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1 x BSK

1 x FK

2 x TSO

 

You will need to replace the toilet and adjacent compartment of each TSO with a driving cab and entrance vestible accordingly

 

There is little underfloor detail required on the TSOs and FK - But, a motor/generator unit is fitted under the guard's office on the BSK. Also the guard's office window is deleted on the BSK

 

Then you will need to fit 3 (jail) bars over each passenger entrance, before applying a teak finish livery to each coach

 

This is just the beginning - So, GOOD LUCK!

 

For more info, please see my article in the March 2012 RM

 

' Hope this helps!

 

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P.S.- Don't forget to remove the buffers in between each vehicle within the set, and remove the louvre bits on the toilet windows in the centre coaches!

Having just read the post in this topic a lot of people seem to be inspired by the same layouts. I hope this shows these are excellent layouts not just modellers jumping on the band wagon.I can only think of one layout that really inspired me not that other layouts have given me food for thought on modelling, presentation, atmosphere etc. My inspiration was Sundown and Sprawling by Mike Cole. Mike wrote a few articles in the late 1960s about his layout and its stock. Here was a modeller scratchbuilding diesel locomotives, the same locomotives I was trainspotting. If Mike could make a diesel locomotive maybe one day I could. Well I did but don't have to anymore as all the classes I have wanted have been or will be produced

Yes, Sundown & Sprawling was an inspiration for me as well - Someone who scratchbuilt Diesel locos when few RTR examples were available - I'm also truly flattered that my old Layout, Fisher Street - Victoria Bridge has been mentioned on these pages!

 

So what has inspired me over the years then? - Well No.3 for me was IRON MOULD LANE, by the Bristol East MRC. This inspired my exhibition layout 'Rhydwyn Fawr Steel' - No.2 was City Road LT, a London Underground layout by Tim Stevens - Finally No.1 for me was the LONDON, BRISTOL, & SOUTH WALES RAILWAY by John Jay (RM Aug 69, Sep 70, Jul 73). A 4mm scale Early BR(WR) railway with a four-track mainline section - A wonderful concept, with such prototypical features as Sonning and High Wycombe Cuttings, Severn Tunnel (English Portal) modelled, with other locations being brought to mind such as Paddington, Kensal Green, Reading, Bristol (Old Brunelian Terminus), Patchway, Cardiff, Fishguard, and Landore MPD being represented - I would really like to know if any further articles on this layout were ever published!

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Three layouts. Number three would be either wibbenshaw or tetley mills for northern grot. Number two is jsw new street, just for the constant attension to detail and maintaining constant standards. Number one, I dont even know what its called. Remember seeing a article about making interlocking in a old RM and the author used photos of his own layout, in 7mm with EM1s and proper bullhead raul. Just the pictures of the uncompleated layout made me think woodhead.

Fisher Street - Victoria Bridge! - My old layout from way back in 1985, I'm truly flattered that you chose it as your favourite

 

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I was trying to solder up the levers and the quadrant....

 

I have got a scan of the article filed away for later use...

 

Have you still got the frame?

 

Andy G

'Afraid not - I lent it someone on the railway who wanted to use it for demonstration purposes. I never got it back. >:-(

 

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Yes, it was never finished in 0 scale - I built the track, pointwork, and signalling in a purpose-built out-building. I also built 2 EM1s, 1 EM2, and 'TOMMY'. The building was soon commandeered for a photographic studio in connection with my then new photographic business, and at the same time my interest in the British Scene 'got up and went' - The next 25 years were spent modelling HAMERSLEY IRON and MOUNT NEWMAN in the garden

''All done with careful measurements and tight radii (18in)

 

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Your lever frame was the source of much burnt skin when I was young as i tried to replicate it, but it was way beyond my skills as a 1o year old!

 

One day I will get round to building it!

 

Andy G

What on earth did you use for glue? - BTW Have you still got the mag?

 

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I do remember seeing the O-gauge 'Fisher Street' in RM, but seem to remember it was a very brief article, with only a couple of photos? I still can't work out how you managed to get that OO version into that space!

Yes, it was never finished in 0 scale - I built the track, pointwork, and signalling in a purpose-built out-building. I also built 2 EM1s, 1 EM2, and 'TOMMY'. The building was soon commandeered for a photographic studio in connection with my then new photographic business, and at the same time my interest in the British Scene 'got up and went' - The next 25 years were spent modelling HAMERSLEY IRON and MOUNT NEWMAN in the garden

I still love 'Fisher Street to Victoria Bridge'. It was in the April 1985 RM, it's apparently only 7' 6" by 7' 6" but fits so much in, whilst looking great. Main line diesels and electrics, carriage shed, washer road, scratchbuilt catenary and even details like sand drags.

It was built by Ian Blackburn, which I assume is the gentleman who built the Rhydwyn Fawr steelworks layout featured recently in RM.

Correct - It is indeed me - RHYDWYN FAWR follows the same concept as FISHER STREET/VICTORIA BRIDGE - I rebuilt that layout in 0 scale, complete with a working interlocking signal lever frame (RM Dec1988), before emigrating my modelling to the North-West Australian Iron-Ore scene in the garden - This returned to more obscure British Scenes, such as the London Underground in 00 scale, and now the Steel Industry in 0 scale - I am also starting a permanent indoor 0 scale indoor layout depicting the Bournemouth Electrification in 1967

 

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I've bashed both a 4 REP and a 3TC in 7mm scale out of Easybuild Kits - You might like to see my article in March 2012 Railway Modeller - If you want to see what I've done in more detail, please let me know

 

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No - But I've built the 1955 E68000 Tyneside Motor Parcels Van in '0' scale! - BTW, is that 'Modern Image'? :-D

Brilliant idea - Just the period then the subject - e.g. '1960s Woodhead' or 'Present Day North-West Australia' - 'Says it all!

 

Just get rid of that misleading and condescending term 'Modern Image'

 

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