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    I'm planning my next layout Great Coates sidings No1 which is the junction at Grimsby with lines to the left going to Immingham via the light railway and lines to the right going to Grimsby dock. It will be built in OO with peco code 75 track and based around the early to mid 90's onwards, this will allow a vast amount of rail traffic to be modelled. So far the wagon list is as follows, this is the docks traffic so far ...
    the imported coil traffic will be large semi finished coil to Shepcote Lane and Panteg for finishing and finished coil(wrapped in plastic sheet) to Wolverhampton , Brierley Hill etc.. this allows the use of the same wagons
     
    BWA X 6 Cambrian BBA with 5 Colin Craig cradles - imported coil
    BOA x 5 Cambrian BDA underframe new floor, 3 Colin Craig cradles / handbuilt end cradles - imported coil
    BXA x 1 Bachmann BAA 3 Colin Craig cradles / handbuilt end cradles - imported coil
    BZA x 3 Bachmann BAA 5 Colin Craig cradles - imported coil
    BAA x 1 Bachmann BAA 4 wooden cradles - imported coil
    SPA X 5 FTG 3 wooden cradles - imported coil
    BNX x 3/5 maybe handbuilt - imported coil
    BVW x 3/5 maybe handbuilt - imported coil
    BMA x 3 Cambrian - export slab
    BDA x 3 Bachmann - export slab
    BDA x 4 Bachmann - export pipe from Dunlop Marine to Germany
    MEA x 11 Bachmnn - iron sulphate from Truro to Grimsby docks in jumbo bags
     
    plus any other steel traffic i can find! so if anyone can add any information on other steel wagons
    that may have been used to carry imported coil or slab to the docks i would be gratefull. Did VTG KIA run to the docks ? as i've got 6 of them and having seen footage of the running through Barnetby so could use them.
     
    Traffic on the Immingham light railway
     
    poss 15 X PSO tipplers to Tioxide
    3 x TTA to Courtalds
    2 x RFQ brake van adaptors with 3 x PTA iron ore cripples
    Light engine movements to/from Immingham
    Diversions via Great Coates Junction
     
    So if you have any information about any traffic around this area please post!
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    Asw black adders

    By bazjones1711,

    Just few pics of some scratchbuilt asw poa Blackadder's using the old Hornby TTA chassis . built these probably about something like 20+ years ago! Just from pics , no drawings or internet then! Just 30 thou sheet and evergreen strip and yet no mainstream manufacturer has brought them out rtr.
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    BWA coil wagon

    By bazjones1711,

    Cambrian BBA kit converted to BWA coil wagon with the edition of five excellent Colin Craig etched cradles, they are easy to solder up with the slot and tab method. Need to be faced with thin wood to protect damage to the coils, which are made of 10 thou plastic with banding cut from thin strips of masking tape. Got 6 of these to do , were destined for my Great Coates layout , but for now will be used on the Avesta Sheffield layout which is part built.Used to convey imported coil from Grimsby to Sheffield SPACE for finishing and Grimsby to Wolverhampton with finished steel coil


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    BSA coil / slab wagon , built using Cambrian side frames and bogies only , new floor covered in slaters chequer plate with plastruct bolsters, stanchion pins made from pins out of cd drives, only five to do for our avesta Sheffield layout

    Same wagon now with slab load, needs some Hornby class 60 buffers

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    Avesta sheffield

    By bazjones1711,

    My son and I have started a new layout based on the stainless steel unloading sidings at the end of tinsley yard, we've added an extra siding to add interest , track work down plus most of the ground cover.next challenge to build working overhead crane ! Few pics for now

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    bsc shepcote lane

    By bazjones1711,

    heres a few pics of my bsc shepcote lane layout, based on a the steel industry around the sheffield area, the layout features a hand built strachen and henshaw rotary tippler and a traverser on the end made from a cd drive! this has two micro switches out of a mouse to set the end limits.All building and scenery is handmade with not many off the shelf items

    Shunting the coal wagons being done by three Tinsley class 08 all named , these are
    08510 named Canklow
    08678 named Stavely
    08880 named Mexborough
    plus
    juduth edge 0-4-0 sentinal
     
    wagons for coal used are
    5 mdv
    1 mdv (mdo body on mdv chassis)
    5 htv
    8 meo
    2 hto
    6 internal user mso in bsc blue
     
    internal steel wagons are
    1 hand built 70 ton bogie slab (see my other blog for pic)
    2 triang weltrol wagons with stanchions for bloom/ slab
    1 triang bogie wagon for slab
    plus the odd BBA for ingot traffic
     
    still got a fair amount of finishing to do, mainly on the stock, taken about two years to get to this stage.
    Been exhibited about three times so far, all in my local area (Newport) Hope to fully finish it by next year and poss do few more shows bit further afield . Thanks for looking any questions just ask!
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    Just found the RFQ rotary match wagon pools that ran with crippled iron ore PTA wagons
     
    BR Ferryhill rotary tippler match pool 6393
    M 732343 M 732375 M 732445 M 732521
     
    BR Immingham rotary tippler match pool 6329
    B 954524 B 954620 B 954682 B 954769 B 954935 B 954952
     
    BR Ravenscraig rotary match tippler pool 6389
    B 954566 B 954876
     
    BR Port Talbot rotary match tippler pool 6391
    B 954767 B 954813 B 954860 B 954912
     
    Assumed the Ferryhill pool was for the Ravenscraig PTA that ran with the lime from Ferryhill quarry,
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    View of the tippler end of the layout ,been testing the traverser out , works fine need to power up the tippler ! Have to find my coal! The layout all being well due to be shown at the Cardiff show Saturday 23 rdJanuary
    Class 31 31174 waits to leave shepcote with some empty bda wagons

    Class 56 56032 waits at Shepcote having dropped off some empty baa wagons in the fictitious reception sidings

  13. bazjones1711
    Few pics of this weekends progress, fitted the slab bolsters and test fitted the coil cradles, these being cut from plastruct strip with an angle cut off them then filed to length ! Only had to do 60 of these , think in real life they were made of hard rubber.then will make large semi finished stainless coil for them , one will be in EWS livery .will be used on our avesta Sheffield layout


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