OO one is a bit of a faf, even with his feet Tacky Waxed.....



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    North British newcomers

    By Tim Hall,

    Fresh from Derails, with added crew and front end details. Both run very well on 7 coaches, with scope for a few more if required. I think the yellow is the same on both locos, it's just my poor photographs with the phone in dim light.



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    Having relaid and remodelled some of the track at the end of 2016, I left it a few months to see if I was happy with it all.
    Eventually, this autumn, I decided crack on with bits of scenery (see photos) and some ballasting (50/50 water/ pva, a few drops of washing up liquid and some black poster paint to weather it a bit). The shed areas had black poster paint added later to try to reproduce the grime of such areas.
    There is still a lot to do, but I'm pleased with the progress so far.

  19. Tim Hall

    Scenic breaks

    By Tim Hall,

    Since I started planning the railway, I've had a plan for the scenic breaks beyond which there would be no scenery. I had decided to have a slightly implausible tunnel spanning four tracks on the narrow section under the Velux and a bridge/ flyover thing beyond the main station area. 
    Having more spare time available than usual, I've had a go, though they're aren't necessarily finished.
     
    Also a few random snaps of recent happenings.











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    Treemendous

    By Tim Hall,

    Some snaps from the bridge end of the station and also of the previously bare corner which now has 54 trees "planted". All the scenic areas have now been at least covered. There's a lot of tidying up and detailing to do. Oh, and fitting passengers to over 250 coaches.....Virtually all locos have suitable crew already.





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    2016, a few changes

    By Tim Hall,

    Late in 2016, after a long period of playing trains, but not doing much with the layout, I decided to remove the little used "freight loop" and with it the diamond crossings and three way points that caused more derailments than I was happy with. By asking handyman Mark (whilst visiting to do some work in the kitchen) to put a larger fillet in one corner of the fiddle yard, a siding could be extended, and brought all the way round the layout to become the 4th circuit.
    This gave the opportunity for another platform, which soon became an island platform (mainly from spare piece of timber just the right depth.) and finished in the same style as the others. Because of a lack of space it's very narrow, and slightly shorter than the others (approx. 6 Mk1s, whereas the other 3 are 7 Mk1s). A shortened Airfix/ Dapol footbridge provides access to it, and a lengthened Airfix/ Dapol footbridge spans the four track mainline elsewhere.
     
    I also moved the steam shed a bit, to utilise a redundant area and create a larger area for a village.

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    Onwards into 2015

    By Tim Hall,

    Three circuits, a fiddle yard, and a small branch line terminus appeared, as did a rather unconvincing fourth track crossing from the 2nd circuit to inside the 3rd one via diamond crossings, though I found that I rarely used it.
     
    The "Hall" mock up nameplate was made by friends at the railway I was then a volunteer at, to celebrate my half century.
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    Progress 2014

    By Tim Hall,

    Track laying soon got going, using Peco code 100 and insulfrog points, on 3mm cork (bought a massive roll off ebay for less than £25, only used about half for the whole layout).
     
    Three continuous circuits were planned, each spitting into three in the fiddle yard at the far end of the room from the door. Due to the shape of the room, I tucked a long platform against the wall down one side, thus maximising the useful width, and enabling fairly generous curves. Track gauges being used to aim for 42 inch on the outer circuit, 36 inches on the second one and 30 inches on the third one, though much of it exceeds these radii, and Mk111 carriages used to check clearances where necessary.
     
    A diesel depot and small steam shed appeared.
    Existing Hornby platforms were used, but they were going to be disguised ASAP.
    Metcalfe card was used to disguise them, after rewhitening the edges, as can be seen in the last photo.
     

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